I'm sure that this thread will raise a lot of hackles!! Truckers are thier own worst enemy. There are about 3 million of us out there. Yet, we are treated like the red headed stepchild. The states, cities and towns pass laws like spit speed limits and Virginia's two hour parking limit in rest areas. that not for safety but designed to extort money from us.
The customers have no respect for our time. They think nothing of making a driver wait 3,4,7,10 hours to get loaded or unloaded. Some won't allow the diver to put SLC on the bills attempting to make the driver responsible for what they did or failed to do.
The companies are just sorry as hell. They go through drivers like crap through a goose!
Why? Because they know they can get away with it. They know that way too many of us will accecpt a crap sandwich and ask for another. Look on this site. How many warnings and stories from former drivers are posted here about these sorry companies? Yet there are still fools that will fill thier trucks!!
How many drivers are lumpimg loads for $40 a trrailer when that same company would pay a lumper $200-$300 for the same load?
How many places like walmart deny parking to big trucks because of the trash and urine filled bottles strewn around by drivers?
How many places won't even let drivers use the restroom because of the way drivers pee all pver the toilet seats and the floor, rub crap on the walls, write on the walls and just destroy the #### place?
How many drivers are sweating or freezing to death in the truck because thier cheap ### company would not invest in APUs and just like ignorant slaves the drivers accept this treatment?
How many drivers look like they live in a dumpster? They smell like one as well! They trashed the truck. They have 2 pit bulls, a rotwieler and a kangaroo in the #### truck! With no regard to the owner of the truck or the welfare of those big dogs!
How many dumb ### drivers are worried about the color of another drivers skin and fail to realize that together we are strong and can get things done?
With AM/FM/XM Audio Books and the internet, and all the time in the world to listen. How many drivers are ignorant of the world around them. How many drivers have no #### clue of what is happening to this country, this industry and are dumber than a box of rocks?
Drivers are getting exactly what they deserve! They have money for the cherry machine but not the $25 for an OOIDA membership! Many can't walk acroos the parking lot but won't demand the truck stops put in some type of excersize room or have more healthy choices for foods. This is especially important when 60% + are diabetics!!!
Finally, how many drivers out there critisize other drivers with education When they are having an informative dicussion instead of listening and asking questions? Instead of learning something they scoff and call the guy Dr. Phil! Has if only the Jethro Bodines of the world drive trucks!!! They wear ignorance, arogance and stupidity as a badge of honor.
Drivers are getting what they deserve! They are thier own worst enemy!!!
Truckers are thier own worst enemy
Discussion in 'Truckers Strike Forum' started by dammyankee, May 1, 2009.
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You want to complain?????
Try being an O/O.......company drivers have nothing on us.... -
The Road Dog, biker dave and southernpride Thank this.
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If you are a company driver, you work as directed.
If you are an O/O.... You do whatever it takes to make a profit and stay in business...otherhalftw, doubledragon5, bullhaulerswife and 4 others Thank this. -
dammyyankee if you can solve truckings problems I`ll vote for you in the next election.I`ve more or less decided to ignore all that is happening around me because nothing is gonna change.Guess that makes me part of the problem but its a part I can live with.Alot of what is driving now couldn`t have bought a trucking job 20 years ago.Same as with any other profession.Times have changed.I had to change with them or go crazy.
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Again, I give Truck drivers way too much credit. As my post stated.... Truck drivers are their own worst enemy. -
Times have changed...in some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse.
Many drivers are their own worst enemy...and I don't have a clue as to how to solve the problems within the industry...unless you mean building places for us to park without getting tickets. (and that alone would be a great help to us all) -
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Quite possibly it's 60% of the drivers who eat the crap....don't lift a finger to do anything other than open the doors to the trailer....and make a bee-line for the chips and soda fountain at the C stores.....
Driving is like any other profession...."It was better when my dad used to drive..."
One thing hasn't changed over the years in any profession....there's always whiners....bullhaulerswife, otherhalftw and southernpride Thank this. -
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