Truckers Complain

This obviously has to be a O/O that refused that load... $1.33 a mile... He probably had hassles at the shippers or consignee.... So he decided that it wasn't paying enough for his time. I probably would have refused it as well depending on who the shipper or consignee is... Also a slow freight area would be cause for refusal....

Most company driver's are at the companies will & will go and do whatever they are told... O/O will not! I've refused loads paying close to $2 a mile... only because I've had history with either the consignee or shipper... Then decided that $2 a mile wasn't worth my time to go back into those ratt hole places.

Rule #1 in trucking.... Just because you HEARD something doesn't always constitute that it is correct...

Rule #2 in trucking.... Anything you've heard... or been told... forget about it now... You'll learn & understand as you gain miles under your belt.

 

I agree with most of what is said, but some O/O's espeically the newer ones don't realize one thing. Many times one or two short hops will put him/her in position for a longer and better paying run especially if they are leased to a company.Granted some shippers and recievers are a bigger pita than others, but every trucking company whether its a megacarrier or a one truck operation is in business to do one thing and that is to make money. Knowing what it cost per mile to operate your truck and yes that inculdes paying yourself is esstenial. Agreed FL and the NE aren't the greatest on getting outbound freight, but if you have a good dispatcher or broker they will keep you moving.

 

a company driver? are you sure you're not the lollipop king of imaginationland?

 

mabey he drives for willy wonka .... Straight out of the chocolate factory..... Dang driver ya know chocolate is the only thing that has not been affected by our economy..... The more stressed and depressed folks get the more chocolate they eat.

 

Mmmm....chocolate!!!

 

I get paid percentage, on good days I make between $200-$250. Best day $307 and local home every night and weekends.. This past month 8/09 I grossed over $1000 every week.. Now that the colder months are coming, and work will fall behind, it will be more like $500-$600 week. But again home every night and weekends..

 

Factor in too that the $800 quote is the linehaul, not what it pays to the rig. Tie yourself up over a load thats not paying? No thanks.

 

i agree with ya smokey,i too am sick of working my arse off for a measely 800.00 BI-WEEKLY,seeing the same ole people,doing the same old thing,yes,im a newbie,im going too stevens for my training,you all can say whetever ya feel ya have too,but some of us were'nt born into trucking,i was,i just chose too raise my family before going after my dream of trucking,i know its not all peaches and cream,but just like life,its what you make of it.
you have too work hard for what you want,cant expect things too happen overnight,what would be nice is too see some of you exp. truckers give some REAL advise on how too make the best of it,newbies have been stereotyped by the influx of "steering wheel holders"some of us will make truckdrivers out of ourselves,others just want too be steering wheel holders

 

But Captian Clueless has it all figured out
My ignore list gets longer and longer . . . . .