Running out of options...need help or aome advice

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by LargeCar3406, May 31, 2013.

  1. Polarbear857

    Polarbear857 Light Load Member

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    You are my roll model, I'd be lucky to hit 50 and my wife will probably be the one to put me in the grave. Lol
     
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  3. Charli Girl

    Charli Girl Road Train Member

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    WHAT?? No Flat screen t.v. R u kidding me? :biggrin_25523:
     
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  4. Hammertyme

    Hammertyme Light Load Member

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    We have a driver who is 80 and can still get it done.
     
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  5. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    I have been driving for three months, get your experience on some else's equipment. After a year think about buying or just find a better co. Actually three months opens up doors to move a little, not a lot.
     
  6. sharecropper

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    You sound like me, 20 cups of coffee, young wife, kids all over the place. Grandmother was 103 when she passed and smoked like a train with a little home brew on the side. I'm not poor but still heat my house, shop, greenhouse with wood that I cut but now I have a wood splitter. Drive a 1950 ford but my truck is a 2013 KW 600 HP I just bought last week and going to pass it to my youngest son. All my kids drive a truck or work here on my farm, all 11 kids never moved away just built here on the farm so I can't get rid of them. We all drink home brew work and drive like there is no tomorrow. I live a truckers life and it's my dream to live forever or maybe longer and so far I'm doing fine. I have never sold any of my trucks, I just park them and get another. The key to a happy life is hard work and you will never die because there is to much to do. Most mornings both me and my wife get up with a big smile on our faces so things here is NC are great. I will say this, all these young kids can never do what I've done because things are different these days, young drivers seem not to be able to get ahead and it's not that they don't try these companies don't pay like they should. I sure hope things get better also when I hire someone I pay them as well as I can, don't really care about that much money but I seem to do ok.
     
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  7. losttrucker

    losttrucker Road Train Member

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    Try Trans Am..............
     
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  8. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    My biggest problem is my wife complaining that I'm going to get killed on my motorcycle. I enjoy PTA meetings also; lots of hotties there with their children. My Mother's best friend was also her first cousin. She was 104 or 105 when she died. He son took her drivers license from her at 103, because she misunderstood her doctor. The doctor told her to drink one ounce of alcohol a day. She was putting down one 8 oz. glass of bourbon a day, so her son got that straightened out and took her license. A person should not just quit living, based on age. Live like it will never end and don't worry what other's think about it. Just because a person gets older, doesn't mean they must act old and sit in a rocking chair and give up. I sold my house in TN and just closed on another one that's 10 minutes from the Las Vegas strip in a gated community. In the zone for good schools for my 2 youngest. Got tired of the snow & ice in winter and wanted warm weather or mild weather year round. Many of my friends & family think I'm a fruitcake, but what the heck, I plan to live to 120!
    Sharecropper, you're a good role model for anyone who thinks life is over based on ones birthday. Keep up the happy life.
     
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  9. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    What I said was a compliment.I think its great you're in your 70s and still working.I've never heard of a corbin.
     
  10. sharecropper

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    It was not taken any other way. People must remember that the mind never grows old it's just that sometimes the body won't keep up with our thoughts. Have a great day.....
     
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  11. RickG

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    They don't keep drivers . The reason there are jobs for newbies isn't because carriers are increasing their fleet size . It's because newbies keep quitting .
     
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