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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by altcognito on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:34PM (#30814659)
Why? Trapped sitting in a truck, anxious about traffic? Restaurant work isn’t isn’t or fun, but at least you get to go home to your own bed.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by mjevans on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:49PM (#30814785)
The 1-5% (I hope it's this low) of customers that are the only ones you can't forget because they make life hell.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by erdos4d on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:44PM (#30815190)
This is literally why I quit teaching university and never went back to academia. Every class has one student who is a complete shit and 95% of your stress revolves around this one person. Work that doesn't require much human contact is so much better.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by UncleEntity on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:46PM (#30817308)
Tomorrow I have to sleep until noon, drive over to Yuma, AZ and take a nap while I get loaded, bomb into LA before the morning traffic starts up, drop the loaded trailer then go back to sleep until I get a reload probably at the same place I’m dropping the loaded trailer.

Zero stress, zero hassle (well, I hope…) and I’ll get paid a ‘measly’ $200 to listen to the radio all night.

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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by Johnny555 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:55PM (#30815708)
Traffic doesn't make me anxious, even when I'm driving a large vehicle, and not every truck driver is a long haul trucker.
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