Trucking can be like a bad marriage...

Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by ghostchild, Feb 4, 2009.

If you could do it all over again would you...

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    Have stayed with the 1st company you started with?

    14.6%
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    Became a lease or owner operator when you first started?

    14.6%
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    Left the industry long ago?

    15.3%
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    Tranfered into the admin part of trucking?

    5.7%
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    Would change nothing about your trucking career.

    29.3%
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    none of the above..but...

    23.6%
  1. U4EA

    U4EA Road Train Member

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    The more I think back, the more I realize...


    Life sure has a sick sense of humor - doesn't it?
     
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  3. ghostchild

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBUx6Zn6mo&feature=related[/ame]

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    Brothers for life...me and you....
     
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  4. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    back in the day...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MKnHeE8N0&feature=related[/ame]



    One of his better songs that never made the top 40...
     
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  5. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Ok...I feel better now...just had to blow off a little steam or emotion last night...

    I figure better to do so on here, than out on the streets...
    Better to relieve a bit of steam 'Artisticly' than to go out....much safer...

    But I'm better now...no one ever said life would be easy...just gotta keep on rolling...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MKnHeE8N0&feature=related[/ame]

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  6. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Hello...It's Sunday afternoon...
    Fillen a bit wore out...

    Sometimes I don't know where to draw strength from anymore...

    When your poor...life is just like chipping rocks every day...

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    You chip away at a rock all day, go home, go to bed, wake up...and do it all over again...

    It can seem real meaningless at times...in a society where everything is based on income, how much money you have...

    It's hard for me to sympathize with corporate investors, Exxon executives, and others who routinely earn or pay themselves 20-50 million a year...
    Simply for existing...
    And not a single one of them could do what I do in a day without dropping and loosing hope...

    All they do is trade paper and ideas...

    And I'm suppose to cry if they gotta pay 3% more in taxes?
    Do they cry for me? or others at the lower economic scale?

    And their kids, their offspring, start off with 20 million in their account...and will never fail...and the schism widens betweens haves and have nots...

    It's not like the 'have nots' aren't working...we're working our butts off...but getting paid very little for it...heck, some slaves may have gotten more compensation than some who labor all day.

    Anyways...I just need to lay down and take a quick meditative nap...

    In the end, it seems I always will find a reason to smile and be happy regardless...

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  7. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    I get so sick of hearing people like Rush, Sean, Glenn Beck, Laura, Neil Bortz, and all the rest...repeat their marching orders that Billionares and Trillionares, and multimillionares, pay a larger % of tax than say, someone who earns $12,000 a year...

    What total sell outs!!

    I work around the poor...of all colors and backgrounds!!

    And they, we, simply have nothing else to give!

    Simply the basic bills in life swallow up your income...

    Rent, utilities, fuel or gas, food, phone.ect ect,,,

    The working hard poor can't, don't pay more cause they, we, simply don't have it!!

    If any multi millionare or billionare, would like to trade places with any of us working poor...I'm game...I'll gladly do it...I'll gladly pay a few more dollars in taxes...and you can learn to live...to take care of your family on less than $15,000 a year...

    Talk show Republicans are Frauds!!!!

    Frauds!!!

    They sit there and lie to their listeners all day...who they count on to be uneducated and easily swayed by idiological emotions....

    They, these talk radio Republicans, have convinced their listeners, that we all should feel sorry for CEO's who we bailed out, and who have given out record number of bonuses this year...

    And Rush and Sean have their listeners convinced that we should cry for fraudulant investors, money managers, loan officers, and other non labor
    jobs who routinely give each other million dollar bonuses, simply do to 'pedigree' or 'Fraternaty' affiliation...

    While we at the economic bottom, work our butts off, and still can't keep the light bill on, or feed our 4 kids...or buy gas....

    We're working full time, and more...but basic bills and inflation simply gobble all that up...

    But Rush and Sean and Neil Bortz and Glenn Beck, have convinced you that you should instead feel sorry for people with 3 Yachts, and a private planes, and net worths of over $400,000,000....

