Is this a Lifestyle or a Profession

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{"text":"I'm sure this will get some of you to have your heads Explode!\n\nI remember when my trainer said this is a lifestyle to him being a professional driver and he's missed all kinds of family events.\n\nTo me, NO its NOT a lifestyle I'm here as a Professional Mobile Asset Manager (Professional Driver) to do the job to the best of my ability and to be safe, that what this is to me.","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true,"externalShare":false}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Lifestyle. It consumes you as an owner/operator. When you’re not driving you’re either doing paperwork or maintenance work on the truck/trailer. It’s time consuming as hell to keep things looking nice 👌🏻 ","replyToPid":0}

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984141 发表于 2020-08-20 22:06:41 Texn she/he whatever it is drives for a special private fleet, not some \"regular\" trucking company.  It knows all.

","text":"yes I do drive for a private fleet got a problem with that?????","replyToPid":394123}

438324

{"replyTo":"","text":"I know all the Prime trucks and trailer have disk brakes and I can tell you disk breaks are amazing and NO break fade","replyToPid":0}

993962

{"replyToPid":0,"replyTo":"","text":"I’m not trying to die out here over a paycheck, if I had the certifications to have a nice cushy job where I do 8 hours and go to them gym everyday, bars and shooting ranges on the weekends I’d take that in a heartbeat over this.  Trucking was fun, for the first two months.  Now it’s just stressful to me.  Traveling is fun but the level of responsibility placed on the drivers out here is simply too much.  A lot of the stuff the trucking industry gets away with would make the mafia blush.  There is no logical reason in 2020 trucks are still using drum brakes, the trucks NEED airbags in the steering wheel and doors, there should be 360 degree FOV cameras around EVERY trailer.  These companies talk a big game about safety but out in the field the worship of the almighty dollar becomes their biggest concerns.  If I ever become an engineer one day, I’ll make these trucks safer and add showers and toilets somehow to them without adding weight or compromising quality of life.  There’s so much potential in the trucking industry for modernization and safety and it’s squandered over $$$$"}

993962

{"replyTo":"","text":"It’s just a job.  I don’t consider working 70-168 hours a week a “lifestyle” that’s a toxic and self destructive mindset.","replyToPid":0}

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993962 发表于 2020-08-20 21:02:20 I’m not trying to die out here over a paycheck, if I had the certifications to have a nice cushy job where I do 8 hours and go to them gym everyday, bars and shooting ranges on the weekends I’d take that in a heartbeat over this.  Trucking was fun, for the first two months.  Now it’s just stressful to me.  Traveling is fun but the level of responsibility placed on the drivers out here is simply too much.  A lot of the stuff the trucking industry gets away with would make the mafia blush.  There is no logical reason in 2020 trucks are still using drum brakes, the trucks NEED airbags in the steering wheel and doors, there should be 360 degree FOV cameras around EVERY trailer.  These companies talk a big game about safety but out in the field the worship of the almighty dollar becomes their biggest concerns.  If I ever become an engineer one day, I’ll make these trucks safer and add showers and toilets somehow to them without adding weight or compromising quality of life.  There’s so much potential in the trucking industry for modernization and safety and it’s squandered over $$$$

","text":"I think you should go home ","replyToPid":394114}

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945974 发表于 2020-08-20 22:36:52 Lifestyle. It consumes you as an owner/operator. When you’re not driving you’re either doing paperwork or maintenance work on the truck/trailer. It’s time consuming as hell to keep things looking nice 👌🏻

","text":"absolutely a lifestyle!  life revolves around the trucking!","replyToPid":394127}

438324

{"replyTo":"","text":"my tractor has drum brakes\nwhy you being a dic k head","replyToPid":0}

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945974 发表于 2020-08-20 22:36:52 Lifestyle. It consumes you as an owner/operator. When you’re not driving you’re either doing paperwork or maintenance work on the truck/trailer. It’s time consuming as hell to keep things looking nice 👌🏻

","text":"ya I dont know how ya do it but you do\nkeep going","replyToPid":394127}

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438324 发表于 2020-08-20 21:53:54 I know all the Prime trucks and trailer have disk brakes and I can tell you disk breaks are amazing and NO break fade

","text":"Huh?  Really?  At Prime my Pete had drums, as did every trailer I picked up.","replyToPid":394119}

438324

{"replyTo":"","text":"not the ones I had to drag around. \nI drove for Wilson Logistics and all their tractors had disks\n\nmaybe the older prime trailers had drums but all newer ones had disks","replyToPid":0}