Well I have regrets of not finishing what I started, I told myself that I'd give over the road at least a year, maybe 2, but I gave up a really good job with Maverick and I don't think I should have left the road so quickly. I have a had habit of making rash decisions based on how I feel at the moment.[/quote]

you said it right here. stick with this desicion and if you still feel the same way after a year then go back out on the road. the road will still be there. maybe its the cat that is making you hate being home :lol: (i'm a dog guy)

 

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'll try it out and see how it goes. Today was pretty cool because I got to take a 26' trailer into places a 53' footer could never go, down residential streets and back country roads. It was also funy becuase I was swinging way too wide in turns because I'm used toa 53 footer. Now I got a little baby trailer behind me. Backing up into the dock at the end of the way was also "fun" :? cus as I learned today a 26 footer responds way faster than a 53 and I was swinging that thing all over the place...in a straight line back. I guess this kind of driving calls for learning a new set of skills, which will only make me a better driver. I think it's going to be fun However, we will have to see if it really pays what they claim it will. If I can't consistantly make 1,000 a week I amy have to go back out on the road to reach my financial goals. I have tremendous debt I'm paying off. I am concerned because they said for a while I will be a swing driver and doing different routes. Also I had to hound my suprvisor for a few days for him to get around to printing me a sheet of how the pay works (pay is by the stop, by the mile, and the case). He says he will have it tomorrow. We will see.

 

I switched up from 45' trailers to 53', and after about a month of this, I'm just now starting to get to where I can hit the hole like a perfeshimal. I was always getting in straight in the end, but I looked like a numbnuts getting there. It's a different world. I don't like it. I want my old job back. My old truck is still sitting exactly where I parked it. Makes me want to go in the office and kick Pretty Boy (owner's son-in-law) right squar in the nuts. Sigh. Why me? Why is my reward for 10 years of faultless service to get shafted up the bunghole by some rich spoiled little putz? Doug Devine, choke to death on a bucket of rat excrement would you?

Um. Rant off. Good luck with your new job, driver!

 

I know exactly what you mean. I've said it a hundred times, I got more sleep when I was OTR than I have in any other job I ever had. The problem is that you are home now and there are a lot more things to keep you up than there were when you were stuck alone in the sleeper of that truck. What else are you going to do when you're in a truck, go hang out in the truckstop for 4 hours? No, you're gonna lay down, pop a movie in and be asleep in 10 minutes. You've got 10 hours to kill and I never had a problem spending the vast majority of that sleeping.

Now, you're home, maybe you have a wife and kids that can occupy your time? Maybe you'll jump in your car and head out for a while and that while turns into several hours. You've got a whole new routine to get used to, it will take time if you ever get used to it. Before you were flat tuckered out by the time you parked the truck. It didn't matter if you parked at midnight or noon. Now, there are other things you could be doing because you're home. I gave it time and it never really changed much for me. I still went to bed at 10 or so and got up at 3 or 4. It's an endless cycle.

You can try the sleep aids, but those don't work well for me. I took a Tylenol PM once, had to force myself out of bed 10 hours later and felt like crap the whole day. Everybody's different, but I don't have any desire to try those again.

Good luck.

 

Thanks. I'm slowly getting used to it. The last two nights I was in bed between 8 to 8:30....and I felt pretty well rested. I'm adapting to the job pretty well and I should be on my own sometime next week. I just got to keep focused. I do miss the road sometime but I also hated it with a passion and I don't think it's for me for the long term. I just got to keep telling myself 4 more months...that's when I'll have a years worth of driving experience. I have a company, Dupre Transport, who is wanting to hire me to haul gasoline but I got to have a year first. Hauling gasoline/chemicals is something I knew I eventually wanted to do. So I just got to hang on a little longer to get my dream job...its actually 3 and a half months. The shift is 5pm to 5am, perfect hours for me, it's an easy job with little physical work, and i will enjoy the challenge of safely transporting a tanker full of chemicals. So just got to hang in there a little longer.

 

Well first of all let me make a clarification because I really misunderstood what PFG told me...training is 12 dollars an hour, not 20, with a garunteed rate of 120 a day. They just informed me that they don't think I'm cut out for this, that I need more experience, basically they let me go. I need to find another job and quick, like within the next 2 weeks. OTR will do for now. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Ryan