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In fairness to bubsdad, he did put quotes on "real" and I knew what he meant by it. Those other "real" trucking jobs he spoke about are the over the road jobs where you get paid by "helicopter" miles(where you drive 600 miles but the book says it was 540 miles) where you sit on someones dock for 3 and 1/2 hours counting freight and not getting paid for it. Where if you're lucky , you get to sleep in a truck stop for an average of two weeks. If you're not lucky, you sleeping on the side of the highway, or a parking lot of an abandoned warehouse, pissing in bottles and taking dumps in trashbag lined boxes. Where you put up your money to pay for scales and tolls only to find out two weeks later, that the tolls weren't authorized and you ain't getting reimbursed but they kept your toll receipts and now you can't even use them for tax purposes.
Where you are driving illegally in terms of hours because if you don't , you'll miss your delivery appointment and then you'll be charged with a service failure and then you will get worst loads in the future or no loads while you are sitting unpaid for two days in a truckstop or you'll get fired in Dallas with two trunks worth of gear and told to take a bus back to Mass to go home. So if you are an off the street hire like him and me, this seems like a blessing because you are home every night and you get paid by the hour.
Red, that's what I think he meant and he meant it as no disrespect to the guys who came up the ranks to become feeders or who are driving package cars. We know that the package car job entails customer relations, and tight driving conditions. It ain't the moving that gets you into accidents . Its the parking and backing. And from what I hear and see, the telematics and other stuff is taking whatever little wiggle room you got to do things the way you see fit to do and giving "them" more info to try to hang the package guys.
