Truck Driving Job Hoppers – by a job hopper

3 companies closed their doors,within 10 yrs one leaving me in atlanta,I live in ohio

 

Job hopping is not good companies want stable employees not someone passing through

 

You are right in this statement to a certain extent. The only way I have found to research any company to see if I would enjoy the experience or not is right here on this forum. There is alot of very good information on this forum. I have been a member here for a little while but have only been active, posting and reading here recently. The only true way to find out about a company is to go to work for them. I am also a victim of the job hopping game. I have been driving professionally for almost 6 years and in that time have had a little over 10 jobs not including the carrier I am driving for currently. That is average of 2 jobs per year.

All the companies on the face of this planet will fill your head with the same BS from the recruiter until the time you finish orientation. Then when you get in the truck and go to work everything is different or everything is great at first then things gradually start to go down hill.

I drove for CFI out of Joplin, MO back before they were bought out by Con-Way Truckload. CFI was the best company by far I have every worked for. Went through orientation, then they paid use individually 17 cent per mile to drive a rental to go pick up our trucks. (no riding together with five drivers in one car. We each had our own rental and they even let us choose what kind of car we wanted.) I was with them for a little over a year. I quit along with a lot of drivers when Con-Way took over and ###### up my perfect life lol... The fired my dispatcher and the miles and money went to ####... Since leaving there I have found NOTHING that can compare. I started running for O/O and small companies. Bigger problems on a smaller scale is what I found. Went from one to the other. They don't want to pay you, they don't have money for fuel or cant afford to fix the truck. Had one steal the ####### truck right out from under me because he found out I was quitting and left me stranded half way across the country. This is the kind of #### that trucking has become.

After all the BS I have been through in my career I have finally found a company that treats me decent and I really want to stay with but guess what. They don't want to just fix the truck and be done with it. The owner does just enough to get by and that is all. So, what can you do? Can I leave and tell him where to stick that POS i am driving? Sure I can but what is that going to get me... Nothing but another job I have to list on my resume (which is already to long in the work history section) and I will have to start all over with some other ###### company and have a whole new headache to deal with.

Best advice deal with the ######## of wherever you are for 2 full years, in that 2 years do all the research you can on everything you might want to do and put together a plan. That is what i am doing and it will work. Hell, i am already 6 months in were I am now. Only a year and a half to go...

(Sorry so long, I get a little carried away sometimes)
Check out my thread... Advice that I was given that helped me...
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...t-company-terrible-equipment-dont-want-2.html

 

True, but employee's want stable companies that know how treat them.

 

You can find a lot of good things on here about a company or even companies. It depends on where you look and which companies you are looking at. There are crybabies everywhere, you learn how to sort through those.

 

Yes this is agood place to get info,just watch out for the company shills on here. Before this avenue you could not get anyone or very few that would even tell you anything about a company,and if they did it was usually a lie.

 

Mr Zero,
What you have is a bad case of hypergrassisgreeneritis. 10 jobs in 6 yrs!! You got ants in your pants son? You are almost unemployable at this point. No good carrier ( and most of them are good in spite of what you read on these forums) would touch you with a 10 foot pole. And your new plan is to start job hopping every 2 years now? Good plan. You're a victim? Driver PLEASE!
Time to fetch yourself a pair of big girl panties.

 

The majority usually wins. Truth is trucking has almost a 100% turnover rate. Not just from someone is mad at a company. Many get homesick, go home and come back out. It's hard to find someone that sticks it out with one company. If they last more than a year, they are considered special. You really have to be an abuser not to get hired. Many say 4 jobs in the last 3 years. Some even more lenient. If you can't last 6 months repeatedly, you need to find another career.

The older and more experienced one gets, the longer they tend to stay. Mainly because they finally learned how to pick a decent company and their mentality changes.

There is no perfect company out there. You have to learn how to deal with everything on a professional level. Once one learns how to adjust their attitude, the longevity and money comes with it.

Of course there are bad dispatchers. Don't quit, get you another one. I seen drivers go through every dispatcher at a company before finding a decent one. Your personalities have to click.

Compared to working in a factory, trucking is a pretty decent job. You have to work to move up the ladder anywhere. Too many think they should be treated like a 5 year employee right off the bat. Go sit at the house unemployed or flip burgers, then you will realize it wasn't so bad what you got mad about before. It's all attitude folks!

 

Yea but he who writes the check has the power. And if every company tried to satisfy every employee they would be out of business. There is no perfect company you can search all you life and you will never find it. More than likely you will find yourself unemployed with a bad work history and no one will hire you

 

Thanks for the diagnosis. If you want to be a Doctor then why are you on this Forum??? Shouldn't you be on one of those health nut sites or something???

Yes, 10 jobs in almost 6 years. I am glad you can read. Oh and by the way I am not your son.

OK, so which is it Doc? Am I almost unemployable or would no good carries touch me with a 10 foot pole, making me completely unemployable. Lets school you real quick since the basis for your statement here is nothing more than your opinion. #1 There are good carriers and there are bad ones. Unfortunately there are more bad ones than there are good ones nowadays. There are still people like yourself who find this hard to believe, sorry but its true. #2 Out of all the jobs I have had only one of them would not take me back. You have no clue as to what you are talking about lol...

Where did I say my plan had anything to do with anymore job hopping much less doing it every 2 years? Victim, yes I would say so because the majority of these good companies, as you say, screwed me and left me hanging. They give drivers no miles which = no money, they don't care if or when you get home, your a number and that is all they care about. You already know this, weather you want to admit it or not.

Wow, this is a true display of your maturity. Things like this being said to one another is why I no longer turn on my CB... Grow up... If you want to criticize me fine but you can keep your panties driver I have no use for them... Sorry...