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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2022 11:59:48 GMT
I have a long harsh day of driving in front of me...well not harsh, but long, but long will make any task seem harsh.
Then I'm off for a few days, to recover and get into other stuff, stuff that makes me feel alive and useful to self.
When I'm driving is when I feel least alive and useful to self, but I suppose that could apply to any type of job one is burned out from.
Time to scat...getting ready and going to work is a multi task ordeal, especially if you care about you looks.
I don't get guys who step out the house looking ugly, and who've lost all sense of fashion, how do their wives tolerate that?
But I think wives tolerate a lot with men, as long as you continue to bring home the bacon.
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2022 1:11:34 GMT
In the truck I have, they have cameras now 'Smart vision'?
I be cursing my butt off a lot, no telling what they record and or don't.
I find cameras inside the cab to be very invasive.
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2022 1:06:06 GMT
I've only worked like 2 days in the last 10 or so, do to the hurricane, as such, driving today really seemed like a long depressing shift.
When I was off, everyday was exciting, I worked on my radio show, blogged, this and that, mind always engaged and active, but when driving that truck on that long route, it was so boring, dull, flat, as the people out there were to me.
Entertainment is so much more exciting than blue collar stuff.
And I got to do it again tomorrow.
I'd quick, if could earn the same amount doing something I loved...but trucking does tend to pay more than other average non union blue collar jobs.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2022 12:45:53 GMT
Another day, another few hundred miles.
I wish I could be excited about the day in front of me, but I'm not.
You don't exactly meet the most exciting people in trucking anymore.
Now, they, the trucking industry, just grabs labor from wherever and whomever.
Trucks are automatic now, so the calibur of drivers has dropped.
No days you get a lot of socially introverted urban drivers, and females, who lack the emotional range to be social.
Or now, the main group of drivers are Hispanic or non U.S. born nationals, so now everyone speaks a different language other than English, wish also creates a cultural barrier.
It's just not the same, which makes for very long dull shifts, cause there's no one to shoot the breeze with on the CB radio, like days of old.
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Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2022 12:20:23 GMT
This is one of those days where I just need to sit still and lay in bed for another few hours, your body knows best, but industry doesn't care about what your body knows, industry, work, 'the job', requires you rip self from bed, sanctity of the bed, of rest, and go slave away in weather that is cold.
Although, I must say, yes it's cold out now, but I'm not in a cold weather state.
If I were in a cold weather state I'd of had to give up blue collar work years ago.
As a single person, to put myself through such brutality, as in working out in cold weather, just wouldn't be worth it.
People do that who are in love, or feel obliged to do so, as in a marriage, or family or even a significant other, I have none of that, so will not torture self.
Also, when single and older, health really matters, cause if fall ill, there's no backup plan or person, other than savings I suppose.
But employers don't like it when you call in sick...calling in sick puts a undue pressure on other people.
So, unless I'm half dead, I usually go into work regardless of how I feel.
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2022 12:33:37 GMT
I work today, don't feel like it, but hey.
Notice I don't say 'have to work', cause everything is a choice, I don't have to do anything, I don't even have to work, but I chose to in order to be responsible and earn a income the honest way.
That aside, tonight, when finally off for a few days, seems like a million years away.
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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2022 3:00:56 GMT
Trucking can be a very lonely, demeaning, job, this time of the year
Not all driving jobs or environments are the same, some you have multi stops, and are always chatting with people, thus forming relationships.
But other jobs, you may work a 10-12 hour shift or more, and not talk to a single soul.
Either way I'm off now...and kind of just want to forget about today, cause it was meaningless to me.
Maybe now that I'm off from work, I can start deriving some meaning to life again.
What a dumb post.
Not sure where my mind is right now.
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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2022 23:02:07 GMT
Your truck is your gym, if know what to do with it
Your truck is your gym, if know what to do with it.
Driving long hours, a day, eating, sleeping, no exercise will shorten you life unless exercise when and where you can.
Watch video and learn.
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Post by Admin on Jan 16, 2023 13:04:12 GMT
I have to break into my precious off time mode and get up and go to a freagen safety meeting, but will be leaving early cause I have other event planned that's way more important to me than some low IQ driver safety meeting BS.
It's insulting, when have been driving as long as I have to still be treated like it's always your first day.
Don't get into driving if you expect honor and respect as a veteran, cause in the driving world, no matter how many
years you drive, you'll always be treated like a stooge by the rest of the industry.
Driving a semi truck is the only field that the longer you do it, the more stupid people think you are.
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2023 1:23:54 GMT
The trap older drivers tend to fall into is that trucking is a very specific skill, that happens to pay decent.
And so when get older, if didn't get certified or trained or educated in another field, it's hard to find a similar job that pays as well.
Sure, the job may be more enjoyable, but if that enjoyable job doesn't pay the bills, what's the point?
As such, many drivers, as they age, find that driving is the only job they can do, and get paid decently.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 3:54:46 GMT
Just got in.
I think some of the insides of these trucks aren't good for a drivers health, as in levels of toxic materials.
Even some seat belts, if you do research, are laced with Nickel and toxic dyes which some people have alergic reactions to.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 3:57:10 GMT
Just got in. I think some of the insides of these trucks aren't good for a drivers health, as in levels of toxic materials. Even some seat belts, if you do research, are laced with Nickel and toxic dyes which some people have alergic reactions to. |
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 3:58:40 GMT
No one cares about you once you get over a certain age, heck, they're flooding nation with millions of others from South America, and all around the world to be your, our, replacements.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 4:01:12 GMT
Ye, they never stop to think about how all these electricic devices inside these trucks could be affecting drivers, messing with the brain, maybe even causing cancer...they just don't care.
Just show up, do your job, and when get to sick to drive, you'll be replaced and flushed out the system.
Don't be loyal to no one but your own health.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 4:05:07 GMT
Anyways, one more day of this crap, and then I get a few days off in a row.
As a older worker, a older blue collar worker, I'm here to say work is a sham, this idea that working hard will get you somewhere in life, no it won't.
There is no such thing as a rich hourly wage earner.
Wealthy people don't earn their money by the hour, they're smarter than that, and or made better choices when younger, had better guidance when younger.
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