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Camped on my 34 in WV

Hey everybody! I wanted to jump on here and do a blog post since I know it's been a few days. Hope everyone is doing well. This week I went from Tennessee to Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Then Massachusetts down to North Carolina, and then dead headed up to Virginia and picked up a load heading to Ohio. I went part way to Ohio and stopped over here in West Virginia for my 34 hour break. Reserved a space for 2 nights at this Pilot I'm at.

Hit the shower last night and tonight, grabbed arbys, did my laundry, did my paperwork for the week, and now just hanging out for a bit before I crash for the night.

Still working on the online/offline business, and working towards eventually being able to get off the road and be with the family full time. I'll admit, it's never easy emotionally out here. I'm always thinking about the fam and wishing that I was home with them.

I was telling the wife earlier that the best invention would be a real teleporter because I could go out on the road, do what I gotta do, get parked, teleport home for the night, then teleport back to the truck in the morning. That would be fucking amazing. But sadly, this is what life is like right now, at least until I accomplish the goals I am working towards.

On that note, gonna keep this entry short and sweet because my battery is getting low, and I'm not going to bother plugging it in tonight. I'll plug it in just before I log on next time. It's around 11:30 at night and I wanna lay down while I finish watching a Netflix episode. Then it'll be time for sleep!

Take care y'all and I'll chat with ya'll again next time!

C

waiting (back like 7 years ago, a drafted post from when I was with crengland O_O Wow).

I can be very patient. Sometimes in life you really have to be, otherwise you will go mad. Sometimes though, it is very hard to be patient. Yesterday and today have been those types of days. Yesterday, I arrived here in Virginia, and found my way to the Walmart Distribution Center I was delivering to. My appointment time was 5pm, and I arrived at 2pm, and they were like "woh man, you're way too early." Usually with customers, if you're within a few hours, they check you in and you're usually ok. Some of them however, like wal mart, are extremely picky about you being there around your appointment time, and not really early, and especially not late. So I had to go a mile down the road to a truck stop, kill time for about 2.5 hours, and then they said come back around 4:30 and I should get right in. So I did, I was back by 4:30, I got checked in, they told me "drop your trailer in door 224, go ahead and break the seal and open the doors, and then go park in the bobtail area and come back in and tell us which bobtail space you are in so when you're trailer is unloaded, we can knock on your door and let you know."

So I did. I dropped my trailer in dock door 224, and then I went and parked in bobtail spot 17, then walked inside and told them where I was parked. Then I turned my truck on to idle so I could keep cool (since it was like 90+ degrees outside), and layed in my sleeperbunk and watched vampire diaries on HuluPlus. I signed up for huluplus at first yesterday after I had finished the last of the ones that were available on netflix, and then I didn't think they had all the season 3 episodes available yet that have played, so I canceled, but then seeing what they had available, I must have just been looking at it wrong, so I re-signed back up. Got on huluplus app on my phone and watched probably 2 of the 5 available episodes that are on there so far. Then last night I watched another one when I got back here to the truck stop, and then today I finished off the other two. So now I'm all caught up and can watch the episodes as they are aired, or just afterwards on hulu since I'll be on the road and not at home most weeks. So let me backtrack a bit.

So it took them a little over two hours to get my trailer unloaded and for me to get out of there. I had messaged my dm saying "hey, I have this many hours left on my time, I can reload asap." But, I never heard back from him, and so I got out of walmart, came over here, got parked, covered my windows up and did the hulu thing while waiting, still no messages throughout the rest of the night, and couldn't reach my dm on the phone because he had left for the day. So this morning I message my dm and say "hey mike, whats the plan?" Then I got this message from a load planner asking if I could swap my empty trailer with a team driver's loaded trailer delivering where I just delivered. I messaged back saying "well, its not that i'm not willing to help, but I need miles, and doing this local delivery wont do anything for me." Of course, he called me and offered to pay me $75, and honestly I have nothing better to do but sit here anyway, so I said "ok I'll do it." Plus he said that the reason they havent gotten me outa here yet is apparently in Virginia, or at least this part of virginia (not sure if they meant the whole state or not), freight wasn't really shipping out today. So I accepted that local load, and then later I received a load assignment 50 miles away picking up by 8am and delivering to ohio by friday morning. I'm supposed to technically be home "tomorrow" to start my home time, so I called my dm and asked "so what's the plan? Take this load to ohio, drop it off sometime tomorrow at a drop yard, pick up another load and keep rolling towards pa?" He was actually kinda surprised about the load, i guess it wasn't what he was thinking that the planner was going to do. So he said "let me get with the planner and see what we can work out for you, see if we can do a swap so we can get you home."

When I had called him, that was the 2nd time I had called him today. I talked to him around noon, and asked what the plan was, and he said he would get with me later today, but then when I called him again, it was 4pm, and then an hour later after still no word, i messaged on the qualcom computer basically saying "hey, I know you guys are working on it, but fyi, it's hard to wait around and not know what you guys are planning or what is going on, so please keep me in the loop. I'm willing to take this load first thing and take it to ohio and drop it at a yard tomorrow and keep rolling if that is what you decide is the best course of action. My daughter's 11th birthday party is saturday and I need to be there for that. Also, it's very important to my wife that I get home preferably tomorrow, but definitely saturday will not work, so please do what you can and keep me informed." He just messaged me a minute ago saying "i'm still looking into what options we have available, I will call you before I leave today." That brings me to another point. Saying you're going to do something and following through. One problem I have with CR England is, at least in my experience, they say "if you help us with this local load, we will get you a good load out!" So I say "sure, I'll help," and then I come back and it's "can you take this other local delivery for us?" If you give someone your word that you are going to do something, then follow through. That's all I expect. If you don't mean it, don't say it, is that so hard? Being that I try to think of myself as an honest guy, and a man of my word, if I don't know if I can pull something off, or do something that someone wants me to do, I usually say "i will see what I can do," or "i will do my best, but I can't promise anything." At least in my opinion, and as my dad likes to say "oppinions are like a-holes, everybody's got one," at least I'm being honest about it and not making promises that I don't know if I can keep. However, if I say i will, then I try to do it.

When I spoke to the planner though, he asked me "how vital is it for you to get home by thursday?" And I said "it's very important to get home on thursday, because a) my wife needs me and has plans, and B) it's my daughter's birthday party." Also I was like "even if I get home later than I want to, I'm still taking the full number of days." he was like "of course! even if we couldnt get you home till monday, you could still take the full 4 days that you requested." Not that I want it to be delayed like that, because that would suck! So I'm pushing as hard as I can for them to get their heads on straight and figure out what to do. Definitely really frustrating, but there is only so much that I can do about it. But, on the plus side, these issues with cr england have me looking into possible other types of driving stuff, like dedicated CRE routes that originate on the east coast. Dedicated routes basically mean you run the same route each week, and get the same miles, and you get home every week (depends on the route). It might be a route where you drive 6 or 7 days and then home 3, and then out 6 or 7 days again. That's not too bad at all. I especially like the part about teh miles being the same. I hate going through the crap i've gone through last week and this week where I tell them "i need this many miles" and they give me something with half that or even less, and then they want me to help them with local deliveries, which I don't make hardly a dime on because there's no miles, and yet i'm still paying out a truck payment and insurance and my benefits and all that fun stuff each week, so any weeks I lack in miles, my paycheck is less, and worst case scenario, I end up negative one week. So, we'll see what happens, but I messaged the lady that is in charge of putting drivers on dedicated routes, and asked her if I qualify for one on the east coast, and if so, what would I have to do to get on the list to be considered for one, etc, etc.

