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To: CorporateStepsister
All You have to do is stick in a set of music or whatever and make sure you are doing your job.

Nope, you're on the hook for making sure the load is put on there correctly; your hour-plus waits at places like the Oakland Port are on your own time because you're paid by the mile; breakdowns, accidents, and bad traffic are all likewise on your own time; paperwork before during and after; waiting at scales; that's just what comes to mind immediately.

38 posted on 05/11/2014 9:23:43 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: jiggyboy
Not to mention especially up in the north east you are very limited as to the legal routes you can take. Weekend lay overs in Possum Flats with no trucker friendly facilities is always a riot.

Would any sane person sleep in the sleeper in NYC or Anycity New Jersey? The thrill of pulling onto a lot you just drove hard for 12 hours to pick up a promised to you load and route you home for the weekend passes you going out the gate. Then you discover the dispatchers who didn't talk to each other have left you sitting there from Friday till Monday when the companies production line starts back up and maybe you get a load out by noon headed 2000 miles from your home.

I drove about 8 months and quit. I took a job at just $1 over minimum wage working maintenance in a nursing home. I made much more money, was home every night, and had minimal stress.

40 posted on 05/11/2014 9:59:16 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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