Transitioning from driving a truck?

i wonder if you get sea sick on a river boat or is that river sick???

 

Or sick of the river.
I'm fortunate; didn't get sea sick on a frigate which is a little smaller than a destroyer.

 

I’ve lived in MN all my life. Never drove a truck south of Kansas. I too am getting tired of winter driving. The biggest struggle I have doing food service is we start so early. Visibility while driving is much worse when it’s dark vs when the sun is up. I used to start around 5 most morning doing flatbed work. If it was snowing and blowing within in a couple of hours it go easier. Now I start at 2 or 3 and have to fight the weather in the dark for longer. I think in five years a cement mixer will be the way to go and the travel trailer will head south with me in it.

 

I've never transitioned out of trucking. Don't plan on doing it anytime soon...but if it ever came to the point where I got tired of driving, or got injured, or couldn't pass a DOT physical...I'm glad that being a government worker gives me plenty of options to transfer into many other fields or agencies without losing my pay, benefits or retirement.

One of the benefits for working for the federal government is that you can apply for any federal job or be on a waiting list, as long as you are qualified. Most of the positions are offered in-house before it is offered to the private sector. So I can literally start off as a truck driver at the Postal Service, later switch to being a dispatcher, mail handler, clerk, maintenance mechanic, vehicle mechanic, custodian...or maybe become a supervisor, than a manager, plant manager, district manager, etc...or maybe go to Postal Police, get a BA and become a Postal Inspector, than go to the FBI, US Marshal, CIA, Secret Service, Customs and border, DEA, Parks and Recreation, Fish and Wildlife, Veterans Affairs...or go to Social Security, DOT, IRS, etc, etc, etc...or any other federal agency that's out there. Usually there's a lot of testing and resume involved, and sometimes you have to gain experience by working your way up the ladder to a higher level position...but the job opportunities working for the government are endless.

 

I say frigate when I get disgusted about something...had no idea it was a class of navy vessel....

 

I guess Yard Dog won't work since I stand outside all night , you could always wash towels at Donnas Ranch.

 

Uber

 

Or sold up the river HE HE.

Frankly those things keep you so busy losing money you don't know yet how far upriver you are going to be.