What is it like to be a truck driver?
What is it like to be a truck driver?
Grayson Howard
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Joseph Gray
lots of alone time
Samuel Clark
lots of driving
Lincoln Reyes
I have every license and nobody wanted to hire me because no experience 3k down the drain.
Started my own business never work for others.
Thomas Brooks
Drugs
Cock
Honk
Luke Smith
Honk.
Tyler Sullivan
>left hand drive
>left side of the road
Grayson Morris
Kinda boring. Lots of alone time. You can tell it gets to some truckers. Truck stops are full of characters, some of whom love to talk your ear off.
It's true you get to see the country, but just the interstates. You're not taking a big rig to the grand canyon or the St Louis arches.
The country is beautiful and mostly empty, especially the center. West of the Mississippi is pretty desolate. Get into the Dakotas and Montana and sometimes you'll struggle to see signs of human civilization.
Loading/unloading is annoying and transactional. Warehouses are typically given a 2 hour window to load/unload you. You have to sit there and do nothing while they do. If you show up late, you're at their mercy. They handle you whenever they want. Sometimes shippers are screwed up and they'll make you wait an insane amount of time even if you did show up on schedule. In those cases you usually get some detention pay.
Maintenance sucks. The truck is your home, so if it's in the shop you're just left to sit around a cafeteria or something.
Pay is OK. I made $42k my first year. You can make much more with experience or specialization. The big money is in being an owner/op.
Food sucks. Some times you can get a hot meal at a truck stops, but often you'll be at a rest area eating canned food. You need to keep a supply of canned food and water bottles on board.
You have all the time in the world to listen to stuff. SiriusXM is a necessity. If you listen to terrestrial radio you'll just be switching channels constantly.
Training is very easy. 2 weeks to get a CDL learner's permit and do some backing on the yard. 1 month of real world driving in a trainer's truck. Then you're on your own.
The money is decent, but the thing people overlook is your expenses can be next to nothing. There's no need to pay rent or have a car payment since you're living out of your truck. Just stock up on canned goods at WalMart once a month. The only monthly bills I paid were cell
Grayson Russell
> Never heard of the English channel
Ryder Thomas
you'll turn into a fat ugly pig in no time
Robert Clark
niggers, niggers everywhere
Bentley Peterson
>you'll turn into a fat ugly pig in no time
This too. It's near impossible to exercise. You don't want to take a stroll down the on-ramp, or spend a January night walking around the truck stop lot. Some places have exercise rooms but it's spotty
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Jayden Hill
how do you even have a family under these conditions?
Ethan Johnson
The English channel? We call it the BBC in America.
Tyler Mitchell
Well, boy.
You take a truck.
You drive it for extended periods of time.
That's basically what it's like.
Jayden Flores
You don't and if you do you never see them.
Luke Brown
>What is it like to be a truck driver?
Delightful.
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Joseph Diaz
Shit, you'd hate it, hours alone and relaxing as king of the road, seriously piss off, we don't need anymore of you trainees smashing trailers and units up.
Dominic Martinez
Park up for the day. Walk away for half an hour. Walk back.
Jason Flores
I hope you didn't put any money in that. corona will be over after omicron. people have had enough
Kevin Evans
You can experience the thrill and be able to walk away at any time
Zachary Wilson
>3 weeks on the road. 3 days at home
>Random drug tests, which is biased towards Marijuana
>Elogs
>Disptache treats you like shit
>Places you deliver to treats you like shit
>Anything happens, it's your fault
>truck breaks down your fault for not doing a pre trip
>zoomer runs into your truck and dies while you're at a red light, your fault and will have to submit a drug test, even if you smoked a joint 2 weeks ago, and haven't sence, you will still fail the drug test and be charged for manslaughter
Truck driving is the most cuck job in the world. If you must do it, stay local, box trucks gigs usually means your are home nightly, and they dont require the year worth of OTR gigs, even though highway driving is the easiest part of driving. Ill keep my CDL current, but Im going to go back to school and join an IT program.