Comments By Han Solo Cup

Good luck, Ruck. I LoLed for real at your "built like an old Cadillac" comment. We hope to hear good news from you and wish you the best!

Not a driver yet but... have you started working on the High Road Training here as well as reviewing Daniel B's pretrip study guide?

Ditto... I've followed your journey since day 1 and you're an inspiration. Congrats on the indirect pay raise!

Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for delivering everything we need for these holidays and thanks for being away from your families so some of us can be home with ours.

I'm not a driver (yet) but I do travel for my current job. I will pack my TRX system for the road. It allows me to use body weight to do a ton of different exercises. The whole system needs an anchor point which is usually a closed door like the bathroom door of a hotel room. There's one strap with a wedge on the end that you slide through the door up by the hinge then close the door trapping the wedge on the other side to create the anchor. I'm hoping something like that may work on a truck; granted, you'd probably have to be outside your truck to make this happen.

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Just breathe and relax... you made it this far. Good luck and be careful.

Jamie T said:

I couldn't be more grateful for such an incredible opportunity. Tomorrow is my last day at my desk job also woooo.

Dude, I am so excited for you. I can't wait to say those exact same words. Good luck, study, get some sleep, and, if you can, check in ever so often. I can't wait to read your diary.

I just came back from a trip that ran me through Chicago coming and going. I told a coworker that Chicago must translate to "right lane closed ahead." I have never seen more right lanes closed, both directions, for construction than in Chicago... it's like a challenge to them, how many right lanes can we have closed at once.

I often wonder if it's like that in other industries. Do most techies mock Google and Apple? Do most people in the Airline business mock American and Delta? Do most investment bankers mock JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs?

Depending on the year or chart, I work for the 4-6th largest defense contractor in the world and no, we don't make fun of the other contractors. We strive to incorporate what works for them, entice their golden employees to come to us, and seek to team with one another to get contacts.

I also saw something about turn over and I've not only worked for the larger contractors (our version of a "mega"), I've also worked for the mom-and-pops of DoD contracting. Similar to trucking, there is more turnover at the smaller businesses as they just don't have the resources to compete with the big boys/gals. I thoroughly enjoy working for the "megas" of DoD contracting and that's exactly for whom I want to work when I make the switch to trucking. The megas provide too many benefits and have the capital to protect themselves and their employees.

Being made to take that time off might not be all that bad. My plant shuts down from the 25th-28th and we won't be accepting or receiving any shipments in that time. If you were out with your trainer, you could likely end up sitting for the week anyways... better to do that at home.