Navajo express

What would keep a driver at Navajo is better miles than swift or Werner coupled with an inability to get hired on anywhere better than Navajo and the above mentioned companies. Navajo will excuse a lot and take drivers won't take for a whole host of reasons. I once met a Navajo driver with four moving violations! Count em, four. Try taking that MVR anywhere else and see how easy it is to get hired

 

i had a few issues nothing major to keep me from hiring on with another place i wanted smaller then my previous company with no forced dispatch and they have that still. unless someones kid decides to change crap again.

 

Is that normal in the US?! Even two thousand miles per week is shockingly low, one thousand doesn't even bear thinking about. I'm based in New Brunswick in Canada and 99% of the trips I do are to and from the US, I generally work Monday to Friday unless its a longer trip and in 5 days I usually get about 3000 miles, this week I got 3250 miles. I always see dozens/hundreds of the big American fleets parked in truck stops and they're always there when I arrive and still there when I leave 10 hours later and from talking to some of them they never seem to go home for months on end. Why would anybody choose to live a subsistence life like that? Stuck in a truck at your employers convenience, earning next to nothing and never home for the privilege. There is certainly no driver shortage if that is how it really is, but a huge over supply of trucks and not enough work to keep existing trucks in gainful employment.

 

Obviously it's not common place for the everyday driver to average 1000 miles a week. Otherwise there'd be a massive driver shortage. But if youre just starting out and you have the misfortune of signing on to a terrible starter company just to get experience, you can definately expect a average weekly haul to consist of 800-1500 miles. In the us the insurance companies dictate everything and without verifiable experience you're extremely limited to the amount of decent companies that'll hire you. I know there are exceptions to every rule but most drivers are the rule rather than the exception...

 

I think I heard/read somewhere that in the US, something like 92% of new drivers quit the industry altogether within 12 months of starting out in it. If they can only get a start with those bottom dwelling companies its no wonder. The experience thing is probably the same in Canada, I'm originally from the UK and have been in Canada for six years now but my previous driving experience in the UK was taken in to account so I was employable by any company from the start. I know that if I had of arrived in Canada and proceeded to only get 1500 miles per week, I'd have booked a flight back to England pretty darn quick. Its all hourly pay or a fixed day rate there, mileage pay isn't legal.

 

One week i got 3970 but normally it was 2900-3200. The last week i worked there was on a dedicated account and it was 2850 but that account was only phx to denver. Mileage wasnt the reason i gave up the keys lol.

 

The change from 70 to 63/65 MPH was my main reason. But i needed extended time off to assist someone after her surgery happened as she had noone around to help her or drive her places. So rather then come back and be passed by prime along the highways i just got another job making better pay with a smaller company and speed limit rated trucks