Are Companies Still Hiring Drivers?

Dude !!! You need to look into what you hear on the news, a bit deeper.

#1 Oil is "valued" on the dollar. GB is paying the same for a barrel as we are. And yes, half their cost is taxes.... But diesel is $9 a gallon in US currency. Gas is averaging $8 USD a gallon.

#2 GB may be a small country, but Europe most certainly is NOT. Remember, they are connected now...can you say "Tunnel" ?

#3 Fuel prices will NOT destroy an economy or a country. Quiet the opposite. Or sure, it will have an impact. But it will bounce back.

#4 Going back to the 1954 tax tables is what I fear the most. I've gotten partial to bringing home "most" of my check. Instead of ONLY 17% of it.

Check your current "gross" against it and see how well you would do...against "free" health care and the current price of fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_of_1954

 

Just a thought. The movement for national health care does have merit to some degree.

1. Consider the cost the employer is paying to cover the employee.
2. Consider the cost you would have to cover dependents.
3. Consider out of pocket for meds and meeting deductible.
4. Consider the items that the insurance company will not pay for.
5. Consider the insurance companies maximum.
6. Consider the recent cases concerning insurance companies denying coverage.

Now add these figures together. If national health care goes up in cost to you of xxx dollars. Compare the two then for the net cost.

It may not be as bad as some are leading us to believe. It also may not be any good as well.

 

I agree with you. But, I have many concrens that have not been addressed to my complete satisfaction.

#1 Many people are concerned with rationing. I am to. But, I'm also concerned with "useless" expenses. Why put a heart from a 20 yo into an 80 yo, when a 24 yo with children of their own, needs it too? Where do we draw the line?

a. Baby Boomers, of which I am a part of. Will put a strain on the system in a few years. Having paid little into it, ever.

#2 Anchor babies, that actually return to their 3rd world country (or not). And get exposed to all forms of diseases. And we get hit with the tab. While they never put any money into the system at all.

These are just a couple of my concerns. I have more.

 

to add my two cents - every plan I've seen for national health care follows (essentially) the HMO model. HMO is fine if you have a standard problem - but if your problem is out of bounds, you are totally screwed.

Further, when service has a guaranteed customer base, the quality of service ALWAYS goes down.

Finally, I pay too #### much in taxes already. If you insist on nationalising health care, eliminate a corresponding waste of my already stolen money. Do away with welfare.

 

Do you really want the government in charge of our health care?.....Everything they do is buried in red tape and costs twice as much to do and takes twice as long to get it done. They have no incentive to please their "customers". Think how much health care costs now and then double it. Think of all the wasteful spending now and then how much there will be when people think its "FREE" Think of all the illegals that are bankrupting medical facilities now because they cant be refused care, 5 hospitals have closed their doors already just in L.A. Oh it wont be FREE, you will pay dearly and not just with your wallet. Capitalism is the only way to insure good medical care with the highest standards. Take away competition and profit and things will get bad. Where will be the incentive to for research and development. Where will be the incentive be for Doctors and Nurses to pursue a once well paying career when their pay will most certainly drop. The quality of care will decrease because there is no competition. People come from all over the world to get medical care in the USA. People who HAVE universal health care....why is that?

Just my 2 cents. I am very afraid of U health care and the direction this country is going. Dont even get me started on "Global Warming" or I will start another rant

 

I would rather pay my money to the medical industry rather than the capitilist scum-bag rip-off, HMO'S who take our money and give it to fat pig CEO'S, who make 400 million a year, and how many millions go to share holders? I wounder how many American's could be employed on $400 million. Think about how much health care costs now and cut it in half.

Some people talk as if corporations have some how been our savior. CORPORATIONS have been our distruction. They have moved jobs from America, and America's resource's oversea's to China and Indian. They have enriched them and impoverished American's. This has driven up the cost of oil along with the influx of 50 million more legal aliens and who now's how many more illegal aliens, most third world people. How many of these people have 5, 6, and more kids.

It's this mismanagement by corp's that has caused the increase's in cost's of medical, oil, and food. If you need another major example of corporate rule just look at the sub-prime problem that has be the cause of the crash in home prices.

Just my 1 cent.

 

DUDE, whaaat everrrrrr. lol

 

Ya them o'l baby boomers. It's to bad the government is putting a halt to smoking. We'd be rid of half of them by now. And just think how much richer we wolud be selling all deem smoke's. I'm sure glad the system hasn't attacked the fat food industry yet I still hope to make 300 lbs some day.

