Driving Down the Lonely Side of the Road...

For the last month and a half, I have found myself on the road a lot, and only getting home every other week. Being a truck driver, I do get to see many exciting new places and beautiful landscaping, such as mountains, plains, and populated Cities.

In the last month I have traveled through Cities such as Sacromento, Los Angeles, Flagstaff, Alberquerque, Amarillo, Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Little Rock, Memphis, Minneapolis, Green Bay, St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinatti, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boston, and New York City just to name a few. So many places, so much beauty, but to see it by myself, so much loneliness!

I have come to realize that one of the most stressful points of this job, Truck Driver, is the loneliness! It's the loneliness that brings on depression, and even sometimes resentment. I have missed out on so much of my familie's lives, that I couldn't tell you half the things that go on in there lives. While I'm out here driving through all these cities, and through mountains and valley's my family is going on just as I would want them to, but wishing I was there too!

I do love my job, or otherwise I wouldn't do it, but I miss my family so much when I am out for more than a day or two. The road does have a lonely side to it, and it does drive me crazy at times!

I love my Wife, and often wonder how she does it, being married to a truck driving man who is gone a lot! I hope I never lose her, but Feel I'm not providing all that she needs in a man, because I can't be there to hold her every night, or laugh with her at the kids, or cry with her at the kids, or get angry with her at the kids! LOL

This job has many stresses to deal with! I know most people think being a truck driver is a cake job, that any dumbie could do, but the truth is, it is a very difficult job, not because of the job itself, but because of all the stress that is related to the job.

Stress like Wheather conditions, Traffic, ignorant 4-wheelers (that's what we like to call all of you who drive cars with only 4 wheels, lol), Road conditions, stepe grades in mountains, stepe down grades, Road restrictions for Big Trucks (especially in major Cities), Dealing with small spaces for a large vehicle, fatigue, long hours behind the wheel, etc, etc... But the toughest one of all is most defanentaly, LONELINESS!

Tonight I find myself stuck in Mogadore, OH, just south of Cleveland on THE LONELY SIDE OF THE ROAD!!! And the worst part is, I have no idea when I will get back home. Try as I might, the need for $$$ and the lack of loads going to KC keeps me out here on the Lonely Side of the Road way more than I ever wanted to experience!