It's time to play..WHO'S IN THAT TRUCK?!

**louixo** · 10-05-2009, 11:00 AM

I'll never get to meet everyone out there. Neither will you. I always found it really interesting to find out what was the trigger that sent someone on the road. So, give us a short bio, and tell us what you did before, and how you came to be behind the wheel. I'll start.

I did a few things before being a road warrior. I sold TV production equipment and services. Sold resort property, and was a real estate broker. When I was a boy, I was always fascinated by the big rigs, and always wanted to drive one. Some kids wanted to be airplane pilots, others race car drivers, firemen etc. I was successful in my career, but never satisfied, except for short periods of time. I was real bored with the corporate life in my late 30's, with the business meetings, quotas, office politics etc. One day, I decided to give my boyhood dream a try. I answered an ad for North American. I loved it! The rest is history. I spent most of my trucking career in electronics and trade shows, and later on switched to expediting. For the last couple of years, I do very little trucking, and I don't know if I'll go back or not. But only because I like what I do now, which is whatever I want to do.
Now you.

**Jenny** · 10-05-2009, 11:11 AM

After I graduated high school, in 2003, I started working for a division of the F.D.A. that made food and animal safety testing supplies. After 3 years I decided that was not to correct career path for me. I went and got my life and health insurance licenses, and tried that for a while. Once again was not the correct line of work for me. I went back to office work until I lost my job last June.
At the time my boyfriend, The Enemy, was out on the road and I came out with him for 2 weeks as a little vacation before I stared looking for a new job. After that two weeks he asked if I would like to get my license and stay out on the road with him. I said ok. I finally got my license and started driving with him January of this year. So I have been out here since June of last year.

After we get off the road, to settle down and start a family, my plan is to open my own coffee shop and bakery down in Florida.

**Scuba** · 10-05-2009, 06:24 PM

My dad was a trucker and I followed in his footsteps I guess. I joined the Army right out of high school at the time the mos was 64c10 wheel vehicle operator and I went to FT Leonardwood Mo. While I have left driving from time to time it always pulled me back to the cab.

**Yesteryear** · 10-05-2009, 07:22 PM

I was a cosmetologists for many many years. (sure miss that salon gossip lol) My husband was a police officer from the time he went into the military at 19 as an MP until 3 years ago when we decided to become Expediters. He decided it was time to retire from police work and try his hand at something different, finally settling on truck driving. We talked it over and thought "wow, that sounds like an awesome idea". Yes, we are one of those couples that said, "ya know, wouldn't it be nice to see the country and make money while doing it? Ya know, a permanent paid vacation." Of course we know now truck driving is not what we thought it would be, you see the country only in passing, and trucking is an actual job that can be hard work.

**moose** · 10-05-2009, 07:29 PM

I drove most vehicles mankind could come up with .
was very involved in off road driving , navigation and competition .
what they call in Europe Rally .

at work i was a diesel engineer , working at the farm fields , driving every thing from them big tractors , to ATV's .

i was in a vecation in Rhode Island ,and was visiting a friend at work , when a Shcnider's truck rolled in ,
I was very impresed .

2 weeks later , I lost a bet in a pub !
it was like -5 beers say : 'you don't have what it take to drive it' kind of a thing ,
so i got my self across the Globe , into a Driving school , it was supposed to be just to prove a point for my self . a few weeks , maybe for the summer ,
that was 8 years ago.

I can quit at any time - but I really Can't !

**cheri1122** · 10-05-2009, 09:26 PM

I once dated a truck driver, who, when I asked him to teach me to drive the truck, patted me on my lil head & said "But darlin, no one would hire you."
He was wrong about a few other things, too.

**iceroadtrucker** · 10-05-2009, 11:16 PM

U need not know so ill hit ya with some quotes and proverbs. "I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand. -Chinese Proverb "Attitude defies limitation and exceeds expectation." -Source Unknown "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from reaching his goal; and nothing on earth can help the man with wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson "Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still." -Japanese Proverb "Youth is a gift of nature, age is a work of art." -Helen M. Carrall "If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything." -Allyson jones "Opportunity...often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat." -Napoleon Hill "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call FAILURE is not the falling down, but the staying down." -Mary Pickford "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, NOT absence of fear." -Mark Twain "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." -John Ruskin
Some where some one is training if your not you meet you will loose. Failure is not an option, The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. Pain is weakness leaving the body. The only easy day was yesterday.
Do or do not there is no try.
Have a nice day.

**greg334** · 10-05-2009, 11:40 PM

WTH was that?

**Doggie Daddy** · 10-05-2009, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by greg334

WTH was that?

Don't you recognize the preamble to the constitution?

**Moot** · 10-05-2009, 11:57 PM

I am the clouds
I am embroidered

**tjpohio44** · 10-06-2009, 01:47 AM

I graduated High School in 2004...and worked at Taco Bell for 2 and a half years, then I started Driving...Drove for a company outta Cambridge, Ontario...Dynamex Expedite, then drove for All-Types Expedite (CROOKS), then for Express 1, Then for Nations Express (CROOKS), and now for Expedel...!!! An Im still single!!!

Hope ya'll are safe out there...Oh and I sing back home for some cash on the side!!!

**wimpy007** · 10-06-2009, 02:03 AM

I'll tell you how long i've been in this crazy business. After a 10 + year stent in the Army with service in Korea and then Nam I deceided it was not the life for me. I started driving in 1963, it was much different back then, but here I am still at it, my wife of 55 years is right next to me.

**Dakota** · 10-06-2009, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by tjpohio44

An Im still single!!!

Hope ya'll are safe out there...Oh and I sing back home for some cash on the side!!!

You could get one of those vinyl wraps for your truck advertising yourself to all the ladies

**teamjdw** · 10-06-2009, 12:03 PM

4yrs Army,20yrs lawn fertilizing,5yrs filling vending machines.Time too fufill a dream,always wanted to drive big rigs.Drove for Stevens transport for awhile,but wiffy didn't like the 6 week seperation.Got local job hauling cars for Cassens transport,nice still driving big rig ,and home every nite.Then came the down turn followed buy a lay off.while looking on line for new job driving I came across EO.Now that wife and I are empty nesters.I asked her ,how would you like too see the country!Too my surprise she said yes.So off too school she goes.So here we are,having the time of our lives.

**youngsamuel** · 10-06-2009, 03:15 PM

After high school I worked various jobs manufacturing, landscape, etc. I then went into construction for about 10 years and really enjoyed it. A year ago I wanted a change and my father-in-law ran a few expedite trucks. I ran a van for a while then bought a straight. Everyone said I chose the wrong time to get into trucking but my response was I got out of construction at the right time.