Trucking can be like a bad marriage...

Trucking can be like a marriage...yes...no?

If it is a marriage...well then I got used pretty good this week...I got used hard...but all was fair...
I can't complain...kinda like a wife...who cooks and cleans...but in return gets to live in a large mansion with marble floors and a pool in the back...
My mate does take care of me...but at a price...they use up all of my energy...they come home and use me till I'm ragged...so that I have no energy left for anyone or anything else...

Trucking is a jelious trade or profession...

Trucking want's all of you or none of you...trucking requires all of your time and energy throughout the day...and leaves you with very little.

Me: Can I go play tonight? I want to attend a concert...
Trucking: No...I need you to deliver a late load...

Me: Can I please have Saturday off so I can get caught up on some personal chores?
Trucking: No...I need you to deliver a load...

Me: Can I stop at the store and get a few items?
Trucking: No...you cannot stop...for if you do you will be late...keep driving...

Me: One day I will leave you again...I do need a life ya know...
Trucking: Ye, but until then I own you...now take off your shoes and cook me some dinner...

Me: Ok...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MltrnVOG2s

 

Gay bedroom pics???

Gay videos???

Huh???
What's gay about Supertramp??? Am I missing something here??? :smt017
(Like Joan Rivers use to say 'Can we talk??')

And how is the above photo 'A gay bedroom pic??

Again, am I missing something???

Why do you choose to interpit everything in a sexual manner???
That really baffles me...

When I posted the video and a photo of myself...'gay' was the last thing on my mind...

Why was it on yours??

The only one who keeps bringing anything 'gay' to the table is you...

I'm baffled by your interpitation of things...

But your interpitation of things kinda tells me more about your limited experience in dealing with people.

Again...gay is not a look...either you are or your not...I could wear a cowboy hat and jeans...and still be gay...or a suit and a tie...

But whatever I say...I'm sure you won't hear it...

You have your view of the world and people...and I have mine...

But I still don't see how you get anything 'gay' out of my last post...

You should get out more...best of luck and be safe out there...:smt058

 

For anyone else who may be reading this...this thread is about the relationship between employee and employer...

It is not about being 'gay'...if you want to talk about that...you will have to open another thread or something..ok...

But this thread here is somewhat abstract in it's approach to employee/employer relations...

Have any of you ever studied theater? or been in a broadway production??
Do you understand anything about abstract art?? or thought?

Oh well, I love you all anyways...even though you may not understand me...

I realize some of you may have limited exposer to different kinds of styles, people and expressions...some of you all are very old school and traditional..(but tradition is forever changing)...

I'm old school on the inside...

I've traveled trucking routes...I know the lanes...so I understand if that's all you see...you tend to think the world around you should reflect that...it doesn't...

Just like the Taliban in Afganistan think the whole world should reflect them...but it doesn't...


I'm not trying to push 'gay' values on anyone here...I'm just being me, myself...if some of you choose to interpit that as 'gay'...than well...so be it...

But I am really curious to know what's going on inside of your mind.

What is it about you...that when you see images of me, makes you think I'm 'gay'?? I'm really curious...

One thing about me...I find it's better to let people explain their views or justifications...before I respond...rather than assume things about someone...I simply ask...I let them explain..cause I realize as a human, it's really easy to come to the wrong conclusion about others.

We're all subject to how and where we were raised, and or whom we were raised around..or have experienced since...

And that heavily effects how we interpit the world around us...but our personal interpitations of others isn't neccisarily acurate...so rather than guess or assume...I prefer to just ask people to explain or justify their view point...
That's how you grow and learn...amazing

Anyhow...this productive tax paying American has got to get back to work...Yes..trucking can be like a bad or good marriage...right now for me...it's somewhere inbetween...take care...I love you and be safe...
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Yes, you actually get it...why can't others???

Where do they get all this 'gay' stuff from??
From their interpitation, you would think I was running somekind of porn thread or something...

People tend to project on others WHAT'S IN THEIR OWN MINDS...

But rather than examine their own thoughts, and why they feel or react the way they do...they externalize it...and accuse...

Your interpitation of this thread and what I write is 100% accurate...you understand abstractivity...which means you probably read a lot of books...usually people who read a lot have good comprehension. You understand the art of 'story telling'...

