Driver salaries to be $60,000 to $90,000 by 2014

Maybe the 60K is before they start to Fleece you.

 

$60,000 to $90,000??
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OK! Place yer bets, come on Place your bets here!

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So, how does it feel to earn all those A+++ in math & algebra, to develop that superior intelligence and grammar of yours and be in the line of business that can be done PERFECTLY by the guys who barely made D+? What went wrong and when?

You are so eager to "self-medicate" by putting desperate people enrolling to CDL schools down, you forget to take the log of failure out of your own eye. In my experience, few enrolls to a CDL school because they've heard about 40-60k bonanza. Trucking is an employment of the last resort for the absolute majority. And why not? You got to ABSOLUTELY STUPID (or desperate) to work more hours than Chinese sweatshop labor, to kill yourself slowly (and sometimes fast) while making less than average wages and having NO opportunities for advancement whatsoever. Whatever crumbles you get, trucking career can be lost in a fraction of a second, any second of any day, it doesn't matter how "good" you are.

It doesn't take much to make an average wage slave desperate for a job. Take desperation out of economic "equation" and who would do all those menial and dangerous jobs? Little reminder, you are not selling your "intelligence", skills, A+++ and so on, you are selling your the only life and health. You can't force a dumb but FREE (as in having right to exist/subsist) person to do mind & numbing jobs for peanuts by telling him/her how inferior he is. Why? Because, everybody values his life about the same regardless of the titles. And if you don't want to get arse kicked, you don't offer a low wage slavery to a FREE person (regardless of his mastery of math etc.).

Going back to trucking, let's face it, it's no "rocket science" (where unique talents are always in short supply), millions of people can truck after a few weeks of training, trucking is not management where your place in hierarchical ladder (NOT you) is rewarded with 100K+ (it doesn't matter how dumb you are personally, abundant supply of equally dumb folks willing to manage for less is also irrelevant), there is/will not be lack of the desperate people, fuel prices might decimate trucking profession sooner rather than later.

The "key" to maintaining wages is to regulate supply of people entering profession (that's what doctors, lawyers & nurses do). Of course, we all know that unions are "evil", we have no guts to fight & strike (the way truckers do in Europe). What's left? Yup, dreaming about "perfect" world where invisible hand of supreme justice would magically keep lowlifes, foreigners, D+, dirtbags etc. etc. out of trucking, leaving it to the remarkable all around guys just like you.

 

Krom if you hate it so much, please don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

I guess it's your the only objection to what I said?

Indeed, it takes a really "special" person to love 14 hours of work day after day, year after year on top of having no life, no teeth, no health, no certainty, no future, little money, and so on. If only we could get more fine folks like you, ATA needs folks (lots of them) willing to take it up their arses and be darn proud of that.

Even among generally pussified and dumbed down American working class, truckers manage to stand out as the most abused & spineless lot. There is no object that a proud American trucker wouldn't take it up his arse. And yet we expect invisible forces to throw us a 80k bone, reality be ######.

 

There should be no kind of payment for any kind of training at all at any time..

 

A majority of the people who show up at CDL mills are the same people that screwed around in school, never got an A, B, or C and were happy when the teacher revised their grade to a D+ instead of a D. Many are the same people that have been fired from half the jobs they have held and did not give a crap about the others. Examples of their work quality and attention to detail can be seen on virtually every BFI carrier's trucks; whether they were assigned to the truck or not. I'm sure many of you have had your hood taken off at a truck stop by one of these yahoos.

Well as a driver that screwed around and blew off school, who did not graduate high school, imo sir you are way off the mark. maybe your kids are the way you want to protray the "low lifes" that got poor grades. That is not a one size fits all category. I was a lowly mechanic who moved up the ranks at a company to assistant manager and flat out got burned out after 17 yrs. I got my cdl the ol fashioned way.Thanks to some friends help, i jumped in the truck hauling grain and what wasnt taught I learned on my own thru various means. The behaviors your talking bout are learned from and accepted by their parents and peers. SO please dont include me in your one size fits all theory, as it does not hold water. i havent had a ticket since 1999, never had any type of incident or damage to any vehicle.....or stationary object.

ok someone kick the soap box out from under me so i go on with my miserable life because of not caring about what grades i got in high school 29 yrs ago. ps i still dont care what grades i got, the GED i got did not help me in any way either, I dont need to be graded by a high school teacher, to know if i got what it takes to drive safely 80k truck.

 

I hate to say it but when I taught at a CDL school, alot of the students were true lowlifes. Dont get offended, because of course it wasnt all of them, but many were dirty, lazy unmotivated screwups who were going to the school on the governments dime. They were generally the same ones who talked during class, didnt take it seriously, and just dicked around the whole time. They didnt care because they werent paying for it! Half of them never even made it to the last day of school, and many that did get their CDL didnt even drive for a full month before quitting.

 

Why is it all drivers are stupid and desperate, and anyone who went to CDL school is a moron? I drive a truck because I enjoy it, not for the money. And I went to CDL school because that's the only way to get into the industry nowadays. So I guess I'm a stupid desperate moron. Funny I never knew that about myself until now.