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Post by X factor on Jul 16, 2023 12:36:31 GMT -5
A driver testing out new dashcam video, while also educating others at the same time
The transportation industry is filled with upper management snobs, who fail to appreciate the years, or decades of experience that many 'old timers' have.
Instead they, these snobs, feel the need to make you, as a driver, watch kindergarten level training videos that totally insult your intelligence.
It's drivers who should be making the training videos, not Harvard snobs who've never driven.
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Post by X factor on Jul 24, 2023 15:54:21 GMT -5
 I've done about all I can do as a driver, and well, I need a career change here soon before it's to late to change careers at all. Driving is a blessing when younger, or can be, but if it's the only skill you have in the logistics chain, it can be a curse, as you age, cause the minute you can no longer drive, due to illness or injury, what are you going to do?? I mean say your 45-55, and suddenly can't drive anymore, with no other skills, what are you going to do??And worse if you're single. So what I'm probably going to do is go into the brokerage side of logistics, and logistics chain side, by taking courses and getting certified as a supply chain professional....where I can work from home, even when older, even if in a wheelchair. I have to start thinking about my future now, and really don't want to be driving a truck right up to retirement...trucking can be brutal on the body as you age. I should of done this 10 years ago, but 10 years ago I had other aims, and really never thought I'd still be driving. Drivers will always be treated like a disposable commodity in trucking, people to be lectured at by admin, always treated like kindergarten rookies. Always condescended to by upper management and everyone else. As you age, there's no dignity with that...and you never meet anyone (well, depending on the route you have or type of driving you're doing) Either way, I need a change, and I need to change while I can, while I have the money to pay for this course. Logistics is growing, and I need a skill that I can latch onto this growth, other than just a CDL. As rent goes up, I need to have a ob where I'm not hogtied to an area, where I can work remotely from a place where maybe I can afford rent, a smaller town, ect.Anyways, the course takes a year to complete, or at least you're given that amount of time, I'm sure I'll complete it sooner though. I've really been lacking motivation towards my future lately, and so maybe this will give me something to fight for again, a future to look forward to again...we shall see. |
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Post by X factor on Jul 25, 2023 0:01:37 GMT -5
Never a dull moment as a driver
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Post by X factor on Jul 29, 2023 18:31:29 GMT -5
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.
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Post by X factor on Jul 31, 2023 15:53:43 GMT -5
This guy is so so good, and inspirational, if thinking about branching off into the freight brokering side of logistics
Follow him, watch his others videos, cause he's a go getter for sure.
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Post by X factor on Jul 31, 2023 16:24:00 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on Aug 6, 2023 20:29:23 GMT -5
Don't pass on 2 way highway unless have enough clearance to do so
Drivers like this not only risk their own lives, but they also jeopardize the safety and lives of those around them.
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Post by X factor on Oct 5, 2023 19:33:18 GMT -5
Just getting home from work, oh what a day
Oh what a day, trailer brakes ceased up while in traffic, a back road, thankfully it was a 2 lane or 4 way highway.
So sat there for a while, cops came, trailer had to be towed to a Flying J, this and that, and now back home.
Never carried out mission today, oh well, stuff happens beyond my control.
Home now, mood is improving much over a few days ago.
When I'm off work for days, and if I drink liquor, liqour, even very small amounts, can really twist my mood, enhance whatever mood I'm in.
If in a loving mood, I get more loving, if in a goofy mood, I get more goofy, but if annoyed, liquor makes me more annoyed...
If I didn't drink beer or liquor, I think over all I'd be a much happier and healthier person...not that I'm not already healthy, but I always set myself back by drinking, when off, home, and emotionally bored.
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Anyways, home a bit early this evening, so I guess I'll make a 'to do list'...
On nights that I know I must work the next day, they just never ever feel as fun.
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Post by X factor on Oct 5, 2023 20:37:19 GMT -5
This guy is so so good, and inspirational, if thinking about branching off into the freight brokering side of logistics Follow him, watch his others videos, cause he's a go getter for sure. For now, I've decided not to do this, cause it's just so much administrative work, and you really gotta love what you do to succeed, and being a freight broker, maybe 10 years ago?...but now? As I age I want to work less, not more, and being a freight broker means you take on all sorts of administrative responsibilities...and business costs... |
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Post by X factor on Oct 11, 2023 0:01:01 GMT -5
I'd quit my job tomorrow, if didn't already promise co-owner I'd be there
At my age, I just don't care anymore...could die any day, time.
Whatever life I have left, just want to live...but told co-owner I'd be there tomorrow...
Dern...lol...
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Post by X factor on Oct 16, 2023 20:48:48 GMT -5
Pay attention drivers
Pay attention drivers when making corner turns.
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Post by X factor on Nov 16, 2023 23:23:10 GMT -5
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 X factor on Dec 5, 2023 13:49:31 GMT -5
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 X factor on Dec 8, 2023 23:40:37 GMT -5
What a day, what a day, oh, and what a day.
Traffic in Florida is getting worse and worse all the time, as 700 + people keep moving here, seems mainly in the Orlando/Tampa/I-4 corridor, and even up and HWY 27, the Davenport area, and even Lakeland area.
I came to Florida, years ago, before Florida was 'cool', to get away from people, now those same people are coming here, dang, where do I go now?
I'm usually always ahead of the moving trend, but where to now?
Anyways, long day, driving is for the birds, just way to much traffic now, to many cars.
Where the f is everyone going?
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Post by X factor on Dec 8, 2023 23:49:55 GMT -5
It's amazing the difference between home cooked food and foot purchased at 'travel centers' (formerly known as truck stops)
You can't fool your stomach, I mean I can eat hot dogs, deli hamburgers, anything sold at travel centers, or Gate Gas station, and it's like eating Styrofoam, it just like lacks nutrition.
But then I can come home, warm up some left over steak, meat, whatever, and it just feels different to the stomach, it feels 'real'....solid.
Is why I feel bad for drivers who do the OTR stuff still, weeks and weeks at a time eating processed food, or deli foods laced with toxic flavoring or coloring, or whatever...what a terrible lifestyle, but I did it for many years, but when get older, you need real food or it'll begin to effect your health.
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