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!
Friday, September 8, 2017
Friday, August 18, 2017
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!
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
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:
https://expertsecrets.com/?cf_affiliate_id=713695&affiliate_id=713695 or click HERE!
In closing, I hope ya'll enjoy the pictures I've included in this blog entry. Thanks ya'll and have a great night!






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:
https://expertsecrets.com/?cf_affiliate_id=713695&affiliate_id=713695 or click HERE!
In closing, I hope ya'll enjoy the pictures I've included in this blog entry. Thanks ya'll and have a great night!






Wednesday, August 9, 2017
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!



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!



Thursday, July 13, 2017
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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Saturday, July 8, 2017
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! :)
Thursday, July 6, 2017
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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