02-20-2009, 09:07 AM
Admin Wrote:My buddy is a truck driver. It's hard work for families of OTR drivers.
I used to work for NS railroad, and those guys who worked "the road" ie conductors and engineers who would travel from yard to yard had horrible home lives, they would be away from home 30 to 40 hours at a time, then back home for 10 to 12 hours, most of which would be spent sleeping, then back out again for another 40 hour trip. Horrible way to make a living.
The way the contract was written, I was required to become an engineer, which I dodged for about 8 years until it finally caught up with me, and then it was time to go. Thanks but no thanks, I was voluntarily terminated.
I'm glad we have the transportation and shipping infrastructure that we do, and I'm really glad that my lively hood doesn't depend on it.
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