TURNOVER

And nobody will ever ask you to do anything illegal, since that would be ... illegal.
Everyone just knows that breaking the law is implicit in trucking, kind of like being in congress: Say this, but do that. Like the pre-trip kabuki dance you learned in CDL school. Everybody just knows what to do without being told. It's that tension -- combined with paychecks and livelihoods hanging in the balance -- that holds together trucking as we know it today.

The Pollyanna Trucking Co. kindly requests that you play the game, driver.

 

This is one of the best, funniest, coolest posts I've ever read on these forums.
Well done.

 

Oh, cheers (for our average thought bubbles, between sleep debt and a daydream, I must have said enough at that point).

 

Thread like a fever dream...

 

It's obvious you think very highly of yourself. The trucking companies don't see it that way. To them you are just another dime a dozen driver.

 

There's no $ in trucking .....it's ok if you've been otherwise ,you will see for yourself .....go for it

 

All the research in world the ain't gonna save you cutting
across wyoming in December in a ice storm with 10ft of
visibility with 50mph winds with gusts up to 70.

Thats when reality sets in.when you see all the big trucks jackknifed,
rolled over,sometimes 2 or 3 in a big pile burnt to the ground.you know in
your mind that some of them died.

Your question about why turnover is so high.
85 percent of otr companies treat drivers like crap,
so it take 4 or 5 different jobs to find one that's half
way decent.

 

I gotta disagree, I'm making pretty good money now. I've gotta bust my hump to get it, but for a guy in his 20's I'm doing a lot better than my peers are, even the folks with college degrees overall. I've got a friend who has an MBA (which wasn't smart of her to get in the first place) that's only making 30k/year at the moment- Sure, she will probably start to out-earn me in the next 5/10 years but for now, I'm outpacing her pretty well on the actual earnings vs earning potential.

There is money to be made in this industry, you just have to turn over the right rocks and ask the right questions to the right people. Doesn't hurt to be a little lucky which I for seemingly unanswerable reasons have been to this point...For now, atleast...

Always helps when you lower your expectations in the face of eagerness, though.

 

Why allow your spirit to be broken over a ###### job or by others whose spirits have been broken?
You have to be bigger than it, otherwise it will consume you.
Don't confuse a balanced perspective and the will to express it with ego.

In the end this is just another job.
You don't see spirited creativity among truckers very much and it's delightful.
Not everyone is beaten down and afraid to stand up...

 

Thanks, and I think highly of y'all too, I just don't wanna to be in the same truck, or so close that we end up doing a group hug.