Mike2633,
The long weird hours that are part and parcel to the transportation industry can make maintaining relationships difficult. It's something I struggle with. I start my line run at 4:00pm and typically don't get off until 6:00am, my weeks are between 60 and 70 hours. It's difficult trying juggle that work schedule and be a husband, father and take care of various chores that need to be done. I often feel guilty because at the end of the week my energy is so low I really can't be as good at the relationship/family things as I should be.
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Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Aug 23, 2016.
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The problem is I can't do delivery forever eventually there will be a transit run and I'll probably want to take it. Now that could have been years from now, and what ever, but she said that my world was just to foreign to here. Trucking is a very volatile and changing business it's constantly in flux. Runs come runs go. New Routes come old routes get cut. One minute business dictates we need 8 trucks at the yard the next year business dictates we only need 4 trucks.
The part that's easy to understand is the truck takes things someplace that's simplest words.
But the operations around that all and the who, what, where and why? That's all a lot harder to understand. Or maybe she just didn't want to I don't know.
It's to bad like CF Company it's too bad it all went down the toilet at least for me, but yeah it takes a special person that's true.Mike_77 Thanks this. -
Drivers from food service companies occasionally come over to my company to do P&D. They say LTL p&d is much easier than food service. Handling all those boxes of food would be exhausting and probably wear out a persons body prematurely.
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I remember listening to Dennis Praiger once and some woman called up and said that she was 21 standing in the dressing room of a church getting ready to get married and she was looking in the mirror going "This is a mistake." Well low and behold the woman was divorced from that guy and Praiger said "Better to be left at the alter then divorced."Mike_77 Thanks this. -
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