Posted on 07/14/2008 5:47:41 PM PDT by captjanaway
Subject: Learning Over the Years How to Balance Family and Work in an Industry Not Even Their Own Company Executives Understand
By Renee E. Taylor
(ATAW/AR) To you, my husband is a truck number, just a large, blue or red metal object that mysteriously gets your freight from point A to point B. One of thousands of tiny dots that appear on your computer screen as you sit in your air conditioned office which you leave each night to return to your wife, children and pets. A large, blue or red metal object that dispatchers and planners seen as an inanimate object to manipulate and control. Problems not solved at the end of nine to five are left unresolved the inanimate object left sitting in a shippers parking lot or truck stop for hours and sometimes days, waiting for someone to make a decision.
As the cost of diesel fuel skyrockets further and further, it is that large, blue or red inanimate object that is the target. A cold, hard, metal thing that you see as you walk to your Mercedes at the end of a workday, office air conditioner left idling to cool no-one, an object not occupied by someones father, mother, wife or son. Just cold blue or red metal.
(Excerpt) Read more at americantruckersatwar.com ...
Alot of us truckers out here are getting hit hard by fuel prices and companies pinching pennies, but Taylor wrote pretty straight forward to the higher ups at Crete about what's going on -- stuff you won't find in "fluff" pieces in trucking magazines.......
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