I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

I have been off work for over a month now. The job I left Gordon for fell through and the one I thought I had a week or so ago is not looking promising either. And the Las Vegas area is not really a place with alot of trucking companies other than the megas. I am trying hard not to go to work for .34cpm and to be honest I am not really looking to go back OTR. So I am fighting with going back to Gordon or Heartland regional again. At least I will be closer to home again. I am not a happy guy these days but I need to get back to work.

 

Well, g'nite. Hopefully Zoomy won't mind us borrowing his thread!

 

What about Interstate? They hire out of Vegas. They raised their pay as well.

 

Ugh!! That's terrible!! Sorry you're going through this.

 

16 posts and counting since the Cap'n stuck his head in the door... Hot chick must have him busy.

 

That's the main reason I went out on my own. The very best driver is not worth much more to a big company than a good driver. If you're on time 100% of the time, but your company averages 95% on time, they can only command rates for 95% on time delivery even when you're the one on the load.

While your company is only as good as your worst drivers, most companies are moving to the lower driver cost training company model. 3 years ago, GTI only accepted students from a select few schools -- I remember because my (very good) school was not one of them. Con-Way only accepted students from their local community college. Now both are accepting inexperienced graduates of cdl mills and it shows...

At least both still "train" with trainers riding shotgun (as opposed to the team-truck training done by most training companies), but you need only play relay roulette a few times to realize that the standards aren't being met.

Worse, pay rates are almost never based on individual merit but are instead divided into rigid seniority traunches. A driver who has merely shown up for the last 10 years but who puts the truck in the shop every time a fuse goes out, takes unnecessary resets every week, and occasionally brain farts and fails to arrange his hours to fit a tight load's timeline will somehow be at the same pay rate as a driver who gets it done like Joe.

 

That's because of the childish nature of some guys. We have plenty of bad drivers here, but we have some real good guys who've been here for years that gets the job done. The problem is, once again, a lot of drivers need to grow up and the only way they will is by force.

 

All they have here is running up and down the I 5 from L.A. to Seattle. Knight here is big on the Long Beach Port runs and that is nowhere I want to be either.

 

Ahhhh. I Wish I could give you a hook up but I can't. Move to LA! Lol.

 

Crete western regional, maybe?