    Amazing....And they, these phony talk radio Republicans, simply use your 'hatred for Obama' to shove, ram, other stuff down your throats...

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    Rush and Sean have got poor Republicans who are struggling also, out of work, living in the hills, the cities, loosing their homes, rooting for Billionares...cheering for billionares...oil executives, people who rob others with 'hedge funds'...ect ect...

    The same people who don't hesitate to kick you out your house when your 2 payments late...Rush has got you rooting for these people, even as your own family struggles...

    Such stupidity...wow...

    Continue to swallow...and the Billionares will continue to shove it down your throats....
     
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  8. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Make no mistake about it...this is still a 'truckers' thread...

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    I know I often 'drift' into other areas...but it's all relovent...

    I've been there, done that...for the most part...

    And I try to express the concerns, and frustrations, of the working poor...the driving poor...labor...

    Those of us who work our butts off, and see little gain...
    I've worked for many companies, driven in the mountains, the snow, ice, black ice, massive wind storms, hot deserts, New York, Montana...been there done that...

    I know when you look at my internet image...it doesn't seem so..

    http://underworldrealities.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=131413822

    But you gotta realize...my internet image is just that...a gag...
    Like Saturday night live...
    It's just a way I have fun and relieve stress...
    The smart ones realize that...
    I couldn't write like this if I were truly a 'flake'...

    Humor is what gets me through this life..humor,theatrics and irony...(If I had the funds, I'd love to become a movie director...)

    I'm for labor...cause that's what I do...
    I'm not for multi millionares or billionares, cause I'm not one...and doubt I'll ever be...so I don't swallow the talk radio lie...as if, if I just bust my butt long and hard enough, I too can amass $30,000,000,000 dollars...ye right...
    Talk radio hosts depend on the stupid mass to believe that (and certain polititions) in order to continue to get over on people...it's truly a different era...

    And I speak for the working poor and struggling...not Billionaires...

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    (according to Rush and Sean and Glenn, you should feel sorry for this guy...)

    Bottom line...I don't care if your R or D or I...or W or B...or G or S...I care and can relate to the struggling working poor...those who bust their butts every day...and still can't get no where...so instead have to reach deep within for inspiration to continue on...

    That's my crowd...
     
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    Next time anyone comes knockin....make sure they are looking down the barrel of a shotgun or a 357 mag. That will put a stop to it.
     
  10. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Nah, love is a better way to get at people...

    What's that scripture verse...

    'Loving your enemies is like putting hot coals on their head'...

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    There's no way I could of survived on here this long with hate, dislike and anamosity...

    Love is the key...
     
  11. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    How many of you know about this??

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY[/ame]

    back in the day...no, I'm not that old..but still...I was a kid when this stuff came out...and it was playing on the radio...and some of my hero's listened to it...

    Heroes that aren't here anymore...
    All my heroes are dying off...

    How many of you could put up with multiple deaths within months??

    And still keep your cool....

    You all just don't know...

    Some of you, the ignorant ones, think I'm a ###### or something...keep on thinking that...

    It's times like this...I just choose to smile, than to get ugly and frown...

    http://underworldrealities.webs.com/aboutme.htm

    I choose to smile, to remind myself of better times...happier times...the person I really want to be, the person within that I never want to die...

    And if smiling is a crime, oh well...arrest me...

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    Ya'll just don't know...

    Cause I don't share...

    Do you know what it's like to loose your and your within 2 months??

    Oh but I might be a '......'.so can't talk to him....or I might be a L....

    Get lost...

    I don't need ya...

    never have, never will...

    Life goes one...and to my friends Bumpy and U4....cool...

    And thanks...and to the rest...those who silently support...you will be blessed...one way or another...you will be blessed...

    For God does not forget the kind and understanding...

    And to Master Tech....

    Thanks for tolerating me...thanks so much...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY[/ame]

    And to those hippies back in the day, who so badly wanted to change things...live long and strong...

    I know you meant well...and still do...
     
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