I'm 74 & retired. Only had 4 real full time jobs. Started with a wholesale grocery firm the day after high school graduation, warehouse order filler & delivery driver. Left 3 yrs later for hitch in military. Stopped in on a social call when I got back, wanted to take a couple weeks off & look around. Few days later boss called, had one loaded & ready to go, driver suddenly got sick. How soon can I get there? After another year took a week of vacation to look around for better pay, filled out a few applications,& went back to work. Got hired at one place & turned in my resignation. Another outfit a block down the street, with double the pay rate, called before I started the first one. The one that hired me was decent, said since I hadn't actually started, I should take the better paying opportunity. He had several more candidates to pick from. Sixteen years later the freight business changed & I got laid off. Line at the employment office was out the door, so went around corner to school bus shop for coffee & visit. Boss said they were busy & short handed. Come back after lunch ready to pull wrenches. Mid afternoon he came out again, knew I had school license endorsement. Told me to ride along on route 23, then take that route next day. Worked shop & subbed on routes till end of school year. Bounced around that summer, taking whatever would bring a paycheck. By end of summer landed entry level at a larger bus outfit. Head office of a major company moved their executives & staff to downtown Minneapolis. Haul them to work & home again in a 6 bus convoy. This was low position on the board, only 160 miles a day, but several drivers were close to retiring & over road spots would open up soon. At end of year bus owner retired & shut down. Another company picked up the commuter contract & hired 6 of us to do the same job. Since we all had the same start date with the new company they drew numbers for seniority on the board. I got #1, only had 5 months with the former outfit. Guys with 15+ years with the closed up outfit drew #5 & #6. That caused a lot of conflict & I left after 10 months. Got hired on at a larger bus outfit. Second in route miles to Greyhound, had scheduled routes, also charters, & package tours. Tour business was good duty, wear clean clothes, be with same people 10, 15, 20 days at a time, eat at good restaurants, stay in good hotels, see all the tourist type spots such as Niagara Falls, go up Pikes Peak, Yellowstone Park, etc. Done for the day at 5pm unless have to take the group to an evening event. (Grand Ole Opry, Broadway shows in New York, etc) In early 90's travel business got hit by the recession. Started looking around. Found a good trucking outfit. Nice people, good equipment, clean freight, mostly drop loaded trailer & pick up an empty or drop empty & pick up preloaded trailer. Stayed there until retirement. Willie
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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