How Long at Your Current Company

I don't do internet polls, but I have been where I am for almost 4 years now, and my company has a turnover rate of about 26% at last time I heard the numbers. We'd like to get that down some since that still calls for about 150 new hires and trainees a year.

 

i do not do internet polls either, as there is usually always a 'selection" left out.................and when there are "all" the selections available, i still don't vote.


that being said, i'm at the same location i was at since october of last year, its just a new company that took over the contract. so, its been nearly 3 months for me.

i think truck drivers are like car salesmen................we both switch jobs frequently..............

 

gotta kind of love the laws protecting national guardsmen/women. but not including the year that I have been gone already. I was on my second year with them. always looking for a new job, but I think that it was just a case of the grass is always greener on the other side. actually coming to this forum and also being here made me realize how good I had it with my company. now the way that the national guard laws figure in is that to the employer it is like I never left. so when I return I will be into my 3rd year with them.

 

The job I was just recently laid off from I was there just about 2 years, almost zero turnover...the one before that was 16 years

 

Keep in mind I am not a truck driver. I am just a mean old log witch

 

A trucker is not unlike a migrant farm worker. We go to the carrier who has the most freight and the best deal. When that flash in the pan is over, we're looking for the next.

Some drivers have more patience, and will stick with a company, even through the times of little freight and compensation cuts, but most will cut and run.

 

I have switched jobs a lot since i started driving. Most promise the world but deliver nothing and end up getting treated like crap. I work hard and only ask to be treated with respect and a little understanding. The company I am currently with has been the best so far (lol and that is like 6 trucking companies). First company I was with was for a full year (I suggest all drivers stay with their first company for a year) Then the others were like for 10,5,11 months and another for a 1 year. I personally am not going to stay with a company that does not treat people with respect, I could care less about the repercussions of so many companies because I know I am a decent person and hard worker, Most important I treat people with respect. So I always knew I would be able to get a job somewhere. And that's what I told every one of them I am looking for a company that treats drivers well and will show me the same respect I show them.. I also told them if they can't do that then don't plan on me staying because that is not how I work.

Well again it took me along time but I am pretty sure I found a good company. I just prey they don't get bought out or something as such because that's pretty much what happens to most of the good ones then they go to crap.

 

6.5 years. I'm getting ready to leave because I am moving. I will miss this job