What's your story?

764212

{"text":"To kickstart the month of August, share your Best Trucking Stories with us. We want to know your experience! Get featured on Trucker Path's community. Use #TruckerPathStories to better track your entries!\n\n\n\n","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[{\"description\":\"\",\"height\":1080.0,\"name\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"width\":1080.0}]","canComment":true}

21130

{"replyTo":"","text":"I'm ready to go home!!, Ugh, this is tearing me down........","replyToPid":0}

646676

{"replyTo":"","text":"best trukin story?\n\n443 miles from Denton Texas to Jackson Mississippi.\n4hrs 45 minutes. Less a 15 minute fuel stop and two 10 minute Joe stops. \n\noh, I'm sorry. this is 2019, not 1989...","replyToPid":0}

620916

{"replyTo":"","text":"You just get accustomed to the hours. I had always been an endurance driver even before trucking. I listen to a lot of podcasts and good music. My rig has a good sound system, which is a bonus.\n\nI have seen a few bad accidents, which always makes my stomach turn. and many more stories to be shared!","replyToPid":0}

620911

{"replyTo":"","text":"Being a Truck Driver is never easy. But its all worth it!","replyToPid":0}

620894

{"replyTo":"","text":"Life's been full of twists and turns. ","replyToPid":0}

620894

{"replyTo":"","text":"The people at either end of the journey aren't really that great sometimes, but you don't have to deal with them often if you run long.\n\nI've pretty much lost all my friends and people I used to keep in touch with, so maybe it'd work for you.","replyToPid":0}

620884

{"replyTo":"","text":"You still got to occasionally interact with people. You might get approached by other drivers that will strike up a conversation, you have to talk to shippers/ receivers including security and other workers when you don’t know where to go. You might have to talk other drivers if you need them to move, And obviously you have to talk when you go shopping for essentials/ food. Other than that there’s no talking in the cab unless you got a CB or your phone or if you’re the type that likes striking a conversation with oneself.\n\nYou will also have to talk to the DOT/MTO when you get pulled in for an inspection and border guards if it applies to you. In retrospect, there’s a lot less human interaction than any other job, but there’s still human interaction nonetheless. You will probably come across some stupid/ annoying shippers and receivers, security, DOT one day.","replyToPid":0}

620878

{"replyTo":"","text":"Im a true loner and this is basically the best job in the world for that. I talk with my company 90% via text and talk in one word sentences with customers. Anything more is optional.","replyToPid":0}

620879

{"replyTo":"","text":"To all drivers out there, How long are you typically away from your own place? Are your schedules arranged so that you can spend your days off in your home town? Or do you end up living out of hotels /motels for a lot of the time?","replyToPid":0}

620855

{"replyTo":"","text":"Regional driver here. 12 days out, 2 days home. 6:1 is industry average if you're with a big company. My company (one of the large carriers) let's me tell them which two days off in a row I want. As for motels, the normal over the road truck has a bunk in the back of the cab and that's where we sleep. Some night driving does happen, but I usually operate during daylight hours.","replyToPid":0}

620844

{"replyTo":"","text":"I drove for five years. I don't drive anymore. I did OTR which means over the road and drove all over the lower 48 states. I was home at the most 4 days a month. The companies I worked for gave you one day off a week for what is called your home time. I'd drive four weeks then take four days off. I didn't always go home for my days off. If there was someplace I wanted to go in the United States and spend a little time I would go there.\n\nI hardly ever got home when I was scheduled to be there. I went through all of my requests for hometime and the companies I worked for only got me home when I was scheduled to be home 13% of the time. I might have only got home a day after my scheduled time but hey it's still not home on time. Be on time when delivering and picking up 13% of the time and see how long you keep your job. I was always on time so I didn't have to worry about that.\n\nI hardly ever stayed in hotel or motels. You have a sleeper on your truck, no need to waste money on a motel or hotel. The only time I stayed in motel or hotels was if my truck was in the shop.\n\nYou are going to have to drive at night. That's all there is to it. This is for driving OTR and not a local job where you work days. Then again it is hard to get a local job without doing some OTR work to get experience. Myself, I preferred driving at night. There is less traffic.\n\nHope that helps. Everybody has a different experience in the trucking business so there may be a lot of different answers.","replyToPid":0}

615898

{"replyTo":"","text":"I’m home about 14 hours per day during the week and all day on the weekends.","replyToPid":0}

620853

{"replyTo":"","text":"I currently drive team and cover the night shift. It's lovely. Ive dealt 3 traffic jams since February.\n\nI did drive solo for my company before I got my buddy on to team with me and only drove days with a very rare exception every couple months for one of customers who had to have an overnight delivery from time to time.","replyToPid":0}