i am making over 2 times more than i have ever made in my life...

Dude, lots of the better companies are starting drivers out in the low 40s per mile. If you're working for less, you're just a sucker.

 

Uh, I'm working for more than that. And I earned it.

 

You misunderstand if i fight for better pay for the new then the old get more by proxy. Your still more exsperanced than the new guy so your more valuable (duh) they are saying you should have been fighting for better pay for the last 20 years, and now somebody wants to and ###### if your gonna let some punk kid make more starting than you did. Nevermind everything costs more, more regs, crap trucks hard running. Just becuse you acepeted a poor deal (there opinion) doesnt mean there greedy if they dont want the same deal. You otr boys are constantly saying dont work for them or them, say no to cheap freight! And when they do say we want more they get called entitled. Well which is it? Greedy or smart? Entitled good for nothin brats or people that want to work but exspect to be compensated? I guess we should all be making 3 dollars a day becuse someone before me got that. Im not trying to be a ### but come on hypocracy much?

 

It is curious AppalachianTrucker has made validate points yet other truckers say a trucker making what compensates for obvious hardships and expenses is looking for an entitlement state of life. Suppose the Walmarts who fly private jets from the Caribbean to basketball games have really put in the kind of hardships a trucker does and that the truckers makes it possible for them to make the kind of money they have over the years? Suppose all those wallstreet types demanding a return on their investments, living out in their swank Long Island estates have put in a day comparable to a trucker? I believe in hard work and earning ones keep but cheap truckers and oil kept as cheap as possible from your tax dollars and enormous government debt owed by future generations now is going to fill the pockets of people who can't even figure out ways to spend it. Truckers are treated like mobile warehouses and not compensated for sitting to be unloaded by receivers who demand the time in which they arrive, is it really too much to expect a person to be paid for sitting under those conditions? It is a pretty clear to me that cheap trucking is so vital to our false economy of importing everything from the cheapest overseas manufacturers that it somehow escapes the scrutiny of basic HR laws every other legitimate business has to follow.

 

lol, mandated 84 hours and Canada is socialist. 2 for 2.

 

If it's so bad, why are you out here?

 

You're not a new driver, either.
But you have no real legs to stand on telling other people what they should be making starting out.
Times change and economic conditions change with the times.
You started driving 13 years ago.
The dollar buys at least 35 percent less now than it did then.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Health care costs much, MUCH more than that now.
Gasoline cost $1.43 back then.

Like I said, trucking is roughly equivalent to working offshore and when it pays that much, I'll perk up my ears and leave my kids and dog and take my turn. As it stands right now, trucking is a sucker's game and a regulatory joke/bad dream.
Plus, the amount of legal and financial liability poor dumb truckers are exposed to is off the charts. If more drivers really understood their exposure to potential for life-destroying accidents, they would walk away and never touch a truck again.

YMMV.

 

I want whatever you're smoking! You want big money? You gotta start at the bottom and work your way up. Nobody is forcing you to piss in a bottle! I never have. If you're pissing in a bottle that's your choice!

 

And? Welcome to trucking. Learn how to work, kid. You think it was easier then? I made .25 a mile.

 

I was using 84 as an example of a six-day week of on duty 14-hour days, which here in the states is the DOT limit for on duty not driving.
See that's the trick...
It's NOT mandated -- it's the legal limit.
Therefore, the expectation is that all drivers will work it. Eleven hours per day or 70 hours per week of driving and 14 hours on duty each day. And OTR drivers do work it routinely.
That's what all this talk of mandatory 11 hours and 70 hours and etc. is about.
It's NOT mandatory, but since it's legal, it's de facto mandatory, since everyone does it and that's the industry norm at most companies.