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#GrowNostr #trucking #tsp

Ah, the trucking life… 4 weeks out then 6 days home with pay, and the occasional 10 hour or 34 hour break at home in the middle! Seems a good deal compared to many trucking companies, and overall it works well for me. However, it’s trucking and you can mostly count on something odd to happen.

Take this trip for example… got an extra day at home (great), got loaded up and slept in the truck since my appointment was early enough that I didn’t want to wake up the wife for a ride to my rig at 0 dark thirty. Got up and did my pretrip, drove to the shipper, checked in and found out that apparently my work order was wrong and they are short about 200 cases because they had me scheduled for 0700 TOMORROW! Sigh

LOL, can laugh about dumb stuff like this or cry, generally I prefer laughter… but, still a bit frustrating! 🤪🤪🤪😂
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LukeoftheOzarks 2y ago

I totally feel you. I came off the road, drove local for a while and am mostlly yard hostling now. It still has it's moments, but it's a lot more predictable. I'm doing a side hustle to make up the pay difference.

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BeeTC Bee Rancher 2y ago

Nice! My buddy said if I can learn to spread gravel with a dump truck that I’ll have all the work I can handle and more. Only two gravel haulers in the county, and he said he’d buy the truck… so, May try that in another year or two. For now still working to set up side hustles on our farm :)