Is that there are so many bad trucking companies out there, that there's people still working for them. I'm now working for a good one. In which I'm going to double my efforts into doing a good job for them. I will even say thank you to a shipper that has me wait. Why are those not so desirable companies still in business? Why hasn't some enterprising ex company driver started his or her own company and treat drivers half way descent without giving away the store and compete against them? Not all large companies are undesirable most are but not all.
why would someone mention that they work for a good company, yet not mention the name? Let's examine that.
So after 7yrs of working for all bad companies and just now working for a "good one" you can't figure out why people JUST STARTING out are working for bad ones? Also after 7yrs you've just now started thanking the shippers? Boy you're really settin the woods on fire ain't you! Maybe in another 7 you can become one of those enterprising drivers and hire all of us poor ignorant drivers. These kinds of threads are better than pay per view.
But they are not the same people working very long . Look at the Safestat history of any of the bottom feeder companies . Their number of trucks and drivers is either less or the same as 2 years ago . So what happens with all the thousands of newbies they run through orientation ?
Because its impossible to match the rate the mega carriers can haul for. Unless quality of service is a factor in the decision, shippers will go with the lowest rate. The big guys get volume discounts on equipment, fuel and can usually underbid the little guy.
Not a good way to post, in my opinion. i mean do you really think that many people are going to be gunning for your job if you divulge your good company? We can just drop our lives and uproot and immediately move to where this awesome opportunity(as if there are no others) is. If your company was so good, they would limit the number of hirees because they wouldn't need to hire as many unless they were expanding in which case all these new drivers wouldn't be competition to you. Spill it.
Because trucking is cannibalistic in nature. Even on this board many feel they have earned the right to freely insult those who they deem as their subordinate. If truckers are willing to do that to their fellow truckers, why are we surprised when companies do the same? And we may have this image of truckers being these "no nonsense, I'll will not take any carp from anyone" but DAC has done a pretty good job of weeding out those independent types while the CDL mills have been profiting at creating their replacements. This hasn't improved the average trucker overall but it has flooded the driver market with cheap steering wheel holders fighting and competing with each other to keep the truckers wages down. How many businesses in the country could exist if their turnover rate was that of trucking? You have students enter the trucking industry at one end, and at the other end you have veteran truckers being pushed out of the trucking industry. And if they can keep truckers fighting with each other, if they can get O/O's to haul the freight for 80 cents a mile they will do it. If they can put a trailer on a rail car they will do it because the bottom line is profit. You get old and can't pass a physical, you get to the point where you can no longer sit for hours on end. Or maybe one day you realize that you will never be allowed to drive enough hours to work your way out of poverty. You might realize that you are in an industry where drivers will never stand up for themselves in fear of not making their next mortgage payment. Trucking is what you make of it. A company is what you make of it. And if money is your only motivation for driving then your motivation is the same as the penny pinchers in the office that want you to shut your truck off in N. Dakota when it is 20 below zero. If money is the motivation for getting into trucking in the first place, I doubt these new drivers will stick with it long enough to land a decent driving job.
Two reasons: 1) Lots of people out of work, trucking companies (mostly bad ones) need drivers because they can't the drivers they have. If someone is down-and-out and a company or O/O is offering them $25,000 to drive a truck with no bennies...they are going to take that job because it beats sleeping on a picnic table. It's hard to blame someone for taking a crappy job in order to survive...but at the same time, people who take these jobs are bringing down the rates/wages of drivers who want more than 3 hots and a cot. 2) Average age of truckers in this country is mid-50's. Alot of these people have no other job skills and are too old to upgrade. So they are in effect stuck behind the wheel. Because they will be undercut by a company that craps all over their drivers and the drivers willingly take it because they have no other options, they want to watch sunsets and rainbows, drive a left-lane big red rooster cruiser, or they are just too dumb/desperate to know otherwise. Name me one "desirable" large company? This ought to be good...
