Sneaky Company!!!

if you been drivin more than a couple of weeks you should be able to tell the difference between bumpin the governor and a sick running truck

 

Only time I actually get to 3 numbers is night time across sandy locations and low traffic areas where the mileage between get ons/offs is high. Not that I'm tryin to save face or anything, just sayin I don't do it through Memphis or anything. If there is a good number of miles between me and anything civilized and a few trucks want to run up there I will though. Same goes for the image of 4 wheelers that run up and down the big road at mach-chicken speeds sliding from one lane to the next.

 

Sometimes you just gotta do it...It's what makes it all worth while and lets you know you're still alive.I'm not saying it's smart,safe or anything like that.It's just a good tonic for what ails ya.

 

Especially on those full Moon nights. Vent wing cracked a tad and the Moon roof open, smoking a fine cigar.

Boop -- Boop !!

 

Because they are messing with your pay. If they want to mess with the trucks and turn them down to 20MPH, fine, but they better switch to an hourly pay, not piecemeal.

So then you are only able to do 64 MPH, which means if you have the same day as about, you'd lose the same amount of miles and get 58mph over a day. Pay cut is a pay cut.

 

HaHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! TOOOOT TOOOOT!

 

The bigger companies, and especially those that have high turnover, hire drivers from all over the country and avoid hiring in concentrated areas. This is so the drivers are spread out, and are out of touch with one another's gripes and complaints. Ignorance is bliss, and trucking companies take advantage of that fact. When a driver for one these outfits arrives at his home terminal, there may be 10 drivers sitting in the lounge/whine cellar. Not 100 or 200. Such does not favor building a united front against what you have to endure while driving 18 wheels.

At least that is what used to hold true. Today, drivers have the internet. You guys who want to put together a coalition should rent billboard space and advertise your favorite trucking sites. If Jubitz truckstop can put an billboard advert 1200 miles away in Wyoming along I-80, you guys can surely put up a billboard there, say Laramie at the Petrol, advertising your pet site.

If not a billboard, then at least get some bumper stickers and T-shirts made up and hand them out at the Iowa-80 Jamboree this summer. Turn your sites into virtual union meetings halls.

 

To the original post......

I have operated a small business for much of the late 90's into 2000's
when my costs went up I did not make shortcuts on my employees, I did what makes capitalism great. We the company went up on prices of services.
I am sure these companies are informing their customers that costs will be going up and if they are the ones not doing it they are afraid of those customers finding other companies to use. Hence the companies are doing the same thing drivers are doing and not standing up for the necessities of themselves and their employees to function in todays economy.

I completely agree with you if the company/companies are affecting your equipment that in turn affects your income should be acknowledged through standard forums.

The people here who make the argument it the companies trucks, etc.
have fallen into the complete company rhetoric that holds people bcak from making arguments for better conditions etc.

The issue with turning back govenors isn't really still at the top of the list of the things wrong with the industry and the companir=es who operate it. Only when drivers/o/o/leasee's stand together instead of the poor excuse of a strke on 4/1 will conditions for the OTR get better.

This is the only industry that requires soooo much af an employee and gives so little.

The issue of a union is a double edged sword but always an option.

I will say this is my 3 cents...........

thanks for the oppurtunity to speak.
Keep your head up do what you can and feel is best for you......