Do you ever get tired of this?

[T270_Dreamin]

"Most of the problems in expediting can be cured by a shower and a good night's sleep. When you wake up clean and with a clear head, the problems that troubled you yesterday somehow aren't there today."

I felt that way this morning when I rolled out of the Wmart P lot over to the LA fitness and grabbed a shower.

 

[aristotle]

I'm out. My wanderlust has been sated. I have given 12 good years to expediting and it has been an interesting odyssey to say the least. I am at a stage in life where priorities are shifting. Burn out was beginning to set in as I found myself dreading the expedite grind rather than looking forward to new travel adventures.

I am remaining to work in the trucking industry, only a different segment. Placed myself in a daycab straight truck gig on a dedicated run. Drive 400 miles nightly, Monday through Friday delivering auto parts and HazMat loads mostly on a route through Eastern Kentucky. Leave Lexington loaded every night, then make deliveries in such places as Hazard, Jackson, Hyden, Harlan, Whitesburg and Prestonsburg. The pay is good and I spend days home alternately wooing and antagonizing Mrs. aristotle who tolerates my idiosyncrasies with amazing good humor.

I will continue to participate here at EO barring any serious objections. I learn a great deal from these pages.

 

[zorry]

They allow you to stay all the way down to used furniture salesman. Deteriorate any lower and it goes to the panel.

 

[usafk9]

I think that's office furniture salesman, with a minor in baking grease.

 

[Rocketman]

I think that's office furniture salesman, with a minor in baking grease.

hmmm...well baking grease could be abbreviated to bg.... at least you got the first letter right :thumbup:

 

[osumike33]

I mean really do ya? I felt like this a year ago and here comes Phil with his I am tired of Expedite Diatribe...
I am really tired of sitting and waiting for the call...WTF
I want to spend the rest of my life doing something... ANYTHING
Am I going thru a midlife or am I sick of Expedite?
If I spend one more weekend in a sleeper I will commit a hate crime I am sure...
Anyone feel the same?

I'm planning on retiring in a short time from a desk job in the travel industry that has paid very well and allowed me to go to more than 20 countries around the world very inexpensively, just so I can possibly get back into a van and satisfy some wanderlust I have for driving around the country. I'm sure I'll do it part time compared to most of you, but it will beat getting up and catching an el train to work every day, dealing with oversized egos. Following along with the straight trucks I own on Fleetvision is fun but not like being out there myself. So, burnout comes in probably all facets of life and work at some time or another, it's nice to be able to give something else a go for a while, just enjoying whatever it is you do on a daily basis. Nothing lasts forever.....

 

[cheri1122]

I'm out. My wanderlust has been sated. I have given 12 good years to expediting and it has been an interesting odyssey to say the least. I am at a stage in life where priorities are shifting. Burn out was beginning to set in as I found myself dreading the expedite grind rather than looking forward to new travel adventures.

I am remaining to work in the trucking industry, only a different segment. Placed myself in a daycab straight truck gig on a dedicated run. Drive 400 miles nightly, Monday through Friday delivering auto parts and HazMat loads mostly on a route through Eastern Kentucky. Leave Lexington loaded every night, then make deliveries in such places as Hazard, Jackson, Hyden, Harlan, Whitesburg and Prestonsburg. The pay is good and I spend days home alternately wooing and antagonizing Mrs. aristotle who tolerates my idiosyncrasies with amazing good humor.

I will continue to participate here at EO barring any serious objections. I learn a great deal from these pages.

I'm glad you will continue to participate here - people who can write like that last sentence before "I will continue" are ALWAYS welcome, and we all learn from each other.

 

[TeamCaffee]

Expediting isn't just trucking, it's a lifestyle; 

Expediting isn't just a lifestyle, it's an adventure;

Expediting isn't just an adventure, it's a job;

Expediting isn't just a job, it's a business.

Expediting is all of the above to me and each line is important.

We tried to get out of trucking in 2004 and found out the road bug had bit us and we made the decision to get back into trucking different than we did the first go around.

First time around as a driver, loners, a huge company, not involved just following the rules did not work well for us.

Second time around has been a whole different story and since we are not independently wealthy expediting pays the bills, lets us put money away for the day we don't have to work, allows us to see the country, allows us to see family often, and keeps the wanderlust at bay.

Someday it will hit us we live in a small box and that we no longer look forward to waking up each day wondering where we are. I do not see that in the foreseeable future as we are having way to much fun.

 

[zorry]

We live in a small box,also.
Never thought of it that way,tho.
How happy you are with your carrier, your loads, your financial progress, probably all factor into your attitude on a day to day basis.

