Hi guys
Yesterday at truck driving school during lunch time one of my class mates made an interesting comment, it certainly got me thinking.
He goes "You know we have a lot of these over the road companies who come into the school and recruit, and are always hiring constantly, and some might be fine employers, but here is the thing, say you are hired on by one of these companies and your gone 6 weeks at a time, well that's all good and well, but what happens, if you are single and own your own home?"
He goes "You can pay all your bills online sure, and if you live in the country you can just let the grass grow that's fine, and you can have your mail diverted or stopped and held at the post office and obviously you can cancel the news paper and things like that, but no matter how you slice it your house is still standing there all alone for 6 weeks at a time and no matter how you slice it, it is still a liability just having the house standing there all alone."
It certainly got me thinking. You know it's one thing to leave go away for a night or two and then come back that's one thing, but to be gone for 21 days or 6 weeks at a time that is after a while a very long time to be gone and is a long time to live out of a suite case, obviously you do what you have to do, to get by, but things like that certainly got me thinking, and then okay when you finally do get back into town you have 6 weeks of grass to try and cut, or 6 weeks of snow to shovel and you have to turn the water in the house back on and run to the post office and collect all your mail and go through it all and do all of your laundry and chores around the house and once all that is done, you can turn around hop in the truck and leave for another 21 days to 6 weeks. I mean it's a tricky act and thing to balance and I think that's why a lot of people get into OTR driving and at the same time get out of it very quick they figure you know it's a lot to have out on the line for $40,000 a year in some cases and obviously $40,000 a year is probably a tad light should be more like $50,000-$60,000 a year depending who you work for and how long your gone, but still and plus the other things that happen to while your out on the road it certainly takes a high tolerance and someone with a lot of patience.
Yesterday at truck driving school during lunch time one of my class mates made an interesting comment, it certainly got me thinking.
He goes "You know we have a lot of these over the road companies who come into the school and recruit, and are always hiring constantly, and some might be fine employers, but here is the thing, say you are hired on by one of these companies and your gone 6 weeks at a time, well that's all good and well, but what happens, if you are single and own your own home?"
He goes "You can pay all your bills online sure, and if you live in the country you can just let the grass grow that's fine, and you can have your mail diverted or stopped and held at the post office and obviously you can cancel the news paper and things like that, but no matter how you slice it your house is still standing there all alone for 6 weeks at a time and no matter how you slice it, it is still a liability just having the house standing there all alone."
It certainly got me thinking. You know it's one thing to leave go away for a night or two and then come back that's one thing, but to be gone for 21 days or 6 weeks at a time that is after a while a very long time to be gone and is a long time to live out of a suite case, obviously you do what you have to do, to get by, but things like that certainly got me thinking, and then okay when you finally do get back into town you have 6 weeks of grass to try and cut, or 6 weeks of snow to shovel and you have to turn the water in the house back on and run to the post office and collect all your mail and go through it all and do all of your laundry and chores around the house and once all that is done, you can turn around hop in the truck and leave for another 21 days to 6 weeks. I mean it's a tricky act and thing to balance and I think that's why a lot of people get into OTR driving and at the same time get out of it very quick they figure you know it's a lot to have out on the line for $40,000 a year in some cases and obviously $40,000 a year is probably a tad light should be more like $50,000-$60,000 a year depending who you work for and how long your gone, but still and plus the other things that happen to while your out on the road it certainly takes a high tolerance and someone with a lot of patience.
