Family Friendly Trucking

This may not be answer your looking for, but it is the truth as i experienced it.
There are no family friendly companies! The entire trucking industry operates on a profit. Family issues get in the way of making money. That's why trucking companies don't care about drivers or their families. If trucking companies could make money without drivers they would fire us in a minute!
There are a few, very few, companies that care more than others. But even the best still has limits.
The trucking industry is a vicious, cut throat, dirty business! They don't care about their employees, their families, profit is the only thing that matters.
Drivers come and drivers go. If you don't make the company any money, they will replace you. I'm sorry if that's not what you want to hear but i don't believe in sugar coating the truth. This industry is not family friendly! It only destroys families. I bet if you were to do a survey, over half of all drivers have been divorced because of this job.

 

Well Merlot, I guess that would depend on what your idea of "family friendly" is? I would agree with some of the statements I see here. Trucking is an extremely hard career on the family. I have seen this industry destroy many good marriages and I think it would be very hard to find a perfect fit. I don't know many NM trucking companies or what kind of trucking your husband has been doing but I have worked for many trucking companies in my area and I would have to say that the most family friendly one I know of is Dart Transit in Eagan, MN. I worked there for 7 years and have seen many "family" truckers succeed.

 

I'm sorry. I wish I could be more positive!

 

Merlot, some women just don't get it. Their all caught up in the "romance" of being a trucker's wife, riding around the country with him, etc. And no one is exempt. This is an absolute true story. My ex-dispatch partner married one of my drivers. Now she was a great dispatcher and knew all the pitfalls and they were (still are) a great couple. But she had never really been out in the truck with him on a long run. So right after they get married I get them a load from St. Louis to Los Angeles (so they can go on their "honeymoon" to sunny California). I tell him "Richie, I know the both of you pretty well. You won't make it to Kingman, AZ before your begging me for a load home so you can get her out of there". he made it all the way to Albuquerque, NM before I got the phone call.

 

Trucking is a business that moves freight from one place to another. A driver is one part of the machine that does this. If for some reason the driver is the weak link, he will be replaced immediately. If company A does not move the freight in the order that the shipper wants, company B will, with a different driver.

Drivers are a dime a dozen right now. If a driver is not willing to wreck his life and marriage for the freight, then the company will find someone else without thought to the well being of anyone except the shipper and their company. If a driver dies in the drivers seat, the company will rush the paramedics to get the dead driver out the passenger door so a new driver can get in the seat and go on down the road. That's the way it is.