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Parting ways with OOIDA

Discussion in 'ELD Forum | Questions, Answers and Reviews' started by tucker, Apr 2, 2018.

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  1. Apr 2, 2018 #1
    tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    I May have to let my membership expire.
    This months Landline magazine is full of drivers crying about elogs and having to follow the HOS for the first time in their life.
    Plus they bash the new drivers the Megas are training. Where do they think new drivers will come from? They should have had a lot of kids to fill the trucks but they were too busy working 22 hours a day.
     
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  3. Apr 2, 2018 #2
    Grumppy

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    Well, sorry to see your support go, but that's your prerogative...

    ........ and I kinda agree with them. I understand you don't, but I gotta say, that's gonna keep my support.

    Where are new drivers gonna come from? Companies that actually train drivers. Not from a company like the mega's that run warm bodies through the academy like hogs at a sale barn. A company that will actually train a decent, bright, eager person who wants to be a driver... not just somebody that changes his mind every time the moon changes & lives his life from one day to the next with no sense of responsibility or respect for others. Someone who actually understands what the trucking industry consists of. Not someone from California who is still smoking weed & drinking a beer in the sleeper every night.

    I have to say, Its not always the new drivers fault. A lot of it comes back to the mega's who don't train drivers. Once they teach them to wrap their hands around the steering, they stick'em in an auto & shove'em out there to run over every thing. Then wonder how come they cant hire enough drivers to fill trucks. If they'd train them properly to start with, they may get a few good drivers they don't have to replace every few days.
     
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  4. Apr 3, 2018 #3
    shogun

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    Tucker, you are the exception. Here are some interesting Landline Magazine subscriber facts.

    1. The average age of a Landline subscriber is 72. They have to keep working because they spent everything they owned on pills and coffee running coast to coast.

    2. The average subscriber drives 1200 miles a day, kills or maims 10 people a year in hit and run accidents, and fails 10 drug tests annually.

    3. The average subscriber whines on Landline while driving because they don’t have time to stop and respond. 22 hours a day driving means multi tasking.

    4. The average subscriber runs three log books, drives rates down, and is inefficient at trip planning. They run scales, don’t pre trip and never follow traffic laws.

    I won’t comment on new drivers with mega companies because they are without fault and we should aspire to be like them. I have a right mind to subscribe to Landline just so I can cancel, if I am not run over by an outlaw trucker first. Wish me luck.
     
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  5. Apr 3, 2018 #4
    tucker

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    A lot of that is probably true, but OOIDA could print stories on the true cost of operating a truck and how to figure the break even point.
    Maybe a story about how important health insurance is to have.
    Educate and help the drivers have a better life.
    But all it is is elog bad
     
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  7. Apr 3, 2018 #5
    woolybully35us

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    oida lost me as a member in 2016 when I was looking for ins. in 2015 I had a accident where a 4 wheeler ran a stop sign an totaled my truck. the company I had would not renew my policy, so I called oida being I was a member. they would not ins. me unless I told them what I received in the settlement for my truck. I told them it was none of their biz .
     
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  8. Apr 4, 2018 #6
    win-some-loose-less

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    Maybe the ata is a more suitable organization for you then, they seem to cater to the base of megas and the window lickers
     
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  9. Apr 4, 2018 #7
    buddyd157

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    i haven't renewed my membership since it expired in March (??) 2016.

    my reasoning is that retirement for me is not much far into the future, and could care less what they are up to. (in fact, they kept sending me their rag magazine and i asked them to stop at least a half dozen times before they did)...(more ads than content..pffttt)

    the only membership i keep up with is my AAA, gonnabe 40 years this October.

    i'll still be driving a 4 wheeler, and at my advanced age, will need road service to change a flat or jump start my battery, getting DMV services taken care of at their locations, over knowing how the trucking industry when i retire, is doing.
     
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  10. Apr 4, 2018 #8
    Timin770

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    If the problems were as bad as you claim, you wouldnt have to make stuff up
     
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  11. Apr 4, 2018 #9
    pearcetrucking

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    The ATA would love to see the elog mandate go away just like the articles the op quoted.
     
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  12. Apr 4, 2018 #10
    06driver

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    They will soon go the way of the dinasour. They have done some good in the industry. However they have also caused great harm (they are the original challenges to the bad actor rule).

    They are more obsessed with their ivory halls in Grain Valley and DC than actually fighting to educate their members. They hire career politicians that were voted out by their constituents as quid pro quo. They facilitate the very problem they claim to abhor

    Their magazine is full of shelf agrandizing lies.

    Save your 45 dollars. Send it to the DAV. Hell send it down the toilet. Better than to Grain Valley.
     
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