The other thing I might look into is while I was just hanging out here at the truck stop after I swapped trailers with the other driver, I saw there was a truck parked that said "AAFES" on it. Aafes is basically the military store, like the BX and stuff like that on any military base. I mentioned it to Erin and we both agreed maybe it's worth looking into. Maybe I can drive for them, be considered a civilian government employee or something, and after 20 years, retire and collect a government retirement check each month. I'm not sure if it works like that, butt like I said, it might be worth looking into. Other than all that, I have basically been killing time hanging around watching episodes on my phone, or chatting on facebook, or as you see now, writing my blog, because the load I now have isnt due at walmart dc until 8:30 tonight, but I figure I'm going to go over there around 7:30 to get in there. Then after that, obviosuly I'm going to go to where I'm picking up from at 0800 and see if they will load me much earlier, and if not, I will simply park whereever I can and wait till they will, and then leave asap to drive to ohio. I figure, the sooner I get to ohio, the sooner they hopefully get me something else towards home.

Almost time for my biweekly time at home

As always, its been a long 2 weeks. Tomorrow I go 240 miles from where I'm parked, and deliver up in Kentucky, and I assume they are basically sending me back down from there to come straight home for home time.

Good pay checks this week and last week. I'm grateful but Im also bummed in a way because there's always things that I want to do with the check to help further my 30 day success business along, but haven't been able to. Oh well, I figure I will keep reinvesting what I make in the business and putting that right back in so that I can upgrade through the levels as quickly as possible.

Without being able to use the paycheck to help speed that along a bit, I guess it might just take me a little while to get where I'm trying to go. Oh well! Shit happens!

So we will see what happens. All I can do is keep doing what I'm doing. Keep working on the business. Keep trying to do what I can to officially get off the road. If it happens, great, if it doesn't, then oh well.

Least I know where I'll be either way. If I succeed at what I'm working towards, I'll be home with the fam. If I don't, I'll basically end up owning this truck and being out here on the road.

So either way, I'll keep fighting. I'll succeed, or I'll die trying.

Gonna cut this blog entry a little shorter. I have to look into what I might have to do to get a site up for my 30 day business. Gotta love the double grind! Always thinking about stuff! Always trying to figure something out!

The one thing I would love to have aside from financial freedom is TIME freedom. So many people say they just don't have time for this or time for that. And I LITERALLY do not have the time. 16 hour days, 70 to 80 hours for the week each week. Then only home 2 days every 2 weeks. I feel like I never have time for anything! Heck when I park for the night, if I do like what I'm doing tonight, I'm cutting into the time I could be using to sleep and prepare for the long ass day the next day!

But hey, it is what it is. It sucks that I feel like I'm trying to figure all this out by myself tho. Just means it might take me longer because I don't have the extra time to commit to the things I need to do to really kick the business into gear. But I'll keep working at it until I get there somehow.

Y'all have a wonderful night. ;)

C

Time to get back to updating these blog posts :)

Hey all! Well it took me a bit to figure out how to regain access to my blogger account. It kept wanting to have me log in with one email account and when I did, it showed no blog. I thought I lost everything! However when I went to my blog url, it still came up. Baffled me for a bit because I didn't know what the hell was going on!

I tried another email address and had to reset my password but apparently that was it, so I'm back! Not gonna do too long of a blog entry right now, because I just spent like 45 minutes trying to figure out how to get connected to this wifi at this petro I'm parked at in Kenly NC. I even paid $2.00 for an hour on their wifi, but then it still wouldn't load on the browser. Then I found one that said Petro free wifi, I tried that, it wing DING! And connected. Suddenly pages were loading without any delay. I was like "well fuck!"

Could have definitely saved myself an hour. Oh well! Hope everyone is doing well out there! I'm trying to get back in the habit of coming back on my Mac book fairly regularly, and also I'm going to be trying to get an official site up for the business I'm apart of. Well, 2 businesses actually.

One is a business called Heart and Body Naturals. All natural products including cbd oils. The link to sign up for a free account is listed below.

Heart and Body Naturals

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The other business, the one that I believe will actually get me either off the road full time, or at least give me the time and financial freedom to go out for a month on the road, then take a month off at home. That one is a business called the 30 Day Success Formula.

I don't have an official website set up yet, but I'm working on that. My goal is to figure out how I should go about having a cost friendly site that people can visit to get information about the business, and also have the ability to download the PDF so they can see how to get started for themselves.

Right now the business is only available in the USA, but I hear they are working on making it global. All commissions are done in the form of cash payments via packages through UPS, FEDEX, USPS, etc.

If you want more information in the mean time, comment on here with your email address and I'll email you the PDF so you can check it out.

Lots of scams out there sadly. Lots of people that are trying to build their businesses by lying to people. Telling them that they started making big money in days and they can too, when it's just not the right thing to do. The way I do business is, I'll never give people false hope. I'll never tell someone that they're gonna get rich overnight doing a business, or even that they'll make a lot of money in a short amount of time. The amount of money you will make depends solely on the amount of work you put into it.

The great part about the 30 day success formula business is it was set up about 4 or 5 years back as an offline business done solely through the mail. They've only gone online within the past 6 months and have taken off! With this business, I've been in it probably like 5 weeks or so, I've made about $500 so far. I came in at level 2 which is $250 to join, and to upgrade through the levels you only pay the difference. Level 3 is $1000 so I'll just be paying $750 to upgrade but then anyone that joins me at level 3 I'll make $400 per every direct and $200 for every indirect. I'll still make the direct sales on level 2 which is $100, and level 1 which is $30. You always get paid up to the level that you are at. I already had someone join at level 4, which is $2500 with a $1000 direct commission. I made $100 because I'm level 2, and the remaining $900 went up to my sponsor who is actually level 4, and she also made $500 indirect, so instead of $500 she made $1500 from my efforts.

It's all good! I figured coming in near the bottom that I'd lose out on some commission in the beginning, but I have set out to basically put everything back into the business to get me through the levels as quickly as I can. The higher up I go, the more I'll make, the easier its going to be to get to the next level.

The AWESOME part is, I heard recently that my first few directs have had their initial mailers sent out for them already. The company sends out your first 200 mailers for you for free to get you started. Then after that, you have the option to buy more mailers, or do it all yourself.

I could go on and on. However, I gotta get back on the road and complete this trip to Jacksonville. It is so nice tho, to be back on my Mac and logging online again. I've put it off for way too long but I know I have to utilize all resources available to me to get my businesses completely off the ground and running.

