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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2023 4:20:00 GMT
Just got in from work, amazing how can be off for over 11 days, and how just one long shift of driving a truck can just destroy both your moral and health.
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Post by Admin on Nov 18, 2023 5:09:43 GMT
Barely have time to get home, sort my thoughts out, before having to think about bed, sleeping, and waking up to be a labor slave again for a long day.
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Post by Admin on Nov 18, 2023 5:10:40 GMT
I could never work for Fed EX, UPS, or any of those high pressure 'must deliver now', type of driving jobs.
What good is the money you make if always on the clock and can't spend it, and when can, to tired and wore out to enjoy it.
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2023 13:35:51 GMT
I have to work for like 4 straight days in a row, coming up, long days, driving, sitting, being alone, and dealing with associated work stress; it feels as if I'm about to step into hell, my own personal hell.
Is this what the future has to offer, is simply doing that which you hate, just to pay basic bills?
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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2023 4:57:00 GMT
Long long day, tomorrow will be even longer.
What is the end point to all of this? Laboring just to still be poor and have nothing when retire?
The older you get, the less the dream seems real to me...(Unless planned right from a youth, and or around smart people when younger)_
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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2023 4:58:02 GMT
2 more days of this crap.
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2023 18:48:23 GMT
I think staying inside some of these trucks to long is hazardous to my/our health, the benzene plastics, and other chemically laces substances in these trucks are bad for the body
There's something in these trucks that are slowing destroying our health.
A lot of materials inside of trucks, even some cars, are made of this crap.
But truckers are in their trucks longer than most people are in their cars...so what's the risk?
You decide, and do your own research.
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Post by Admin on Dec 15, 2023 5:08:53 GMT
To wore out to really express much, very long days.
It takes a lot of endurance to be up for 18 hours, sure, you don't drive that long, but counting when you first get up, till you go to bed, that's a long time.
And you're also aloted 14 hour work day, in which to drive 11 hours, but still, that can really stretch out long, that's a long time to have to stay physically focused on anything, especially driving, where one mistake and 'bam', you're in a accident.
Oh well, 2 more marathon days to go.
I can't go forward like this much longer, at my age, not trying to spend what last few decent years I have left as a low laying labor slave.
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2023 21:26:57 GMT
Rolling through a rest area at night, yawn
Nothing to see here, just a boring ride through a rest area at night...
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2024 6:54:32 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2024 3:31:53 GMT
Left, resigned from last job, I refused to sign a facial recognition waiver...nope, not doing it Yep, I refused to drive around all day having my face mapped out, having my bio-metrics read, hell to the no! Talk about intrusive! Safety my azz, it's just another way for big tech and big Government to team up and study you. The more they know about you, the more they can control you...screw that! Not this old school driver....and it has zero to do with safety, and they know it, the slimy worms they are. Amazon was the company doing it, but I was working for a company under Amazon, but we were driving their day cabs...so I don't blame the company I worked for, I blame Amazon, who have a way of driving away all their drivers. Being inside of the cab of the truck was like your one private part of the day, long day or night, where you can scream, act out, talk to self, whatever, and now they want to watch all that, study it, you, and whatever?....screw that. I bet ya I'm not the last driver to walk away from that type of intrusiveness.
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2024 6:30:59 GMT
I mean what do I do with the rest of my life, go a different path or get, yet again, just another dull, mundane trucking gig?
This is what I really want to do, go to film school, it's what I should of done a decade or more ago, if more focused and motivated and determined.
I need a job, a career, where going forward my creative talents are rewarded and appreciated and used.
In trucking, there is no need for creativity, you just obey the boss, the company, and watch dull, mindless training videos that you've seen for decades. There is no creative outlet in trucking, unless you're one of those custom truck types who likes to spend 10's of 1000's of dollars customizing your truck; but that's if you own it. If a company driver you cannot do that.
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Yes, I came into a little money recently, not a lot, just enough where can relax for a while, if I so chose...and is why I've been thinking so hard these last few weeks, cause I don't want to make the wrong decision like I have so many other times in my past.
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I mean yes, I've already applied for a staffing trucking job, which means you work on temporary assignments, ect....but haven't even looked at response yet, which means I'm torn on whether to go back to work immediately, or take some time off to think and explore other options.
I'm not old enough to retire, yet old enough to not want to just go work yet another mundane trucking job where you're never appreciated for all your years of service.
You have to love trucking in order to put up with all the hassles of it...the traffic, the mechanical breakdowns, the snarky shippers and receivers, who all treat you like a nobody, a dumb mindless nobody, as well as dispatch, they treat you like you're brainless as well.
What I really need is a RV = no lease or high rent = mobility and flexibility.
A RV and of course a tow behind vehicle or vehicles, maybe a midsized truck and a scooter, and pedal bike.
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My plan was to get some land, and just live on it, but cheap land means remote areas, which unless working from home means long commute to work or job.
I don't know...lot's to think about right now, cause I can't really say a new chapter has begun in my life until I actually do something completely different going forward...
Are there risks involved, yes...but the above film school seems really thorough and hands on...and that's where the last of my passion is, cause with whatever few years I have left on earth, if not doing what I love, than what exactly am I doing?
To be continued...
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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2024 14:45:00 GMT
Since I left trucking, about 5 months ago, I'm in better physical shape. I workout every day now, I get up and bike or walk and or both. I eat better, and drink less...can't really say I'm over all happier though, but that's only due to some uncertaintity in my life coming up. But the thought of me going back to trucking, ugh...I may have to though if nothing else comes through. I've done it most of my adult life and it's gotten me absolutely nowhere socially or fiscally, but has provided me a steady living, I suppose...like a bad marriage. www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/trucking-can-be-like-a-bad-marriage.68681/page-4
Here's me, a younger me, writing about how trucking can be like a bad marriage over a decade ago...it's linked to a post I dropped in 2009, wow. Time fly's, but seems I'm still cursed with the same average, or less than average existence. Taking a film course currently, so not working, but soon the grim reaper of bills will be due, and dreams alone don't pay the bills.
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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2024 3:54:13 GMT
One thing for sure, working out a few times a day sure doesn't burn as many calories or brain calories as driving a truck and being on shift for 12 hours or more.
You're mainly burning brain calories though, when driving, is why you can still get so fat behind the wheel, yet get off work and feel so utterly exhausted.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2024 3:01:37 GMT
Trucking is all messed up now, and this guy explains why
Foreign drivers have overly saturated the market on all levels, from drivers to brokers, etc.
But that's just one reason.
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