Drivers, this is what companies think of you.

From looking at the pay scales I see here and on line I have to agree. I am not a driver yet but contemplating attending school...I am a victim of the economy and need a job. I would like to see drivers compensated more for the long hours, frustrations, and being away from home for long periods of time. Just my 2 cents.

 

all i have to say about your last sentence is : you could have tried to word that better to be less offensive.

 

Your right Sweezly1 and I apologize. I wish everyone would honestly evaluate the trucking industry, and quit working for peanuts. You are human beings, not door mats. I mean c'mon, do the #### math. If you are going to drive OTR, the average pay is .35 cpm. Newbees will start between .26 to .30 cpm. The top pay is .40 cpm, if you are lucky to get it. You will average maybe 2000 miles per week. Some weeks less than that. There is alot of downtime you won't get paid for. Even the most frugal drivers will spend a minimum of $100 per week to live on. After taxes, health insurance, meals, etc., there won't be much left. You'll be doing alot of work for free out there. It's a crappy life. Sleeping in a metal box in some piss soaked parking lot. No family or social life. Working for chump change.
The pendalum of life goes back & forth. Right now the economy is bad, so the OTR outfits have the upper hand. When the economy rebounds, They'll be begging for drivers again. All the smart guys will drop the trucking industry like the bag of dirt that it is.

 

well , i own my own truck, have my own contracts and have a driver that i pay very well . i happen to sleep in a "nice metal box" and shower every day , i happen to have a shower in my "metal box" . its not always been easy , but its what makes my living. sorry trucking left you so sour.

 

I'm doing great now. i have a good federal job (DOD) making $30.00 per hour. Im home every night, weekends off. Spending lots of time with my kids. I drove trucks locally 7 years before this. I don't miss it a bit.

 

dude, would you please go somewhere else? nobody wants to read another one of your posts about how you don't miss trucking, and yapping about this supposed "$30 an hour federal job" you allegedly have.

I'd like a hand job from hayden panetierre, but I don't see it happening.

 

Just trying to educate the masses. Like they say, it's useless to throw pearls among swine.

 

Why are you reading and posting on a trucking forum???

 

he never can answer that question. I guess it's just something he does in his spare time when he isn't at work at his $30 an hour federal job.

 

Stranger, my Daddy was a coal miner, and his father before him. The scenario you describe can be attributed to any profession, especially now. However, I choose to be the modern day coal miner, or mule, in spite of my education.

Sometimes a career choice is not about the almighty dollar, but rather, about how one chooses to live each moment of his or her precious life. Some seem to learn this the hard way, and end up there in old age, or never at all. Others figure it out from the start.