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Steve L: As I said, I thought some may not like what I had to say. To trade the information with Steve I particularly don't like the self-labeled "old-school" guys who pride themselves in "hard work". While you are working "hard" the firm's owner(s) are sitting at home drinking single malt scotch, enjoying life with their family. You instead live in a 10 * 10 ft box for days if not weeks , are set up with a dispatcher who hopes not hear from you too often. Let me ask, do you ever get to see the real revenue you, with your hard work, generate? I heard that in some rare occasions some drivers might, but why not all and at all times? Oh, the usual answer is there is this “thing” called business with its complexities and intricacies and it is simply assumed you as a driver would not fully understand it, so why bother. Really? Try me. Or rather, it's “not your business” attitude, just like the governmental crooks calling the public information secret and classified? If I put my time into something I dare to say it is my business very much.

I am someone you could call old-school if you'd consider chronological age but that's a mistake, time is nothing else but human made concept. All we have is NOW. Also there is no such thing as doing anything the “right” way. Instead, there are as many right ways as there are people on this earth. Who can judge anyone? There is no such thing as hard work in business either. You could get into power-lifting in your free time and see what really hard work is, but good luck with that working 14 hours a day, living out of a sleeper. In earning the living I expect fairness coupled with effectiveness, ethical principles, were efforts are valued and measured. In reality, before you ever get to touch the shiny truck you are showered (and forced to sign) with myriad of seriously thought out, premeditated, legal documents which serve one purpose ONLY, to protect the firm, not you. Oh, you got your free will right? You don’t have to sign! No sir, thanks to crooks who like to control the common man these days all means of survival were taken away from you and I - all we have left is “employment”. There is no FREE will. It’s done on purpose. I did not research the trucking “industry” because I did not believe such a thing existed. No matter what fantasies some guys have about it – it is what it is, when you take a better look it is steering the wheel, staring on the road in front of you for up to 11 hours a day. I believed the trucking school guy who in return for my money promised me a placement for an honest job with honest pay for my honest efforts. I knew there was logistics business covering its trucking part but what I learned from my own dealing with number of trucking firms just from trying to do the job is plain insane, actually slavery. My attitude has been always fine; I know my part in work relationship. In this country, I spent 13 years working in finance field but I’d never seen such maltreatment as in trucking. If one works for food and shelter that my friend is not betterment of one’s economic situation that is plain slavery. In full honesty, the way I've been looking at the world around me for the past 50 years I thought there was no mother land and we ALL are citizens of the Earth. It is "us" making up problems out of thin air, putting up blocs where ever we can - starting with borders, ever-repeating habits which we call culture, and a bag-load of rules no one needs. And why all of this? It's the good old FEAR we all like so much. I believe and agree we ALL are responsible for our lives and that’s why we ALL have to stand up and ask questions, raise our doubts, abandon support of the system which is not working and so correct it. The trucking “industry” as I see it in this land is a cruel joke.

Listen Mister Lou. I want to apologize on behalf of these people. They just do not get it. I know you are hitting your head right now because they are like some kind of weird animals they had their brains sucked out. You, of course are right but you cannot say common sense things, as you probably know, where there is "groupthink." It is like an American public playground. They are just bullies here. Sorry. Do not go on with them for your own sanity.

BTW I understand capitalism is great, entreprenuer...free spirit, make money, best country..whoo hoo! but this is another American industry with it's workers that have their culture just like Chrysler, just like the Military it's insane and they just just...think different I'll say. I do not know their motivations because as a human your views are the only way.

I don't see one reason why should drivers stay on the road for weeks at a time being rushed around like animals, living out of a sleeper like rats.

Then don't. No one is forcing you to. Others (like me) do see value in such a lifestyle. I don't have any desire to explain it to you, and I doubt I could if I tried. Go back to finance, find a job in logistics, do whatever makes you happy. But spare us the sanctimonious, idealistic lectures.

Amen CS!

Listen Mister Lou. I want to apologize on behalf of these people. They just do not get it. I know you are hitting your head right now because they are like some kind of weird animals they had their brains sucked out. You, of course are right but you cannot say common sense things, as you probably know, where there is "groupthink." It is like an American public playground. They are just bullies here. Sorry. Do not go on with them for your own sanity.