Wasted days and wasted nights

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Drivers are getting more and more dangerous, both CDL drivers and automobile drivers



I mean they're just allowing anyone to drive big trucks these days, years ago it was very hard to get onto some companies, but today with the labor shortage and plenty of foreign drivers, and with automatic shift semi trucks, it's getting very dangerous out there, hardly a day goes by that I don't see a major wreck on my route.

Or cars that like to first pass you, then suddenly dive into the exit, instead of just getting behind you and taking the off ramp.

Everyone drives like a maniac, even drivers of semi trucks who after they pass get over way to soon.

A lot of newer trucks have that 'collision mitigation' system installed (which I absolutely hate), so when cars or trucks cut in to soon on you, truck automatically slows down.

Everyone drives aggressive and fast now, I don't like it anymore, but again, only took this particular job do to the very short work week, I have enough time off every week to re coupe and forget I even drive a truck.

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Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go

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The day and life of a trucker, what truckers see daily



And you wonder why truck drivers are so mentally exhausted when they get home..

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Driving through the hood, years ago



Driving just felt different back then, it was more organic, raw.

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What a day, newer 'gas' powered truck began acting up, had to have another come get trailer, while down there at a Flying J service center.
Blah blah blah, long day, no matter, industry, greed, requires I work tomorrow.

If this job weren't only usually 3 days a week, well you know.

This is actually one of the longest trucking jobs I've ever had since getting cdl.
Only cause of the 3 day on 4 day off schedule.

But also been using off time to better self, well barely, but did take and pass certain online course, and may take another.

But really just want to move, I really just want to move...it's lonely where I'm at now.

But, but, right now I live in a 'Red' State, and glad, cause not into that mandate BS.

No one sticks anything in me against my will, job no job, government no government (other than lethal injection on death row I suppose)

But aside from Death row, no one sticks anything or substance in me against my will, and many others feel the same way.

Sadly, our Government has been hi jacked by Fizer big pharma, who's pushing this crap.

Stupid people have elected a puppet Government...the type of mindless corporate obeying Gov those on the Left use to be against.

And now the fools have voted in such a government, dunces!

Oh well, time for bed already, like I said industry never stops, but I, as a individual, must at times.

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Visited a truck stop today, just seemed like a sad place actually, I normally never go to truck stops, but had to this time
(well didn't have to but would rather wait there than on side of freeway)

It just seemed like a sad place, no one really looked healthy....truckers just don't look all that healthy anymore, if ever.
And the only people you see walking around are those with pet dogs....all the other drives just stay in trucks, it's a sad life to me.

Back when I did the OTR, it was fun though, a different world, now it just looks like a sad world out there.

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I wake up this morning with such a cold emotionally sterile feeling, work alone cannot fulfill anything, not my kind of work anyways.

It's just a cold, sterile environment that robs you of human interaction all day or night long, is why some guys glued to their cell phones, the ones lucky enough to have 'family', and now though more women are out there, but romance in the trucking industry is equally as sterile.

But until I make a change, what can I do about it?

Biden has screwed everything up with mandate stuff, in less than one year Biden has screwed the world dynamics up, or the corporate owned team behind him.

I hope my mood changes here soon, before I leave place for work, cause right now it all feels sterile to me.

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To me, truckers aren't really hero's anymore, to me they're just bums, who drive trucks.

Rude, road rage, foreign, no personalities, not friendly.

I've seen the change over the years, and glad I know longer do OTR, I'd go insane out there today.

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And I always get off my job feeling worse than when I began.

Maybe other people feel that way to, I don't know.

Trucking is just a lonely trade, and many like it, I did for years, but then you change after a while and that isolation becomes like a cage.

Trucking pretty much stole my life, when should of been hanging out with my peers, I was out there on the road missing out on everything.

Now my peers older, married, divorced, settled, and I feel like I'm just in a void of social nothingness now.

So why do I still drive?

1. Current job local, and only a few days a week yet full time pay (That's the main reason)

2. In general, trucking jobs do tend to pay more than other jobs, like forklift, warehouse ect...the pay is decent, you won't starve if live within budget.

And that's about it.

Pay, and schedule is the only reason why I've stuck around this long.
It's up to me to forge something different during my off time.

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I feel like the world and industry won today.

I'm just one, used and abused by big industry, when my body wears out, health goes, big industry will still be here grinding away.

I'm no match against the system.

If could do again, I'd do everything in my power to become wealthy, all this 'principled' stuff, where does that get you as you age?

It gets you absolutely nothing, if can't pay your rent or mortgage, you get kicked out, no matter how principled you were in life.

In this world, if Satan himself had a pocket full of money and you did not, Satan would be let in, and the door would be closed on me, you, and others of principle.

Oh the lessons I wish I had learned earlier in life.