What a horrible ride the last few weeks have been. We've been fighting like crazy, and I hate this.

His company is pushing him to run way over hours every single day. They don't care about the laws, and most of the other drivers either need their job too badly to say no, or want the money too much. But every weekend he's running all Friday night and long into Saturday, with a load that has to be taken out Sunday evening. He barely got his 34 restart, but only because he forced the issue. And this is from the company that PROMISED "Every weekend off!" Uh, right!

Now they're calling him lazy for wanting his DOT breaks and 34 hour restart. "You're a truck driver. This is a 24/7 operation."

Yeah, but they don't work 24/7. They get every evening off, and all weekend. Plus leave early and come in late, while they drive their brand new mustanges.

And they've cheated him out of pay for the last several weeks. They forget to add loads he's delivered. Say they lost the paper work. Or they'll say he didn't get it in before they did payroll, even though the policy book states he has until a certain day. If they do the payroll the day before, then he gets screwed out of a few hundred that week. His checks aren't all that big to begin with, so I don't know where they get off telling him he's making tons of money even without the loads they lost.

So he's been stressed out. Which means we've been fighting a lot lately. I just can't seem to do anything right, no matter what I do. Sometimes I really think he'd be better off without me, at least less stressed. *Sigh*

I have no idea what to do. He left mad as heck last night at me, and now won't be home until Friday, if he's lucky. Saturday if it's normal. I have drill Saturday bright and early, and won't get home til Sunday evening. And if it goes as usual, he'll have to leave out long before I get home. Which means I probably won't see him til the following weekend.

Why does it always have to be so hard? Other people get in an argument, they go to work for 8 hours come home and work it out. Get into an argument with my man and I now I won't hear from him until he gets home the following weekend, or whenever his next home time is scheduled.

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