If you're enjoying yourself, you can't beat it.
Once,or if, it becomes a job, it'll just be a job.
I feel a long way from that day. I hope the feeling continues.

 

[pearlpro]

I generally enjoy this business but I have a issue with people who cant seem to be Polite, namely Dispatchers....now they get this all the time but I like to wake up and be happy, I like my job, my truck, I enjoy the road, I dont have the big sleeper but it gets me by, I find enough things to do out of the truck....BUT when a dispatcher is Indignant, RUDE, Cant seem to have a good day or say a good word, constantly acts as if Im late or bothering them, It makes me want to scream....I try hard to say Good Morning, be polite, be considerate, Professional yet theis dispatcher takes it upon himself to be an A$$....Well so be it it must be rought to live constantly ****ed off, constantly being rude and treating no opne with respect,,,,it gets old....somedasy the guy will have a stroke or heart attack and wonder why....its not hard to go through life and be miserable....its easy to be happy, I wish he would try it sometime.....

 

[iceroadtrucker]

Lyen around and waiten Yupp Just like the Service.

 

[guido4475]

I generally enjoy this business but I have a issue with people who cant seem to be Polite, namely Dispatchers....now they get this all the time but I like to wake up and be happy, I like my job, my truck, I enjoy the road, I dont have the big sleeper but it gets me by, I find enough things to do out of the truck....BUT when a dispatcher is Indignant, RUDE, Cant seem to have a good day or say a good word, constantly acts as if Im late or bothering them, It makes me want to scream....I try hard to say Good Morning, be polite, be considerate, Professional yet theis dispatcher takes it upon himself to be an A$$....Well so be it it must be rought to live constantly ****ed off, constantly being rude and treating no opne with respect,,,,it gets old....somedasy the guy will have a stroke or heart attack and wonder why....its not hard to go through life and be miserable....its easy to be happy, I wish he would try it sometime.....

I feel for ya there, I do not know who you are leased to, but maybe a different carrier might help? One more professional towards it's drivers? Even though it may seem so, I'm not trying to, but the dispatchers at Load One have been awesome since I have been here, a little over 2 years now. Real nice, polite and understanding,never raised their voice once to me yet. But, I try my hardest to treat them with respect as well.

I guess I'll see where this business and myself are at in 2 years from now. Then it may be time to get out of it, It's not really the business, but the absence of a normal homelife that I am missing so much. Only time and fate will tell what happens.

 

[blizzard2014]

I generally enjoy this business but I have a issue with people who cant seem to be Polite, namely Dispatchers....now they get this all the time but I like to wake up and be happy, I like my job, my truck, I enjoy the road, I dont have the big sleeper but it gets me by, I find enough things to do out of the truck....BUT when a dispatcher is Indignant, RUDE, Cant seem to have a good day or say a good word, constantly acts as if Im late or bothering them, It makes me want to scream....I try hard to say Good Morning, be polite, be considerate, Professional yet theis dispatcher takes it upon himself to be an A$$....Well so be it it must be rought to live constantly ****ed off, constantly being rude and treating no opne with respect,,,,it gets old....somedasy the guy will have a stroke or heart attack and wonder why....its not hard to go through life and be miserable....its easy to be happy, I wish he would try it sometime.....

Sonds like you just described me. I might have an evil twin out there somewhere. Dispatching can be a pretty stressful job with some of the bad drivers, but he shouldn't take his frustrations out on a good driver!

 

[blizzard2014]

I will know for sure within the next three weeks whether or not I'm going to be completely out of the expediting business. My condition is not improving. I can barely walk up and down the stairs and it's hard for me to even maneuver myself into a car. I have been wrestling with this in my mind for an entire week now. Then I had a dream that I collapsed while trying to get into my van 2000 miles away from home and I was taken away in an ambulance. I really miss the road, eating out, talking to drivers, the challenge of delivering loads early, and the big paychecks. You can make more in 1 week of driving a van than working an entire month at Wally World. Well when the freight is hopin and the rates are decent. I've been looking into training to work as a medical coder/biller or possibly going to work for a freight brokerage as an independent freight agent. The onlyu thing I won't miss is living in the same parking lot with the four wheelers. If I could park in the back of the truck stop with the tractors I'd have been much happier on the road. I guess time will whether or not I will come back out on the road and drive again.

 

[pearlpro]

Ive got no complaints about the company or owner whove been great for me, but one dispatcher whose been around too long and needs to be put out to pasture...he treats everyone with disdain and contempt, he cant ever say a good word, or good morning etc...its not hard to make someones day its also not hard to start someones day miserably with an attitude etc...Im never late, always early, treat the customer with respect and always have no issues....they need to try that with the driver....