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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave26027, post: 5366254, member: 33137&quot;]This is my 28th year of driving full time. I paid for tech school training, then got hired as a lumper and second seat driver for a meat packing plant in my hometown. They paid $5.00 an hour.</p><p>I found out fast that the real reason they hired me was to be a relief driver for the first seat drivers that showed up to work too drunk or too stoned to drive. </p><p>Most of our runs had 30 to 50 drops and the first seat drivers would usually be sober enough to take over after sunrise. Every truck had to return in 24 hours or less and sometimes if there were delays, i would simply change trucks when we rolled in the gate and start another run. No one was enforcing hos or checking logbooks in those days and when it came time for the drug testing, the packing plant handed out cattle urine for testing. A few times i accidentally caught first seat drivers sticking needles in thier arms in the sleeper. I hate needles.</p><p>Anyway, i made more money than the first seat drivers cause a normal week usually totalled nore than 120 hours. 40 hours at $5.00 an hour and the rest at time and a half. I lasted ten months, then went over the road. I wanted that local job so i could learn to back and drive before going over the road, my first otr company refused to acknowledge that job as experience. Funny and ironic, cause they paired me with a trainer named Bruce. Bruce recently retired from the Air Force and had only been driving trucks for six months. I had to do all his backing and all the city driving for him. He got so upset over it that he quit after training was over.</p><p>Anyway, not to brag but i&#039;m almost 60 now. I got broke in tough and can still unload trailers faster than they can cart away the freight. Nothing will ever be as tough as unloading swinging and frozen meats, then driving from stop to stop in a crazed frenzy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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