Why did you choose to truck?

Did you steal that line from President Trump? Lol

 

Well, better get back to your CLP study, then.

 

He likes to use the word "beautiful" a lot. I was just giving you a hard time

 

Grew up around it and I hate dealing with the general pubic idiots

 

I was put on by my cousin. I was a welder with babies and wife trying to set up right. Told me he was doing 3k steady a week and home everyday. Told me to buy a truck and sign on to the family business. Went O/O with no experience, bought the truck for 11k and worked on it on my days off while he trained me in his truck for 3 months. So to answer you straight, i truck because of the money potential, and am lucky to also enjoy it. It’s a fun daily grind. Don’t feel like a job. Wake up when I need to, drive to the yard, warm up a good solid truck, coffee and smoke, hustle the day, park truck at yard, go home to three daughters and mama.

 

To get away from my wife. Yes, that's really why I got into this. Things were pretty bad. She changed big time with the birth of our 1st kid and neither one of us knew what was going on. I decided if I didn't get out of the house we would be divorced. We now know she had postpartum depression and we had no one around us that was willing to speak up and say what was wrong.

There were other issues that got kicked down the road until we were more mature and could deal with them. Now I say trucking saved our marriage.

I rode with my uncle in his cabover a few times and wrenched on them at an International/Volvo and a KW/Volvo dealer. After a few test drives I started wondering what driving would be like. Between our home issues and $9.75/hr and indebted to Snap-on and MAC driving looked like a good alternative.

It allowed my wife to be a stay at home mom. It afforded the kids the opportunity to raise and show livestock. It's paying for our daughters undergrad. When she moves on to grad school I might come off the road, then again I might not.

 

Glad that worked out the way it did stranger. PP depression is a big reason a lot of couples divorce within a year of the first baby. My wife’s a midwife, so it’s been in our conversations for years now.