So to recap, if you're looking for all natural hemp based cbd products, or looking to build a really good business offering those types of products to others, click the link up above.

If you are looking for a way to do business offline and make some serious cash payments from a company that has been around 4 or 5 years, drop me your email and I'll send over the PDF so you can check out the 30 day success business info. The last page of the PDF shows how you go about getting started with the company. I wish I would have found out about them back when they started. I would probably not have been on the road these past few years!

It's like BitCoin, I only learned about it like 2 years back. If I learned of it back when it first started I'd probably have bought like 1,0000 of them or something and be set up pretty good in my bitcoin wallet now. LOL. Oh well, better late than never.

So anyway y'all, I appreciate you taking the time to read this. If you found value in this post, please feel free to share it.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and I'll talk to you again soon!

C

looks like I'm possibly going back over the road

So, Im gonna make this short. I'm writing this while buzzed on fireball/dt Dr Pepper, and beer. I've been putting out applications to different trucking carriers with the idea of going back over the road and making better money than I am now. Gotta get money saved and get our businesses going, and I can't do that with our current income. So, hopefully one of the next posts I do will be something about being financially successful and not having to worry about money any more. Can't wait till that day comes. I know it will soon. So anyway, thats all for now, take care y'all!

Almost financed for the business!

Hey all! So, things are slowly moving along. This morning, I took an uber up to Publix to pick up the car from Erin, and then headed down to US Bank. I got the cashiers check for the loan origination fee, and then headed to the post office. Shipped it off overnight scheduled for a 1030 delivery tomorrow morning. Then our loan check will be overnighted to us and we will have it in our hands by 1030 Saturday morning. So, come Saturday, I am looking forward to heading to the bank to deposit our loan check.

Then it's just a matter of waiting for it to clear our account, and then getting things rolling! I can't wait! So close!

woohoo! Finally on MacBook!

Hey everybody! This post is going to be short. I'm finally on a decent computer! My wife and I officially paid off our washer and dryer with Aarons, and we added 2 MacBook air's as new lease to own. So, we went from getting our account down to like $80 per month to then adding 2 $130 per month items to our account. I know I wanted one for when I get my online business started, and I really wanted to get Erin one to help her with her bakery business. She has a lot of photos on a portable drive that she needs to get onto her computer. So, we are both ready to go! Tomorrow we mail off overnight a cashiers check to the bank for the origination fee and then they overnight the business loan check to us. We will have it by 1030 Saturday morning. Since we now already have our computers, all that will be left to do will be to get the business stuff off and rolling. Cant wait! I'm so anxious to start the business stuff and begin receiving the large commission checks. I'm so anxious to give my 2 week notice at my local job and then spend all my time either working on my business or hanging out with my family.

Things are finally coming into place!

So on that note, I have to get going! I have to get over to my daughter's school to pick her up so we can head to the middle school and be ready for our middle child's winter guard performance.

It's funny though. I had figured Id do a go-live video on my business page from my MacBook but for some reason I struggled to figure out what to do. I'm new to Mac. I've always been a PC guy, but have wanted to go Mac for a while. I will never go with apple as far as my phone goes, but computer wise, I'm definitely happy to be on a Mac. It'll be nice to be on a computer that I know will last me a long time.

Anyway y'all, I look forward to being able to come on here and update you all as to how things are going. On that note, take care and talk to you next time!

Sometimes it's time for a change. :)

Sometimes when you've been doing the same thing for a while, it's time to change it up. Recently multiple things have changed. 2 weeks ago, I was notified that heartland was going over all the owner operator contracts. I had a feeling they were going to make a decision to change how we get paid. Sure enough! last weekend we all got the email that we were being switched from making 68% of the load to getting paid mileage instead. I knew right then my time was limited with interstate because I hate mileage as a contractor. You literally have to run your ass off in order to make a modest paycheck. Versus when you make percentage, you can run less miles but still make a good check.

Reluctantly, I went back to the truck on Tuesday, and was gonna head out for the week. I get to the truck, load my stuff in, start up the truck and go park the car. I get back in the truck, and it wasn't airing up my air tanks. And my AC wasn't working. I was like "wtf!!!" I don't have the money to get everything repaired on the truck and keep rolling. So, I decided maybe it's time to change. I was able to get the truck disconnected from the empty trailer and parked near my car. Unloaded my stuff back into the car for the most part (I didn't get everything out of the truck yet, figured I can go back to completely clear it out, plus haven't officially quit from interstate either.)

So what I'm working towards right now is getting the required documents I need so I can add passenger rating onto my license with the idea that maybe I'll apply to be a Nashville bus driver. However, I'm also looking for local daycab positions. My first priority is seeking out opportunities where I can still work and make decent money but be home daily. If I can't find anything that seems good enough, I am willing to stay over the road. I have a few options that I'd go with as a contractor, and at least 1 company I'd go with as a company driver. But if I can do what I do and not have to be away all the time, I'd prefer that. I have missed so many vacations, and I'm tired of it. It's gotten to be too much, my family away on vacation while I'm out in the truck working. My oldest still at home is 16 and my youngest is 9. I don't want to miss any more if I can avoid it.

So, that's what I'm working on right now. Trying to figure things out. Told the wife last night, "sorry I haven't gotten an orientation scheduled for Monday for another over the road opportunity, I'm focusing on trying to see if I can get a local opportunity so that I can be home daily." She seemed to actually be ok with that. Yes she'd like me to work but she'd also like me home if possible. She agreed that maybe this is a good time to look at a change.

Eventually I will get my online business fully rocking but I don't have the money to do what I need to do. I might have to make a plan and put little bits here and there away so that I can invest what I need to invest and then I'll start driving traffic to the products and services and making high commissions on them and then get to a point where I won't have to work a regular job at all. I'd do it right now, but my wife literally said "i'm not saying no forever, I'm just saying no right now."

Then she talked later about how she wishes we could afford _____, and I'm thinking "we could if you would just be willing to let me take a chance and not say no out of fear." That's what the issue is, if you want change you gotta be willing to go after the change. You can't just say "oh, I can't afford it." Or the best one "some day." Some day never comes if you don't take action. I'm wanting to take action, but unless I want a divorce, I have to also work with my wife. Sadly, if I was single I'd probably already be where I want to be financially. Oh well.

So anyway, I'm going to leave on that note for now. Feel free to click the banner up above to get your free book!

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Hope you all have a good one and talk to you again next time!

Coffee Coffee Coffee

Hey all! I'm up here in Pineville North Carolina. Just got put in a dock and am being unloaded. Apparently this load is entirely coffee. Normally when I haul starbucks its a combination of stuff. Usually when I haul an entire load of coffee or sugar i'm at the roasting plant up in PA, which we don't haul out of anymore because Big G Express underbid everyone. So when I saw this load out of the roasting plant in South Carolina, 100 miles paying $300, I was surprised. But, I went ahead and booked it. I'm still gonna be deadheading back towards Tennessee because there's nothing till tomorrow out here and i'm down to like 30 hours on my 70, and if I'm gonna sit around anywhere, I'd much rather do it at home.

