Looking for anything right now temporarily

Try doing my job, and I work for a lot less.

Sure, you have a problem with how to work, not working itself. You expect too much in an industry where people need to work smarter and not harder.

You are complaining all the time and setting demands when you have nothing to bring to a company, other than meat in a seat will not get you to find a company that is good.

Good companies, the really good one do not advertise; they are very selective, and a driver has to prove themselves by taking crap work unless the driver selects their own work.

SO I have to ask, what is the purpose of posting all these posts when you don't want to take the advice of the people who know what needs to be done?

 

Has crappy home life but is too lazy to leave. Oh, woe is me.

 

How is a sleeper with HVAC & electricity and $19k in your pocket after working a year worse for you than nothing in your pocket & living on the street? You are waiting to do anything until you get a guarantee that job turns you into a middle class homeowner? My brother & then my mother gave me a couch to sleep on for a year if I was home on weekend. The truck was my home. I made $15k per year with 3 college degrees in that field. 1 year of trucking for 40 CPM with no home left me with new clothes & boots, paid off CDL school loan, and $16k in my pocket.

You have decided the minimum lifestyle while working requires lots of expensive bills but seem also eager to live on the street with zero of those things. I only made more than $48k per year for less than 10 years of my whole career. I think my max year was $78k once. Your "minimum spending" is far more important to your financial issues than your income. I didn't wait until I got a $78k job to spend wisely. I started that with my 2nd paycheck. I'm not the first person in the thread to notice you are looking for an excuse to be homeless & repeat NPR talking points. It's more like you never wanted any lead on a job. You just wanted to justify to yourself why you are going to be homeless again. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." Janitors & secretaries retire as millionaires & their pay is often much less than the catered & massaged jobs you demand. How's that plan working out? You can't change your life if you refuse to change your attitude. You are throwing away sincere help. Maybe you think you deserve to be homeless.

What part of California are you in?

 

Cutting down trees with a table spoon is hard work. That doesn't make it smart or effective. Should "Spoon Jacks" make more money than lumber jacks?

You're making excuses. "I went to college & got a degree in Complaining & English Literature & $98k in debt" and it didn't make me a homeowner in the suburbs like commie professors PROMISED ME". That's what your minimum requirements, excuses, arguing against working sound like. Did you speak to ANY employer today looking for a better job? Since we are not meeting your high expectations I assume you are trying other approaches. Are you? Really, are you? You have everyone's permission to be as homeless as you want. It's a choice. It's your choice. Every parent or teacher has seen kids who will not do the work & them complain about the results they received. That's a choice. .ake better choices. Lots of help & experience is here on the forum & being offered to you. I'm sure when you describe your efforts here to others your version will claim we were all trying to keep you down, which is a lie. You are keeping you down & your story is a cope. What harm comes from ditching your dad with a job that provides a sleeper & money and also gives you lots of distance from your family trouble? You are fighting to stay in a situation. Your "jail cell" is locked from the inside.

 

Except pay your dues to earn it, according to you.

How's that been working out for you?

But potential employers don't, that's why you have to prove yourself to them and show them that you're worthy of what you consider "proper compensation."

You've got this completely backwards. How seriously you take your job will determine how much they're willing to pay you.

 

This statement right here is your biggest problem.

Nobody owes you anything. There are no participation trophies in real life. Grow up.

If you want a lot more and the top paying jobs YOU and only YOU will have to EARN it!

You are competing for jobs with drivers that have a steady work history (not job hopping) and no tickets. You already stated you can't drive a manual transmission.

To be brutally honest you want the top paying jobs but you don't bring anything to the table that qualifies you for them.

Best of luck to you.

 

How old are you? You seem very young.

I have more tolerance and patience than probably anyone on here, maybe anyone you know, so it makes me uniquely qualified to talk to you and point some things. So I want you to pay attention.

You are not a very patient person. You mentioned all of that material stuff that you want.....house, SUV, semi truck of your own etc. All of which are very expensive. It doesn't matter about how much cpm you make. To get all of those things requires grinding for years. I'm not sure why you think making 60 cpm will all of a sudden make you well off. If the company doesn't have the ability to keep you busy, then that high cpm is meaningless. You say you got to demand the money you want, why do you think you deserve it? Sure loud talkers get rewarded in our society, but in trucking, your actions get rewarded the most. If you paid attention to anything I've said on here, then you'll know my formula for success in this industry:

Availability + Reliability + Adaptability = Longevity.

I've seen some of your posts in previous threads. From everything you've put out there, you've done nothing to qualify under any of these. You're not being available to companies who will hire you. Strike 1.

You admitted in another thread that when you worked for WEL Companies you were late on loads repeatedly. You also admitted that you're incapable of making money if you have to run east of Kansas City. Well.....the heaviest demand for solo freight is in the east. What's a company supposed to do with that? That makes you unreliable, and also not adaptable, which segues to my next point. If you are only waiting for your so-called high paying company to come along, rather than adapting to the fact that you have 2 tickets, job hopping issues, and a bad attitude, you'll be waiting til Judgement Day.

Oh by the way, while you're waiting for this perfect company to come along, your money is getting depleted. You ain't going to make 300 bucks begging forever, folks will start to remember your face and tell you to #### off.

Also, while you're waiting for the perfect company, that's more time out of the truck that you're wasting. Then you'll either have to take a refresher, or worse, start all over.

Oh yeah, all that material bull #### that you want, until you're willing to take that long hard road, it's only going to elude you. You want it all in a hurry, and there's no fast way to get any of that. Anybody that's made good money, all had to deal with BS. I did, as well as all of us.

So......now that I've got that off my chest, people ain't gonna give you what you want because of your life story. Nobody cares. This world ain't a nice place. One has to learn to like the taste of #### in order to advance in life. You're asking all of these companies for a job, they're not asking you. So your opinions about the pay and all that don't matter. If you have any companies that'll take you, get the ball rolling on your dreams. Don't come back on here fussing til you do just that.