And I thank you for that...I thank you for understanding me, and not 'villafying' me..(misspelled)

Funny this is...everyone goes to the movies or buys or rents dvds...what do they think the acters and actesess do in the films? they act, they role play, they step outside of themselves and into other characters for the purpose of telling a story...

And that's simply all I'm doing....if no one did that...there would be no movies, no films, no tv shows...we would all be like the Taliban of Afganistan...no radio, no music, no movies, no magazines...we would all walk around in veils...
All covered up...censored... Personally I don't want to live in a Taliban like country or world...where art and expression are suppressed...

Personally I think the spirit of the Taliban dwells inside of many here in America...there are many here, who would suppress the freedom of others as to not upset their own narrow interpitation of 'how things should be'...
Thank goodness for our constition!!

And thank goodness for people like you...people of reason and understanding...thanks Teddy bear...

 

Oh, one more thing...I don't relate to trucking as being my 'wife'...

I relate to it more as a super being...like one of the giant trolls on Lord of the rings...
This image here is more like what I relate to my demanding spouse as...a giant brute...a ruthless corporate giant that you must serve in order to survive...when I say 'spouse'...I don't really think in terms of gender...rather in terms or 'roles'...

Maybe master/servant...would be a better term...
But I think the marriage thing is better...cause you enter into it willingly...and can leave willingly...but like woman of old...who would marry a man...and he would take or move her to some far off remote place...make her dependant on him so that she really couldnt leave...so she stayed...out of convience...rather than love...

That's what trucking does to many....we stay out of convience...but not nessisarily out of love...

(but in all fairness...many people feel that way about where they work...not just truckers...they key is to simply get into a proffesion that you love...or one that utilizes your gifts or strenths)

That's why earlier this summer I got into entertainment for a while...I met the famous comedian 'John Witherspoon'...I took a photo with him...maybe I'll post it...

Here's the deal...I like my employer...they treat me really good...I'm grateful to have a job...
So on here I'm being kinda general...from past experiences...

Everyone can relate to the grind...whether they drive or work at Mc Donalds...corporate america, the money machine...is the dominant force...and we are all the barefoot trapped spouses that serve....

 

Another thing I learned this weekend..I'm spending between $300-$400 a month on truck stop food and junk...
Even though I'm local...everytime I leave and do a whole complete route...I spend around $16.00 a day on 'stuff'...food, chips, sodas, ect...basically 'recreational spending'...buying stuff out of boredom...

$16 x 5 = 80.....80 x 4 = $320 a month!!!
That's a car payment...ok...wow...I've really gotta change my spending habits...it's hard to save money when $320.00 dollors go out the window every month on junk food...
$320 x 12 = $3840 a year!! wow...

And that's a low estimate...some drivers spend far more than that on food and other junk spending items...

I've gotta re evaluate what I buy for now on at truck stops...

The problem is...many of us drivers buy food and eat out of boredom...eating gives you something to do while driving down the road...I call it 'recreational eating'...we eat because we're bored...not cause we're hungry...and if you smoke or chew...add another 5 to 8 dollors a day to that...

Let's all examine what we're spending our money on...for the more of our income we waste...the longer we will be enslaved...

By examining and changing our spending habits...we can help free ourselves from corporate bondage...

 

Like many on here, I have given my hand to trucking over and over again...and usually end up getting burned for it...

The divorce rate between trucking companies and truckers is probablly higher than in any other industry...

There are good companies out there though...but the best company is probablly yourself...

What do I mean by that...

Well in the past month, I've met 4 very succesful truckers...2 of them millionares...

Why?
Cause they made the industry work for them, rather than them work for the industry....

I have one of their numbers...and he told me to call him any time I need advice...the guy will be retiring next year at the age of 51...cause he, they, did it right....

The one thing they all had in common was

1.focus
2. goal orientated
3. own authority...

This guy lectured me for like 40 minutes straight....and I learned a lot from them....

You can indeed make millions as a truck driver...if you do it right...

If you can't get out of trucking...like I can't seem to be able too...than the next option is to make it work for you...

It's never to late to create a new plan...

Instead of you being a servant of the industry...make the industry serve you...