I took a load from Vegas to Lexington, KY. I don’t know what the next plan is so I sit again. A week after the “big meeting” with the boss and dispatcher, I’m not real sure if anything has changed. I still think it was a good idea to wait till after the holidays and I only need a couple good trips or a lot of bad ones to pay the bills that I have to. More would be good to get the credit cards down to a manageable level, but the bills are paid.
A couple of changes are coming and decisions will have to be made no matter what I do about which company I drive for. Even if I stay, I need to do something with this trailer. It’s become more of a liability because the loads it was designed for are getting extremely rare and it limits me on the kind of freight I can take.
Life on the Road is hopefully getting a better payroll system so that problem will be taken care of and it might attract writers if we say we’re going to pay them and they’re actually paid in a timely matter, instead of the ancient paper check system they have now.
Adventures in Trucking isn’t about trucking so much anymore. I’ve been thinking of either transferring the entire website, posts and everything to a new domain or I could start from scratch to something a little more generic besides trucking. I may use Obscure Mania after the contest, it’s really general and wouldn’t limit me to any one subject. I could write more about WordPress, SEO, technology, life in general and even a little trucking. It may be a little more technical at times, but there is a lot of good stuff I run across that doesn’t really fit here.
The general rule is a blog should be focused on a particular subject. Oh well. Onemansblog.com is about anything and everything, wikipedia is huge and not specific but is extremely popular. It’s not really an absolute rule and it would be better than trying to keep up with two or three different blogs. I’m not going to cry if everyone doesn’t read absolutely everything I write. People read headlines and there are other ways to only seek out and read only the categories on a blog you’re interested in.
Besides, my trucking career may be coming to an end this time next year. If we can get our expenses down and the truck and trailer are major expenses, they mostly pay for themselves, but at what cost? Truckers know what I’m talking about. It’s not always about money.