And this day off at home will be very interesting. Erin and the girls are on the road headed to PA right now to spend the week visiting the fam up there. I'm doing my duty and staying out working to try to keep working on the paychecks. Too many bils to be paid and sadly it usually seems like I'm the main one trying to figure out how to get them covered. I'm the saver mostly, where as the wife is the free spirit so she wants to be able to do stuff and buy stuff and loves her car but I'm the one going "how are we going to pay for it?"

So that's my stress currently is pretty much the money side of things and wondering how we will do this or how we will do that, and the wife is like "we will figure things out." I'm like "um. ok.. how?" I mean its easy to say "we will figure it out" and then just don't do anything. I can constantly say I'm trying to make things better for us, but then keep doing what I'm doing. Then in a year from now, we will still be where we are now, struggling, not the best marriage, not the best finances, me always away from home, them still freaking taking vacations while I stay out here and work (that's the biggest thing I am spiteful about lately because that's two trips in a row that I couldn't go for.) She went up to Kansas for her birthday, and then now she's going up to pa for her bio mom and grandma's birthdays and yet here again, I'm out here because we cant afford me taking time off. It's the same saying every time. "Obviously we would love to have you there, but we understand that you have to work."

Then I talk to her about how I'm working on building an online business so I can come off the road, be home with them, and stop missing things like this, and its "everything online is a scam, I think you should just stay out there in the truck and keep working on the business you've been out there doing for 6 years and try to make that better.)

Another thing I am not happy about is, no matter what I do out here, how much I make, it's never enough for her. I can make $1000, and she's like "you used to make $2000 a week with Schneider." I could make $1500 or so and it's "why can't you push to make between 2000 and 3000?" I called her out on it saying exactly that no matter how much I make, she always thinks I should be making more, and she's like "well because you used to with Schneider! You're an owner operator so there's no cap on what you can make!"

So at this point, I would say that I'm putting everything I can into getting my online business off the ground, for a few reasons. Obviously to make the money better is one of them, plus time freedom to be with my family, and another reason is to save my marriage. Because, being out here, doing what I'm doing, I cant go on like this, feeling like i'm killing myself doing my job and it's never enough. And then when I make a $900 check and we owe 1800 to rent because we are late and I'm like "we should put as much of that in a money order towards rent", I suggested maybe 650 although 700 or 800 would have made me more comfortable. What did she do? Put 500 in a money order to keep $400 in the account.

So that means we still owe 1300 to rent, and then her car expects a car payment this Friday. $530, which I don't see how it's gonna happen, but when I went to her and said "how will we get both rent, car payment for you, and car insurance covered?" She said "we will figure it out." At this point, I fear her car is going to get repossessed and then she will be yelling at me like it's my fault. I've been, since the beginning when we got her car, like "hey, I told you when we bought the car that I couldn't handle both cars on my own, that I need her help. She said "i'm working overtime almost every week so I think we will be fine." And then she has made no efforts to help with making sure the cars are paid. Honestly I think it'd be better to let her car get repossessed and get her a older car that's paid off and that way she can just drive it around and do like she's doing right now with her current car. It's like "we need to pay the bills!"

Sorry ya'll, I've got so much on my mind and normally I would try to not vent here on my blog but I'm not exactly personally chatting with a ton of people so it's been just building. I do whatever I can to try to de-stress as much as possible so I don't completely either blow, or do something to hurt myself, or end up just snapping and telling her I want a divorce. So ALL of that, is a large part of why I'm working on building an online business because right now I know that (even if she wont admit to it), she wants me to just handle everything and her have the freedom to do whatever she wants. Although I admit I feel like she always just wants more and more, when I get my business to where it'll be, money wont be an issue anymore and so when I'm home and everything is taken care of, sure she can buy what she wants and whatever (within reason of course because if we have say, $100k in the bank I'm not just gonna be like "sure hon go shopping and spend all the money!) I mean we gotta still be frugal with it as much as possible. Get the things we need, get some things that we want, like paid off vehicles, get us into a house instead of an apartment, stuff like that, but not just buy shit all the time. I'm pretty sure that'll be what I'll transition to when we are better off financially will be "do we really need all that?"

So, I admit, it's so nice having another power inverter so I can use my computer out here. Logged on today to send out another marketing email on this account I have where you get 100 leads per day for 1 cent each. So, after 30 days, I'll have 3000 leads, and it'll just keep going from there. I'm curious if i'll actually start seeing income from the affiliate links I'm sending out. Today it went out to 600 leads. The links I'm sending out is me trying to promote services where you sign up for a 2 week trial to try it out and then if just 100 people sign up for the actual service on the cheapest service, I'd make over $40 in commission per month on those customers residual income every month. So the challenge is, get 100 people under you and you'd make over $4,000 a month residual income and could replace your job. Working with this service where I'm getting a lot of leads per day, I'm hoping to not only get a lot more doing the higher service where I'll make over $100 per month income, but I want like 300 people under me so I can be between the $10k to $20k per month income from those customers. That's my goal. And the funny thing is, I only need to see the first few sales to know that these leads will pay off. I figure, it's better than doing nothing. I'm trying all things I can, experimenting wherever I can and just pushing forward. I figure I WILL accomplish what I'm after. It's not a question of IF, but WHEN.

So I think I'll call that it for now. I don't think it'll take much longer for them to finish unloading me and then I'm deadheading back towards Tennessee. I'll be indulging in good ol alcohol while I'm home both today and tomorrow. ;) That's my biggest way of unwinding and trying to let some of the stress go. My venting here definitely helped a little bit so I appreciate ya'll taking the time to read! I'll let ya'll go for now, but we will hopefully chat again soon!

Camped for the night at a truck stop near Knoxville, TN

Hey ya'll! How's it going? Tonight will probably be a short entry (although I always tend to say that and then I go on to write a small book. lol!) The only reason I am going to try (emphasis on try) to keep it short tonight is because it's 11:30 where I'm at, and I really gotta hit the road again by like 6:30 or so. I'm like 4 hours away, and I have till 1400 (2pm) to deliver this load, but I don't want to cut it that close. Technically I could have delivered it today but decided to only go a little ways today.

This load has 2 different loads on it, which basically means 2 pickups both going to the same location. If I had gotten both loads quick, I would have been on the road by like, 11 or so this morning. If I could have gone the 6 hours to deliver and get there by 6pm, then I would have done that today. But I got to my first pickup by like 10:30, and the load wasn't ready till like 11:45. I got to my next pickup by 12:45, and got out of there by 1:45. When walking around my trailer to secure the doors, I did a quick inspection of the tires and noticed one of the trailer tires was separating. I was like "shit!"

