I wonder who they will abuse with the daily lift gate assignments that they always pinned on me? Only thing I know is that I’ll be home probably sleeping or napping and dreaming in delight of watching another dsr deal with that awful task.
That’s mean!
Thx trucknfool
Thx pltjack
That’s mean!
Yeah really... that’s mean? Well that’s just too bad for them. I feel bad for them, but not that bad. A few of the junior city guys here used to snicker and call me the ‘king of the lift gates’. They will now have their turn at it. No more will they enjoy their peddle runs that are predominately gold bricking jobs working one industrial park after another where the freight virtually falls off the truck by itself. Now with me being on permanent vacation THEY will have to pull their weight in performing lift gates, sort & segregates, house deliveries, down hill icy docks back ins, etc . Yeah judgement day has arrived for them. I guess you can call me..,That’s mean!
Thx HS... I appreciate your congratulations for my recent release from my 25 year plus stretch that I’ve had to endure from this incarceration.
Hope you get there safe and sound man. Your 10 months probably seem like a long time right now but let me tell you, it will flyby, good luck!
With the seniority you had it sounds like you could have bid ( or asked to be ) off the liftgate?
You made my point!!! No stress. No nonsense. Nothing wrong with a shot or a drink. And he has no worries ( as far as this place )
Ya.
I talked to a friend yesterday who just retired about a month before me . He advised me to keep my same hours that I had when I worked. I told him “I’m not getting up at 05:30. I told him that I got new hours ,at least for a while, ...to bed by midnight and up around 10:00am.That is the part I like.
You have all the time ya need to do something.
Little today. Little tomorrow.
It's hard to do. But you have to get out of the "rush" mode.
Don't need it anymore.
I put stuff off all the time now. It's great. It gets done. Eventually.
I had an afternoon shift. 4-12. Dock. For a long time.
I keep those hours. I don't need to be up at 6-7am. I get up at 10 am.
I live in a very large metro area. In fact I'm 40-50 miles from it. But when I go into the city and come back out I just sit back and watch people driving like maniacs.
And leave my blinker on all the way. (not really). In the passing lane!
Thx man
Those are the hours I keep.
Beautiful !!! Just Beautiful man. Maybe I’ll schedule a nap in my day too.
I hear ya on the naps! I took 4 months off right after I retired before I got a part-time job. Talk about naps!! I’d lay down at around 1pm, and sleep until 3:30 or 4pm. The pure physical and emotional exhaustion from doing LTL for so long took a while to shed.
Yeah, I’m gonna take the up coming winter off,( the next 4-5 months), and then maybe, just maybe, look to go back to work. I worked 7.5 years with a teamster trucking company early on in my career and they limit your hours when you retire to 80 hours a month. I don’t want to work a job for only 4 hours a day and a 20 hour a week job is hard to find and that pays well . The good news is that all restrictions that the teamsters put on those who are drawing a pension from them are removed at age 70. And next March I’ll turn 70 whereupon I’ll be able to work wherever I want and the amount of hours I want. problem is... by then I most likely won’t want to go back to work, certainly not driving a tractor trailer combination, but something that I will like and enjoy.
Smiling and just giddy all the time. My wife told me that I’ve never seen you smiling and happy so much,( compared to my grungy demeanor that had all the time that was working), now that you’re retired.
People that haven't retired schedule naps. Hell drivers I work with schedule naps everyday! I must make bad choices because I can't arrange a nap everyday. I can't sleep at work. Maybe I should retire?
