u/East_Indication_7816

Everyone who is into running are office desk workers

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to JUMP overboard after 250 days at sea

-Navy Times and Stars and Stripes report multiple attempts by crew members to go overboard as conditions and mental strain aboard the carrier reach a breaking point

-The roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines are in their ninth month at sea and have gone 250 consecutive days without making land, a record for a modern aircraft carrier

-They have had two days on land in that entire span, Guam in December and Oman in July, and the ship is in its fifth month of combat operations against Iran

-The Lincoln left San Diego on November 21 bound for the Pacific, was rerouted to the Middle East when the war began, and has had its return pushed back twice since a scheduled May end date

-About 200 family members confronted Navy leadership at a San Diego town hall last Thursday, including acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, with one spouse telling him leadership had broken trust with the families

-Annabelle Loma told Navy Times her husband attempted to go overboard after his time at sea kept getting extended, saying he fears a dishonorable discharge will end a 13 year career over BURNOUT

-Representative Mike Levin described moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches without hot water, a meal of half a cup of rice and two tortillas, and no soap, deodorant or toothpaste

-Hegseth dismissed similar complaints in April as fake news, and a Navy official now says the service has not identified an increase in reported suicidal ideation or attempts aboard

-This lands days after Bloomberg reported that as many as five people who worked in or with U.S. Cyber Command died by suicide between early June and early July, a stretch the command formally classified as a suicide cluster

-Causes there remain under investigation, though the deaths revived long standing concerns about staffing shortages and a workload driven up by the Iran war, with General Joshua Rudd having warned lawmakers that burnout and force degradation will increase without more funding for mental health support

Two very different corners of this war, and the same disturbing warning is coming out of both. Americans are TIRED.

Trump chose economic pressure over strikes, and that choice runs entirely on the backs of people holding a line indefinitely.

I assume having this you need:

1. To be driving as a team, preferably husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend team so you can make good profit
2. To be pulling shorter 48 footer trailers or anything shorter than a standard 53 foot.

LIke last Friday when this dispatcher which is not my regular dispatcher wanted me to do a 16 hour day as per 16 hour rule by DOT which allows a local driver a single 16 hour day per week. I started work at 6:30 am, there is absolutely no way I will be working all the way to 10:30 pm while they go home at 6pm with their family enjoying dinner in a restaurant. This dispatcher even pulled safety to call me and safety did call me to tell me about this 16 hour rule. Why do they know better than the driver who is risking his health, life, and other people's life?

Local driving is more physical than OTR. I was doing lots of short pickups of and off the truck docking 9 times the first 5 hours of my day. Other local drivers even touch the load , and have to cart the load up and down stairs. So whoever created this 16 hour day per week is an idiot.

They are also rude. The proper way of doing this to ask the driver if he is willing to extend beyond the normal 14 hours for the day because they got another load, not force the driver to do it.

Or maybe they are looking at the truck , or anything in my windshield, windows, etc?

So been delivering to this customer and just so happens I dock 15 minutes before lunch . The owner invited me in for company lunch . And it’s like from a caterer and I ate fried chicken and pasta salad . Then they hand each of us papers about safety and security, that door must be locked , that any stranger walking at the lot should be asked what their business is there blah blah. Things that do not concern me it’s their company meeting . So I guess I might have missed an extra load for the day there because of the delay but food is good .

Money you will always make, you will always have money, in fact even if you don't have money the government will give you. Time that you lost doing OTR away from home , away from family, while living inside a moving coffin where you don't even have a proper toilet, shower, that time is gone forever. Is it worth it? Money you will make more of it, time you will never get it back.

You sacrifice your health which is the most important one. Money is not important compared to your health. Is it worth it?