Take care of yourself on the road. You’ll soon be with your family again.

Thanks Icy, you’re the second person to tell me that…do you know something we don’t?

I’m sorry it’s come to this for you and your family. I know from our communications what a close, loving family you are. Maybe with luck it won’t be for long. If all things happen for a reason…you just haven’t found the reason for this one yet.
God bless.

Such a touching and heart breaking poem. It hurts deeply because this is the story of many of our people who live in small towns. They have to leave home to earn a living.

sniff. sniff.

Take care out there, Nick. We all love you and will be praying for you, I’m sure.

take care of your self nick hope this wont be for long i love you and praying for you

Nick this sounds like my home town, Connersville Indiana. We just lost our biggest employer, Visteon.Its last 350 employees will leave in December a week before Christmas.At one time, when visteon was Philco Ford, it employeed between 3,500 and 5,000 people from 1973 into the early eighties.With Reagan years those numbers shrunk.At present there are well over 5,000 houses up for sale in this town that once had been nick-named Little Detroit, due to the fact it overflowed with automotive factories. But now all thats left are empty buildings in the industrial section. I felt every word you wrote. Though I haven’t ever driven a semi, but I’ve stood in my share of unemployment lines and went from one business to the next trying to find a descent job. Not easy to do. Been there done that. Take care, and I’ll keep you in my prayers.

I know I’m echoing everyone else, but that’s hard. I remember when my Uncle drove a truck for a living, it was hard from what he said.
Good luck

Lex