Attention all company drivers!!!

Seattle gives you $15.00 mini wage. Count on no more than 29 hours a week so they don't have to offer any benefits

 

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I am a trucking company owner, and been observing some of the posts. I do agree that for what drivers do, they are way underpaid. Even at my own company. We can only do what the rates allow and there is a lot if resistance to increases. We now put pay increases through first, and then go back to the customers to get the increase. Hopefully they will not rebid the business. They are under a lot of pressure to hold costs as well. I see the talk of the minimum wage increase as a good thing. If we raise minimum wage, driver wages must follow due to the special qualifications the job requires. I really hope the customer of freight services start to understand that drivers are underpaid. I can see wages going to $20.00 + an hour for local work, but it will be like pulling teeth. As an industry we need to hang in there together. The battle is not trucking owners versus drivers, but trucking companies, their customers, and the potential increase of consumer goods due to price increases.

 

Why cap the minimum wage at $15.00 an hour? Why not just think ahead and raise the minimum wage to $50.00 an hour? Then folks will figure they can afford to live a better lifestyle. That is until they realize that their raise in pay will force everyone else to receive a raise just to be able to survive the rapidly escalating costs for basic consumer products, --- requiring those who received an increase to fifty bucks an hour to demand another raise, --- and the beat goes on, ......... and on and on and on.

Minimum wage jobs were never intended to be able to support a family of three, or more. Minimum wage jobs are intended to be an entry into the work force, a period for learning, encouraged to better one's self, lured by higher pay. Whereas, when the minimum wage workers move on up, the wages they were paid should not follow. When the costs to produce a product go up, the companies that produce the products aren't going to absorb the loss in their profits. Instead, they'll raise their wholesale prices. Will the retailer then keep their prices the same? Or do y'all think the retailer will follow the leader and raise the prices enough to maintain their preferred profit level. Maybe even enough to increase profits.

If anyone opined back around 1960 that, "someday the minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour", what do y'all suppose the vast majority of folks would say, --- when they finished laughin' at the fool who must certainly be whacked-out? So, I now proclaim, if we keep headin' in the direction we're goin', someday the minimum wage will increase to $100 an hour. Commence laughter now, ----------------. When y'all's sides start hurtin' from the laughter, I'll mention what the price of a loaf of bread will rise to (pun intended). How long before folks finally realize that increasing wages results in a higher cost of living. More dollars buys less and less as the wages increase. If not for the fear of bustin' guts from laughin' so hard, I might suggest something we haven't tried, ....... yet. Reduce ALL wages for EVERYone.

See?

I knew that'd happen.
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This really went way off track, lol...... I still say who gives a hoot if these low balling bottom feeding companies read these threads...... Let them read all they want and absorb it real good.

 

You pretty much covered the economics of raising minimum wage. The concept of inflation is never mentioned by the people who want to see minimum wage raised by 50%, but your buying power would be no better and you would not be any better off. A $15 minimum wage would simply be the new $10 minimum wage. Works through all the supply chain. If you're buying bread for $2, count on it being $3 or better if these changes happen. Everything you buy would go up, cost of living would skyrocket. You want more than minimum wage, then better yourself and earn a better wage. Don't count on government to legislate you a better living because they couldn't organize their way out of a paper bag.

 

There sre jobs the mist educated people csnt do, send one of them out ti dig a ditch for a plummer, lol... Education isnt everything. Nobody should have to work everydsy snd starve....

 

There are many jobs out there that to some would be less desirable I suppose. Looking at our education system now and everything is computers. Let's try and get back to the real world. The trades themselves are great opportunities and are very highly paid. I have a lot of respect for those that can build houses. I'm borderline useless when it comes to plumbing. I can do some rudimentary things but if it starts getting complicated, then I'm toast. Personally I want nothing to do with the drains. I respect those that can do this kind of work, and it is needed. All the computers in the world won't mean a thing if you can't flush.

 

Very true, lol

 

I am an " Old " O/O who has put in a lot of years diligently researching the difference between Trucking Companies. I am pleased to pass on the results of these findings to all fellow drivers and O/Os. The difference between all Trucking Companies is this, their phone number ! That's right, they are all the same.