Trucking
23 hours of total boredom
and 1 hour of terror.

 

I look at it as:

1: Get paid to drive someone else's vehicle, and listen to their radio all day.

2: Get to see all kinds of new places, people, sights.

3: Being part of a american tradition, if you will, is pretty neat too.

4: For the most part, you dont have to answer to anyone. (ie, the psycho foreman)

and many more reasons. I think that if you dont enjoy this career, and only doing it for the money, you need to get out.....Because I'm gonna have to hear your sob stories and I dont want to....
Just my opinions

 

As well during the summertime girls come out with bikini's and well lets just say that view is not bad either

 

Your single with no kids, give it a shot, you may like it.

 

Hey, Heavenbound!!

Haven't heard from you in a while; hope all is well with you & yours!!

 

Log 70 hours
Work 80-100+
Paid for 55-60

C'mon...what's not to like about that? :lol:

 

I believe there is NO such thing as a shortage of drivers BUT rather a shortage of common sense and good business practices, period. The trucking industry is the most cold-hearted, cut-throated, and non-caring business I have ever witnessed. It truly is no wonder that there is 121% turnover in this industry considering how companies treat the drivers they DO have.

The cure? The cure is NOT to flood the airways with your stupid ads, hire non-English speaking drivers, do more studies, rent more billboards, pay every joker a $500 fee for finding you a driver, or any of your other idiotic methods for "curing" this so-called "driver shortage". It is to KEEP the drivers you already have, pay them for their endless time in parking lots, pay them a decent rate that's higher than what they were paid in the 1980's, and give them more time home than 1 day every 7.

 

Alyx:

There is no one patt answer to your question here.

Some people come from a family with roots in the trucking business spanning the generations. They were born with one hand on the wheel, one hand on the Eaton Super10, one foot on the acceleratoe, and one foot on the clutch.

It's in their blood, even their DNA!!

Their mothers fed them beby formula with the flavor of 2 hour old coffee, blended with the flavor of Marlboro ciggarettes.

Me?? Nope!! I was the first trucker in my family; something I wanted to do, so I took a couple of years off, went and did it, and lalthough I enjoyed it for the most part, I learned quite a few things along the way.

It can make an old man out of you in a hurry. After just two years, the age on my face was clearly discernable. I met some other drivers who, by looking at them, had to be 15 years my senior; only to find out that they were my age, or just a few years older.

Now, I was blessed to find a really good mid-sized company with an awesome dispatcher, and they were both very family friendly.

Their fleet was aged a bit, their repair/maintainence facility was too small, and their fuel network was very limited, but overall, they were great people to work for.

As for the lifestyle?? There were some really good times; rolling the desert at night during a meteor shower, seeing the mountains, shutting down for an hour or two in the middle of the night out in West Texas, with dark is so thick you can slice it with a knife, or on a clear winter night, where the sky is exploding with stars, and the silence is so intense that you can almost hear it!!

But, the hours can get long, and perhaps it was because of my age (early/mid 40's when I started) fatigue was something that i learned to live with on a perpetual basis.

Overall, I did enjoy it, but I was luckier that some of the noobs I've heard from here.

Anyway, I gotta' get back to work, so BOL2U, & Stay Safe!!

 

That was me. 4th gen. driver in my family. As most of you know i just left truckin about 2 months ago to go work on tug boats and hated it. I was made to be in a truck. Thats all i wanted to do. Hell i eat,sleep and shit trucks. My oldman is a O/O and when he comes home all we do is talk about trucks. I got diesel in my blood. The only real problem i have with trucks is the money. I feel drivers should get payed better then what they do.

 

Girls in Bikinis?
Pass that crack pipe , pal.


Look.... here is trucking and here is what you do. You pick up someone elses crap, and deliver it, and then you pick up some more crap and deliver it. In the meantime you'll drive down the interstate and after awhile, all Interstates look the same, the same truck stops, the same idiots , its all the same.

If your lucky, you'll get a challenging place to go like Chicago or New York