Wanting suggestions for coping with everyday life as an expediter. Driving, sleeping, eating, fun, etc. just curious what everyone does in their everyday life. Thanks to all that answer.

Rusty,

I gave up coping - I found it alot easier to just eat. Yep, that's right just eat it. When I'm L/O eat it. When I'm ticked at dispatch - eat it. When my fleet check gets lost in the mail for three weeks and my drivers want to get paid.....you guessed it...just eat it.

Gotta run .. dinner time.

X

Rusty,when things get aggravating and I,m all fustrated,I usually hit the home L/O option.For it is the place to collect your thoughts and regroup.If you are with the big R,this usually gives you 33 hrs mininum to cool down.On your way,pick up a case of rolling rock.That is why the bottles say (33) on them.They were made to help you relax while you are 33 in the hole,sitting in your unauthorized piece of this planet you work so hard for,but are forbidden to be.33.

Bones.........You rock!
HN

Mr Bones,right on with the Rolling Rock,but I have found COORS works just as well.Just think a lovely 33 hours where you know nothing is going to interfere with your beverages.

If the cab is not big enough, if the box is not big enough, and if the world is not big enough we go home. I have been known when we worked for the big R to tell them that there ALWAYS was enough money in our truck to go home. This is the same with any comp. You MUST stop and smell the roses. You need to be a tourist at times. Go out to a movie, paddlewheeler ride, visit a floating casino, whatever, but you need to stop and turn off the cell phone, dump the pager and DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF or you will go nuts.
Hope that helped. As Always Dot

Rich M,Coors will definitely do the job also.I,m glad to hear there are other expediters that practice the same philosophy I do.As I sat here this weekend on a mini-vacation,due to 2 refusals,I exercised this manuever,it worked out just fine.Your only on this rock,one time.Life is too short to worry about being authorized.Authorized is just a word,after all,it's closest to the pin right?

[The Hound]

You have to learn how to manage frustration. By the shear nature of never knowing where you're going or when you're going can be overwhelming. If you don't manage this well, you will find yourself making horrible decisions. This applies to any expediter you may be leased to.

I make it a point to read one newpaper a day. Usually USA Today.
It helps to stay informed on the world outside of the truck.

Bones, I agree with you. I always did enjoy being put out of service. It always gave me an extra few days off.

Rusty all the suggestions posted here are good, hubby and I run team and that helps, we have each other to aggrivate, we also have a tv and subscribe to Direct TV we have over 100 chanels where ever we are including our home chanels so we can keep up with the local news. Be careful of the system you purchase make sure it is not Dish network, you have to have 2 dishes to get local chanels, we have Dish network at home. Direct TV is the only one that I know takes only 1 dish for all chanels. Games help too, they have some pretty good hand held games out, Monopoly, Yhatzee, Battleship, Jepordy, and Wheel of fortune, or if you have a tv you can get a game system, all games listed above are available for different game systems and many more. Oh by the way my forget the world preference is Jim Beam.

Sierra,god bless ya kid!That Mr. Beam can kick some butt,(at least mine anyway).

Rusty,
Get yourself a hobby. I whittle. It doesn't cost much to get a peice of wood and a good knife, but it sure does pass the time. I also got a dog recently. He is good company, and doesn't talk back too much.

Good luck,
bob

Sure seems to be a lot of drinking going on?!
time for you all to get off the road and head to Baja via airplane and cruise the beahces for mexican babes and ladies the guys are there too!
No that's the way to get a layover.

Sure seems to be a lot of drinking going on?!
time for you all to get off the road and head to Baja via airplane and cruise the beahces for mexican babes and ladies the guys are there too!
No that's the way to get a layover.