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Post by X factor on Jan 22, 2022 20:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on Jan 22, 2022 20:15:19 GMT -5
Ye, now's a good time to get into OTR trucking, the thing is though, you have to love that type of lifestyle or at least have a tolerance for it. Or be willing to do it for 1 year, save all your money, and then buy a house or land with cash saved up.
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Post by X factor on Jan 22, 2022 20:19:46 GMT -5
I"m older now, and just can't live like that anymore, I know how it is out there, and without love and support from a family, or your family, that lifestyle would destroy my spirit.
Parking hard to find now if in a big truck, and most truck stops now you have to pay to park, and nothing worse than having to use public restrooms 100% of the time.
It's not the friendliest environment.
As you age, money isn't everything, as you age, health, mental health, begins to matter more than a weekly pay check.
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Post by X factor on Jan 22, 2022 20:22:10 GMT -5
And the white blue collar class of Americans has been fading out for decades now.
Now younger white males are into other things other than becoming lumber jacks or truck drivers or plumbers or the trades type of skills...instead they're more into tech type of stuff, is why mainly Hispanics and or urban blacks are filling that void..
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Post by X factor on Feb 17, 2022 21:10:04 GMT -5
Sitting all day in a truck is really bad for your health
Sitting all day in a truck is terrible for your health.
And you have to be in shape, even though you may not think to.
I mean you have to be in shape to clutch heavy pedal maybe 400 times a day with your leg, assuming your drive a gear shift manual, and to hold steering wheel for hours at a time takes strength, or at least health as in not being injured or in pain.
Trucking is needed, obviously, but just saying it can take a toll on your health if that's all one ever does.
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Post by X factor on Feb 21, 2022 19:21:58 GMT -5
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. As usual, the 'Zone' was onto this problem long before media picked up on it, the above post posted back in 2020..then today this article here comes out about 60,000 drivers + flushed out of the industry do to drug testing... www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/marijuana-testing-for-truck-drivers-is-becoming-a-leading-cause-of-the-growing-national-trucker-shortage-expert-says/ar-AAU888T?ocid=msedgntp Drivers can't even do CBD oil in fear of some residue coming up on test, so many drivers just opting to leave the industry, and younger people, why would they want to live such a boring life on the road? Now days OTR road life boring as hell, nothing to do, all the truck stop women have left, or aged out themselves, now everyone just uses hook up apps instead, I guess. Truckers don't talk to each other anymore, all the truck stops are 'chain' now, no more pool rooms, TV rooms, nothing, you just sit in truck, don't exercise, eat and drive. |
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Post by X factor on Mar 14, 2022 17:00:30 GMT -5
Drug test  I've got to take a random drug test tomorrow, it just comes with the territory if want to drive a big rig. It's actually why many newer drivers are getting washed out of the system or never qualify, is cause many cannot pass the drug test today. nypost.com/2021/11/07/supply-chain-stalled-by-72000-truckers-who-failed-drug-tests/Many don't like the fact that they can't even do cannibis oil, the stuff they now even sell at 7-Eleven stores at the register. But me, I don't do none of it, cause don't ever want to blow my ability to drive commercially, the money is just to good, I'd have to get two jobs to earn what I earn now from one, and barely even work at that, as far as days off goes. So ye, tomorrow I'll go get drug screened, cool, an excuse to get out and go see new things, I get bored sitting at home all the time on my days off.
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Post by X factor on Mar 14, 2022 17:04:05 GMT -5
So glad to be home by 5 So glad to be home by 5 most days. 2 days off, Sat-Sun, do more for my health than you'll ever know. When home, eat right, salad, cucumbers, run, exercise, juice, and more. Most drivers I see on the road these days just like sickly. There's always something wrong, missing teeth, bald, swollen calves, scaly skin and more. OTR drivers, today, just all look sick, as if dying... Sorry, but would rather be homeless than go back to that crap. Nothing out there anymore, trucks totally monitored and controlled by non driving dispatch. If you deviate one inch from route, alarms go out, so what's the pay off for being out for weeks at a time or even months? No thanks, would rather work two part time jobs than be out on the road in todays climate.. A blast from the past post back in 2016. |
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Post by X factor on Mar 22, 2022 13:12:19 GMT -5
I think i will get up and out and go painfully have someone charge me to do my taxes.
