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Post by X factor on Dec 5, 2022 21:51:30 GMT -5
Truckers should definitely get this interior cleansing tool I've always wondered about driving all day in traffic, breathing in the exhaust of vehicles all day long. If you think about this stuff to long you'll go mad and lose your mind. This is the real cancer causing concern... I may resign from my trucking job after this, and other things related to it, I do think inside of current Freightliner truck is toxic to my body, but if quit, then what? Trucking pays pretty decent, what else would I do? |
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Post by X factor on Dec 5, 2022 21:54:34 GMT -5
continued from above
I mean my boss likes me, great company and all, but if toxins inside truck are killing me slowly, I mean come on.
Not going to commit suicide just cause working for a nice boss.
My health is all I have...I've go decisions to make, big life changing ones.
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Post by X factor on Dec 28, 2022 17:59:12 GMT -5
Your truck is your gym, if know what to do with it
Your truck is your gym, if know what to do with it.
Driving long hours, a day, eating, sleeping, no exercise will shorten you life unless exercise when and where you can.
Watch video and learn.
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Post by X factor on Jan 13, 2023 7:35:16 GMT -5
To me, safety, truck training ect, is simply teaching me how to be a better slave.
I have many side interests outside of transportation, that if successful, can really prosper, not just fiscally but socially as well.
With trucking, the better I get (and have peaked long ago), there really is no final reward or prosperity.
You simply become a better unskilled slave for the industry.
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Post by X factor on Feb 3, 2023 22:39:04 GMT -5
Nothing beats real stove top, home cooked, food
All that processed food drivers eat out on the road, wrapped hogie sandwiches with white bread, or anything else, you can't fool the body.
I'll eat that stuff when out there, but then when come home, will re-heat some red salmon or cook some eggs, and to the body, the nutritional value is like night and day.
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Post by X factor on Feb 14, 2023 8:15:36 GMT -5
I notice that the effects of driving a truck for multiple days on end, 10 hour shifts, ect, has a worse effect on your body than drinking beer.
for one, sitting in the same posture for hours at a time is not natural, and it's bad for your health.
2. Whenever I drive for long hours at a time, over several days, I always tend to gain weight, even though I'm not drinking, yet when off duty, or off from work, I can have a few drinks, yet I still manage to lose weight just from the natural daily activities of walking around, shopping, ect.
I guess the problem is, is that when you drive you build an appetite.
Driving can be stressful, and stress burns up calories is why many drivers eat so much junk food.
And driving can be lonely, and so many drivers eat excessively just to not feel so lonely or bored.
Bottom line, if must drive a big rig for a living, you better get out and exercise at truck stops or rest areas, which I never ever see drivers do anymore...instead drivers park and sleep, and live their lives inside of their trucks, OTR drivers that is.
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Post by X factor on Apr 29, 2023 6:37:56 GMT -5
Trucking is not a glam job, anymore
If you care about your looks, have a 'glam' type of personality, out going, like talking to people and being spoken with, than do not, repeat, do not get into trucking.
Trucking, years ago, use to actually be a good conduit for all the above, but then technology changed everything, and so did this newer, younger, glued to their cell phones generation.
Not only that, but now, if get into trucking, all you'll see is either older, over the hill white truckers, who look half dead, or you'll see grungy or scronny foreign born drivers, who are just happy to eat and who don't have the mentally capacity to have a conversation. To them, everything is basic, basic survival.
And the women out there? Forget about it, barely say 'hello', and they think you're chasing them.
Most today just see it as a job and have zero connection with their fellow driver or drivers, as they zoom down the road on the phone.
I mean I've observed guys talk on the phone more so than women, that's true, cause males always have headsets on and yapping away, no matter what time of day it is, that's a sign of insecurity and weakness, that you must always be connected with someone from 'home', while driving.
Bottom line, today's truckers, the whole driving experience, isn't what it was years ago.
You can dress like a star, and no one cares.
And your carrier just sees you as a useful tool, and ends to a mean.
