Is every large Carrier Lousy or the driver attitude!

Thank you Deepwater for that post , just getting ready to start out in this industry and thats pretty much how my mind is set on .

 

I love how with only 1 year you think you already have it all figured out. For every 1 driver who has a positive thing to say about FFE there are several more who will tell you what a crappy outfit they have become. I'm 3rd generation at this, I have a perfect work record including working with convicts (both male/female and juvenile/adult) and have never ran across a company as mismanaged and treating their workers so poorly.

glad you had a good experience with them, but don't think it's typical.

 

In the REAL WORLD deep you will find it is better to give people the REAL truth about a company than to give them a sugar coated version running down the drivers "attitude" or "work ethic"? Sorry that sounds more like somebody interested in recruiting telling how it's "just work". Decent companies don't continually screw over drivers by "not getting their receipts" for several weeks in a row, they don't keep screwing the driver over by refusing to get a truck in the shop even after electrical problems on the unit causing late pickups and deliveries. I could go on and on with the BS that FFE pulled on me (documented in my paperwork as well as reported on this very forum as the events occurred) and events I know of from seeing QC messages to other drivers.

Being 3rd generation goes to knowing how these companies operate (both the good and the bad) FFE is and will continue to be a bottom feeder unless there is a paradigm shift in their office personnel. Hell according to some of their top people "it'd be a great company if they didn't have to have drivers"

 

Ahhhh to be young again and really *enjoy* trucking. Just absolutely tickled pink to be in that big truck...sure beats working don't it. Hand me any type #### or screw me silly and pay me as little as possible.....as long as I'm trucking I don't care.

 

Research says that only 1 in 20 redeem rebate coupons. Does this mean that rebates are bad?

People rarely speak up when things are going good.

You, like myself are in the "new" minority. The majority of "old timers" are used to averaging 3000 miles plus a week. Three years ago I was in that majority, and 3500 miles a week was my goal.

The majority (not all) of new guys/gals are coming into this field with huge piles of debt. They're not interested in "just getting by".

I can paint a turd pink. Will it taste better, or make your meal more enjoyable?

I like to give the guys a chance to read the information themselves, and sort through the BS. I have both good and bad things to say about the companies I have worked for. It's a mixed bag on my part.

But I do not mind calling a POS company what it is.

 

There are many ways to respond to Deepwater's post. I'll say this, I think this board is a microcosm of the country right now. Everything must be negative, and if you have any thing positive to say or disagree with the "negative people" you just get shouted down and ridiculed as "not knowing what you are talking about", "living in a fantasy world", "out of touch" etc etc etc. Just turn on any cable "news" channel or talk radio, it is all negativity, fear, hate and blame. Much like this website.

Lonewolf did a wonderful job of illustrating my point. Deepwater asked a pretty simple intended to provoke, what I assume was, thoughtful answers and instead he gets Lonewolf's reply. First we get the "I love how with only 1 year you think you already have it all figured out" remark. Not that he said he had it all figured out, just his experience with them was a positive one. (I even worked for one of the companies that get crushed on a daily basis on this website and while I had some issues, it was not nearly as bad as the axe grinders make it out to be.) Then we follow that up with the resume "I'm 3rd generation at this, I have a perfect work record including working with convicts (both male/female and juvenile/adult)..." how this relates to the op I still don't know. (especially the working with convicts part..relevant how?). Then my favorite, the "In the REAL WORLD" quote, this goes back to my original thought, person A has a different (positive) experience then person B's (negative) thus person A must be wrong and not living in the "real world". What is the "REAL truth"? One had a good exp and the other had a bad one, that is the "REAL truth".

 

Using your own quote/numbers. One good experience, one bad...same company.

The REAL truth is, there is a 50/50 chance you'll get bent over by a company. And it's up to you to decide how deep they shove it.

Personally....my sphincter is one way.