Originally Posted by repete

I rarely agree with CFM but I do agree with some of what he said . As a millwright you should be making a nice living , have you tried appling with a rigging company? I see a lot of dumba$$es out on the road and driving a rig is the last place you (or any one) needs to be when stressed out by some a%#hole 4 wheeler, this is ajob that require's a lot of patients (sp?)

Originally Posted by Root

Scania wrote: I didn't get into trucking 'simply because" of anything.. The bigger decisions in life are not simple. Period. BUT:
My own Personality is Loner. Any sort of "anti-social" tag that anyone wants to put on it is a direct result and reaction to the gross decline of civility I've experienced with the Humans. I have a particular aversion to Bad. I cherish what is Good.
Trucking? Spent most o my life in ranching. Good job for a Loner. But they hammered on me that Loner was bad. So I went to college like a good boy and bombed out. I worked in a Steel Mill, liked it, but no money - and went back to ranching. Went out again into Wholesale Plumbing Supplies. Did great. From dock help to Asst Branch Mgr before I hit the Glass Ceiling and a salary cap.. Went back to ranching. For 30yrs. And the ranch closed.

Oh yeah.. Society doesn't like Loners. So I had to go through 2 marriages and 2 divorces.. Society isn't for everyone. I'm a Loner.

So. Take my educational level, my physical status, my Loner-ism, my need for Serious Income, what I'm able to do and how I like to do it....
Out of the blue, both feet first, I went into trucking.
I like trucking. Compared with running a ranch 25/8, 367/yr, this is a vacation with damn sure better pay.
If I'd sucked up, gutted up and gone on through the Education Machine and got a "Good Job"... I'd be unhappy, seriously homicidal and by God no guarantee of The Good Life by any means or sense o the word. I have enough 'burn outs' from the Socially Accepted Good Life out here with me to pretty much vindicate my gut instincts from way back.
I'm a Flatbedder. Skate Boardin', Shingle Haulin' White Trash.. And proud of it. At 52 I'm in the best shape I've ever been in.

And every time I go into an Office... I get the willies.. I can feel the tension. The lurking evil.. :twisted: And after I've transacted my bidness with the Gophers, the Suckers, the Trapped and the Haunted I get to walk out those doors and climb up into 80000lbs o Machine and I sail myself away from the Great Lie.
This ain't like bein' able to go lose myself out in the brush, miles from nowhere, surrounded by Nature with nothin' but a good Horse or a good Ford F250 Dsl 3/4tn 4x4 Supercab 5spd with me...
But it's Close Enough.
The money right now is Good Enough.. the Skill and the License is at least some assurance that I can better my position down the road in this industry.. No changing the Career anymore - just the Outfit perhaps. Maybe my own Rig in the future.. if it all 'pencils out'..

Nothing in life is Simple.
The Human Race is currently following right on down the historical cycle it has for thousands of years and we're on the Downside of it for many reasons.
I have no further use for Society on a personal level.. I may serve it. I interact with it on as minimal a level as I can.. It's for my own good and theirs as well. :mrgreen:
This is where I need to be.
There are many in this industry that don't need to be here.. If we're lucky we'll have the chance to Take Out those that don't figure it out for themselves soon enough - and for some of us, soon enough isn't Soon Enough.
I don't see that many Mexican Nationals taking over Transportation, not for very long anyway.... The Culture is what it is, and it is not suited to the demands for Safety and Reliability mandated by common sense, much less the mandates of Govmnt Regulation. But that's another whole topic.

If you're a Social Creature, go Local or stay Local. If the Goode Life and the Family Thing worked out for you, you won't stay in trucking. That is pretty simple.. We all make choices. What is Good or Bad is eventually determined by each individual in the end, regardless o race, creed, color or wiring.

Without question, there's a truck ready for you out here.
Without question, you better be sure you're ready for the Truck.
This is no game.
If you don't eat it up, it'll eat you alive.

Originally Posted by repete

I went back and reread the post , perhaps I misunderstood? To me it seemed that you were angry at all people? guess not and for that I'm sorry. But I still think that leaving the millwrights might be a mistake , it is a union postion right? I just think that is a good position and would get into it if I was qualified, maybe :lol: thats why I have the opinion that I do

Originally Posted by Walking Eagle

Very convused rambaling.
Hmmm Hope I don't park next to you in a truck stop, I feel "Postal syndrom " coming on.

Originally Posted by scania

I'm mainly just looking for something I can stick with for the rest of my life,I love to drive,always been a loner and not an impatient individual,think the job would suit me just fine.

Originally Posted by scania

Who in here got into trucking simply because of being tired of dealing and working around people all day long.
I think it's the main reason I'm considering getting into it myself.
I know as a driver you still have to deal with people as far as traffic shippers dispatch etc.,but not really side by side with morons and cutthroats,suckbutts and all kinds you can think of.
Last week topped it all off,this man after 42 years of service(we're talking about an extremely dedicated man to his job) left the shop like a few minutes early to shake everyone's hand who he's been working with for so long and guess what management decides to do to him on his last day,they wrote him up on his last freaking day,it literally made me sick to my stomach.
He wasn't even out the gate yet when the whistle blew,I could see if he was in his vehicle in the parking lot when the whistle blew but he was still inside the mill.
Anyway I know trucking probably ain't no better but at least you're not in direct contact with people.

Maybe I'm turning anti social,hell I don't know.
All I know now I have a total lack of interest in my job now and on top of that extremely bored with it.
By the way I'm a millwright at a papermill.
My plan is to pay some bills off and think I'll give trucking a shot.

Y'all have a good one and give me some feedback if y'all ever went thru this.