boy, somebody had to seriously SIT ON YOUR ASS, to post only that. :ignore:
great restraint. huge.
The best 9 months of my life
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boy, somebody had to seriously SIT ON YOUR ASS, to post only that. :ignore:
great restraint. huge.
Pot calling the kettle black.
Most road players don't make it on the road.
Rhea is a gambler. She is gambling with her life. Money doesn't mean anything to her except as a means to enjoy the rush gained from making a score.
Rhea has also been given "good" advice but she doesn't always accept it and maybe doesn't care.
It's HER LIFE. The nice thing is I don't see her telling other people this is what they should do and I don't see why others should be telling her what she should do.
Like Ken said, many of the mean-spirited critics could probably be picked apart in their own respective lives as far as being a success is concerned.
I say live and let live.
Hope the coyotes haven't gotten to you yet, Hu.
JoeyA
Most road players don't make it on the road.
Rhea is a gambler. She is gambling with her life. Money doesn't mean anything to her except as a means to enjoy the rush gained from making a score.
Rhea has also been given "good" advice but she doesn't always accept it and maybe doesn't care.
It's HER LIFE. The nice thing is I don't see her telling other people this is what they should do and I don't see why others should be telling her what she should do.
Like Ken said, many of the mean-spirited critics could probably be picked apart in their own respective lives as far as being a success is concerned.
I say live and let live.
Hope the coyotes haven't gotten to you yet, Hu.
JoeyA
100%. Amen.
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And...I just wish the truth was told in the very beginning instead
everyone worrying about a poor lonely woman going town to town
putting herself into very dangerous situations with a bunch of
horny, low life, hustling men. And she had no body guard or
no one to watch her back. No car and hitch hiking is not safe
for a woman.
I don't know how everyone else felt, but I was scared for the poor woman.
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And...I just wish the truth was told in the very beginning instead
everyone worrying about a poor lonely woman going town to town
putting herself into very dangerous situations with a bunch of
horny, low life, hustling men. And she had no body guard or
no one to watch her back. No car and hitch hiking is not safe
for a woman.
I don't know how everyone else felt, but I was scared for the poor woman.
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gambling
I was going to start a new business. Since one of the best business consultants in the South has been a friend of mine since 1970 I decided to do all the right things. We crunched numbers, did traffic counts, over 60,000 vehicles a day, made all the right moves. The only business I really lost my butt at. Worked like hell and dropped close to $30,000 in six months before I gave it up. Had I known when I started what I knew when I was done I could have had a hell of a party for six months on the road playing pool with that money and might have had all of it or more when I was done!
No guarantees in life. We can tell others when their odds aren't good but ultimately their choice to make. When Rhea says this was the best nine months of her life, only cost a couple grand, sounds like it was worth every penny!
Joey,
Me and the coyotes have an understanding. Those on four legs leave my critters alone unless they want all out war. The AR is by the door and ready to cover 360 degrees. The 1911 or the AR is handy for the two-legged coyotes, depends on the mood I am in.
Hope your Christmas was great! I'm looking forward to a very active 2015. Might work out great, may wish I had just spent it on the road hustling pool. :grin:
Hu
I was going to start a new business. Since one of the best business consultants in the South has been a friend of mine since 1970 I decided to do all the right things. We crunched numbers, did traffic counts, over 60,000 vehicles a day, made all the right moves. The only business I really lost my butt at. Worked like hell and dropped close to $30,000 in six months before I gave it up. Had I known when I started what I knew when I was done I could have had a hell of a party for six months on the road playing pool with that money and might have had all of it or more when I was done!
No guarantees in life. We can tell others when their odds aren't good but ultimately their choice to make. When Rhea says this was the best nine months of her life, only cost a couple grand, sounds like it was worth every penny!
Joey,
Me and the coyotes have an understanding. Those on four legs leave my critters alone unless they want all out war. The AR is by the door and ready to cover 360 degrees. The 1911 or the AR is handy for the two-legged coyotes, depends on the mood I am in.
Hope your Christmas was great! I'm looking forward to a very active 2015. Might work out great, may wish I had just spent it on the road hustling pool. :grin:
Hu
I haven't played pool in over five weeks. The care home was near my previous place of residence. I was not hired there.
I ended up moving about two hours away from there and now reside in the heart of St. Louis. I've spent the last month submitting online applications to Starbucks, McDonald's, Taco Bell, lees chicken, PepsiCo, pi pizzeria, St. Louis bread co, metro pcs, target, Qdoba, Jack n the box, vernons bbq, cricket wireless, United provisions grocery store, Schnucks market, Burger King, subway, no luck yet.
As BHR said, one has to want to find work. Online applications? That doesn't take a month, that takes an afternoon or a day at most. If you're in the heart of St. Louis, you need to get out and pound the pavement. Show some initiative. Sitting behind a computer is not looking for work. Use your computer to locate a temp agency and then go there and talk with them. Just like gambling, if you don't show up, you're just barking. Best of luck...
