Recent suspensions

I just want to add that ,,,I have suspensions on my record,,and all of them are( NON MOVING VIOLATIONS) and no one will touch me,, I am pissed

 

So you got pulled over and cited for not having vehicle insurance, then you didn't pay the fine or get insurance, continued driving without insurance, then got pulled over at least once more.... No it's not B.S.

In Texas they can tow your vehicle for that and rightfully so. If you run a red light and total my truck are you going to cut me a check for the damages? I'll answer for you, no you won't. It'll be exactly like the time when someone like you ran into me and I had to file under my own insurance because I pay for "uninsured motorist" coverage.

 

Don't let your car insurance laps, or you will go through what I am going through,,,no wonder there is a DRIVER SHORTAGE,,,maybe someone from the insurance company can go ,,hook to a trailer ,,and show us how it's done

 

No car insurance,,,your suspended 3 times,and one of those times ,I was reinstated the same day...That's California!!!!!!!

 

Did you apply with Western Express? Apply with the app on the website, not on the phone.

 

There is no driver shortage. There is a shortage of people willing to work for low pay & under bad conditions.

 

You are right there is no driver's shortage.

I disagree. These are the conditions of the industry and many drivers expect to be paid money to hold a steering wheel and point the truck in a direction to its delivery.

We lack professional drivers, this is where there is a shortage.

 

Yes! The companies have been spreading that garbage for a while.

 

There are EXACTLY as many professional, careful drivers as the pay and conditions attract. There isn't some specific number of professionals that OUGHT to be in trucking. The pay and conditions can only attract what they attract. And that's the number in trucking at the moment, or any other moment. The fact Chad in accounting or Clark in Sales wants to have a thousand more trucks on the road to meet some goal of his doesn't then mean the industry is short of drivers. Deciding to have unreasonable goals, with current pay and conditions, is what is behind the "driver shortage" talk. Ask a freight broker, there needs to be a thousand times more trucks and drivers available on every load. Why? Well, if there a thousand times more trucks/drivers calling about each of his brokered loads the broker/customer could pay much, much less for each load. Neither the accountant, sales guy, broker, driver, shipper, receiver has a preferred position. Neither of them is the Czar of Transportation. Every person decides what they want and what they will do to get that want met. The fact I want to be paid a lot, lot more and do a lot, lot less work for that pay doesn't suddenly generate a low pay emergency. The pay and the effort required is what it is and I have an opinion. There is no driver shortage. We have as many as the pay and conditions attract. That's how many we should have.

 

When the trucking companies and insurance companies backing them decide 3 weeks of casual inattention in a classroom and dusry yard is all that is necessary to keep accident/lawsuit claims to an acceptable level for some rando to get a CDL, we get what we see. There are too many trucking companies. There are too many drivers so customers and consumers get the lowest bidder type of results. Trucking has far, far less concentration than many other industries. The top 10 trucking companies account for a very small percentage of all freight moved by the industry. In other industries the big 4 producers sometimes account for 80% of the total output. ONE of the things that would increase pay and working conditions is if 30% of trucking companies went bankrupt or were bought by a handful of the mega companies. When it's too easy to start a company or become a CDL driver you are are always competing with a glut of others and you have little negotiating power. Drivers ought to be pushing to tremendously increase the time and effort needed to become the next newbie CDL holder. Watch the classing movie The Grapes of Wrath. When a million hungry "Oakies" flood the Californian fruit farms they are bidding, and under bidding the cost to pick fruit. If only 100 transplants from OK showed up to pick fruit they would not only be getting 3 cents per bushel of picked peaches.