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Originally Posted by Rochard
I read an article the other day about there being a lot of trucking jobs, but no one wants them. No one wants to criss cross the country while living in the back of a truck.
Two of my local friends are doing this - driving trucks - and they both hate it. They never get to see their families.
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It takes a particular kind of person to do that kind of job. A friend of mine growing up's dad was a long haul truck driver. He would be gone for 2-3 weeks then home for a week then gone again. When my friend got into high school he was able to change so he did runs from Portland to Salt Lake each week and was only gone a couple of days then over the summer he would do long haul stuff and on each run he would take one of the kids so they got to spend some time with him and see the country. Still, it was a difficult life.
I know another guy that does this now and he is a weird dude. I'm pretty confident more than one hooker has met her untimely demise in the back of his truck.