so frustrated!!

It should get better for him but you should never count on a set amount of money coming in each month.

 

Have him stick it out for a little while and at least get six months in. Sometimes you will have bad weeks back to back as it just happened to me but the next week made over $1000.

Give it some time and he really needs a better truck that is if Swift has them.

 

It takes time to get going in trucking. A driver really shouldn't expect good paychecks for at least 6 months. It might happen, but don't expect it. And a new driver usually gets the worst truck around. After all, why would any company give a new truck to an inexperienced driver?

Recruiters and schools talk up how much money someone can make at trucking, but it is a load of hooey. This is not a well paying career, especially for a fellow with a family. Yet too many don't find that out until after they have a school loan and a lot of time invested.

Just as an FYI, I've been trucking for 5 years, and have never grossed over $40,000 yet. For a first year, $30,000 is a reasonable expectation.

 

Ok. The brakes going out on the truck is a bit over the top. But why did the trailer brakes catch on fire? I'm not blaming anyone, but I've never seen or heard of that happening under normal driving conditions on flat ground. Has he had similar problems before? If so, tell him to stop resting his foot on the brake pedal and slow down before going down a hill. Use the jake to ride down the hill. If he's constantly on the brake pedal, he's going too fast. Also, people who follow too close are more inclined to over-use the brakes. Maybe increasing the following distance will help.

If his brakes went out, why was he sent o Greer in the first place? No brakes=no go in my book. Tow the sum-b***. I won't move a truck with questionable brakes.

As to other problems with the truck, they are not detailed out here. There is no way to tell what happened when the truck shut down because you don't say how it was behaving or whether any lights came on.

He needs to be on the phone daily with his DM and going to the window asking about loads at least twice each day. He needs to squeak louder to be taken care of. In a company as large as Swift, you have to make yourself known. In a polite way.

I understand you want to support hubby. A good wife stands behind her man and backs his play. I'm not married to him, so I don't have that obligation. As I see here, you are a good wife. Keep up the hard work.

 

Axle seal leaking can cause fire. Thats rare. You gotta get under trl. an ck all that s!$t. Trk also. Every time i get assined a trk get under it.Ck it out.Set the brakes an mash throttle.What happens? Write everything down.Had an 00 freightliner shut off going down road.No warning. towed to shop (cat) 8 hrs later cant find anything. Wigggled big wireing loom of coumpter an trk shut down.Found bare wire.Just good machinic refused to give up.

 

Hang in. No diff. At any other co.

 

Freightshakers in 09 were full of bugs. I had a brand new Cascadia that still had bugs when I turned it in with 240K miles on it. Part of the problem I had was the last generation of 60-Series Detroits had a weakness in the head due to the additional porting and excessive exhaust recirculation heat from the DPF system. The repair was worse than the initial problem due to all the leaks it caused.

If the truck behaves itself, hubby should do just fine. It's good to get the BS out of the way at the beginning. That way, it'll even out for him.

 

20K solo miles and he can run Western Regional flatbed for Roehl, new terminal in Phoenix