Driver Shortage (supposedly)

You know, Bill Burr is a genius lol. “Something has to die in order for me to live”. I think in trucking, someone needs to fail in order for me to win. Yes, let the lease purchase guys think they can make it. Withhold knowledge, some o/o wants to get married and have kids. Shhh shhh, don’t say anything about the divorce rates and paternity fraud, let him dream lol.

They call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

 

I don't think we'll ever apply at Shipex.....

With the company we're contracted to there's a two week orientation - the "hiring" process, new potential drivers get the "honey'd version" of trucking dribbled into their ear. They'll also pay for transpiration to corporate (where drivers get orientation) from where ever in the country they start from, hotel & meals paid for that two weeks.
New driver groups have been as low as 4 and as high as 20.
Now they provide very little "training" - leaving their "older" drivers to instruct and help the "new" ones

 

Not everyone has the capability to much more than that. Its nothing wrong with working minimum wage jobs. At least they aren't sitting around doing nothing. You gotta have folks to do those jobs man. If everyone "bettered themselves," the world would lack balance. Everyone has equal opportunity but outcomes are not going to be the same. That said, minimum wage should be about 20 bucks per hour. Even at that rate, it really ain't squat. A single person can get by on that, but a single parent household will struggle.

 

Well here is the thing.....if you work retail, its difficult to get 40 hrs per week. A local trucker can get overtime. It isn't so much the rate per hour that tells the story, it's the hours in a week worked. When I was working local, I burned up the alotted 60 hrs every week, so while the trucker isn't getting rich, he is still better off than a retail worker.

 

They use bongs. It's more economical than using rolling papers. In that community, someone always has that herbal essence.

 

It ain't low in Memphis lol, Some studios go for under 500 per month. We are in a 3 bed/2bath for 800 per month. Some places are dirt cheap to live, the Bluff City is that.

 

American Dream? So laughable. I don't know what that is. Seems rather subjective and material based.....

 

You know that the only thing that Min. wage does is raise them into new tax brackets.

Min. wage $$$$
Price of all commodities go up because the businesses have to raise prices to afford the workers they have & have in stock whatever they sell/transport

You (the worker) don't gain anything but a price hike all down the chain of supply.....But better to be working than living off the taxes of everyone else worker

 

That's cheep. Western Washington your place would be somewhere around $1,500 - 2,000 monthly - and that ain't near the ocean, in the mountains or by one of the lakes/rivers either.

 

Most of the smaller towns in W-Washington it's usually one or two of local cops.