What's the most lousy recruiting slogan or add you've seen for a Trucking Job?

USXpress had an ad in the little magazine for lady truckers on one side and teams on the other. They were going on about their autoshift and saying they were hiring women. The indication was that women would prefer autoshift over standard. I was first amused by it, then a little irritated.

Who says I can't handle a standard? It's all I've ever driven in a big truck. I thought it was a little presumptuous and patronizing on their part to insinuate I can't handle a standard just because I happen to have indoor plumbing.

The other ad I find amusing is the one with the truck covered with duct tape. Each time I see that, I'm thinking...now THAT's a real driver there!

 

How about TMC's "Destination Excellence". Hopefully the road to Excellence doesnt have a toll on it otherwise you are going to have to turn in the reciept to get reimbursed.

 

Its not really lousy or anything but Celadon used to run an ad apparently for team drivers with two people, one was a woman and the other I could never tell one way or the other. Was it husband or wife or wife and wife? That ad always made me wonder....

 

Indoor plumbing....
I actually ran into alady who drove for them and she told me she never drove a standard in her life. I just laughed and walked away thinking how in the world could anyone get a CDL and not know how to drive a standard...

 

That would mean they strapped him/her to the front of the trailer.

 

Is that a bad thing for a Crete driver?

 

How about the back of those trailers that read "Reflecting Quality" ?
If you're behind that trailer, it is reflecting YOUR rig!!!!
Sooooooo, it's saying that YOU'RE rig and YOU are "QUALITY"
Sooooooo, I say thank you everytime I am behind one of those trailers.