The great freight recession 2023

New hires drive for less

 

Schneider recruiter in class the other day told me that now is the best time to become a truck driver and the trucking industry is at an all time high. Yet I'm hearing different on here

 

A recruiters job is to tell you what you want to hear!!!

 

There’s no better time to buy my truck, trailer, authority and all the fixings

Why be a lowly company driver when you can make millions with the package deal I’m offering, lol

 

-- L

 

You really answered your own question. There are companies out there that don't have to rely solely on spot market freight. They have a good amount of contracted freight. If they utilize broker freight, they have a good enough reputation and long standing relationships with those brokers to get preferential treatment over a certain population of owners and small fleet owners. They also have enough size to cover all the loads they may have available from one shipper for instance. They sometimes might take a loss on a spot market load, but their costs are different from the owners. Big companies get way better discounts on fuel, repairs and such so I imagine it makes it easier to run drivers. Don't get it twisted though, they aren't going to operate so cheap all the time that they lose money. A company as big as Schneider, Werner, or Swift has so many customers that they probably are almost entirely drop and hook. I much prefer that model as opposed to live loading. That's one of the biggest advantages of driving for a mega in my opinion.

 

megas get a gov. subsidy to hire and train in depressed area.

they've been milking that for years.

 

Yes they do.