Took a Global personality test on the net. Above is the interpretation of the results.

It said I was weird. HA! Guess they got one right.

Too funny! Although.. What are you doing reading my blog??? What do you want??? Wait, don't go... I want to hang out, uh.. but not now. I'll call you.

HA! (Sorry... I haven't slept in a couple days.)

Category: My Life

I've been struggling with some questions as of late. Most of these are spawned from the classes I'm taking currently. It's ironic how college is supposed to teach so much, and yet leaves so many questions unanswered. I suppose that may be because they go unasked mostly.

Basically, I was wondering how on earth did the trucking industry end up so completely messed up!? Honestly, ask any average citizen to work 14 hours a day with no overtime and they'd be running (Screaming) to the ACLU in a heartbeat. And the hours of service rules are a joke. They got most of their information on how long and what hours a driver can drive by asking the Company's?? JB Hunt stating that drivers never used their 11th hour...

So, how did it get this way, and why is the government supporting this? What happened to the rights of the driver, the employee? Anything over 8 hours should be overtime. Day's off shouldn't be calculated in 10 hour periods. Haven't they ever heard of quality of life?

It's amazing to me how companies can scream that they have a driver shortage, and yet find nothing wrong with listing "one 12 hour period off every 7 day's" as a Driver Benefit. Not to mention some companies are listing a monthly news letter as a driver benefit. Wow.....

Obviously it's all profit driven, but what happened to protecting the driver? The rest of us (civilians) are protected with minimum wages, amount and length of breaks, and how long we can work. Why is it that the truck driver is pushed to the threshold of sanity, only to have the industry whine about driver shortage?

So how do we change this? Simple because a few people are speaking out, and others may be thinking it, won't change anything. There would have to be a unified front. Not a driver stoppage, but more a political action commitee, or group to lobby for the rights of the truck driver. Are there any? And if so, what are they doing?

Category: My Life

Sometimes it seems designed to keep those of us who were born into a lower class, kept in our respective class. It's not a matter of hard work and dedication, it's all a matter of who you know, and how well you can suck up.

One of my business classes, the instructor tells us of one of his "rules of wisdom", which is Suck up Sincerely. And if you can't do it sincerely, fake it.

What happened to honor and dignity? What happened to proving your capabilities through effort and sweat and being recognized for those abilities? What happened to the American Dream? It's turned into a commercialized, techno-color, vision. Buy the house, the plasma TV, the BMW or Lexus. The ideals of honor have been replaced with a drive to fit in, to compare yourself with the purchases of your neighbor. So sad that we have fallen to such a level of complacency. Working hard only to maintain the level of purchasing power needed to keep our level of status in a world that seems controlled by the programs on prime time TV.

Shut your TVs off. Look around and see how detrimental these programs are, how much they steal from you with their filtered numbness over your life. Wake from this sleep, and see your life. The dreams you've lost. The ideals you've set aside, the beliefs you used to hold. It's so much easier to let your mind drift in the sea of the screen, to let go and forget who you are. To forget that you used to dream; when you were free.

Category: My Life