Passage Of Time

Is it just me, or does time seem to fly faster in trucking than any other job you have had? Like I cannot believe it has already been a year since I enrolled in CDL school and early April is when I started this company. But man, I feel like I should try not to blink!

Thoughts?

I've only started driving with a trainer a few weeks ago. I was talking with my wife last week, while on the road, and she asks me if it feels like it's going fast or slow? Definitely fast! At that time it was a Thursday and I'm like, where did the week go!? Keeping the wheels turning makes the days go by quickly. It was like that for me when driving the garbage truck routes; the days just fly by in the big truck.

I think it's because we work in the future. We get a load and we deliver it 3, 4, 5 days later and we have to plan those future days to make sure we deliver on time. If you have a good dispatcher , they will give you another load before you deliver the one you are under. If it continues that way, a whole year is gone....plus as you get older time flies by. 😝

Laura

As Laura said, having back up loads in que makes time go by faster it seems. Team or when solo, my DM's always had me/us 2-3 loads in line after the last. Luckily,sometimes, not always, we got those next loads, and weren't taken off of them.....Hated when planning, or a relief DM would unassign us/me from ANY load, which didn't happen too much lol

Thoughts?

Well, today (while on home time) I happened to run into a woman I graduated truck driving school with. We both went to different mega-carriers and have both moved on from there. That start was right at eight years ago. Hard to believe.

While it often seems time flies, time away from family can (for me) make two weeks feel like much longer.

All that being said, I'm eternally grateful for this site. Here's where my truck driving career began and, thanks to OLD SCHOOL and others, I've been able to achieve success and maintain my perseverance. :)