When it happened, I was sleeping in the bunk, and he woke me up and I worked on keeping him calm so he could get safely pulled over onto the shoulder. It was an intense moment that made it clear he needed to get out of the truck. I think this happened sometime in January of 2021. Then Adam had a mental breakthrough while we were out on the road. Nope, that couldn’t slow down and wasn’t going anywhere! So through the entire pandemic, it was business as usual (with the addition to masks, gallons of sanitizer, laser beams on our foreheads and more no-contact-with-people at shippers and receivers, which actually made things smoother in some cases!). We had to keep those tires rolling, especially since Midwest Carriers hauls a lot of reefer, aka refrigerated, freight – think food at your local grocery store.
#ICE ROAD TRUCKERS GAME FOR PC DRIVER#
I don’t need to remind you what that was like! Anyway, he decided to jump in the truck with me as a team driver again, because, well, trucking wasn’t going to be slowing down. But not many places were hiring, in fact most places were laying people off and everything was unsteady and messy. A super-brief prequel to the decision is this (I’m lying, it’s a long explanation, but this is the platform for me to do that, so bear with me!): Right when Covid starting locking stuff down in 2020, Adam had plans to start looking for full-time work after taking some off for his mental health. It was a process that actually took a few months, and a lot happened to scoot me along into this decision. In fact, I didn’t really want to get out of the truck. The decision: The decision to “get out of the truck” didn’t start with just wanting to not be over the road any more. The big change is that I accepted a new position with Midwest Carriers as a Marketer/Recruiter and I’m currently transitioning from Venus (my semi truck) to OFFICE life! Say WHAT!? I will certainly wade through all the weeds about that as we go along in this post, even getting into some pretty personal stuff, but if you’ve read any of my stuff, I’m not super-shy. So! I think my last post was in November of 2020 or something insanely too long ago like that. I’ll always be a truck driver, but for now, we’re gonna try a little something different.