On a serious note, one of the reasons we live and work is so that we can get a good heart if we need it.

I just saw these post and had to reply. I guess I should not have. We are way off topic. Topic being, "are companies still hiring".

 

Just so nobody makes a mistake and thinks I know anything, I'm a newb to trucking! But, I've been around long enough and been enough places in this world to know a little about some of the topics touched upon in this thread. I know how to do my homework and research topics I talk about. Are companies hiring? Of course they are! I read government numbers stating there are 30% more trucks on the road today than in 2004. That means at least 30% more drivers were/are needed just for solo, and even more when you count teams, and the rate of growth grows with the population. No matter how expensive fuel becomes or why, or how slow freight becomes, there is a minimum amount of transportation needed to supply the essentials people need to survive. Nothing gets the product to market like trucks do, not air, rail, or sea. The overwhelming majority of the population is landlocked without nearby rail or air service, and only trucks can deliver goods efficiently and still cheaply enough to the local Wal-Mart, Home Depot, or Piggly-Wiggly. Yes, the price of everything is going up because of transportation costs, and part of that is fuel costs, but not so much as to kill the economy. As long as people need and want products, there will be a transportation industry. I believe it to be one of the most stable industries in the country, regardless of economic ups and downs, and I intend to be a part of it and profit from it.

I was in Antarctica with the Navy during Operation Deep Freeze when the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered. I have kept track of the growth of that hole, the decline of the Artic and Antarctic ice caps, and have noted the measureable rise in our oceans levels, and the decline of land mass surface areas as a result. I am a private pilot and understand meteorology and what a one degree temperature change does to our weather and how it changes climates. All I can say is that if you don't think global warming is real, you have NOT done sufficient research on the subject, or understood whatever you've read.

Plenty of oil? Where do you think oil came from? How much oil do you think one dinosaur carcus produced from a very short period of world history when they actually existed? When did you last SEE a dinosaur? Pull your head out of the Saudi sand and look around! There is a finite supply of oil. It is not limitless, and most of the "easy" oil has already been discovered and pumped. Why do you think oil companies are spending billions to explore the deep ocean and arctic tundra in search of new reserves, and billions more researching alternative fuels and energy sources? Visit their websites, if you don't believe me. They know that at some point, it will be so expensive to harvest any remaining oil that nobody can afford it, so in a sense, you're right. There will always be plenty of oil. You just won't be able to buy any! You are in denial. Learn to accept the facts!

Do away with welfare? You've obviously never needed welfare. Good for you! My siblings and I and our families probably wouldn't be here today if it weren't for welfare granted our parents during hard times, and we are all now (or were) strong contributing members of the economy. Get rid of the abuses of these programs, but not the programs for those who truly need them! Partly as a result of the help my family received when I was I child, I lived to retire from 31 years of combined military and federal service to this country, and my sister is about to retire from 20 years on a local police force (she had a deadly brain tumor removed when she was a teen, at government expense due to "welfare" programs). My brother helped install much of the fiber optic telephone service in central florida long before he was forced into disability by an illness that will eventually kill him. He and his wife (recently diagnosed with glaucoma) and daughter (born with OI and has special needs) cannot work and now scrape out a living in a modest home on a too small Social Security disability check. Sis and I help when we can, but it isn't much. Who do you think helped pay for that social security that he now "enjoys"? Yes, it was Baby Boomers! Perhaps you ARE helping pay for that, too, but you haven't yet paid NEARLY as much as your parents and grandparents did in percentage of income or total contributions. Your younger generation didn't invent Social Security or welfare, but you'll darned surely be standing in line with everybody else to get your fair share when the time comes, and rightly so! Social Security is a pyrimid plan, but that's because the base (the younger population) is expanding faster than the number of recipients (retirees) regardless of propaganda using growing percentages and "statistics" to skew the facts. The government has slowly been raising the eligibility age for years, including younger boomers, and some too young to be "boomers" won't be eligible until they reach 70 years of age. That age will go up, and you WILL complain about that, too, because you'll have to wait longer for your fair share of "welfare". How short sighted you are to think that you will never need government asistance to survive.

Like the man said, it's just an opinion, right or wrong. We are all entitled to them, and nobody has to agree with mine.

 

Iam new to this forum....... I cant believe how you all blow smoke.WAY Off Topic.
Is it really like a bunch of hens here???