How's your economic situation?

[SL89]

Yep, that's the hard part. I am fixing to take a job in a few hundred miles from home. 2 weeks on and 1 off. Full benefits including dental for the whole family. Heck, even truck drivers can make 100k on the Balken oil fields. They are more than 20k people short of direct oil field work. That includes management, finance...etc. not just labor. Just saw an ad in the paper, I live in MT., for McDonald's for 16$ an hour.

 

[VIDEODROME]

I gave up trying to find a local job where I live in Southern Michigan. So I took another crazy transportation job doing interstate deliveries in a Chevy Cargo Van running Expedited Freight. It sort of fills in gaps missed by the Trucking industry. Someone has a factory machine break and calls for a Van to rush deliver it for example.

So for about a month stretch I go out on the road running this van up and down the Mid-West, Eastern States, or some Canada deliveries. Pulling freight in the back and I even have a bed and ice cooler behind the front seats. I sometimes feel like a professional hobo.

But I have a job and now basically debt free. Car is paid for and so are some pricey medical bills. Also because I'm never home I don't bother to pay for a residence. I'm based out of my parents' place and they watch bills for me at the house while I'm running the interstate.