Unique position in life

It was called a ponzi scheme decades before and nothing changed. Have your panic attack but don't blame the country for your panic attack. You are self-medicating with pity and fear. You are in control of what you think even if the people that make money off yo NOT thinking for yourself want you to believe you have no ability to think for yourself unless the world is perfect.

 

This forum exists because of people like Ridgeline. Ridgeline didn't go to your forum and dictate any rules to you. You wandered into this forum where politics is meant for the politics forum. Follow the rules or you might not be here long. Maybe you are here because you have worn out your welcome at other places where you speak about politics primarily. TTR is not a place like that. Not every person is meant for every forum and not ever forum is meant for every person. Go get help on Reddit with maybe 10% as many truck drivers as this forum.

 

YOU think your govt check is a life preserver. But it is always a handcuff. It has you rejecting work and money that gives you freedom for the "expired bologna sandwich and a cot" in the govt jail cell.

Even if the govt accepts periods of disability as substitute for work history, it doesn't require any non-govt employer also accept time on disability as a substitute for work history.

 

@Ridgeline is always very informative, blunt and honest.

And I'm surprised he has engaged you as much as he has thus far, @BenWolf

 

Ever see the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby? The daughter becomes a famous boxer and buys her mother a house. The mother is worried that the house will affect her welfare checks.
"Even if the govt accepts periods of disability as substitute for work history,"
He has been on disability his whole adult life, over 25 years. I think that goes beyond a 'period of disability', more like a lifetime. Potential employers will ask why now, with or without a Class A CDL. Then what you gonna say Mr. Wolf? Afraid my benefits going to be cut off?? 25+ yrs says to me you have been too comfortable living the easy life while on disability and doing a small job here or there.
Maybe @BenWolf could try local driving such as dump truck for a year or two. Then if/when the market is better and he has some employment history try to go OTR.

 

Coming from a background with mental disabilities myself I got nothing at end my highschool. I couldn't serve in the military so that idea went out the door and unfortunately not the same education given to me as the rest of the people. They push you out those doors for next kid and don't care you can't do anything really SSI denied me though looking back SS pay would sucked to live off still given a poor education because they think its pointless to waste and better to use on someone else. The only thing positive I had relatives who drove my father,grandfather uncles they all drove and pretty much only thing saved me from being homeless. But what I have its really hard to hold a job and that's the biggest struggle to this day driving however isn't easy as some would say.

 

Unfortunately, you will not just be given a dispatch and “left to do it” you will have every available minute of every day allocated for you, before that day comes. E-logs, courtesy of Uncle Sam. And you will actually feel pressure to perform, which you have never had.

 

I'm not trying to beat up the OP, I am trying to tell him something he is missing out of all of this.

I want this guy to succeed, but without someone like me asking him questions that will be asked, I know what will happen, if he gets the job, he won't like being told when he can drive, crap, or eat, and he won't like the rules of the road - not the rules like living in a van traveling around but the rules that we all live by.