However, the tire was still inflated, not sure how exactly. So I figured well I'll hit the road, and within 50 miles I'd go by a loves for fuel and I'd take the equipment in to have the tire replaced. My thought process was if it blew it blew, and I'd just keep going to get it to the shop. I could have taken it into our shop in lebanon but the last time I took one of interstates trailers there for brakes or tires they basically told me they'd get to it the next day. So I told them I'd just take it somewhere else and they tried to tell me that I couldn't take the equipment off their property. I said "i brought it in under the assumption that it'd get right in the shop based on what I was told, and you're telling me it wont be till tomorrow, so I'm leaving with the trailer to take it somewhere that will do the work today."

I needed to get that load delivered first thing the following morning, and if I waited for them then I would have been late.

So damn, a lot has gone on the past few weeks or so since I last was on here. (sorry about how long it's been since my last entry.) Partially due to lack of time with being so busy, partially due to computer issues, or I should say inverter issues. Normally when I'm out here with the computer, I'd plug it into my inverter to charge it up, but I broke the plug on the inverter. I guess I unplugged it from the port too rough or something because the plastic on the end broke and the fuse came out. I found the fuse but didn't have the other pieces to be able to put it back together. So for the past few weeks I basically would charge my computer up when I was home on my 34 hour break and then I'd get like 2 sessions on my computer out here before it'd die and I'd be without the computer till I got home again. Definitely sucks because too often I'll be in the middle of something and it'll be like "sleep mode" and I'll be like "damnit I was so close to finishing! (I know, that's what she said right? :P ).

So anyway, to close up this entry and try to not ramble on for too much longer, I'm still working on building my online business. We hold live, free, online webinars every monday and thursday nights. You should definitely check it out!

register at www.ceazfreedom.com

So anyway, I will call that it for now. I'll try to not let it be so long before I hop on here again! To connect with me other than on here, i'm at facebook.com/ceazfreedom , twitter at patruckerchris , and instagram at surripets.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day/week/whatever, and I'll talk to you all again soon!

parked for the night at the Petro!

Hey guys! Not sure how long this blog post will be tonight, but I wanted to come on and at least get something posted. How is everyone doing? I'm parked out here at a Petro in North Carolina (i believe its north carolina, might still be in south carolina for a bit. I'm tired, and honestly I don't care. lol

I hope you like the picture I posted. Took it just now because I didn't have have any recent pictures on my phone. Oh well! So, the last 2 days have been fun. Picked up my starbucks load on wednesday, headed to Florida. Got that load delivered yesterday afternoon, did a Facebook live, then took off to head towards Jacksonville. Got within 20 minutes of my budweiser pickup, stopped at TA and grabbed some fuel and a footlong meatball sub and 32 oz drink, and then 2 miles further down was the rest area I parked at last night.

Thankfully tho, when I got to my beer pickup this morning, it was preloaded so I was pretty much in and out. The only issue I had was, shortly after getting there, my stomach was in knots. They have a driver lounge with bathrooms, I've never used them before. So I bobtailed over there and figured first time for everything. The only problem was, I get inside and there's a sticker on the bathroom door saying "no water, do not use." So I'm like "well crap, guess I better hurry my ass up and get out of here!"

I was worried that when I went to scale out tho, that if I'm not legal weight, that I'd have to wait like 2 hours to get in a door and get it readjusted. That's what happened last time I was there. Thankfully this time, everything scaled out just fine. 33,000 lbs on both my drives and tandems, and 11k on my steers, total weight, 78,000 lbs. Didn't have to adjust my tandems or anything so I was like "woohoo!" Thankfully I only had to go like 5 miles north before there was a Loves travel center, was able to hit the bathroom there, grab something to drink and head out.

So anyway, tonight's plan, once I get off the phone with a friend I've been chatting with for the past hour or so, I'm gonna go in and go into the Iron Skillet and get some food. I'm thinking it's a steak and eggs kinda night. Either that or a meatloaf night. Guess I'll decide when I get in there.


So, normally I'd type for longer but tonight I think I'm going to cut this short. I hope you guys all have a good night! Feel free to check out my facebook page tonight as I will probably be doing a Facebook live in like an hour or so.

Take care ya'll and talk to you next time!

Home time

Hey ya'll. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm here on the couch at home, chilling out. Been home 2 days, and tomorrow morning I pick up a load for Florida and take off again. I'm very much looking forward to coming off the road, but I know I have to be patient and just keep working on things, get my online business off the ground, and then I'll be good to go! For now, I will keep working my trucking business and slowly and steadily working on my online business and eventually I will get where I want to be. I know that the most important thing for me to do is to not stop believing that I can. To not stop believing that I will. To just have faith and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I always say during any of my Facebook Live broadcasts on my business page ( facebook.com/ceazfreedom ), that the only way somebody truly fails is when they give up. Even if it takes you 10 or 20 years to accomplish what you want to accomplish, but you keep working towards it and keep going, when you do get there, and trust me, you will get there if you keep going, you'll feel so good about it. The best example I can use is trucking. When I was a company driver, I wanted to have my own truck so badly. I thought, if I'm going to have to do what I'm doing, and be away from my family, I wanted to be able to do the best that I can. Then I got approved for the IC program with Schneider, signed my lease purchase agreement with my truck at schneider over in Green Bay, and I started picking my own loads and making a ton of money compared to what I did before.

As a company driver, my highest check was like, $800 in a week. Most weeks I made $500, which is still a lot better than when I was with CR England. When I drove for them, I lived off the pay advances because I was barely getting enough miles, and my checks sucked. So, from going company driver with schneider to being an owner op, I went from $500.00 a week to almost $2,000. It was great, money was always really good. Looking back, if I could have done things differently, I would have stashed a lot of money away over the course of that year. Hell! I wish I had this online business opportunity back then because I would have already been up and running, doing online marketing, stockpiling savings, etc. Maybe I'd still be driving, maybe I wouldnt. I dont know! I do know that there is a big chance that when I achieve what I am working towards business and income wise, that I very likely will hang up the keys to the truck, and come home for good.

The main reason for that is because of the physical shape that I am in. I want to get into biking, and lifting weights and being on a strict diet that will help, but I can't do that while I'm on the road. So in order to achieve that, and get in better health so I don't develop diabetes or have a heart attack or something, I need to achieve my goals. There's no "well hopefully I do," no, it's a need. A must. I have to do this. It's like that saying, you have to want to accomplish your dreams, as badly as you want to breath. Well that's how bad I want it! That's how determined I am to pull it off! The only downside? I don't know how long it'll take for me to do it, but I refuse to give up.

So what is everyone up to tonight? I'm watching "13 reasons why" on netflix. I want to get started on Game of Thrones but apparently we need HBO for that and I'm not sure we do. I tried to do it on the Roku, but we have to sign up for a trial or whatever and when I tried to do it, it said our payment method doesn't work. So I'm thinking we don't have one listed yet, but I don't know cuz it was set up by the wife when we switched our phones to att and signed up for Direct TV Stream.