I could do it online, but if do it myself might not catch all the savings.
Use to have this guys wife do them for me, but last year I think the scum was running a scam on people.
I think maybe him and his wife split up, and he didn't tell people and instead still took peoples tax returns and probably pocketed all the money for himself.
I'll find out today, when get taxes done, if they did anything to harm my record.
But if they left a trail, which I doubt they did, he'd have a lot of people tracking him down.
But we'll see.
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Post by X factor on Mar 22, 2022 13:12:58 GMT -5
And with the Biden admin spending trillions and trillion upon trillions, all for nothing, I'm sure my return won't be like former years.
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Post by X factor on Mar 27, 2022 9:11:56 GMT -5
I had a truck driving dream.
After pulling off a busy interstate in Florida, and into a large asphalt parking lot at a old styled truck fuel station, and the parking lot was sloped.
But after pulling in and or leaving, I forget, the steering wheel just came off, it detached from the steering column, it was like glued on.
But I felt like i knew everyone there, so went and told mechanic, the led me into the admin building, where again the guy who helped me felt like an old friend.
I pretended it was worse than it was, just to tease them (the fact I was in such a relaxed mood tells you that since I was around what felt like friends, I was totally at ease)...but I told him..
'Hey, I need a new pen'...as I slapped non working pen on his desk, which was around other desks or stand up cubicle like customer service desks in this bright office looking well lit room.
They chuckled and gave my replacement pen.
Not sure how or why it went from broken steering wheel to needing a new pen.
But on way out with guy who escorted me in, there were poster sized photos of over sized bodybuilders all over the way, and I remember saying.
'Hey, I was with a guy like one of those guys, not to long ago'.
Hey, it was a dream, I can't even make sense of it yet.
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Post by X factor on Apr 3, 2022 22:21:34 GMT -5
Plenty of female drivers are picking up the slack that many male drivers no longer want to do, farm gals are stepping up to the plate  Out on the road you see less and less 'White males' under the age of 35 willing to get into trucking, and what's filling that void are Hispanics, urban 'B' drivers, other foreigners and WOMEN of all colors. Yes, it's the women that are stepping up into trucking now and filling the jobs most snow flake suburban males no longer are interested in doing. Long ago when I started there were female drivers, and back then were considered Mavericks for sure, I knew a few. And back during the CB radio days, whenever a female driver got on the CB, dozen of male drivers responded. And back during the convey era, that's when 10 + drivers would all role together at a high rate of speed, back during that era, whenever the male drivers got word of a female driver, there'd be dozens or more semi trucks all in tow. Those days are gone now though, as the CB culture has pretty much died out, and like the male drivers, most of the female drivers just stick to themselves now, and no longer have that friendly Dolly Parton or Lareta Lynn type of open friendly country gal demeanor.
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Post by X factor on Apr 3, 2022 23:29:34 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on Apr 3, 2022 23:31:22 GMT -5
View AttachmentTrucking can be brutal...and I'm here to share all the sides of it that I know, and have been through. To the Oregon mountains on I-5, to inner city borrows in New York and Jersey to open deserts in the SE. Trucking is not for all, and if you're in it for a quick buck, doubt you will last long, there is work involved, and you do have to be in shape. Trucking varies widely, from city driving to OTR, to dedicated, to class B, or A or Oversized and on and on. Tanks, vans, containers, flat bed, dump trucks, box trucks, hoppers and on and on. I'm in know rush to share what I know, and what others know, we have plenty of time. After all, I'm a ghost rider. Lots to follow. First post on here created back in Jan of 2014, that's 8 years ago! What the F do I need some stupid professor confirming what the Zone has been sharing for 8 freagin years! |
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Post by X factor on Apr 3, 2022 23:46:25 GMT -5
People just have no idea the wealth of information on here, not just in this section, but scattered throughout all the Zone Mansion...which spans about a decade long worth of thought and truths, and poetry and realism and skits, and pain and joy and more, all based on real life!
You don't need dam experts or professors, all you need is the Zone, where real life sentiment is expressed daily, for years!
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