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Truck driver. I just picked up a trailer of toilet paper in Portland, bound for Ontario CA. The guard handling the paperwork asked me "Are you able to sign onl
by a3n 6y ago
Truck driver. I just picked up a trailer of toilet paper in Portland, bound for Ontario CA.
The guard handling the paperwork asked me "Are you able to sign online?"
I desperately tried to come up with a snappy "yep," it sounded like such a good idea. But I finally had to say "I'm not sure what you mean."
He handled it, gave me my bill of lading, and away I went with toilet paper in tow and paperwork in hand. Because it's still not finished until the paperwork is done.
- azinman2 6y agoI’m curious about this intersection of truck driver and HN: not the typical demographics. What got you into either trucking or tech (not sure which was first)?
- jhayward 6y agoThere are a lot of people who left white-collar jobs for trucking; engineers especially. Something about wanting to be more or less your own boss, control your own schedule, and not be in an office is appealing. So your stereotype for "trucker" has to be resilient to the occasional former nuclear physicist or mathematician showing up.
- a3n 6y agoI used to be in software, which is how I found HN. Then I rage-quit my last in-career job. I was a B-player, and past my fresh date. I stumbled around a bit, and wound up here. I like it. I haven't been in a meeting in three years, and my commute is three feet. Right now I'm in California on I-5, looking at Mt Shasta floating above the clouds. I get paid to look out the window.