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Post by X factor on May 5, 2023 6:15:28 GMT -5
Many drivers are just junky and nasty, cool, fine, accept when have to shair a truck with them, known as 'slip seating'.
That's how germs are spread.
You can give many drivers a brand new clean truck, and in less than a few weeks the interior will have a layer of dust and grit in it, and driver want even wipe it down, cool, fine, until another drivers has to get in that truck.
Trucking no longer attracts fun people.
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Post by X factor on May 9, 2023 8:00:16 GMT -5
Have to attend a safety meeting today, in a few hours, gross.
One my day off, at that, gross.
To just be told stuff I already know, and be around others who I barely know.
In modern trucking, you just don't build bonds with your co-workers like days of old.
Younger drivers are a reflection of today's society, no personality, everyone's head buried in the cell phone, or talking on the phone, no one engages in the 'now' anymore, as such we're all so very distant from one another.
Back in the day, drivers would invite other drivers to dinner, hang out, build bonds, ect, like most work places.
But today, it's just a different type of driver, mentality, demographics.
It's every driver for themself now, and half the drivers speak other languages, 3rd world types, who are just happy to have a truck to live in, or a job in the U.S.
Not a very inspiring environment anymore, not if older anyways, and used to how things used to be.
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Post by X factor on May 9, 2023 9:40:13 GMT -5
Well, looks like they cancelled that safety meeting, I got up early for nothing, dern.
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Post by X factor on May 11, 2023 15:39:28 GMT -5
This video may be useful to some
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Post by X factor on May 29, 2023 18:54:27 GMT -5
Keeping moral up as a driver, can be hard these days, fitness and side hobbies are key, and love and support from your friends and family, if so blessed to have them
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Post by X factor on Jun 13, 2023 13:33:54 GMT -5
A walk in the park, fitness does matter
Fitness always matters.
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Post by X factor on Jun 22, 2023 22:29:18 GMT -5
If you want a job/career, where you feel you can make a difference, do not get into trucking
Here's what trucking is good for (as far as driver goes)
1. A pay check...if you're just seeking a pay check, at times a decent one, than sure, trucking will fulfill that role.
2. If like sitting for hours upon hours, and just looking at the scenery as you drive, sure, trucking can give you that also, depending on your route, and whether OTR or local, if local, the only scenere you'll be seeing is traffic.
3. Is good if simple minded, and just want to be left alone while you work, again, depending on your route, mainly OTR.
What it's not good for is the following
1. If want to feel that you matter, made a difference, later on in your career as a driver, trucking will rob you of that, and instead always make you feel like a novice by those who manage over you.
a. 1st grade level training videos
b. Cameras in some trucks, that baby sit everything you do, trucking has become a nanny state for the most part, at least if work for a large OTR carrier.
2. In trucking, you have no creative outlet, your opinion doesn't matter at all, you're just seen as labor, a driver, a means to an end.
No matter been driving for 2 years or 20 years, your opinion is never asked for or utilized, instead 'Leave it to the experts' type of BS, even though some drivers been driving longer than the experts have even been alive and born.
As a driver, your input just not wanted or valued...if you want that, become a freight broker or dispatcher, ect, something higher up in the chain, or a terminal manager, but some of those positions require education and or degrees or certifications.
But ye, it is what it is...with trucking, you love it when it works for you, but then dread it when it doesn't.
I guess that's with any job though.
I suggest going to college first, then driving, or drive for a while, then go to college, or do both at the same time, I mean while in truck at rest area, when shut down for your 11 hours, take some online courses,...don't get trapped in a very one dimensional job as you age.
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Post by X factor on Jul 3, 2023 17:42:48 GMT -5
 Sometimes you just need change in life, new challengers. And trucking, well, now days, it's like managed by geeks, who love to evaluate and judge drivers all day long through cameras in truck. Or that 'smart drive' BS. I just told smart drive to basically go to hell. 22+ years of safe driving, I don't need that new age AI crap to tell me anything. |
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