I read somewhere that the unemployment rate in the trucking industry isn't really bad at all, so my question is: have you ever been unemployed, and if yes, for how long ?Because from what I'm reading it looks to me that if you're willing to work hard you won't have any problems finding a job, yet so many people complain that they can't find a job (the same people who want to work like 5-6 hours a day and make 3000+ bucks a month). All the respect for you hard workers out there, cheers from Italy
Have you ever been unemployed ?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by klaman, Sep 20, 2014.
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I've never been unemployed unless you count 24-48 hours between trucking jobs. Takes that long to get the paperwork/interview done for the new job.
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I have never been a day without work in 33 years that I didn't want to be .
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And much of this has been brought on by the mass invasion of the FOREIGN IMMIGRATE trucker's coming to America on promises of the high paying trucking job.Brandson, semi retired semi driver and stabob Thank this. -
including your family and mine and mine has been here 350 years
so by your theory i deserve better job then the AMERICANS only been here a 100 years
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I believe these immigrants are being exploited at our expense.
Maybe study some history especially around 1980 when Russia was having its problems and America was flying them over by the thousands and many going straight into the trucking industry.semi retired semi driver and Chinatown Thank this. -
Never been without a job unless I wanted to be.
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WOW, all over the place here. 1st, I've been unemployed since 2006 (last trucking job, as well), due to lifestyle choice( house bf) but that's come to a screeching halt, so I'll be doing something soon, might be trucking, there are so many jobs. To klaman, I can only go by what's on CL as an indicator of the trucking job situation, and say a few short years ago, there were maybe 50 postings in my area, and just the other day, there were 179 transport openings.(almost 300 in Chicago) That's incredible, and every single company you can think of has an ad there. There is indeed a shortage of drivers and I feel those postings reflect that. I don't feel immigrants are driving down wages, but they aren't helping to increase them either. These people come from countries where they live in straw huts (with 2 other families), to them this is paradise at .29 cpm. Like it or not, it's here to stay.
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Well, I'm kinda confused now. On some threads people say it's still a great job if you like being on the road and you can still live decently and some of them can even become O/O's with their own truck(s) and make money if they know how, but then you're telling me is not a good job right now ?
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