No wonder truckers are paid so little!

hehehe. Yep. Might well have a wreck. Insurance will cancel him then he will get fired and his company will "promote" another fella from the warehouse to be a driver and our OP will be left working for a self insured mega.

Be careful my friend. Karma is a ######.

 

I Don't think you understand what is going on.

When you are paid cpm, you are paid when the wheels are turning. You don't divide that by being away from home for weeks at a time. Off duty time, even at a truck stop or in sleeper berth shouldn't be factored into the money you make.

I'm local but having this mentality is just going no where.

This is becoming more comical rather than informative

 

Yea, why not ? If some dude runs into you and smashes up his truck, do you still have to get out of your sleeper and "deal"with it..

 

Not until it happens. Then he's back on duty.

 

I'll be darned... We found common ground... I knew we could.

stay safe

 

UKJ,

You are dead on about that being bull-squat in ref: to the CDL being 'taken away'. Only the state that issues the license can 'take away' the license. Just trying to scare them into staying. If someone were to threaten me like that, I would be up and out of there.

However, IF your company covered your training..and you leave, they can come after you for the cost of the training, assuming you signed something saying you would work for them for x amount of months after completing the training.

All in all, the best thing to do, if someone's credit is good enough, is to get a loan and pay for the training yourself and just make installment payments to pay it back.