This site is to share my new adventures and hope to inspire others to get out of their rut and start to live !
I like others have worked my whole life construction, operated heavy equipment and drove tractor trailer for many years.
I raised 3 kids on my own for 14 years. worked 2 jobs for almost all of those years.
Started a new job at 31 driving tractor trailer doing food service, threw freight for them just over 20 yrs. Then my ankles, knees and back
were shot. We didn’t have a ramp for the first 7 yrs I worked for them. You loaded the door up as high as you could then jumped out.
No wonder I lost an inch of height ! I was moving about 38,000 Lbs of product a night and avg. of 12 stops 4 nights a week.
It was getting to hard for me to run up and down the ramp so I went to pulling double 48′ trailers 5 days a week.
Between driving to and from work and pulling the doubles to the warehouse and back I was driving just under 600 miles a day.
Did that for about 6 yrs. Company had installed cameras. I never had a ticket or accident in all those years, yet they would find things to write me up for and other drivers, seemed like they were making it the hardest on the long term employees. Paying out to much in benefits ?
After all of those years I was let go. (others followed after me )
This put me in a depression that took me over three years to start pulling out of.
I’m doing things now that I always wanted to try, but I was always to busy working .
I’ve been doing wood working. Bought a wood lathe
I have so many things I want to try and looking forward to what I can do !
New adventures are coming !