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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
Trucking will still be around, the kind of oppurtunity you have in front of you is hard to come by and IMHO you would be somewhat foolish to let it pass by without giving it a shot.
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Since you answered my other questions, you may realize GE never called anyway, so it's kind of a moot question.
I'm glad I took the driving job. I can do lots of different things, but I can drive too. I'm pretty good at this, and I can't say I hate it. I know what hating a job feels like after I poured concrete for two incredibly miserable weeks, and driving this T600 on a dedicated 500 mile a day run is not hating life. I get to spend every night at home, and weekends off, and still make more money than I used to hauling sticks, and laying over two or three nights a week. (Though the total working hours are even, or slightly higher over here, and I no longer have Fridays off, which sucks trying to get business done.)
It makes it really hard to lose this to go commuting an hour a day to work in a cubicle farm. The O/O I drive for already has three people who want this job. He gave it to me because I needed a job, and I got a good referral from my old boss. They know each other from way back. That kind of thing can only be cashed in once.
I've about made up my mind that if they do call, they're going to have to offer me an ass pot of money to get me.
I like trucking. Especially in the spring. ESPECIALLY in the spring. This is a fabulous time to be trucking for sure.
(Remind me I said all of this next winter, when I'm bobtailing on ice to get to my trailer to get my JIT load there on time through hundreds of miles of hell. I hate trucking in the winter. I can do it well enough that I'm still sitting here writing, but I hate it.)