$20/hr minimum

Neither is mcdonalds,walmart but they get paid more.Truckers deserve more then a highschool kids salary.We work well over 40 hrs a week which means we should receive more per mile after 40 hrs.Staying out a month or longer should compensate for something for these OTR guys.I don't care how easy trucking is,some would dispute that.But driving trk is still a job and deserve more then chump change.

 

Kids working at McDonalds dress better and wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

 

Next time home, go into your local McDonalds and talk to the manager. Tell them you want a job, and you want to work 61 hours every 7 days, and make time and a half after 40 hours, and a guaranteed minimum gross of $1,200/wk, along with the full benefits package. Let us know how that conversation goes.

 

Why? So I can be forced to give it to a group of idiots who will then fund the campaigns of other idiots whose policies I don't agree with?

 

Shortage, Websters defines Shortage as: 1. a deficiency in quantity, 2. the amount of such deficency.

Here's the shortage, it's a shortage in drivers who want to work and not sit at home collecting an unemployment check equal to or at least 75% of what they made driving a truck. Tell you what, if I didn't have a work and moral ethic, I would gladly accept 75% of my years wages + food stamps to sit on my arse at home, playing video games for 10 hrs a day and do nothing. It's nice gig if you can get it.

I know companies that are always looking for drivers and can't find them. Why, because they don't want to work. Last time my boss put an ad out for drivers, he had 200 applicants in three days for two positions. Of those 200, they narrowed it down to 30. Of those 30, 10 failed the roadtest. The remaining 20, 7 said they weren't interested when they found our starting pay was "only" $15.50/hr for a 10 to 13 hr day on avg., they didn't want to work that many hours. We do 100% drop/hook, but they didn't want to work that many hours. They finally hired 2, and 18 mos. later only 1 remains. The other one slammed a 20' container into a loading dock, shifting the entire load of beer out the back, taking out the door and destroying 1/2 the load.

 

At $0.34 per mile and averaging 2500 miles per week you should be making $850 before taxes. This is an OTR entry level figure. Drive well, get paid well. Try to get that at McDonalds. With Obamacare very few places will give people 30 hours a week, let alone 40hrs at any decent pay rate. Sure, blame it on the "big" carriers, but I would guess that most people that see $20/hr probably want unions and voted for Obamacare. Not trying to get into politics, but sometimes it's reality. Reality right now is that Obamacare is affecting much more that most want to admit. Be thankful that even entry level drivers can afford a company med insurance policy on the 34cpm wage that this industry is paying.

Oh, and if you can't live off of $850 a week, maybe your fiscal cliff is dangerously close too........

 

I wouldn't interested in any driving job that only paid a paltry $15.50/hr either. We call that type of rate... cheap labour around the Greater Toronto Area..

 

i thought that was the best part of this post as well. but they arent idiots, they are evil geniuses. theyve been knowingly constructing the financial demise of this country for decades, all so they can be rich themselves.

op...can you tell me WHY in your little scenario that union workers deserve MORE than non union workers? thought the entire purpose of the union was to give the workers a FAIR wage? if we are gonna live in your little utopian wonderland, doesnt everybody deserve equal wages according to their skill set? what a friggin crock.

 

I believe ther is a driver shorage and it's a big shortage at that. I don't believe there is a shortage of steering wheel holders and that is the reason wages are so cheap. Nuff said..