If you tried to explain “hurry up and wait” to someone outside trucking, it would sound like poor planning.
But out here, it’s normal.
You rush to make a time window. You push through traffic, weather, fatigue—only to sit. And sit. And sit.
Dock’s not ready. Paperwork’s delayed. Load’s not finished.
And the clock keeps running.
It sounds inefficient. It sounds broken. But it happens so often it starts to feel intentional.
Drivers learn to live in that space between urgency and stillness.
That’s where the real work happens—not the miles, but the waiting.
And that’s the part no one calculates.
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