What made you leave the trucking industry for good?

Oh I agree I was just saying how some could do better than others but they are always worry about when it will end.

 

It just amazes me how some people figure that all small business people are rich, when in fact the opposite is true. Some folks are just plain clueless, and choose to remain that way.

Sort of like the folks who come on here and talk about how wonderful some of these bottom feeder companies are. No matter how much truth is told to them, they just can't see it. Until they experience it for themselves. And sometimes even then they aren't bright enough to see how bad things are there. . .

 

I see yor point, I think your point of view is correct, the public does not have a clue about truckers, only that thier world comes to an end if that have a rain check because the freight did not come. I think at large the public lazy and theytake... take ...take... everything in sight, with out reguards of the truckers who make there world what it is.

 

now i got to add a little to this, trucking is many things to many people and all that you guys are aying may be true and probably is BUT as i have said before drivers make the business the business does not make the driver you can take all kinds of abuse in this business or you can refuse ro take it , i choose to refuse to take it and i don't period. now i no there have been time when that attitude has caused me problems more then a few but i don't do attitudes or abuse there have been a few that have give me problems but they only tried it one time never twice sooner or later you have to draw the line and i don't mind telling you i have knocked more then one off the dock.

but they learned a good lesson, im in the business to make money not take abuse, abuse does not pay much so why bother and by god if i can do it so can anyone else you just have to make a stand and insist on doing it right ans it has a lot less agravation and pays a lot more .

the driver makes the business the business not not make a driver, but we all do what we as individuals we think best thats why it is called trucking there are those that can and there ae those that can't, thats just the way it is and always has been.

best of luck to all. southernpride

 

This is probably going to do me in. I am one of the last holdouts of paper logs at Hill Bros. I know e-logs is gonna happen for me SOON.

I run a dedicated relay. It's got variable consignees, and the most common one has me at 713 miles a day. With a live unload. You see what I mean. I have a fast truck, I run in KS at the speed limit or a bit better, but the backhaul is heavy, and the Flint Hills slows a truck down. I often nap along the backhaul, especially during the 4am-545am time. E-logs will make that impossible, with the live unload. I posted elsewhere that I was interested in getting into training, as I think I've got something to offer to female drivers wanting a solo trucking experience. But if not that, what?

I was in the taxi business for 22 years. Can't go back, as they've automated the dispatch and it doesn't pay anymore.

Yeah, the future is uncertain....

 

The future is very certain...get with a owner operator...and forever seperate yourself from the A B C companies....

 

I appreciate your response, but Hill Bros isn't an ABC company per se...

I'm a lease operator with the knowledge of owner operators with their own authority to disapear overnight, ask you to wait for a week or two to get paid or whatever. I can't work for the $.35-$38 cpm that the small o/o is offering on a 1099. To better myself would consist of purchasing a truck, which i would be loath to do, as I don't see myself parked on the shoulder with the triangles out and the hood up.

I guess that you are in a good situation. But it's not the be all and end all of advice to other drivers.

 

I don't know about 'good situation'...just focused...

I realize time and health and energy is a limited quantity, so I'm just trying to make the most of the time, health and energy I do have, to make something happen...

What I do today, will effect how I'm living 5 years from now...
In other words, let's say 5 years from now I'm living in a cardboard box behind a alley...and am given a chance to travel back in a time machine and make better use of my time and resorces...well thats what I'm gonna try to do this time...

Another key...if you put yourself around successful people...they won't allow you to fail...