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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject:
Don't burn any bridges. After a few months as a dweller you might yern once again for a "normal" life. . . just don't wait until your wife has served you papers.
While the living space in a sleeper is huge by silent service standards, the lack of respect and subservient treatment given drivers by most all they work with (in the OTR world), is worse than anything you might have experienced in Uncle Sam's Big-Arsed Canoe Club!
As far as that bug. . . driviing a truck OTR is a little like camping out. It's fun for a weekend, maybe a week. . . two at the most. After that, the allure wears off rapidly and you are stuck working a job that lacks the basic labor protection most Americans take for granted. But then, I'm just a loser who didn't have the "right attitude" for trucking So, I went back to school, got my BSN and now I make more than any BBR could dream of AND I only work 4 days per week. In the spring, I'll start in on my Masters (paid for by my employer) so I can double my current pay.
I know IT can get old, as anything else can, just know that OTR trucking is not conducive to a happy home life and you will work much harder to get paid a lot less than at any time in your life.
MrClark_________________You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
—Groucho Marx 1890-1977 |
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