Lousy paycheck transport

If I can't trust a company to keep me moving as a company driver, what on EARTH makes a company think I'll ADD to my financial problems by stacking a lease payment on my pile of woes? I haven't been on in awhile, because I've been BUSY. With a GREAT job with a SMALL outfit. I run from the midwest to mid or southern california and haul produce back. Roughly 4200 mile turn in 6.5 or so days with 3.5 or so days off... wash, rinse, repeat. I end up with one two-week paycheck around 1350 gross, and the other ends up around 2700 gross. So my avg is around a grand a week gross with an avg of 2 days off a week or so. In otherwords, I'm taking home 5 or 6 times as much as I did at roehl, grossing about twice as much, and home FIVE TIMES as much... take home more be home more my ARSE!! Try take home nothing be home never. I love my new job!

 

My POINT, is that the experienced guys at roehl can expect to run 1800-2200 miles a week MAXIMUM, while the students and rookies run to the absolute maximum their logbook will allow sometimes 3200-3800 miles. I've caught them RED handed on three seperate occasions when they had me relay loads for a guy that was completely out of hours. All three of them were just out of the roehl training school, and being utilized properly... and five or six of the million mile club guys I was talking to kept saying they were barely taking home three hundred dollars a week and grossing less than 800. Roehl should commit suicide in SHAME for defecating on their experienced guys like that. Now that I've completely spelled it out for you, do you understand NOW?

 

17 months is more than long enough to get a good taste... Here was my pattern. My first month there was tolerable, every week was 2500-2600 miles. Then they started whittling away. Once it dropped to 1800 in 7 day period I hollered and it jumped back up to 2800 for a week or two, then dwindle dwindle whittle whittle back to 1800. Complain! 3000 for one week, dwindle dwindle whittle whittle back to 1750. Throw a fit! 2800 for a week dwindle dwindle whittle whittle back to 1900. And so on and so on... I finally gave two weeks notice after acquiring the job I have now. THEN they ran the piss out of me. I think my last week there I turned 3600 miles, but it was too little, too late. I had tried to talk to them, begged and pleaded, tried to explain my situation, nothing worked. The only thing that got their attention was the employment verification from my current job. At that point I told them that "There are too many opportunities available to a guy like me, with my driving record, to TOLERATE the paychecks I've been getting from you guys for the entire last quarter. We have accounts we're losing for poor service, and I'm begging for miles. We have students being run to DEATH, and I'm begging for miles. We have guys from the flatbed fleet pulling reefers because we need all this help, but I'm begging for miles. I only saw takehome pay THREE TIMES in my final 14 weeks here. That's strike four... you're OUT."
Any other questions about my reasons?