The youngest was hanging out with me down here, but wasn't paying attention to the show. She was on her phone playing minecraft or something (a game of some kind), and when I went up and brought my computer down so I could do this blog post and some other stuff, she was like "i'm gonna go upstairs!" Course me being dad, I'm like "are you sure? I go back on the road tomorrow and you don't wanna hang out?" Being a kid she's like "we did hang out!" Oh well, it's all good. That's one reason why I look forward to being here a lot more so that I can do fun things with the kiddos and wife and just hang out and enjoy eachother's company and never have to wonder "can we afford that?" or any of the other questions one asks themself when they either lack time or money or both. For us right now, it's usually both. Hell, I tapped my truck fund a lot yesterday to help pay rent (cuz we were short,) and to pay the electric bill (cuz apparently we got a notice for today), and then again to pitch in extra towards groceries. I hate tapping the truck fund to do extra at home, because what I really need to do as long as I'm out there running the trucking business is to keep saving and letting that maintenance account build so that should anything happen on the road, I'm in a position to take care of it. Even if it means having to get a hotel for the weekend.

So, I'll admit, right now I'm not sure how I'm feeling. I've got so much on my plate, so much I'm trying to do. Everything in baby steps! One positive thing, my computer was actually a rent to own lease with Aarons. Was a 12 month pay off, and our recent payment was the last one for my computer so WOOHOO! I officially own my HP laptop. Course, it's not my dream computer, and I already figure when I get my business off the ground and money isnt an issue anymore, I'm going to get myself a top of the line laptop. Since I did invest in this laptop by purchasing it, and not just that, but really overpaying for it compared to what its worth Im sure, I had an awakening happen when I visited my parents. I went with my dad to a computer store cuz he needed to get his PC fixed. It was a private computer shop, with desktops and laptops set up and and everything seemed reasonably priced and he fixed stuff too. He talked about how he took laptops with one type of harddrive and put in a different, better type of harddrive and basically made them run better. Once money is not an issue anymore, either before or after I buy the dream laptop, I'll take this one into a computer store and be like "is there anything you can do upgrade wise that would make this a better system?"

I'd get rid of any programs that are bogging it own, which I did get rid of one. This last week I had one program that it kept popping up with errors no matter what I did. So I uninstalled and got rid of it and so far the computer seems to be operating a lot faster. I think the problem with new computers is they often come with a ton of programs that they think you need, but it ends up bogging down what should be a decently fast system. I don't know what else to uninstall at this point, but I do know that getting rid of that one program definitely helped, so hey, baby steps in the right direction.

One other baby step, but this one is with me working towards my online business and coming off the road. I've been trying to build a bigger online presence, which is partially what me being more active here on the blog is for, but then there's my business instagram account, and I have had twitter for a while. I've been trying to do more posts and more hash tags and spreading my links out there even more. I wondered for a while why my twitter account seemed dead, and then recently I was in my personal settings and I noticed that I had it set on private so only people following me could see what I posted. So i made that public, and I went on instagram and twitter and followed some random people and got a few followers that day and have gotten a few since then, so I think now I'm on the right path. If you aren't following me on twitter, look me up.

patruckerchris

yes I know, I'm not in pa anymore. Oh well, lol. Didn't feel like starting a brand new one called TNtruckerchris. lol.

So on that note, I'll post my links for everyone to check out. I already posted my facebook business page but just in case you missed it:

facebook.com/ceazfreedom or click HERE!

And lastly, there's a free book that I think everyone should order and take advantage of! Copy and paste the link:

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In closing, I hope ya'll enjoy the pictures I've included in this blog entry. Thanks ya'll and have a great night!

Shout out from Oklahoma!

Hey ya'll! Sorry its been a little while since my last post. Been through some shit again. But, even with that, always remaining positive! I WILL get to where I want to be in my life. I will not stop until I do! I'm gonna make this blog entry short, as it's about 2AM and I gotta get to sleep cuz I'm taking back off tomorrow, but figured I'd hop on here and update you all on what's been going on for the most part. I might not hit on it all, but I'll try to at least do a general summary.

I'm not sure how long after my last entry from South Carolina, but sometime afterwards, I had gotten back to Tennessee, delivered, picked up for Florida again. Got to Petro in Florida, idled my truck the night before and slept good because I had the AC blasting. Got up the next morning, grabbed breakfast, got to my delivery and realized that my AC was starting to warm up a little bit. It still had a slight cool to it, but it was not comfortably cold like it should be. More like, warm with a hint of cool, better than outside but still not like "oh wow I'm so cool!"

It had warmed up significantly by the time I got out of Florida. I got my next pickup, made it only to South Carolina, and I slept with my windows down trying to not run the truck (since I had no AC anyway). It was still hot, I still didn't sleep that well. Got up the next morning, hauled ass for North Carolina. Got my load delivered, got to my next pickup which was going from North Carolina to Lebanon Tennessee, all the while still hot as hell! I mean, I had figured that being like 3 states up from Florida, that the temps should be more mild, but I guess we were in the middle of July, so really, it was still like 100 degrees and I was dying.

Before I got to my NC pickup, I was on my way and something got in my boot and started stinging me through my sock on the big bone on the side of my ankle. Hurt like a bitch! I was literally yelling and hitting my foot against the door. I almost wrecked the truck, but I managed to find a big shoulder, whipped the truck off onto the shoulder, got my boot off, and whatever was stinging me. I think it was a wasp or a hornet because all I saw was black. I didn't take time to look at it because I basically got my boot off, brushed my heal off and stomped the hell out of whatever it was. I honestly didn't care at that point what it was, I just wanted it out of my boot and wanted it dead.

I got my pickup, made it to Knoxville because I was going to run out of hours before nashville and I was dying from the heat! I couldn't sleep in the heat again. So thankfully knoxville, the TA there, has the Idleair units where you hook these things up to your window, and pay like 2.50 per hour, and you can have nice cold AC, power, and wify for your 10 hour break. I payed for that, got set up, walked across the street to grab steak and eggs from Iron Skillet, then slept great having the cab of my truck nice and cold. Didn't want to get up the next morning because I was loving it so much!

Got my load delivered probably by like, 12:30, 1pm, tuesday, and had originally had a load back to Florida wednesday but had had that taken off. Ended up going home after delivering my last load, was home tuesday through the following monday. Because of the heat, I felt like complete shit. I knew if I stayed out and kept trying to work while being hot I was going to end up not only having heat exhaustion but possibly end up with heat stroke as well. So, I made my own executive decision and figured I'm going to come home, drink lots and lots of water, hit the pool whenever possible, and try to recover.

The wife wasn't happy I was off the road so long, but I was like "hey, I have to make sure "i'm" ok, and if I keep working in the heat when I'm already struggling, eventually you'll get a call from either a hospital or from the carrier saying that they found my truck on the side of the road with me dead inside." It's gloomy but I felt that it was true.

So I got the ac fixed, ran for the past 2 weeks, and this past week when I was planning out to the end of the week, I saw a load to florida and a load to oklahoma on friday. Both paying about $1200. I haven't been out this way to see my parents in 6 months, and so I booked the oklahoma load. Been here since Sunday afternoon, meant to leave tuesday, but stayed an extra day. Instead I'll be taking back off tomorrow. Don't have a lot of revenue planned for the week because sadly it came to me having to either deadhead to texas or to kansas to get a load. Nothing at all in Oklahoma through interstate. My sister was giving me crap the whole time saying "i see lots of other trucks and they have loads!" I'm like "yeah but they aren't interstate. "

So, I go out tomorrow, run up to kansas, pick up a load, run to illinois, then pick up a load to pa for Michaels, and from there I'm thinking if I can nab one I'll be grabbing starbucks to get me back towards home.

