Where ya'll been all day, huh? LOL
We have been running nonstop to get places ontime. We have now arrived at our next shipper, and we may be here awhile!
The next trip is now posted, so take a gander at it. What happens after we get loaded all depends on what time they finally get us done. Rumor has it, it will be 1130PM before we get released (?)
6 comments:
Hi Steve -- The word for today is "AMEN". Says a lot for a lot of things.
Will the shipper let you stay if you are past the 14 hour rule?
Careful Ed, this job choice can turn into an addiction and an obsession. I haven't been in the cab of a truck since June 2010 and the draw of the road is very strong. I find myself going out of my way to a truck stop for coffee (then standing outside near the fuel island watching them come and go and reminiscing).
I'm about to give up and just let the wife and kid know I have to get back on the road.
Once you think you've gotten out of a truck for the last time...... you find yourself surfing trucking websites til 4am.
Well Sarge, let me tell you about that, been there, done that, and am back doing it all over again, LOL.
The sad part is, nothing is the same except that it is an unappreciated thankless job, that most people look down upon you for doing. Traveling trash are we whom roam the highways, and deliver whats needed and wanted.
Ed,
You are done, man! Hook line and sinker! haha!! ;-)
You went in the Corps in 82? So did I!! Platoon 3042 on Parris Island. Graduated 9/2/1982, then went to 2/25 in Harrisburg, PA, did a lot of ADOS with 2/6 in Lejeune, and a bunch of CAX's.
It's kinda too late for me too. I'm about three inches from pulling the trigger on a company in Arkansas who keeps bugging me. I'd stay there for about 9 months then jump to a higher paying gig.
Ros, you are right. It's shameful how drivers are treated. That is the one thing that really bothered me, even though the landscape of new drivers is completely different than the guys who are retiring nowadays. there are THOUSANDS of former desk-jockeys finding peace traveling the highways, most have professional educations or degrees. Former teachers, police officers, nurses, I even met a former Lawyer on the road once.
Ed, you were probably in a series that picked up that included a guy I went to high school with. He left the same day from Harrisburg, PA.
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