Quote: "I did not have to learn their system because I declined the offer to go to orientation, and did not put myself into that position. I...
I used to love to drive a fork lift. We had an 80 door barn, and one fork lift driver for the whole thing. Of course we had a couple more fork...
I have heard truck drivers complain if they had to do dock work. But to me, it was a blast. Good pay, good exercise. After all, people pay...
So why is the post I just made not here?
As one fellow wrote you can see if you can get on at dock work with one of the LTL companies, such as ABF or YRC or any or the other ones, but...
I have noticed lately that many of the LTL companies pay wages at or above union scale as far as local delivery and dock. The difference is the...
I read somewhere that the average pay for truck drivers was 41 cents per mile. That is used to be 46 cents per mile. If that is true, I am...
All of these things were going on early in the 19th century when the union movement started. It took guts, broken heads, and blood, but the...
This dude here must have been told to run illegally too man times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uMTZmFz3BUk I wonder...
I have found that since I retired I make about 66% of what I did when I was working, but taxes are different, so I keep 75% of what I did when I...
I must be crazy but I always loved working the dock. I hostled some trailers, but not while working for a trucking company, that was on...
I thought if you have a class A you could already drive a dump truck. Anyways, two of my sons did it for a while and they made OK, they worked on...
I got into a program once at a community college for truck driver training, because I was unemployed. Everything was all set up until I got two...
Here is one for ya, I know a guy that was driving for over a year with NO LICENSE AT ALL, I'm not saying he didn't have a CDL, I am saying he...
How long do you work casual with union companies now days. I used to work casual for Consolidated and only got two nights a week. Later, I...
My grandfather used to say "be nice to a man on the way up, you will meet the same man on the way back down." It just goes to show, sometimes,...
I agree with you about the insurance thing. My daughter was there a year before she got insurance, and it was so high compared to her pay, I had...
I have always wondered that. I have heard that it pays a whole lot more. I'm not trying to insult anybody or be a smart aleck...
Some of those tazers for sale out there aren't worth a flip. You need to do the research to get a good kind. I deputy sherriff showed me his...
Well that is all we need. Trucks running wild down the highway because some computer chip cracks or a wire gets lose. The sad thing is these...
