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Post by trailboss on Feb 9, 2017 13:15:44 GMT -5
About the time that I started my driving career, I remember seeing this in about 1980...
maybe you will see a familiar face, albeit he was much younger.
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Post by crapgame on Feb 9, 2017 13:26:32 GMT -5
I liked trucking for the first year and after I realized I no use of I-70 west of Denver and someone said US 40 was a great short cut from Utah to Denver and I tried it..my trucking fun meter started to drop fast..i then went to a local company doing regional hauling...weekends off 2 overnights at home a week..then did yard jockey work...food service delivery...dump trailer and triaxle work..then flatbed...after 2 concussions from falling off of a loading dock and having insulation bundles fall from my flatbed and hit my head I had enough...I also got married and wanting to be home with the wife and kids being on the road just wasn't something I wanted to be doing..my hat is off to you for staying at it and keeping everyone supplied with what they need!
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Post by simnettpratt on Feb 9, 2017 13:31:49 GMT -5
Not the News was one of the best shows ever, almost as good as Python.
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Post by papipeguy on Feb 9, 2017 13:38:35 GMT -5
Trucking is a reliable indicator of how the US economy is really doing. Lot's of trucks on the highways means someone is making and someone is buying. The people who move things have my ultimate respect
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Post by puffy on Feb 9, 2017 14:16:37 GMT -5
My son is a trucker.I gotta show him this one.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 9, 2017 15:10:29 GMT -5
I liked trucking for the first year and after I realized I no use of I-70 west of Denver and someone said US 40 was a great short cut from Utah to Denver and I tried it..my trucking fun meter started to drop fast..i then went to a local company doing regional hauling...weekends off 2 overnights at home a week..then did yard jockey work...food service delivery...dump trailer and triaxle work..then flatbed...after 2 concussions from falling off of a loading dock and having insulation bundles fall from my flatbed and hit my head I had enough...I also got married and wanting to be home with the wife and kids being on the road just wasn't something I wanted to be doing..my hat is off to you for staying at it and keeping everyone supplied with what they need! Having someone recommend driving over a billy goat trail sucks...yeah, that wouldn't set well. I started out construction, 10 wheeler and front end loader, went to hauling swinging meat 8 years (loading and unloading that really sucks) foodservice distribution CFS Continental/SYSCO 15 years 8 of them just shuttled trailers SF>Monterey, LTL freight for the last 12 years. I start collecting a pension next month, but I am getting a job with US ecology as a "Environmental technician" for a few years till I fuly retire...I will be employee #2 in the state, specialized hazmat runs with regularly going on an overnight to Vegas and they don't want employees in the sleeper, and they don't care where we stay, and they foot the bill...glad the casino's like pipe smokers.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Feb 9, 2017 19:57:20 GMT -5
LOL!
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Post by Baboo on Feb 9, 2017 20:13:19 GMT -5
I saw a truck load of Roi-Tans a while back.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 10, 2017 17:36:54 GMT -5
After retiring Charlie I Hot Shotted in a UD with Sleeper, was fighting a finicinal trail that lasted 3 years in New Orleans, Mid trial Katrina busted it up. We won. Back to trucking, met some real decent people and the shittest dispatchers you ever saw. I made my last run for my Boss who hired me with misgivings as he thought I lived too far from the terminal. I offered to work for a Month free , then decide, a week later he hired me. Back to my last run, it was at the end of the World, Venice. I got there, cold, wind blowing off the Gulf. Went to office, young prick was MFing Drivers and making them wait outside, I opened the office door to go in because of the cold, he jumped up and tried to close the door on me. bad Mistake, I raked him down and chopped him silly, opened the door and let the cold drivers in. By that time his Boss had made it in yelling at me. I told him this is my last run, but these people were cold. He let us stay in under the snarling little shite that tried to close the door on me. Unloaded and I wasn't trucking anymore, I won 75% of 2 million dollars in 2007, I'm a Codger now and proud of it, and I help everyone I can, that's what this world is about.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 10, 2017 20:41:21 GMT -5
That is a pretty cool story Bradley... and a hell of a severance package!😄
I am 56, and the cost of health insurance really took the wind out of my sails, so I am going to truck a few more years.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 11, 2017 10:12:12 GMT -5
Just a footnote Charlie, my wife does hair at a nurseing home, she doesn't have to work but everyone there loves her. I buy a lot for these people, some live on 32$ a month. During the flood we had in Louisiana last year I helped an old couple who had no insurance they lived down the road. I bought them a dryer and washing machine. Am I blowing my own horn, sometimes I'm embarrassed with my money and I strive to be a good steward of it. My Father God Bless him would give you the shirt off his back, I try and emulate him.
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Post by puffy on Feb 11, 2017 10:50:26 GMT -5
My wife's mother is in a nursing home.She only gets 30 bucks a month to buy everything that they don't furnish.Most months my wife and I end up helping out.30 dollars doesn't buy a heck of a lot these days.
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