Why are truck drivers not treated the same as other workers?

No I'm talking the normal driver. Alright.Half of these guys are making miserable wages don't try to cover it up.I really don't think you have been there.And I don't like people responding to my post that has no idea what I'm talking about.

 

Please learn to quote.

 

Settle down, easy boy no one was trying to give you a heart attack, I thought the macro thing was funny thought maybe everyone needed a laugh, sorry

 

But drivers are still required to accompany the freight when not driving, and equipment usually ... so that complicates the issue - just as the warehouse security guard must do the same thing essentially - and is still paid for the time.

So it's not really the drivers time ... and I won't even get into other issues such as extra job requirements (often during "free time") and idling restrictions which clearly draw the line from the average traveling worker.

 

As long as there are plenty of wide eyed newbes wanting to get into this racket, the wages will always be low.
Think about it, if drivers would wake up and refuse to work for these ridiculously low wages, the industry would have no choice but to improve.

 

Not making this a personal attack or comment, by WHY THE HELL would a driver, who knows the burdens imposed on us by this job, who understands the difficulties of trying to have a "normal" life and drive a truck, who has experienced the butt screwing of doing work for free, etc etc, why would you say any of us are over paid???
Did you ever think that the reason for the poor quality of today's drivers might be directly related to the poor pay, lifestyle, respect, and treatment of said drivers? We get paid peanuts, have no personal life, get no respect from anyone (even fellow drivers), and are abused constantly! Do you think this package is really going to attract or retain good, professional, safe drivers???

As to finding another job, yeah,that should be easy given the fact that the economy is in such awesome condition right now!!! And running away from the problem makes it go away??? As long we accept garbage, it will be long before that is all we can get!!!

 

Nice post buddy!!!!....

 

HAHA I appreciate the laugh. The Macro 100 was good to, might have to abbrieviate it to something like Macro 100 ESAD (Eat **it and DIE!!!)

 

I never said drivers are over paid.

I drove for Swift for 2 years. I know #### well how they treat drivers. Some things I never knew about, like they cheat you on miles by almost 15%, deducting lumper pay out of my paycheck when they gave me a dry van load (I was/am a flatbedder), etc.

But I knew what I was getting myself into for the most part - away from home weeks at a time, getting 26 cents a mile, layover, among other things assosiated with OTR and I hardly did any research. Of course I #####ed and griped about all that like everybody else does, but nobody twisted my arm to sign on with Swift.

It was my decision. So I just cursed at myself, sucked it up, paid off my debt, saved money and become an O/O, instead of demanding the Gov/unions take care of my problems. So yeah, you could say I run away from it. And it did solve my problems.

That was back in February. Didn't have any problem leasing on to a reputable O/O-only carrier, despite the best effort to destroy the economy by Obama and co. The same carrier is still hiring contractors every week. My friend just signed on with Landstar too.

Now if I did have a problem, I would have just gotten my own authority. There are always some ways out of whatever you get yourself into, most of the time. But you have to look for a solution and do something about it other than complaining. In a nut shell, that was the point I was trying to make. It doesn't alway work out, but try to do something before you complain.

Maybe I'm a little old fashioned. If I tripped over a rock, I'd spit on a wound and get up myself, instead of demanding someone giving me a hand and free medical treatment while suing the rock for being in my way.

 

Because many of these so called "drivers" are not worth the 3 cents a mile or whatever it is that they get paid!
As to the ones that are worth more and yet still accept the trash wages that the bottom feeders offer...I really can't speak to that because I don't understand why anyone would allow anyone else to treat them like a P.O.S. and pay them nothing for the effort!

In other words, If all I could do in the industry was drive for a bottom feeder...I'd find something else to do!

No... Bacause the crappy drivers came first and then it devolved from there.
Drivers used to stand up for themselves for the most part and companies responded to the drivers when they had an issue.
Then about twenty years or so ago you started seeing guys wearing sweats and going for weeks on end without showers and getting so stinkin' fat, lazy and stupid that they no longer had the pull that drivers once had because they no longer had much of an APPTITUDE for the job and didn't deliver perfomance they just delivered excuses!
These companies quickly figured out that someone with no respect for himself won't stand up for them selves when pushed and it just gradually went downhill from that point on and most of it is to be blamed squarley on these so called "drivers" that have the "who gives a ####" attitude about themselves and eveything around them!

You accept peanuts!
You allow them to keep you out for months at a time!
You take the abuse without so much as a whimper of protest...

And there you have it!

I'm the one that said it and I stand by it!