I know a driver that retired from CF, he's my friends Dad...well into his 80's now...a whole different breed of driver there.
Always clean, well dressed, well groomed...you still see a few of these drivers out there from time to time, but fewer and fewer every year.
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Discussion in 'YRC' started by rookietrucker, Aug 21, 2009.
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Yea, things are not the same as they were. I live in the Southeast and things SURE aint the same as far as union go.
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I remember when I started trucking in 1997 and till about 2002 it was still pretty good. Could still log 5 on 5 off in teams. People were still talking on the CB and being courteous to one another. Drivers would wave, etc. Now no one talks on the radio and no one waves. Even my own company hardly does when they see each other. It's like we are all robots out there now just trying to make a buck. Ever since fuel prices went up and the recession took out all the smaller companies, it's been terrible. No more fast trucks out there. All this CSA crap and new rules and regulations. They took all the fun out of the job.
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You have noticed something that seems to have settled in all over America like a dark cloud, that cloud perhaps being an indication of a terrible storm. In my main trade as well, the construction industry has changed. The Loborer's unon are about out of business in Atlanta Georgia, the jobs now are filthy and unsafe, open holes covered up by cardboard or discarded sheet rock where they used to secure the holes, a job done by union carpenters and laborers, now replaced with day labor workers. Of course, I have heard that it was better since I had to retire from an on the job accident in 2003. But back to trucking, I wonder if as the old school guys started retireing or dying out the younger generation coming from the trucker mill schools and then being trained in the starter companies have taken their toll. I have heard now that many Teamster barns have started encouraging dock workers to get their cdls, perhaps teaching them or helping them in some way go to an accredited school. Also with the better non-union companies here in the South. That is the way I learned was by helping out in the yard. Maybe there is going to be a comeback, see, the there is more to any trade than being able to drive the truck, lay out the fitting, lay the tile, or whatever it is, there is the old pride of doing the trade, and respecting other workers in the same craft, and in other crafts, whether they be union or not. But America has brought in desperate people from other countries, and let amoral companies take advantage of them, thus replacing American workers, and also making a slave class out of the immigrants that have come here to better themselves and their families. It is a no win situation.
Well, keep it between the lines, keep your tools oiled, and like the real Jimmy Hoffa said, "an honest day's work, for an honest day's pay.
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We are just a modern day Rome and seem to be failing like the Rome of the past.
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