No wonder truckers are paid so little!

Had to sit in a class and these new guys going to work for other companies are in there with me gushing over making 30k a year.

They were pushing that lease deal on the guys going to the megas hard too saying they are going to make 300k a year, etc My B.S. meter went through the roof, but I am working local so I don't care, but now I see why wages are so low and how new guys get screwed with smoke being blown up their rears.

My company covers my training but they were also saying if these other guys going to the megas got their cdl and didn't work for their company that would take their license away. I am pretty sure that is illegal as they are not an issuing body but I am going to talk to some officials and get the scoop on that. Sounds like that should be illegal to even say that if it's not true. Like impersonating a cop.

 

I think 30k is probably for a lot of those guys but none of them factored in 168hr work weeks(You're on company time 24/7 OTR) so that is chicken feed in reality.

Also couldn't believe how ill studied some of those were. One guy didn't even know what a pre-trip was! I was floored at how little research or studying those guys did before signing up. Only 1 other person had their permit already like I did.

 

They made it sound like they were going to take home 60%+ of that. In fact they said only 40% most would go for fuel, maintenance, etc Which could be true idk, but from what I read that is not the case in most situations.

 

Depends, am I shopping or with my girl and kid at cedar point or disney world or am I doing work for the company?

 

They were saying they'd make about .86 a mile or something like that. I just tuned out, I already heard about that scam and some of those guys were so dumb I wasn't going to waste my oxygen explaining to them that's a rip-off.