It has been a while, but I thought i'd drop in and give yall an update.

After giving road tests every week to "experienced" drivers I think every company should do a road test. I see some stupid stuff every week. If it were my company I'd be more worried about the big accident(s) that are going to end us than I would about the easy money I could make by hiring folks that don't know what they are doing.

 

Isn't that amazing! Or is it just sad? Just for the fun of it while unloading, I called 3 OTR companies out of a truck stop junk employment magazine (Swift, Crete and Schneider). Not one of them said that my 20+ years of local driving would qualify for them to do OTR without attending one of their courses.

And starting out with them would put my yearly salary between 1/4 to 1/3 of what I make now. I won't even begin to you tell the cut in benefits I would take. And I don't think I would be able to work Mon-Fri with weekends off. Oh and personal expenses, fee time and just sitting and waiting should be enough to make people ster clear.

I can see why most of these compaies need to keep advertising and hiring. Who would want to work for a company like that?

I don't know how most do it. Sorry but id did make for a nice little laugh. Not for the recruiters though.

 

Thanks Stranger- I've been trying to tell EVERYBODY just what you're sayin here. Man I'm sorry it's that way. Nobody wants experience, they all want cheap labor. I know my days are numbered like everyone else's in this Biz, I figure I'll be around until my last truck payment.

I'm keeping an eye on jobs overseas, just in case, but I'm gonna miss driving North Amerika...

 

i'll get back to you after my shift, but in the meantime please describe your situation in great detail---why do you feel you are "unhireable" etc.

 

That's exactly right. That's why myself and a few others have been trying to tell these new drivers to get out from the computer and go seek out a company to work for. Go face to face so you can have an idea on how their operations run. Get away from the masses and the mega carriers.