Driving a semi truck over the age of 50

I got to come home for a quick minute, do to a cancelled load.
Today is going as awkward as I felt it would.

It's why when you get older, staying in good health is so very important, cause nothing gets easier, nothing, unless super wealthy, but if of the working class, labor class, as you age, nothing gets easier, if anything you become less relevant to others as they soon start replacing you with younger blood, is why fitness, as you age, is so very important to your survival.

Now days, actually for the last few decades, more and more women are getting into trucking



Trucking can be a lot of things, as with any job or career....or trucking can be like a bad marriage also...

www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/trucking-can-be-like-a-bad-marriage.68681/

That was actually 'me', in that 'trucking can be like a bad marriage', thread, on the Truckers report, years and years ago.
But that aside, life is about growing and exploring.

But ye, trucking can be like a bad marriage, just depends on where your heart and soul is at the time.

But like with anything, you need to grow, and just like if your spouse doesn't grow with you, then you tend to drift apart.
Not that trucking hasn't grown and changed, but often times those new changes has diminished the value of the trucker more and more into nothing more than mindless labor.

But again, trucking covers a very broad area of jobs.

1. Over the road trucking, sleeper trucks, truck stops, ect

2. Local container type of trucking, in and out of the ports

3. Class B type of trucking, as in dump trucks, cement trucks, local stuff, where in and out of shop daily.

4. Oversized load type of trucking.

5. Flatbed, step deck, tankers.

And I could go on, the main thing is to find your niche, and or some even go on to create their own trucking companies, where they're known as 'Owner operators'.
Or you can 'lease to own' your own truck (Do not do that, lol)

Bottom line, whichever type of trucking you decide on, your mind and heart has to be into it, like with anything else.

Also, there's the whole admin side of logistics, like freight broker, freight handler, dispatcher, terminal manager, ect, even Warehouse careers.
The demand for freight is only growing, so either path you chose you'll do OK at and or even prosper, just remember, always continue to educate yourself along the way, cause as you get older, the more career options you have, the more you'll thank yourself.

Everything about trucking just makes me feel smaller and more humiliated as I age.
They're always bringing in people younger than you to be compliance officer, ect, while disregarding your decades of experience....it's an insult, and is why I want to switch over to the brokering side of logistics.

Tired of being treated like a fool behind the wheel, who needs guidance from those who've never driven.

I just need to get out of the physical side of trucking.
I'm just getting to old and tired of always having to run or work such long days, to bring home a check, it's just not fun or challenging to me anymore, and not healthy.

I'll do a bit more homework tomorrow, to make sure there's not something else I can get into, on the computer side, other than logistics.
I don't need to be rich, heck I'm not rich now, I just need to get into a industry where you're treated like you have a brain...and where I can come home after work, or if working from home, and feel like I did something that mattered to me.

I just know I'm in this world alone, and owe no one nothing, not even to pick up the phone, cause no one pays my bills, and if pass away tomorrow no one would be at my funeral, that pretty much sums it up.

There's no legacy building in trucking, you just do your job, get lectured to by arrogant fools, punch out, ect, go home, and when shift done, no memory of it ever again.
No relationship building, no banquets held in honor of 'fill in the blank', no hall of fame, no recognition, you're just a janitor basically.

My parents had legacies, worked at major university, built relationships with powerful people, bonds, friendships, ect.
What the F has trucking ever given me that could match that?? ZERO!!