That's it. I'm done. It's over. Ya'll can keep that OTR garbage.

Guess it is over your head driver. Since you never made any.

 

Try trucking smart. Keeping low OOR. Getting good fuel milegae. Proper planning. Not thinking like a steering wheel holder, etc..

 

I don't blame you one bit Biscuit, good luck on your new job.

I don't know how anyone would put up with working for one of those big OTR outfits, being treated like dirt, being out on the road for weeks at a time away from family, living in a truck day in and day out, working for peanuts. Unfortunaly, there is a lineup of new drivers willing to replace the ones like Biscuit leave, so it will never get any better

I am lucky, I have never and would never work for one of those OTR outfits, I have always been an owner operator and I have always been home when I want, I work my 4 or 5 days a week and be home for the weekend, and if I do a longer run it is because it is my choice not because I was forced to do it.

 

yeh - you're just too business savvy for me, driver, I mean, uh, "business owner." actually, the things you listed are employee decisions, NOT business decisions. I was well aware of out of route miles, fuel economy and proper planning (and always had a lot better fuel mileage and less OOR miles than other drivers, I mean, uh, business owners.) maybe I'll go pick up cans on the side of the road and turn them in for loose change. will that make me a business owner?

 

If all drivers felt that way, Their companies would lose and jobs would be lost. Now what did you say happened to your driving job?

 

if all drivers watched their fuel mileage, OOR miles, and had proper trip planning, they would lose jobs?? seems like it would be the opposite. what happened to my job? I quit because I wasn't going to sit for 2 days with no load and no compensation for my time. then they lost their main outbound freight customer and they went from 30 flatbed trucks down to 7.

 

Actually, yes it does. And there are plenty to pick up.

 

well, ifn' you see me on the side of the road, toss a can my way. look out bill gates, here I come!!

 

Yep yu basically summed it up in a nut shell!!! I am glad i am local and not OTR anymore!!!

 

You got workmans comp in case one of those tossed cans beans you in the head?