I hear that Ferguson, MO will need some workers once they rebuild everything.
What about working at the temp agency? Like Kelly Temps. I knew a few girls years ago that traveled with their husbands/boyfriends and found part time work that way. I have done a lot of mystery shops and they have those everywhere. It is real easy. You get a free meal and a little reimbursement. Must have internet, be reliable and transportations. Most companies take 30 day to reimburse you. The legit companies do not charge you a fee.
To be fair, virtually all of the places that she applied to, and thousands more, will only take applications online. You can pound the pavement all you like, but national/regional chain companies will not accept an application in person.
That doesn't mean there aren't opportunities to be had visiting places in person, but the bulk of the application process has migrated to the online world now. The temp agency idea you proposed is a good one. Local employment agencies are as well.
Good luck, Rhea!
Networking is one of the best way. You have to know someone who can get your foot in the door. Otherwise you are just another nobody.
Or find a job that travels. I know that most of these jobs are for men but she is already dealing with that issue because so is pool. Those jobs pay a per diem for food and room plus your wage. You play wherever the job takes you. I know a few guys that do that. Drink up and gamble all your earnings on the weekend.
Even then, in the national/regional chain companies, your app has to get thru their HR departments, no matter who you know. There is a computerized process, which looks for trends and tendencies, and then it gets filtered further as those who get thru appear for the hiring staff.
Yes, I work for such a company.
If there is someone I want to hire and their app can't make it thru the computer system, it doesn't matter.
That's not to say she shouldn't be doing these applications, in fact she needs to do them more and more. Just like pool, practice makes perfect. Same with going to interviews, even if its for a job you aren't particularly interested in.
To your point, though, networking is also important, not only in getting a job, but in getting the job that you want. It can only help. The more of these sorts of things anyone looking for a job does, the better they will be. Monster and the other online type job searches, including regional ones like we have here, job fairs, temp agencies, employment agencies, pounding the pavement, Facebook... It ain't easy. Takes persistence, and maybe a little luck.
What she needs is to be mobile while working and have a low rent/living expenses situation. She should go to a tractor trailer school, get a class A commercial license. Companies would hire her in a second, she would be doing cross country runs, living out of her truck, and be wandering into every part of the country with a pool hall.
Now she has a steady pay check, time at night to shoot pool, ability to stay mobile, and a skill that is always in demand. If she wants to take two months off, she can and will always be hired back.
Now she has a steady pay check, time at night to shoot pool, ability to stay mobile, and a skill that is always in demand. If she wants to take two months off, she can and will always be hired back.
That might be great for some, but I know for sure that driving for a living would result in either myself or someone else getting hurt. I don't know why I have this problem but when I learned to drive in my early twenties I found out that when I drive long distance whether I'm in the driver or passenger seat I fall asleep against my will.
And that is why they have Log Books Rhea. Your working time in the USA, if they haven't changed it recently, is a total of 13 hrs per day.
That includes both Driving and On Duty time.
Which in theory is a good idea, but Not. Companies pay their drivers to get their equipment and loads to the destination on time and a return trip.
Not to abandon the rigs and loads at a truck stop parking lot and go in search of pool halls. After your 13 hrs of driving and on duty time, you have a lot of Off Duty chores to do. Staying up late gambling at a Pool Hall isn't one of them.
Plus, most of the larger companies have their equipment on GPS these days. There is no way that you can get away with what you are suggesting.
You pretty much have to be a serious wizard in order to keep 2 log books going and technology these days make it almost impossible.
Unmanned weigh scales that take a bar code reading off your front fender etc.
Besides, Rhea is looking for pay cheques that don't require any real work. You have to be a responsible person to take an 80 K lbs plus rig and load cross country without killing someone. I seriously doubt that Rhea has that in her.
That includes both Driving and On Duty time.
Which in theory is a good idea, but Not. Companies pay their drivers to get their equipment and loads to the destination on time and a return trip.
Not to abandon the rigs and loads at a truck stop parking lot and go in search of pool halls. After your 13 hrs of driving and on duty time, you have a lot of Off Duty chores to do. Staying up late gambling at a Pool Hall isn't one of them.
Plus, most of the larger companies have their equipment on GPS these days. There is no way that you can get away with what you are suggesting.
You pretty much have to be a serious wizard in order to keep 2 log books going and technology these days make it almost impossible.
Unmanned weigh scales that take a bar code reading off your front fender etc.
Besides, Rhea is looking for pay cheques that don't require any real work. You have to be a responsible person to take an 80 K lbs plus rig and load cross country without killing someone. I seriously doubt that Rhea has that in her.
