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Post by X factor on Apr 3, 2022 23:49:19 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!  You really do need to calm down |
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Post by X factor on Apr 19, 2022 15:00:23 GMT -5
Truckers need to pay more attention to their health, as video states
A fit trucker is a safe trucker.
A unfit trucker is one who's a danger to self and others.
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Post by X factor on Apr 26, 2022 22:33:07 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on May 2, 2022 12:37:18 GMT -5
To me, you measure how enjoyable a job is based on whether or not those you work around care and or like it when you show up looking soxy, and trucking, forget about it, one of the most plain jane, bland work environments you can imagine
That's right, to me, you measure how fun a job is based on how soxy the people you work around are, of either gender, don't matter.
I mean I'd rather work around even well kept males, who were physically fit and style conscious, than old chubby lard butts who never seem to look in mirrors before stepping out of their trucks.
Trucking is bland in that no one seems to care about fashion, trucking is soley a production based type of job, where you could look like E.T., the alien, and it wouldn't matter, as long as you get load there on time.
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Post by X factor on May 2, 2022 12:40:32 GMT -5
Continued from above...
It's why I think office environments are just more fun, cause you can show up in style, and look nice all throughout the day, and people NOTICE, and that's how relationships are formed, and relationships are the foundation of humanity.
But in trucking, it's just the opposite, you see no one, dispatched over a phone app now, in the olden days a phone or qualcom ect, you pull up to port, speak in a box to someone you can't see, or go to some grungy warehouse to 'the window', where you're always greeted with a scowl...no wonder moral is so low for OTR drivers, and even for some local drivers, just depends.
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Post by X factor on May 2, 2022 12:44:02 GMT -5
And drivers seem to hate each other now days, and no longer see themselves as a whole unit, but rather they see themselves as individuals, each in their own little world, listening the talk radio all day, or gabbing on the cell phone, or listening to lame brain music.
Whatever they're doing, drivers aren't communicating with themselves like they did in the olden days.
And now add to that many Spanish speaking drivers have flooded the industry, and Russian/Ukraine/Eastern block drivers and all other nations, it's like the tower of babel, no one can understand the other persons language.
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Post by X factor on May 2, 2022 12:47:01 GMT -5
I think most drivers stay in it though, simply do to the PAY. Driving still pays decent, if with the right company...and of course avoid that lease trap crap, I can't believe some drivers still fall for that lease a truck crap, where you can work all week and actually end up owing money.
How would that make you feel?
You work all week, say two weeks, and when paycheck arrives you see you're $400. or more in the hole, there's no worse feeling in the world, yet drivers continue to fall for that crap over and over and over again.
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Post by X factor on May 17, 2022 12:17:31 GMT -5
Is it safe for drivers to sit in trucks that won't idle?
Watch video and you decide
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Post by X factor on May 24, 2022 10:53:27 GMT -5
Trucker driving in the rain, passes lots of accidents
(a bit of cursing in video, so don't listen if cursing upsets you)
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Post by X factor on Jun 10, 2022 6:08:04 GMT -5
drivers would make good phycologist, here's why
When you're a commercial truck driver, or even bus driver, ect, you're able to observe the patterns and habits of others for hours on end, you have to in order to stay safe and to protect your CDL.
It's almost like babysitting other people/vehicles, all day or night long.
But during these times, collectively over years, your able to observe behavioral patterns, in that you see the same stuff over and over again even though in different area.
You see the same daredevils, you see the same types who while building up speed on entrance ramp to freeway, suddenly look in mirror, panic, and slow down.
You see the same types who tailgate other drivers, you see the same types who drive slow, for no appearent reason.
and on and on, you see these various driving behaviors over and over again, multiple times an hour.
I mean with every clump of cars, or traffic you encounter, you see the same exact driving habits repeated, almost as if it's the same people but different cars.
People, at least when it comes to behavior, are not as diverse as they think they are, and can observe that by how folks drive.
Cause you see the same 6-8 driving personalities repeated like every 15 minutes.
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Post by X factor on Jun 13, 2022 12:20:22 GMT -5
Highways, bi-ways and accidents
Drivers see a lot in the course of a shift.
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Post by X factor on Aug 11, 2022 22:19:08 GMT -5
The majority of truckers are foreigners now, not saying that's good or bad, just saying if a native English-speaking American, most of the time you'll feel like the foreigner now days within the truck driving industry.
And because everyone speaks a different language now, the comradery is pretty much all but gone, that truckers use to have with one another.
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Post by X factor on Aug 12, 2022 20:14:14 GMT -5
You can't fool the body when it comes to food and nutrition
I can drive around all day on the job, out and back, and eat store bought food, and feel kind of full at end of shift, full and wore out.
Then when off, and get home, and open fridge, and see actual real food I prepared earlier, funny how my appetite comes back.
Processed foods at truck stops, or convenient stores is not nutritious, it's preserved.
Now luckly for me I'm not OTR anymore, so only have to eat fake food part of the day...but for OTR drivers, wow, weeks and weeks of nothing but fake food, it's sad actually.
I mean think about it, if a OTR driver, it's dinner at Pilots, T/A's, Fly J's.
Actually T/A and Flying J's do have sit down resturants, and or buffets, at least they use to, and so does Petro, or use to.
But many drivers, when off for the evening, are dirty, feel tired, low moral, and many jsut don't feel like walking into a sit down resturant and ordering food, the old time drivers did, but not sure about today's modern drivers.
So it's easier for them, the drivers, to just order 'to go food', take it back to truck, eat, then sleep, then drive all day the next morning.
No exercise, non, not for weeks and weeks, even month at a time, just eat, sleep and drive.
You have to have a lot of discipline to not eat junk food while out there, and or to exercise.
YOu never see drivers exercising at truck stops anymore, unless have a pet they're walking.
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Post by X factor on Aug 23, 2022 23:54:43 GMT -5
Blue collar hell, in a white collar world
If have dreams and ambitions of more, trucking, these days, can be like a dead end.
If people and personalities are what inspire you, avoid trucking at all cost.
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Post by X factor on Sept 13, 2022 16:43:40 GMT -5
Budweiser truck trailer collapses
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