Truckers Deserve more money

Assume all ownership costs and responsibilities, buy a truck and trailer, book your own freight, and you'll bring home 5k per week, no problem. Otherwise what you're saying is a company door slammer should make the same amount as a brain surgeon.

 

$5k per week would be a quick way to end the “driver shortage” in one hell of a hurry.

 

Yup, may for maintenance, tolls, fuel, IFTA, permits, insurance, registration, breakdown, etc... it's where the big money is. Oh, and those days where things go wrong so you're sitting and waiting, those are just losses, not company paid layover.

 

Yeah but in the real world you're competing with guys from third world countries to pay their drivers $500 a week in cash and the driver happy you have to be back in the old country starving to death in living in a mud hut

Any attempt to organize truck drivers has failed since he broke the teamsters Union in the late 70s with deregulation

 

Which company are you going with after graduation?

 

With the one that pays $5k a week !

 

Uhoh. Just wait til he realizes that driving is the easy part.

 

I can remember some days in the past well maybe for in the past running dump trucks when driving was the only part. We didn't even know what a log book was

 

Yeah, but the brain surgeon shortage will go through the roof.