I'm struggling to be positive about everything because things are so hard currently. Hard financially especially. We both work, but it seems like in order to keep the cars and other bills paid, it's on me. I hate feeling that way and I'm hoping it'll get worked out soon. Theres things, major life changes like divorce and repossessions that I really don't want to happen. In fact I'm fighting like hell to try to keep things like that from happening but when things keep feeling like a struggle, and when it seems like no matter how hard I work, how much I make, we are always broke, I sometimes struggle with the faith.

So, I'm doing my best to hang in there, and not give up, not give in, but some days are more of a struggle than others. I just wish I knew what to do that didn't involve me coming off the road and basically trading one career that takes all my time and energy leaving little for the family, to another career that basically does the same. Whats the point? There's no point to come off the road and maybe be home at night but otherwise always be gone or busy and tired and stressed and things never improving. Hell! I'm pretty sure my other half , especially when she talks to her mom in ks, I'm pretty sure she blames me for our financial difficulty even though I know for a fact i'm the reason that our cars, at least our camry hasn't been repossessed. I'm the one that the responsibility of "making the calls to the bills to work things out," has been placed on because "i'm the breadwinner." Well you know what? Some days, being the breadwinner is such a bunch of shit! We are both working, and I wish that it didn't feel like I have to 1) give everything that the other half wants, and 2) still figure out a way to pay for it all. basically blood from a turnip. I'm just so frustrated that some days I'll admit, I heavily consider things that would forever change things between me and my family. I just would fear how things would be afterwards, allimony and stuff like that I've heard can be a real bitch.

So i dunno. Sorry to rant on you all, but I've just had a lot on my mind. So I'll close with that, I hope you all are having a wonderful night/morning. I'll do my best to not let it be so long b4 the next entry. I would have come on here a few days ago, but my computer acted up. Would let me log into windows, but then the desktop would just be black. I had to restore it back to a previously saved version. That took like 6 hours. Then i kept getting a popup error for this anti-malware program. So, tonight, I figured out how to find that program, and i uninstalled the fucker! I'll look through other programs and see if there's other stuff that i can uninstall that might be dragging my computer down. I went with dad the other day to a computer shop and we dropped his computer off to get fixed. It got a virus or something. I love my computer at times, cuz sometimes it works great. Other times it'll take 5 minutes to load and I'm like "WTF?!?!?!!" I'm at the point where if I got the funds, I honestly might just go buy another computer, and keep this one as a backup. But maybe I'll take this one into a computer shop and see if there's anything that can be done to make my computer run the way it should. It's a slightly new computer, only a year since I bought it from Aarons, and it shouldn't have issues like this. I think there's just so much "preventative" crap put on it that it's almost counter productive. It's like "lets put these 20 anti this or anti that programs on here!" Then the computer acts like it doesnt have any speed at all when it actually has decent specs and should run just fine!

So, yeah, on top of the issues at home, and still working to get my online business off the ground, there's the computer issue. I'm just glad I got it working again by restoring to the previously saved point. Otherwise I wouldn't be on here right now!

So anyway, take care yall, and i'll catch ya'll next time. Enjoy some of the pics I took while here!

Rest area in South Carolina

Hey Y'all! Sorry it's been a few days. Haven't been in a good area signal wise for a few days. So the highlight for tonight's blog (which I'm doing from my phone) are a few pictures I've shared. :)

Been keeping busy lately. A lot more loads to Florida than I normally do. Not complaining tho. Basically I'm chasing the money. Gotta keep the wife happy. So many bills we are overdue on. So I'm doing my best to make the paychecks as good as possible so hopefully we can get those caught up.

I'll admit, I'm feeling very negative today. It's just one of those days when the realities of life become a bit too heavy to carry around. I know giving up isn't an option. I know I gotta keep working towards my dreams. It's just hard when not even those closest to you believe what you're after is even possible. I don't intend to be part of the 97% that gave up on their dreams and ended up employed by the 3%.

All we have is this one fracking life! One life to do what we possibly can with it. So many people settle for the basic of everything. The basic home/apartment even tho they always talk of wanting to own a house. The basic of income even tho they always complain that there's never enough money. But they are content with it because altho it's not what they truly want, it's "steady."

Take my trucking, for example. As long as I minimize my time home, it's "steady." Basically I have to be home very little and run my ass off just to be "steady." I'm tired of it! Yes I love what I do, and I'm good at it. But it's not my dream. My dream is to get my online business off the ground and come home. What's the point in coming home and switching to a 9 to 5 job making less than what I can make trucking? The only perk of that would be id be home, but the money would suck, we'd still not be able to do anything. And being home would mean more fights.

Yeah no. I have no intention of coming home just to fight. I gotta get my mindset back up again and just keep pushing towards the things I plan to accomplish no matter what people around me think. Obviously you want those closest to you to support you. But if they don't, you gotta decide if you will let that destroy your dreams or if you'll keep moving forward.

Altho I'm struggling, I will keep moving forward. Thatd be my advice to you all. Don't give up on your dreams no matter what people think. Don't let others determine your fate. If you want it. Go for it.

On that note, I think I'll sign off for the night. Hope everyone is well and I look forward to chatting with ya next time.

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Shout out from Florida!

Hey Yall! Sorry I didn't make it on last night. By the time I got parked, showered, and back in the truck, I was on fumes at that point. So tonight, I wanted to make it up to you all by doing what I said I would do the other day, posting from Florida. But wait! There's more! As you see on this post, I took a few pics from here at the truck stop I'm parked at. Been a busy few days! after running the load from Kansas to the boarder of Arkansas and Tennessee, I ran my next load for Starbucks down here to Florida. Then a load from Florida to South Carolina, then a load from South Carolina to Tennessee, delivered that one last night, and then I'm on another Starbucks run to Florida.

The plans changed though, because initially my load today was a load from Tennessee to Kansas. I had planned to pick that up this morning, and get a majority of the way to the customer tonight, parking at Petro in Oak Grove, Missouri. That's like 30 minutes from where the wife and girls are at, visiting her parents for 4-5 days. I reached out to the wife and told her that I'd be coming to Kansas, and parking at Petro in Missouri, and that if she wanted to stop on her way back towards home, that we could do the breakfast buffet. She was like "sure." So much excitement I know. ;)

Unfortunately, as I was omw out of Florida with my beer load, I got a message "load number _____ has cancelled." I didn't know which load it was because I had a few assigned. So when I had a chance I logged on to look and saw it was the one to Kansas. I looked at the board and there was still a high dollar load to Florida for Saturday, so I went ahead and booked that. It's been months since I last did 2 runs to Florida almost back to back. I wish it was in the same week cuz then my revenue would be awesome. But my first one was Wednesday delivering Thursday, and this one delivers tomorrow which falls on the new pay week.) So the way I figured it, and the reason I jumped at the load, was that I'm starting the new week off strong.

