New Job here we go.

Well friends for reasons I wont go into I am about to start a new job Monday. For the first time in over 11 years! I am leaving a management position and going back to truck driving. I should be home a lot more than when I was OTR!! The job will be what is considered regional but its close to home. No more borders, lower 48, Alaska and Canada. The down side is I sold all my driving stuff years ago so I know have to re equip myself for the road.

For those that dont know most of the 3 million drivers out there are gone from home for a month or more and only have 1 day a week earned home time so thats 4 weeks out 4 days off. Pretty pathetic. I did that years ago and made decent money but I was never home so that will not be what I do this time! My younger days mentality is gone I like home life now and am going to be close to home and will still make a good living.

This is stressful but we know it to be the right thing to do in our hearts and I truly feel this is Gods will for us. I am taking a rather large pay raise to do this which helps. My wife is being very supportive but we could use all the prayer and thoughts we can get! Its never easy to be a driver and its an incredibly stressful and dangerous job if you let it be.

This is the reason that I have all but vanished from the forums for a while now and I hope once things settle down to be back on annoying you guys! I will probably have to stop cutting for a good long time and who knows when Ill get to splitting what I have left but I wont leave here your all a great bunch of folks and I am proud to be a part of this site!

 

Thanks fellas! I hope you have been doing well my friends! Its been a while since we chatted!

 

Thank you my friend! That is the plan!!!!

Down right terrifying if I am honest!

Thats good advice I will carry a chainsaw in my truck! Seriously though thanks gas!

 

I haven't driven in over 12 years. You should see the current fmca handbook you would think the FAA wrote the darn thing.. On top of that they have instituted new logging rules, e-logs, csa inspections, psp reports and o man it goes on and on. I have A LOT to learn. Truck driving isn't the movies at all its very high tech and has gotten very very heavily regulated. I am in for a lot of change. What I knew before was very basic compared to todays world paper logs, easy to understand log rules, dot inspections that where pretty easy to get past. Those days are gone. I can slam shift ( Float no clutch ) drive, turn, back with the best of them but thats the easy part.

I am prepared for it though and have been studying my butt off...

 

I will say I wont miss being a manager. Serve before you lead is my way but brothers and sisters I am tired of serving I want to sit back and be yelled at again!

 

This company uses manuals as of right now but that may change. Lots of companies going auto these days. Those autos are pain in the hills and suck to back up well at least 12 years ago they where. They are probably all fancy now days! I prefer a good old 10 or 13 speed manual.

 

Thanks my friend