Originally Posted by Snowman7

Nah I don't think so. It's not Lebron's style. There's only one Leb...er I mean 2, er 3...ah forget it! This aint him!:lol:

Originally Posted by Mo Miles

Aw man you owe me a new laptop and keyboard after I spit beer all over from laughing so hard! :clap::lol:

Former Big Blue Screw driver myself. What a cut-rate, low-ball, underhanded trucking company that was. I started as a driver, trained, even bought a trick and hired on with them. Best move of my life was getting away from that den of thieves. How they sleep at night up there in Omaha is a mystery to me. Heard all the top brass were cut some big fat bonus checks from old man CL this year. Must be nice. Too bad the drivers got zilch.

So you got a local job huh? Smart move. I'm looking for one myself. I ran under my own flag for awhile but there's no money in being an independent anymore, at least no good money. Too many O/O willing to pay the shipper to haul freight. Too many cut-throat brokers. Government talking about hooking-up an EOBR in your truck. Just not worth it anymore.

Originally Posted by Mike Hunt

Sir, thank you for putting into words what I've been feeling for awhile now out here on the road. Lordy if I could turn back the clock and have another go why there's NO WAY I'd be a over the road truckdriver. But like George Jones sang "you live and you die with the choices you make."

I'm just a greybeard now and events in my life played out to put me here on the road behind the wheel. Too old to learn another trade but too young to hang up my spurs for good. When the mill I worked at shutdown, I answered an add in the paper promising free training, home weekends, and good pay. Well, like the old saying goes if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is and lo and behold here I am working 14 hours getting paid for 10 and sitting in truckstops over the weekend. As far as "good pay" well look at it like this: as a millright I made $55,000 working 10 hour days 5 days a week. Now I'm working round the clock on track to make $42,000.

Oh well, just biding my time till I turn 62 and then I'll collect social security and never ever set foot in a commerical vehicle again. I don't know how you young men do this job with a family and a pretty wife or girlfriend at home who misses you. Even if the job paid double I wouldn't do it, no sir not for all the aggravation, DOT, getting jerked around by dispatch and brokers, never seeing home, I tell you they can all take this job and SHOVE IT.

Well now I'm gonna enjoy a smoke and listen to some Trisha Yearwood on the radio. Gotta get up early and go play in Chicago snow and traffic tomorrow. Almost clipped a bridge last time I was up here. Who knows what more fun is in store for me?

Originally Posted by mike3fan

It's gonna be real interesting when alot of these "local" jobs get cut in the next few months, and the so called truck drivers can't get a job with an otr company because they have no otr experience in the last few years.

Originally Posted by Hawkjr

now you still think its not its style :lol:

Originally Posted by mike3fan

thats why I said "so called truck drivers" most local guys I know are just guys with jobs that happen to involve driving a truck.

Originally Posted by Snowman7

Yup. Been reading him for 4 years and thats not him.

Originally Posted by Snowman7

I respectfully have to disagree Mike. I have done OTR. I have hauled steel. I pull doubles and triples. I run several states. As you know I am a road driver now even though I am home daily most of the time. And I have done local P&D. I can tell you without a doubt P&D is the most difficult driving I've ever done. I hate P&D. There is nothing hard about OTR. Talk about true steering wheel holders. And I can say that because I'm one too. Tell me how you're any more of a "true truck driver" than I am. What because you sleep in your truck? We all have different experiences but your crazy if you think I can't do your job and I'd be crazy to think you couldn't do mine. As for finding an OTR job you bring up a valid point. I cant speak for everyone but if I needed one I'm pretty sure I could. And I would if it came to that.

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

You would be wrong in that assessment. An IP trace confirmed it.

Originally Posted by Snowman7

uh OK I was wwrrrrrr...wwwrrrrroo....I was wrrooooo....give a minute. This is hard for me.