Wasted days and wasted nights

[Admin]

This article is nothing new, it's been talked about on here for years

www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/there-isn-t-a-shortage-of-truck-drivers-they-just-don-t-want-to-drive-for-mega-carriers-anymore/ar-AAVNGWH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f673979faf0f466ba774acce86f9d961

No one needs stuffy nosed professors confirming what we out here in the trenches have seen occuring over a decade and longer.

But because this site here isn't a major publication, no one listens or reads what is being expressed on here.

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If you want money back from your taxes, than avoid H&R block, they won't get you back nothing, they don't even try.

It's as if they're an agency of the Government or something.

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I could earn 33 an hour, if I weren't so against working on my days off.

The 33 is like time and a half or something...I could earn an extra 300 a week or 1,200 a month or so, but I don't, cause that's just how unhealthy driving has become to me, it's just not worth it.

I mean after 3 days my body and mind is just destroyed, moral is down, it just sucks, cause you spend those 3 days in pretty much total seclusion.

If i worked an extra day per week, it would have to be doing something else totally different and outside the realm of trucking...that's for sure.

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I cursed out a driver today for skipping past me in line

I'm not proud of that, but it happened, and I just didn't like their response when I confronted them so I just snapped.

I don't like most truck driver types as it is, anti social arrogant whatevers, not all, but way to many.

And so today, I guess this older scraggly driver just mis-read me, thought I'd be OK with them passing me in line, they were wrong.

I confronted two drivers actually, one was younger, bulky, and Hispanic, but their reaction was more reasonable, but the other driver was older, white and arrogant as hell, so i had to introduce him to 'the streets'.

Not sure what world they come from where they think cutting in front of another is OK.

Oh well, nothing became of it.

[Admin]

Just got in from work and I feel defeated and depleted.

What a feeling to have at the end of any work shift.

Driving just tears you down for some reason, only other drivers will understand that.

But I'm home now, so can try to relax, try to empty thy mind, if not for a short while until gotta do it again one more time tomorrow, then off for a few days.

But still man, not sure why this job wears me out so much.

I think cause the shifts are so long, but is why I get 3 + days off a week.

Most jobs are 8 hours, and out of that 8 hours people may only work 6 of those hours, if that.

Anyways, I'm home now, feel depleted of all energy, so will lay back and relax for a bit.

[Admin]

Driving can have devistating effects on your health

Take me for example, whenever I'm off for a string of days, I lose weight, I'm in no pain, I eat healthy.

After my string of workdays, I end up gaining weight, my diet not as healthy, and just odd pains come back.

I don't know, I think it's just the sitting, the constant sitting, it's not natural to just sit for such long periods of time, even if local, as in out and back.

Even if say doing from 300-450 miles a day, that's still a lot of time just sitting, it's just not healthy, at least when you get older it sure isn't.

Then the food out there, cause even though just sitting, you're focused 100% of the time, that drains the mind, the mind burns up a lot of calories, is why drivers eat so much.

But the food out there, all of it processed, or handled by a 3rd party, you don't know what you're eating, but again you get hungry out there, so most cave, and buy chips, soda's whatever, hot dogs, whatever travel center has out, and it's all bad for ya, especially if just sitting all day, then go home and sit some more, go to bed, and repeat it.

Looking back, I wish I'd of walked away from trucking years ago.

I think, know, I'd be in a much healthier place in life right now, morally, socially, and more.

Trucking has done more to isolate me from others, during my prime, than any other single thing.

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As a driver you're always at the bottom of everything.

You're never invited to events, never allowed into the office, never able to influence decisions, you're just on the bottom of everything, no matter how many years of experience you have, you're treated like a mindless driver all the time.

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Young people want to 'matter', it's why the trucking industry can't attract and retain younger people, workers, drivers, cause in trucking, as a driver, you're made to feel that you matter the least in the whole logistics chain

Todays generation more than ever want to always feel like they 'matter', and no, not just talking about 'blm', I'm talking about everyone, say, under the age of 35.

Well, trucking is the least place you'll feel that you matter, so if get into trucking don't get into it to feel that you matter.

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I'll get up and go to work today, and be gone for up to 15 or so hours, travel to work, from work all time added.

and in the course of that time I'll be lucky to have more than a 1 minute conversation with anyone, 30 seconds more like it.

There are no peer to peer interaction in trucking, unless happen to meet at the yard while prepping truck.

Style, looks, what's that?

No one cares about your style or looks in trucking, no one compliments you, and if anything drivers seem to resent one another do to the isolation.

Everyones trying to prove to themselves 'Well, I'm not like those drivers, I'm different', type of mentality.

No team work, nothing.

Some like that, if a ruclose you'll like that I suppose.

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Well anyways, one last long shift today, no telling how I'll come back feeling or what my health will be afterwards.

Trucking is brutal, the environment, the food you eat while out there, the constant sitting, the stress of traffic, the long hours of uninterupted thoughts.

You can easily think yourself into depression or anger while driving.

Most drivers cope by simply talking on the phone all the time to friends or a spouse, or some other modern form of distraction.

Me, I just drive, and is probably why it's so bland to me.

[Admin]

Drivers, some, are expected to sit in truck for hours with no a/c or heat, cause trucks programmed not to idle, is that safe for drivers?, you decide



drivers are expected to sacrifice health for the Ozone, yet no one else is, certainly not admin while they sit in air conditioned or heated offices.

[Admin]

Trucking has cost me a lot

Trucking has really cost me a lot.

For instance, in current job I show up to yard, alone, prep truck, alone.
I go to first check in center, and now you speak in a box to a person from a remote area, no human contact of face.

Then get trailer, leave, same thing on the way out, no human interaction.

Then drive alone, to designated location, get there, same thing, no real human contact other than either speaker box or someone checking you in, then return, alone, get off, alone.

In this trade you're just always alone, you're not able to establish relationships.

In trucking you'd better already be in a relationship or married ect, cause you won't spurn any new relationship while on the job, and it can make for a sad life, and a sadder or non existent social life.

It just depends though on other factors as well, the type of trucking you do, whether or not you're in area you grew up in and know people, ect.
How close you are with family, ect.

But if you have none of that, trucking can really be an isolating profession.

Some people like that though, but I don't, not anymore.