Trucking...a ghost rider...

Asked to work on Saturday

Was asked to work on Saturday, I said 'No'.

I'm exhausted, tired, wore out, and don't get paid enough, or enjoy work environment enough, to work all week, just to have one day of weekend stolen for pennies.

My one day off is worth 10 x's more to me than the maximum amount could earn if I had worked today.

Mindless labor is not fulfilling.

I dread that environment during the week, and would dread it even more on the weekend.

Everyone I work around appears to be handicapped, missing teeth, mentally impaired, physical impaired, the women look like men, the males are hairy or low IQ urban, or foreign, I mean there's just nothing inspiring about those I work around, nothing.

soxy people who have it together just aren't attracted to this industry anymore, and I'll be darn if I want to be around that environment on the weekend.

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In the olden days, all the money went to the drivers, now days all the money goes to those in admin, who sacrifice nothing.

One thing for sure, I refuse to allow this industry to destroy me.

If I can help it anyways.

I stay local, home nightly, get plenty of rest and sleep, is why I still look so young, I suppose.

I see drivers that allow industry to use and abuse their physical stamina, and it's not pretty.

This industry throws away drivers by the 100's or 1000's daily, you mean nothing once of no use.

As a driver you're just a means to an end, and everyone is getting rich off of your labor accept you.

I have no love for the exploitive transportation industry anymore, where those who do the most work, sacrifice weeks away from home, are fiscally rewarded the least.

Wow, like blow the dust off this section, I've been gone for a very long time, but now back to post this real quick.

The trucking culture is all but about dead, now it's composed of guys on their cell phones who have same mentality as '4 wheelers'.

And pay is stifled unless you kill yourself, but even now, can't really do that do to electronic logs, so the days of earning whatever you wanted to, are long gone, except for the most outlaw of outlaw drivers in the heartland who aren't monitored.

Sadly, most drivers now are old and balding and have grey hair, and are very dull and boring to be around, the age of renegade drivers is gone, the types Hollywood made movies about, the types Country and Western artist wrote songs about, those type of drivers are gone, for the most part.

Replaced by many immigrant drivers who could care the less about traditional American culture or society.

Craigslist is full of adds for drivers, cause no one really wants to do it anymore, at least not long haul.

And younger males are pursing other career paths, like coding, computer stuff, sit behind desk stuff, times are a changing for sure.

I use to Love it myself, but not anymore.

Also avoid any company that uses the terms 'Solutions'...example 'We provide solutions for our costumers' ect and BS.

What that means is management at that company thinks zero of you, and will sell your soul to satisfy some Asian client.

What I've learned is that everyone fumbles, even the corporate types do, their people to, and mess up plenty in their roles.

IN closing, just want to say the soul of trucking is gone, now you just have regular people, who need a job, who drive trucks, while glued to cell phone 24/7.

CBD oil, and how it effects drivers in the industry



Drivers are being forced to either drive with pain, as they age, stick with traditional, expensive, and addictive big pharma medicine, or lose jobs if tiny trace of CBD oil shows up in a drug test.

Is it fair?, you decide.

Most of today's OTR truckers are immigrants, or Spanish speaking, or Russian ect.

The days of looking up into a truck and seeing a heartland 'Smokey and the Bandit' type are pretty much gone, except in specialized trucking areas, like maybe cattle hauling or Oversized loads, again specialized stuff.

But the majority of 'Port' drivers now are immigrants, or Spanish speaking, not saying that's bad, but am saying if you're a regular heartland American culture type, you'll feel like an alien in trucking now days.

Most younger 'W' drivers have migrated to like Parcel type driving, as in UPS, FedEx, Yellow Freight and so forth, where the pay is hourly, usually over 20 an hour, thanks to union pay.

Any Conservative nerdy geek that says unions aren't good to workers is a joke, let such a conservative geek come out and actually physically labor and tell me 25+ an hour is 'baaaaaad'.

They can talk that crap from behind station microphone all day while they earn millions, but let a blue collar type try to get a leg up by demanding more pay, and these conservative geek types condemn 'you'.

But ye, most drivers I see now are foreign, as in Cuban, Hispanic, just Spanish speaking types who seem like were flown over here just to fill the driving void younger white males to soft to do anymore.

Trucking is like the tower of babel now, in that everyone speaks different language, different culture, different mannerisms...it makes for not a very close culture anymore.

Drivers use to be a close tight knit group, not anymore.

If get into trucking now days, and are under 30, and white or heartland American Black (meaning not raised anywhere in the SE or around any large city areas), than expect to be lonely out there on the road, especially if single.

Expect to just see older slobby dressed white dudes, and a ton of foreign language drivers, and or urbanized black dudes who only know 'hood talk and language'.

But as far as seeing the classic farm belt type driver anymore, good luck...I mean they're still out there, but again most have migrated to more specialized trucking or just come off the road all together.

The older white drivers you see now in trucking are just doing so cause they couldn't find other work, they're not the old style 'hippie-cowboy' types who use to have large personalities.

Truckers use to be known for being bold and having large, fun, personalities, now most just seem defeated, walk like they're defeated and just trying to survive.

And shame on the dispatchers who exploit them, keeping them away from home for weeks...how degrading.

Seems this is still true