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  1. 11-17-2006 04:08 PM #1
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    Default How long have you been with your company?

    Curious as to how long drivers have been with their companies.
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  2. 11-17-2006 06:24 PM #2
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    Three years and counting. Let's see how long before I can become a full supervisior(not just road) Another ten years and I better be in the office because I am not lumping freight at 42 years old(32 now )

    8 years driving.
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  3. 11-17-2006 11:36 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Double R
    Three years and counting. Let's see how long before I can become a full supervisior(not just road) Another ten years and I better be in the office because I am not lumping freight at 42 years old(32 now )

    8 years driving.
    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
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  4. 11-18-2006 07:36 AM #4
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    :shock: :shock:
    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
    :shock: :shock:

    Shame Shame ! Why does everybody want to just drop and hook ? I prefer to unload my trailer at least a few times a week. Will take it either way but I don't complain about unloading still at 50 yrs old.
    No wonder truck stops are full of drivers that are over weight and need to paint stripe's on to see if they are walking or rolling out of their truck. These people need to go to collage and be a secretary or telephone operator......
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  5. 11-18-2006 07:44 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by greg3564
    Quote Originally Posted by Double R
    Three years and counting. Let's see how long before I can become a full supervisior(not just road) Another ten years and I better be in the office because I am not lumping freight at 42 years old(32 now )

    8 years driving.
    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
    Yes but foodservice pays good money and home every night and off every weekend and holidays(paid)
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  6. 11-18-2006 07:02 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by greg3564

    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
    I can understand where you are comming from, but long hours of driving, coupled with the unhealthy dietary and sedentary lifestyle that driving often lends itself to, lumping some freight can have it's advantages. :?
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  7. 11-18-2006 08:09 PM #7
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    it will be 14 years this January home nights for the most of the time weekends and holidays off
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  8. 11-18-2006 08:24 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by "greg3564
    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
    eight and counting. lumped furniture for Allied, they taught me to drive.
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  9. 11-18-2006 10:24 PM #9
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    be 2 years solo in 30 dec 06 plus 6 weeks training

    3rd company and its the charm

    a regular here other than me said

    its like a mariage

    he is very right
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  10. 11-19-2006 06:00 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by ML2PeaceWarrior
    :shock: :shock:
    The thought of lumping freight for 10 years hurts my back just sitting here!
    :shock: :shock:

    Shame Shame ! Why does everybody want to just drop and hook ? I prefer to unload my trailer at least a few times a week. Will take it either way but I don't complain about unloading still at 50 yrs old.
    No wonder truck stops are full of drivers that are over weight and need to paint stripe's on to see if they are walking or rolling out of their truck. These people need to go to collage and be a secretary or telephone operator......





    I won't touch freight that makes me break a sweat I'm an OTR driver freight handling is the SHIPPING/RECEIVING departments responsibility . :wink:


    However I stay in good shape I bring a ridiculous amount of free weight along with me ...I have 590 lbs of free wight a 7 ft Olympic barbell..a curved Olympic curl bar ...a pair of power block dumbbells that go to 130 lbs . A bench that I take apart and store behind the cab that I use for Squats...bench presses ..pull ups ...dips . I still bench 455 lbs for a 1 rep max ...Squat 585x1 rep max to parallel 500X1 ***** to the GRASS , dead lift 570 lbs x1 rep max . The energy that I would expend on a 100 degree day unloading a trailer for 10 Hr would just mess up the activities that actually work well to keep one in shape ,and potentially injure me ,as lumping freight is more likely to give one a back injury than a heavy dead-lift done in a controlled setting with good form .
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  11. 11-19-2006 05:14 PM #11
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    Holy :dung: Big jeep!!! It sounds like you are loaded before you are loaded. You must haul alot of light freight, because there is no way I could carry all that extra weight around with me.
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  12. 11-19-2006 05:46 PM #12
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    Default 28 LONG years...

    I bleed "brown"..2 more years to go..
    "What did BROWN do TO ME ?????
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  13. 11-22-2006 01:20 PM #13
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    Crete for 6+ years. Great company for 'most everything except hometime.



    Last week:
    ...another place, where the faces are so cold
    I'd drive all night just to get back home
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  14. 11-22-2006 06:47 PM #14
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    almost a year but not quite
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  15. 11-22-2006 07:34 PM #15
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    Barrelburner, where was that picture taken? I'm gonna guess AZ or UT.
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    I've been with Graebel for 1 1/2 years now, lumping furniture. I lost 30 lbs in the first 6 months with them.

    The longest job I've held in the 11 years I've been driving is 6 years pulling a hopper bottom.
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  17. 11-22-2006 07:59 PM #17
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    I love hauling grain. Easiest thing that I've ever done. I work for SYSCO. Been here for nearly 4 years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
    I love hauling grain. Easiest thing that I've ever done.
    We hauled grain out, and feed back. The grain part was easy, but the feed part was a nightmare.

    I still shudder to think of the 10 hour days in December spent standing on top of a 150 degree load of Corn Gluten Pellets, trying to poke them out, after they set up like a rock.

    Or the smelly loads of Meat and Bone Meal, which I affectionately called "Powdered Pigs", which wouldn't slide down the slopes if my life depended on it, and made the trailer so greasy that it was impossible to climb out the top, and I would have to scoot out through the hopper.

    I'll stick to bedbugging, thanks. :wink:
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    Quote Originally Posted by greg3564
    Barrelburner, where was that picture taken? I'm gonna guess AZ or UT.
    I-70 at MM 143 in Utah, 17 miles west of Green River
    ...another place, where the faces are so cold
    I'd drive all night just to get back home
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