Who's The Worst Of Them ALL to work for?

It's not in the tax code, but I'm going to guess it has more to do with a sweetheart deal. Just like how Honda and Toyota and other major players didn't have to pay taxes for 10-15 years when they built plants in the US. When you start doing things inmass, you get special treatment.

Heck if we all start screaming and yelling loud enough, I'm sure that the DAC reports would be made free to each and every driver online, just like the credit reports are now.
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Brickman, join the crowd of skeptics. I would like to know why that company's trucks are sitting around, myself. This company no doubt will whine to the government about how they can't find enough drivers while they abuse the drivers they already have. And this abuse happens as those empty cleaned outs sit around being swallowed up by the weeds.

A sweetheart deal might be what explains it all, absolutely, Panda.

You know, it's good to see others scratching their heads over the lie that is the "driver shortage". It's good to see some skeptical minds at work, minds that have broken away from those who apathetically accept this ruse as "just the way it is".

Something is going on with driver turnover, the help-wanted ads in papers every day of the world, and the crowded orientation classes that are occurring as regularly as clockwork. Yeap, the wool is slowly being pulled back. Some are starting to see the light, the light that some companies really do benefit from their drivers quitting. They are starting to understand the driver shortage issue is nothing but a game being played by companies that see it is in their interest when their drivers quit, drivers who WILL quit if given the right abusive nudge.

Good thing for tax write-offs and sweetheart deals, eh? If this nonsense were shut down, trucking companies like Swift and England would start treating their drivers with respect and at least make an attempt to keep them around. These companies would have to start paying their fixed costs using their own (supposedly) low profits instead of sucking on the government sugar titty they currently have.Their turnover would settle down into the normal range of maybe 10% instead of the 110, 120, and even 150-200% it is now.

 

It has to explain it, unless this is how truckers have been treated all their lives, and if that's so, it's a crying shame. But I know that's not true, because when I sit around a table of truckers at the local truck stop and ask questions, they always get that look on their face like something isn't right at all. Heck, some can't believe that they have it in writing that you shouldn't go home more then 4 days out of six weeks out.

I don't want to be treated as a second class person, and I don't think that it's right that they do that on a large scale.

 

Amen, brother.

I'll be writing a letter this week to the incoming speaker of the house describing all this crap in trucking, like the lumper scam, this phantom driver turnover issue, and other things, such as DAC and how companies abuse drivers' DAC reports. Maybe somethin' will finally be done about it all.

 

WE can only hope TIP!

 

I guess you really believe all this hogwash, Tip. The government doesn't give one dang dookie about Joe or Jane Truckdriver, man. Especially not the Democrats. Go ahead and write your letter, if it'll make you feel better, but the honest to God's truth about it all is it's going to fall on deaf ears/blind eyes. Instead of asking the government to do something about it, why don't you do the American thing of old and go start up your own company and treat your drivers better than any other company out there. With as much energy you've invested on this smoke and mirrors theory of yours, you could've already got a good start on your own fleet.

 

If Tip will start his own company, I'll even donate a nice extra large box of Reynolds Wrap, so he and all his employees can wear matching company hats....

 

One thing Tip, when you start your new business, don't forget to hire at least one licensed CDL driver before you start or you won't be able to get the trucks back to the yard from the dealership.

Remember, you can't drive them yourself without having a CDL license.

 

There was a guy who posted in another thread that he was thinking of starting his own trucking business, and he didn't have a CDL, didn't know anything about the trucking industry......