Traveling 70 miles to your job every day

Glad they came around to letting you bring the truck home. i used to commute 89 miles one way, every day for 9 years to my first car haul job. It was gruesome, tiring, and outright crazy, but I was only 23 at the start and it was a 6 figure job so I took the trade off. It got easier two years in when my younger brother was hired at the same company, then we shared the commute, but it still took a toll on us. That type of commute with only 8 hours off back then and day trips (down to NYC and back every day) led to us sleeping in our daycabs slumped over the steering wheel or on the bench seat of the shop truck many times when we were busy.

It is good to see you take care of your father, my wife and I just moved back to Northeast PA from Albuquerque, NM last year for her parents, I hated to move back but they needed the help and would not/could not move out there. We make many sacrafices for our family, but in the end you need to take care of yourself as well. Good luck.

 

In my younger days (30 years ago) I drove 60 miles to a tanker job, 5pm to 5am, 4 on, 2 off. Job sucked( hauling poop from one treatment plant to another) but drove a new 359 day cab. Then they moved the starting point from one treatment plant to the other, which added 20 minutes to the commute, each way. I used to take my motorcycle and 1 morning, coming home, falling asleep on the bike, I made it to the little side road I lived on, that had a "S" curve in it and a driveway on the 1st part of the "S". I remember turning onto the road, thinking, I made it. Next thing I knew, I missed the 1st curve and woke up in the driveway. I never took my bike after that.

 

Hi, I don't think it's the 5th wheel. A job I saw calls for a regular lift of 60-70 lbs. with a "PDL" ( physical demand limit) of 120 lbs. I don't know about you, but I don't think I could do that, but I'm an old man.

 

If it's curtain side job the pull test may be required to see if you could properly tighten straps??? Good luck hopefully it's a better fit for you

 

hey patty if that curtainside thing doesent work out look at zeitners in omaha or van wyk in sheldon or h@m in omaha , i drove for them when i lived in omaha and taking the truck home sure shoulnt be a prob. with my old pals at tyson/ibp over in dakota city ...i dam near lived in souix city when drove for zeitners .