So tomorrow I go 90 miles to deliver this load, then deadhead up to Jacksonville to pick up beer to go to South Carolina again. And then the plan is to hopefully catch a load back to Tennessee to take a day off and reset my hours. At this time tho, there's no loads listed yet out of South Carolina. I don't want to deadhead back, but we will definitely see what happens. Anyway, omw down here this time, my load was ready last night so basically when I parked at the yard, I had already delivered and grabbed my next load. All I had to do was get up this morning, do my pre-trip and take off. Tried to get up just before 6 but ended up not taking off till like 7:50.

Would have made better time but today people were struggling to drive. I say that because there were multiple car accidents, some of them within a couple miles of the previous ones, all rear endings. I'm like "holy crap! people cant drive today!" So of course, that meant traffic stopping for 30 minutes up to an hour or so. When I got here to Petro, it was like, 8PM. 2/3 of the parking spaces were still open, which is always good. Got parked pretty close to the building. Not the front row unfortunately, but still pretty close.

So, in closing, I wanted to add some value for you all tonight. Something that I picked up from a video I watched earlier. Here goes! Don't go around saying you are broke! Even if you have no money, as long as you have courage, as long as you refuse to quit no matter what people around you try to tell you, YOU AREN'T BROKE! Don't give up! Don't let ANYONE tell you that you can't do what you want to do! Don't let anyone tell you that you can't have what you want! I don't care who it is! Whether it's your mom, your sister, or even your spouse! If you want it, don't let anyone stop you!

The reason I say that is 1) to provide value to you. and 2) because I'm pursuing my dreams as an Entrepreneur, and working on being able to hang up my keys and come home. I have people that are close to me that have actually told me I shouldn't do it, and that if I want to come home, just go apply for a local job. The problem for me with that is, even if I got a decent paying local job, the money would never be enough. My wife and I would still always be really tight on money, and would fight a lot like we do right now. I don't want that for us. In fact! I want SO MUCH MORE! So, I refuse to give up. The way I am looking at it is like this. I WILL GET THERE! No matter how much work I have to do, how long I have to stay out here in the truck while working on my business part time during whatever free time I have (which is never that much). No matter if I'm always the only one that seems to believe that I can! You are all that matters! Even if everyone else says it can't be done, if you think it can? DO IT! Don't give up and then years down the line wonder "what if?"

I've actually already done the "what if" stuff quite a bit in my life. I've wondered if I had only done ______, if I'd be in a better place by now. You just never know! Maybe I would be, maybe I wouldn't be.

But I need to not focus on the past. As Tony Robins says. You can't drive in to the future, if you're looking in the rear view mirror that is the past. If you try driving while looking in the rear view mirror, you'll crash!

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That's it for tonight ya'll! I look forward to talking to you again next time! Good night! :)

That cats name is coco. Altho I'm nice to her, she hates guys. Something happened b4 we adopted her that caused her to not like guys.

How do I know? On her bottom lip her jaw looks off. Almost like she was beaten or something.

I love that cat, but I for the most part don't do anything cuz I figure I'll just leave her alone.


Do you have a cat or pet in general that doesn't like you?

She opens up to me if I play with her with a cat toy. Otherwise it's run and hide.

Are you a cat person? Honestly I'm not but they've grown on me the longer they are with us.

Sorry y'all. I'm totally dozing. I'll let you go. Be back Soon!

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So this will be fun. Doing this entry from my phone cuz when I logged on my computer, it was lagging and the page wouldn't load. But, I had figured on coming on and posting tonight so I figured I'd at least get a short one from my phone. The pic up above is of my 3 ladies at home. They are currently at the in-laws in Kansas till Sunday. I def wish I could have gone too but of course had to work.

I'm down here in Florida parked at a Petro about 80 miles from where I'm delivering. Got here really early compared to the norm, it was even still light out. Went in and grabbed some dinner and on my way back to the truck, a homeless vet in a wheel chair approached me asking for help. I gave him the change I had on me.


After I was laying in my bunk with all my windows covered, I heard a knock on my door. I didn't answer. Mainly cuz by that point it was 11pm and I figured just stay locked inside where I'm safe.

So, I'll call it a night as I gotta get to sleep. I'll try to get a good Florida pic for y'all and post it with an entry tomorrow. Y'all have a good night!

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Happy 4th of July!

Hey ya'll! I hope everyone here in the states had a good 4th of July with their friends and families. I got home this afternoon, hung out with the family for a few hours, then we went and had BBQ for dinner with 2 friends. Didn't really see any fireworks except for the occasional site we saw on our way home with fireworks going off in the sky.

We would have tried to hunt down where they are doing fireworks, but the wife and girls are taking off early for Kansas City for a 4-5 day vacation and I'm taking off to get loaded in the morning to head to Florida. I'd love to go with them, but until my business is fully off and running, we can't both afford to be off for the vacay. That's kind of why I figured I'd take the weekend off in Kansas City when there weren't any loads, and enjoyed 2 days in the hotel just chilling out. I wouldn't have minded having more time to chill, and I know when I no longer have to worry about money, I will definitely take a longer vacation. Preferably somewhere with a beach and alcohol. ;)

OH! Here's something ya'll might get a kick out of. I parked my truck at Walmart when I was in KC. It was parked there 48 hours,, and wasn't even in the way. There's a side street with a dead end. I backed into the dead in, and was basically just parked in the corner. So, yesterday I get back to the truck by 11AM, get to my load pickup at 12, I'm in the dock for a little bit when it hits 1 oclock, and my fleet manager calls me. "Walmart is threatening to tow your truck?" "Oh really? I'd like to see them try!" "what do you mean?" "Jacquie I'm at the customer getting loaded. Haven't been at Walmart for like 2 hours." She was like "Oh, ok."

I'm like SMH. lol. I'm glad I figured I wasn't gonna push it longer than 48 hours with me parked there. Some places you can get away with a while. That Walmart, we can park short term but I guess I was there just a little too long. Good thing I got back and left b4 they decided to tow. So when I was delivering in Memphis Arkansas at Dollar General Distribution Center, I ripped my shorts. I was like "SHIT!"

So pretty much any time I had to get out of the truck until my wife picked me up at the truck stop 10 miles from here, I walked around with my shorts ripped. Oh well. LOL. So when I got home, I first ran to Walmart to grab new shorts, and then I ran to Publix cuz they have my high PH water I like. Got all stocked up on water, and I grabbed some trash bags cuz I'm not throwing away my plastic bottles. I figure I'll bag them up, collect them, and whenever I get a chance when back here some time on a day off, I will try to find somewhere I can turn them all in to be recycled instead of adding them to landfills. I figure, a little way of doing my part to help the environment.

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That'll be all for tonight everybody! I'll try to hop on here tomorrow from Florida! Again, I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!