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mostly always been that way
Most companies want you to run partners to get the best use out of the equipment. Even without, the demands of the job take away all of the seeming advantages. You see the country from top to bottom, coast to coast, . . . from the interstates. No time for sightseeing, no time for a lot of recreational or side activities.
Back when you could run two or three logs you could play a few games, that was usually just to you could get home long enough that your wife and children could be reminded what you looked like. I had guys making deliveries that were still halfway across the country according to their logs!
My truck had the predecessor of the GPS tracking, rolls of graph paper that recorded your speed and hours driven. As an owner operator I never bought the first roll of paper! Funny thing, the job does have it's pull. Somebody that spends more than a few years on the road will feel the pull forever. Damned if I know why. I think I just loved the howl of my 871 Jimmy!
Hu
Most companies want you to run partners to get the best use out of the equipment. Even without, the demands of the job take away all of the seeming advantages. You see the country from top to bottom, coast to coast, . . . from the interstates. No time for sightseeing, no time for a lot of recreational or side activities.
Back when you could run two or three logs you could play a few games, that was usually just to you could get home long enough that your wife and children could be reminded what you looked like. I had guys making deliveries that were still halfway across the country according to their logs!
My truck had the predecessor of the GPS tracking, rolls of graph paper that recorded your speed and hours driven. As an owner operator I never bought the first roll of paper! Funny thing, the job does have it's pull. Somebody that spends more than a few years on the road will feel the pull forever. Damned if I know why. I think I just loved the howl of my 871 Jimmy!
Hu
Cheater Clocks. We had em but never put paper in them.
I got pulled over in Northern USA by the DOT. I handed the girl my Comic Book, one that I had just doctored shortly before.
As she was going thru the pages, I noticed a huge mistake that I had made. She flipped the page and I realized that she had no clue on how to read a log, just pretending.
If she had have caught it, I was approx 3 hrs ahead of where I should have been at that moment.
Yeah Hu, I still got a buddy that will die with a wheel in his hand. On occasion, he bugs me enuff to take a run for him so he can have a day off. Every time I allow him to suck me in cause I got that itch and put a big steering wheel in my hand, I say to myself, "Yep, now I know exactly why I don't do this any longer".
When I left Canada, my second Comic Book book kicked in and showed that I slept for 8 hrs before going thru Customs. It also showed that I loaded the day before instead of 4 hrs before. That gave me an extra day to play with from the start. I would have to doctor my real book upon leaving the USA to give me enuff time to drive straight thru home.
It was a huge pain to do even 2 books but had to be done. If anyone had sat down and scrutinized either of the logs to any extent, they would have realized why they are called Comic Books. Plus, one had to know the route you were taking like the back of your hand 100%. That was when my Truckers Atlas paid for itself ten fold.
We had to know all the back roads to skip the scales as well.
That is why the unmanned scales are shit. They have cameras on the road if you decide to forget to pull into one. They got you and you will get a large ticket for forgetting where the brake peddle is.
I got pulled over in Northern USA by the DOT. I handed the girl my Comic Book, one that I had just doctored shortly before.
As she was going thru the pages, I noticed a huge mistake that I had made. She flipped the page and I realized that she had no clue on how to read a log, just pretending.
If she had have caught it, I was approx 3 hrs ahead of where I should have been at that moment.
Yeah Hu, I still got a buddy that will die with a wheel in his hand. On occasion, he bugs me enuff to take a run for him so he can have a day off. Every time I allow him to suck me in cause I got that itch and put a big steering wheel in my hand, I say to myself, "Yep, now I know exactly why I don't do this any longer".
When I left Canada, my second Comic Book book kicked in and showed that I slept for 8 hrs before going thru Customs. It also showed that I loaded the day before instead of 4 hrs before. That gave me an extra day to play with from the start. I would have to doctor my real book upon leaving the USA to give me enuff time to drive straight thru home.
It was a huge pain to do even 2 books but had to be done. If anyone had sat down and scrutinized either of the logs to any extent, they would have realized why they are called Comic Books. Plus, one had to know the route you were taking like the back of your hand 100%. That was when my Truckers Atlas paid for itself ten fold.
We had to know all the back roads to skip the scales as well.
That is why the unmanned scales are shit. They have cameras on the road if you decide to forget to pull into one. They got you and you will get a large ticket for forgetting where the brake peddle is.
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Terry back when I started driving we had tac a graph and speed a graph . We put about 3-4 disc. in them , made us look good .
Yep Jimmy. The Cheater Clocks. That was what I meant. The round graph paper.
Drivers figured out how to bend the needles on them or whatever they did to manipulate them.
But alas Buddy, I think we are old enuff to remember when we didn't use a log book too.
Hello sleeper time, goodbye 20 hr days.
Drivers figured out how to bend the needles on them or whatever they did to manipulate them.
But alas Buddy, I think we are old enuff to remember when we didn't use a log book too.
Hello sleeper time, goodbye 20 hr days.