Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

I see Chrysler is hiring here. They run about 600 Drivers. It’s a great job, compared to regular assembly line work. Pays $28.80 an hr. great benefits. My Dad drove there for 10 years in the 70’s. He’s one of the few that ever quit that job. Said he couldn’t stand it anymore. Too boring.

 

It is very reassuring and revitalizing morale to see that a manufacturing plant is hiring. Manufacturing - Production output is the foundation of economy whether it is in the realm of a blood thirsty greed of capitalism or in a Marxist philosophy. Either way, people must find in their lives a necessity to work, not only in terms of sustaining their living but also in the notion that it is the very most essential human function of their being, without which, they become vegetating zombies even before they die.
I am so glad to hear that Chrysler is hiring here on American soil.

 

Actually, I'm kinda sad that Chrysler is still in business.

 

That's only your emotional perception. How can it be bad for...maybe two townships in Michigan or Ohio to have a prospect of becoming employed?!

Let those people from Seattle or Portland abandon their encampments, come over and find stability in their lives, if the locals are not interested.

 

You're right, Joe.
That said, seems like the car companies have had you folks by the balls for multiple generations. And that can't be good.

 

Definitely all about perspective isn’t it.

There is always some of that grass is always greener stuff.

I know everytime I think about working for someone else I get the heebie jeebies.
Or working for a corporation. Really it doesn’t matter who you work for in the end unless it is a good relationship and somewhat rewarding it will suck. I always figure if I’m going to do it it needs to be a mindless job I can just do and go home. For 20+ years I was teaching technical or safety related aircraft stuff and it was hard to leave it at work especially if you change from one aircraft platform to the other. Hard not to bring it home. I was so fried on talking all day I hated talking when I was off work. That company has called me multiple times since I started driving asking me back and it paid near $120k. After being dicked around by them I just can not seeing walking back through the doors.

I have to stay close to home now and that has been slim pickings. I threaten to sale my stuff every day Lolol but it still sits here

 

after 7 weeks home , today i beginn working

 

Saw this on Reddit

 

Well, I can give you some insight into LTL, with the disclaimer that I left it over a year and a half ago so this might be slightly outdated.

But in my opinion, don't go P&D if you're wanting 8 hours max. When I worked at Estes it was exactly as you described, 14 hours living in a day cab with one puny little 30 minute break per day. Okay, 14 hours is an exageration, it was actually around 60-63 hours per week. That averages out to 12 point something hours each day, so not quite 14 although with the commute it was basically always 14.

It probably depends where you work but we had a guy at our barn who was from the Northeast, somewhere up in Jersey. He said up there (and this was summer of 2021 remember, when freight was booming nationwide) that they were only working 46-49 hours per week, which sounded like Heaven to me at the time (I would have killed to work 10 hours or less each day when I was doing local). But then again, he was in New Jersey, and you couldn't pay me enough to do local work anywhere in the Northeast. But I really don't think 8 hour days exist in the P&D world, unless things are really slow.

That said, with linehaul at my barn there was actually several linehaul runs that were only supposed to be 360 - 420 miles per day and those were bid runs, so in theory only 8 hour days. But then again, at my barn it was also "Hurry Up And Wait" for the linehaul guys and they NEVER got out on time because the dock was always behind. So they had to sit for free at the terminal for usually at least 1 hour past waiting time, sometimes 2.

If you do find a job that works you 50 hours or less each week that's local and home everynight, I would be interested in hearing what sector of trucking your in. I think I've seen on Reddit that some fuel hauling jobs are like that, but I don't want to haul fuel for various reasons.

 

I worked for a large company hauling shuttles for a very large manufacturer averaged 47 hours a week on 5 days money was good but couldn't stomach the corporate crap, meetings every month, and being stuck in a 65 mph day cab that they stuck driver facing cameras in right after I left. So I bought my own truck (for the second time being an owner operator) and got my own authority and now I am back doing the same exact run as power only, but I am in my own truck, no corporate bs, and make more money then the company drivers. The downside is..... Well you run your own business and never really get time off, but I wouldn't go back to working for the company unless something catastrophic happened. I am also buying my own end dump to do that in the summer so I don't have to run to bfe middle of north dakota every night of the year