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Retirement can't come soon enough....

Ragman

Ragman

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Is it October yet?
 
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artie

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ntimevan

ntimevan

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artie said:
I retired a year ago. Be careful what you wish for it's not all that great.
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OH.. i won't be Officially Retired ... just from Driving ..will be 61 then .. with both parents in nursing home and me handling their farm & bills and my 21 month old Grandson , there is no need for me to be staring down the highway ... and i still will have a good income coming in from expediting and without almost no personal bills ...

hauling freight from a Pond near you
 
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Ragman

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ntimevan said:
I hear ya ... but first i need to save some more ... so i can pay Cash for a similiar lake property ..(15 to 18 months) from now ...is the time table ... 3006 E Lakeshore Dr, Brooklyn, IA 52211

$239,000 | 2 Bed • 2 Bath
3006 E Lakeshore Dr, Brooklyn, IA 52211 - realtor.com®

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artie said:
ntimevan said:
I hear ya ... but first i need to save some more ... so i can pay Cash for a similiar lake property ..(15 to 18 months) from now ...is the time table ... 3006 E Lakeshore Dr, Brooklyn, IA 52211

$239,000 | 2 Bed • 2 Bath
3006 E Lakeshore Dr, Brooklyn, IA 52211 - realtor.com®

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hauling freight from a Pond near you
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I retired a year ago. Be careful what you wish for it's not all that great.
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Same here, I plan on doing what I want to do, not what I have to do.
 
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geo

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if after you retire and some one ask you to come back say, to much work
 
Tennesseahawk

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Moot said:
Ragman said:
Same here, I plan on doing what I want to do, not what I have to do.
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You need to buy a van and do some semi-serious expediting. I've been semi retired for 20 years, well retired from semis, and this is the best job I've ever had. Pay isn't what it used to be, but the freedom is priceless!
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That's exactly what I say about getting into semis. Freedom is a relative term. The open road is liberty personified; and steering a rig, to me, is tantamount to captaining the Millennium Falcon.
 
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hedgehog

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hedgehog

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Semi-Retirement is what you want it to be.

Get the itch to run down the road for a week or so? Than do it. Or not.

I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles through the snow of winter and the tiresome runs in the middle of the night since 1997.

All the kids graduated from college, the wife ran off with a vice-president of the local bank here in Ohio and I invested my earnings into Vanguard's Health Fund and lots into Apple before it got too expensive.

That was when expediting was easy money and lots of country to explore.

Now the supply of drivers has changed those rates and not for the better.

I'll still do a drive here or there. But nothing over 300 miles.

And nothing cheap. It is what you make it.
 
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Tennesseahawk said:
Moot said:
Ragman said:
Same here, I plan on doing what I want to do, not what I have to do.
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You need to buy a van and do some semi-serious expediting. I've been semi retired for 20 years, well retired from semis, and this is the best job I've ever had. Pay isn't what it used to be, but the freedom is priceless!
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That's exactly what I say about getting into semis. Freedom is a relative term. The open road is liberty personified; and steering a rig, to me, is tantamount to captaining the Millennium Falcon.
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Agreed....Freedom is fleeting......
one still has a bank or loan to attend to...your finaces are telling what to do
one still has a shipper telling you what to do
one has a receiver telling you what to do
under load you are constantly under surveilance and a dispatcher will ask" why you are not moving?"
on the road the DOT is telling you what to do...
The only freedom you have is when you want to work and where you want to go, but this is directly connected to first item....
Freedom of the road is an illusion....
 
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Moot

Moot

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Tennesseahawk said:
That's exactly what I say about getting into semis. Freedom is a relative term. The open road is liberty personified; and steering a rig, to me, is tantamount to captaining the Millennium Falcon.
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How about captaining a 63' Falcon?
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Tennesseahawk

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OntarioVanMan said:
Tennesseahawk said:
Moot said:
Ragman said:
Same here, I plan on doing what I want to do, not what I have to do.
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You need to buy a van and do some semi-serious expediting. I've been semi retired for 20 years, well retired from semis, and this is the best job I've ever had. Pay isn't what it used to be, but the freedom is priceless!
Click to expand...
That's exactly what I say about getting into semis. Freedom is a relative term. The open road is liberty personified; and steering a rig, to me, is tantamount to captaining the Millennium Falcon.
Click to expand...
Agreed....Freedom is fleeting......
one still has a bank or loan to attend to...your finaces are telling what to do
one still has a shipper telling you what to do
one has a receiver telling you what to do
under load you are constantly under surveilance and a dispatcher will ask" why you are not moving?"
on the road the DOT is telling you what to do...
The only freedom you have is when you want to work and where you want to go, but this is directly connected to first item....
Freedom of the road is an illusion....
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But it's MY illusion.
 
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