Trucking is a lifestyle is a big fat lie

I don't think you've done it long enough to realize it's a lifestyle. I'm at 7 months now, and its definitely a lifestyle. After missing weddings, funerals, family gettogethers, etc etc, you realize it's not a normal job. It's a lifestyle. Living out of a fiberglass box is not normal.

For 4 months, every time I got home it was pouring down rain or had just rained and I couldn't work in the yard. My house looks abandoned. Today is the first day since the end of September that I could work in the yard, and its still very muddy and 32 outside, but I have to get my yard cleaned up.

 

Very under appreciated band.

 

We call this paying ones dues... Most of us have been through it, and it is what it is. Only you can change that situation. I bought a truck, on my seventh, and I think I'm happy, just don't ask me what "normal" is.

 

It'd be more of a life style if you sleep, eat and live in your truck on a more permanent basis then it does become a life style

 

Sounds silly, but I have always slept better in my truck(s) than I have at home. But, I started in my twenties, I left home the day I graduated HS... 35 years later, I am still living out of a bag. And I still have the bag, she is worn and tattered, but gets the job done. And yes, I own a house, sitting in the dining room right now. This is my third one... I just got a credit card, first one in years, Home Depot, and the guy that sold me on it was an old customer of mine... Life is funny.

 

Yeah its a lifestyle I enjoy .
I also own the truck and make a decent living at it without killing myself .
It doesent bother me all to stay out a month ...butttttt.
My truck is nice and comfortable with most amenitys and it is a business not a vacation .
And I call most of the shots .
Would this be a good situation for a young family man ? He'll no !
I'm 55 single and my kids are grown ...and its been my career for over 30 years accident free .
I come and go as I please and only answer to God , myself, my company and my creditors ..
But no way I'd have been in this facet of the industry as a married man with young kids .