"Hillbilly Delux"- that one? (Brooks & Dunn)

 

Why do I do it? I could sit in a cubical all day but in the end I know I would rather be on the road than in an office pushing paper. You can listen to the guys who complain how much they hate their job but if they left the industry they probably would miss it and want to come back. We are by ourselves most of the time and most prefer it that way.

 

Brooks and Dunn may be the one who sings it but I do not think that's the name. Never heard that name Hillbilly Delux. Never heard it. The Song I am thinking of as I said more about Pick up trucks, something like the Pickup man.. Everybody wants me to haul their stuff in my Pick up Truck..

 

Oh yeah- "Theres somethin' women like about a pick-up man".......I know what yer talking about- can't think of the artist;


'You can set my truck on fire, roll it down a hill, and I still wouldnt trade it for a coup DeVille"

..."an 8ft bed that never has to be made, if it werent for trucks we wouldnt have tailgates!- Met all my wives, in traffic jams; theres just somethin' women like about a pick-up man!"

 

There's something woman like about a pickup man. Joe Diffe 8)

 

I do it plain and simple because I like to drive truck. I have other skills/abilities that I can put to work in the marketplace, but those other jobs require some degree of a$$-kissing, back-stabbing, and a boss breathing down my neck.

That being said, I tried the OTR thing and found it to not be worth my while. Figure it like this: say you're making .37 cpm at your run-of-the-mill dry-van outfit and you roll about 2800 miles/wk. That works out to $1036/wk on the gross. If you're out there on the Highpay Highway for 47 weeks of the year, you're looking at around $49,000.

Now with local LTL I make $22.00/hr with overtime after 40. Figure I average around 42.5 hrs/wk and it comes to $962.50/wk. Based on 52 weeks that totals to just over $50,000.

Here's the real kicker: OTR I was working 80-100+ hour workweeks, hometime a roll of the dice, up different hours of the day/night, sleeping in truckstops/pickle-parks/ramps/etc. LTL I'm home everynight and every weekend (a FULL weekend) and the benefits are 2X as good. So what it boils down to is that OTR= double the hours for the same pay and much less hometime?!?!? Sorry, I think I'll pass. No wonder the turnover rates are so sky-high in that side of the biz.

Be that as it may, there are days I miss runnin' the road. And I might consider going back someday if they ever paid drivers what they're worth. But since that's not in the cards anytime soon (like FOREVER), I'll stick with local. Especially with all these Mexican trucks about to make a run for the border.

 

OK mister, what did you do with the real Frosty! :lol:

I just about fell out of my chair!

 

COLDFROSTYMUG, seriously man give it up, it's the same song and dance with you in all your posts, we understand you hate the idea of OTR, great, but to continue to post and post and post, come on man i think all of us on here can pretty much read you like a book anymore, like i said, we all know you hate OTR and everything it has to offer, but move on, i don't think i'm the only one on here getting tired of your same old posts about how OTR is out there to screw you over.

 

cant you guyz see?- hes torn between two lovers (OTR & Local), and feelin' like a fool :P :lol:

 

I'm looking at possibly changing careers to truck driving. I found one article

http://www.career-opportunities.net/...rOpportunities

with information about what it is like...are there any others I ca research?