I passed the million mile mark in July of 2003. Seventy five percent of my driving has been solo but did have an enjoyable 3 year team stint with a really good friend of mine. Ive yet to become tired of my view through the windshield. Its very hard to explain to 8 to 5'ers that driving a truck OTR can be fun. Yes, fun. By profession, I am a commercial driver.No one I personally know ever uses the word Vacationer when decribing our profession. Last time I looked, the word vacation is a 180° difference from what our job entails. Seeing the country as described by the OP is simply one of the great assets we experience by turning miles. Using words like traveling rediccilously describes our actual job decription. Once again, youll not chat with other professional drivers and ever hear them use words like,"im traveling".
Seeing the country has a tangible level of reward the some will experience. Some will not. By far this is the easiest job ive ever been involved in. Dosnt mean you dont have to work at it and most deffinatly requires decent amounts of substance between
the ears. You aint gonna succeed by mearly sleeping at the wheel. Does require the driver to maintain a sensible level of responsibility. But at the end of the day, this is quite simply, an easy job. So combine the part about seeing the country and making money without any type of advanced degree or trained vocation and I equate what I do as a blessed occupation. Yeah, and its fun too.
OMG, almost forgot the line about these so called vacationers skewing up the rates. How dumb was that of an idea? If youre gonna contend that you really know an industry, then id suggest getting involved and see first hand how our industry works. Preposterous statements like that make it easy to conclude the individual has no clue about how the industry works.
As Humble2drive also said. Id have no reservations suggesting to certain people that Expediting is a great choice to persue. Heck yes, seeing the country is a benifit thats really hard to ignore. And its not even an issue of mixing business and pleasure. Its actually a pleasure to do business.
People gotta be carefull getting into this business. But don't you gotta be carefull about getting involved in any occupation ? Of course you do. People arnt nearly as unqualified as some would suggest. Theres plenty of room out here and the views I see daily arnt going away.
Seeing the Country and getting paid to do it sounds good, and it is.
