Well bless your heart. You went and got offended. Heck Edward I was joking with you.
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But for the record: you're not the only driver that cares about our company. And all guffball did was ask about the money. He never said that he'd do it ONLY for the money but y'all chose to jump down his throat about it. Let me point out that if you stopped getting paid I rather doubt you'd still be hauling loads. We all work for money, we have other reasons as well but we ALL like our paychecks.
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I do it for the money and groupies.
I also do it because I love it but don't tell certain people or he'll get his panties in another twist.
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I can't say whether or not swift is any good as i've never worked there, but theres no need to come on here and lie like that, we're not that stupid!
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I don't see money as a valid reason for becoming a trucker, because we don't make that much, especially if you average it out by the hour. If you love doing it, then money is a nice thing to have- it does put food in my mouth after all. But if you don't love it, you probably won't succeed, or at least will be grumbly and miserable all the time. There's an old cliche- do what you love and you'll never work again. We all need to earn a paycheck somehow, but earning it by doing something you can't stand doing is a lousy way to live. I know- I've been there. I worked production in a shoelace factory for 6 years. Bleh!
Trucking is hard. It's frustrating and stressful and lonely and a whole lot of other things, too. If you don't find anything to enjoy in it, you won't be able to handle all the bad. Too many get into this thinking it's easy work and big money because that's the image a lot of people have about trucking. Then they find out it's hard and your paycheck is actually quite tiny for the first year, and they say they can make more at McD's and still be with their families every night, and they walk away. Still owing a loan for truck driving school.
I've spoken with these drivers. They didn't do any research up front, they just believed some school recruiter who said they would make big bucks and jumped in. Trust me, folks, big bucks are not that easy to get. Sure, sometimes you'll hear a driver brag about making 100K+ last year or somesuch. I bet most of the time it's pure BS, though there may be a few rare specialty cases where someone did make that much. For the first year, most of us seem to agree 30K is reasonable, at least from the threads I've seen on it. I personally have never made more than 40K. Maybe this year I will
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