Yeah, think about that a second. Name a "high quality" rookie driver. I had driven farm trucks since I was 8, army trucks for 6 years, and 9 months of training and still had 2 accidents my first year on the road. I havent had a chargeable since 1986 and no accidents of ANY kind since 1998, but I did have 2 as a rookie. Insurance for a rookie is higher. A LOT higher (my trucking school I was paying 500 a month per truck because of it being a training vehicle - and that was 10 years ago). Trucking margins are pretty tight. A company has 2 course of actions to make money. 1) charge higher amounts for the freight which is going to get under cut by someone else willing to haul cheap freight, or 2) not pay their people those first 2 years. Those are the only 2 options. And really, it comes down to 1 option because the first one will leave you with no need to have drivers.
So yeah, where are you going to find these "high quality" drivers? Or are you suggesting that a company takes a loss for the first 2 years of a drivers career out of the goodness of their heart with the hopes that that driver will stick around a few more years? Average OTR company has a 95% turnover per year in drivers. This means if a company has 200 drivers today, a year from now 190 of those drivers will be gone. Its hard for a company to get behind being "driver friendly" with that kind of turnover. There are very few exceptions to that. So, yeah, they treat drivers like cattle. Because most of them are just a face and a number that will be gone in less than a year.
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Next time you are going down the hiway, you keep track of the number of trucks that have "drivers wanted" on the back and the number that dont.
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Schneider was union at one time.
The political climate and the way these companies are run, will prevent any union from coming in.
And they only hire 1/10 to 1/100 of the drivers with CDLs that knock on their doors: No shortage at all!
If your in the business of selling trucking school; you are always short applicants.
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That would be true, provided all the details of the contract were supplied, and explained very carefully and truthfully to the potential signer.
Unfortunately, this is not the case and it would therefore qualify as a dishonest and misleading contract;
And all by intent and design.
Again; all this hype and dogma that "we are all responsible for our own actions" is really just another self centered, and self righteous way of thinking that just allows the rest of us to be mislead by those who would (and do) take advantage of us.
Wake up.
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