GORDON TRUCKING is a sespool for drivers!!!!

im looking at her belly,lol.

 

Here she is doing what greyhounds do best.

 

New page. Just wanted to bring her over. Second's even better. Well, you can't be a total A-hem, these dogs are often terribly traumatized. She's not now if she ever was. A beauty.

 

10,699 views as of 10:00 pm Aug 31, 2013.

Seeing Blu was such a treat, I popped some popcorn and began searching for a corkscrew for the umpteenth time. This time I found it. Have had a cheap (but very tasty) bottle of Wal-Mart Oak Leaf Sweet Red in the refrig for a loooong time. In celebration of beautiful Blu!

It still takes me a few days to kill a bottle. I'm a one-beer kinda guy. Sometimes I forget it's there, too.

 

Just a reminder that this 'Bad Company' thread is on Gordon Trucking, aka GTI. Some companies are just bad, nothing more. Some good companies do bad things, all the same.

As drivers, we have allowed the current situation to develop where we have no where to turn. The public is unaware and drivers are often their own worst enemies, defending companies and the industry against other drivers, for example. Against improvements in the work life of ALL drivers.

Gordon is an otherwise good company that has, IMO, lousy pay for rookie drivers due to short runs (0-300 miles) and time 'free' that Gordon demands for loading/unloading, breakdown time and scaling loads. The tremendous turnover (over 100%) in OTR simply shouts out.

If no one is listening, that's our fault. The defenders of OTR as a type of work that requires 100-hour weeks to earn modest pay, stay away from home for weeks on end, compose what amounts to rich-company benevolent societies... it's a lifestyle, don't count your hours or your head will explode, etc. We've heard it all. And it's just so much crap.

Work is work. Something you get paid for or not.

In trucking, there's too much 'not' and too many willing to defend that status quo. For starters, we need more truth, despite those who would drown the truth out. Si se puede.


/10,760 views as of 11 pm, Aug 31, 2013. G'nite. Vic

 

And, well, it's kinda like this:
You see, I have this "condition" that many experts refer to as OCD... uh, that stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
In a nutshell (from this here nut), my condition leads me into a continual repetition of myself.
Example?
Ok, here goes....
If Gordon is so great to work for, than why is there over a 98% driver turnover rate there?
And why are most of those drivers leaving Gordon of their own volition, with many leaving the industry altogether?
BTW, most of those drivers jumping ship are nowhere near retirement age.
With the low pay and lousy conditions ($600 a week average, for up to 100 hour work weeks, and to live like an animal), these OTR "jobs" are easily replaced even in this so called impoverished economy.
But don't believe me; go to your local truck stop and speak to real drivers in person.
Including Gordon.

PS: My thread; "OTR Pay Poverty Wages", in the "Questions For New Drivers" section on this forum has had 58,175 views as of this writing.
I think of that thread as something akin to being the last unused condom in a Tijuana bordello.

 

I've been a driver for about 19 years now. While i do occasionally post something here myself....i can't help wondering about these "drivers" who constantly post long-winded, tedious ramblings about their day to day experiences on the road, good or bad. Almost every company forum has one or two drivers who do this. It's almost as if they pull into every rest area and post something. I just don't get it. What is the point of this? Don't you guys have anything better to do? Some of you guys have enough posts on here to compete with Tolstoy's "War and Peace" (The unabridged version!)

 

Atomic...it is something to do..habit forming... now go back to your porn and leave us alone here..

 

The audiobook is only 53 hours --half the work week some claimed-- & available at most libraries...