Adventures in Trucking

I actually did have something planned to send, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for and I couldn’t find an e-card I liked. Being on the road is too much of an excuse, but in reality, I’m such a slug and have no excuses for not even sending a e-card for Valentine’s Day, I hope this makes up for it, if only a little bit. Love you and miss you, baby.

I finished my second class with an A- and now am attending my third class. Wayne and Willie are home for a brief visit. I wanted to take Willie to the dog park yesterday but he was so bad the last time that we need to work on training first. He loves to run and teases the other dogs into chasing him. He will not answer to “come” when it’s time to leave. He also wants the toys but only if some other dog has them. He will run along side of them and bump them jump at there face [...More...]

I made one more trip, this was my last one, I promise. As I was talking to my boss, we were discussing what I was going to do after trucking and he mentions when am I going to give up the heroin? This is my last time, really, I swear I won’t do this any more. I can quit any time I want to! Anyone that knows anything about addictions knows the love – hate relationship involved in any addiction. The definition of addiction is that it’s progressive, meaning it gets worse and worse. If it’s interfering with your life [...More...]

Okay, so this is really the state of MY trucking. I still have a truck and now I’m leased to the previous company doing pad wrap freight in Las Vegas. The deal I have with the owner is, I can do what I want. I can go in the office and help dispatch look for loads, go out on sales calls, or I might straighten out the safety office. If I go in a few days a week, keep going to school, my boss ( the owner ) even signed up for a few classes when I did, so we’re [...More...]

I’m now fifty and it’s almost like when I turned forty. I had nothing, then started driving a truck. At fifty, I’m trying to get out of trucking without losing everything again. It’s not working so well. At forty, it was through my own stupidity, this time will be different. I need a career change, not only for myself, but for my marriage and the rest of our financial well being. Trucking has become a black hole. The truck always needs something, the generator that’s supposed to be saving me money, is costing more than it’s saving. I’ve always said, [...More...]