Where's the Money In Trucking???

Load it like a railcar. That's where the money is.

 

The money might actually be in the railcars... If you're JB Hunt anyway.

 

I see you've been on the I-10 between Phoenix and Benson lately.

 

I think them towtrucks are doing all right.They got plenty to do.

 

JoBernard I read your "blog", very imformative. I left you a question there. I hope you can answer it for me. Thanks

 

Don't forget the Truck Stops, their making a fortune.

 

best way to make a million in the trucking business is to start with two million. johnny

 

My experience so far is:
Go home 2 days, every 2 weeks. Work 12 hour days. I'm forced to call a dispatcher daily who lies to me, and talks down to me. I would much rather have NOTHING to do with a bully such as this. If I miss a call, he complains to my load-assigners who then assign me terrible loads.
Half the loads involve I95 from Washington DC to NJ.
My pay averages to $675/week.
I work HARD and am often sore and very tired at the end of the day.
Yet somehow I get fatter & fatter, cause truck-stop food is 90% unhealthy, & I don't want to expend all my energy lifting out and exersizing when I have to work my butt hard the next day. I need to have that energy to be awake and pay attention when driving in very bad traffic.
Lies, lies, & more lies and not enough money to compensate for this. and I HATE lies.
Our trucks break down ALOT.
During the last breakdown I was ordered to go pick up some parts, uncompensated work, driving the repair-company's truck. Ordered by our co's operation manager. Then, when I couldnt call my dispatcher, because my phone was out of range, in Amish nowhere land, picking up some parts for free, my dispatcher got pissed and got me assigned a short load through I95 hell to PA.
I don't want to be here.
I don't like this job.
I chose it because it had few complaints on ripoffreports.com at the time! Imagine how much worse the other jobs are that have hundreds of complaints and a similar sized fleet!
I hoped this company was a good bet.
If I damage the cargo, which is super-easy to do, or if I miss damage that someone else did, I could end up paying $500 per product. That's a lot of liability. That's a lot of ###### responsibility for what amounts to a lousy $9/hr job that keeps me from home!

 

Damb son.

 

Sad how many times stories such as that are told here. Maybe its a "story" to keep people out. I wish I really thought that was true.