Signs of a bad company.

If you hear a joke about them on the CB or in the restaurant at least once per week.

If they were featured in the "trucking company name acronyms" thread on this website.

If they advertise for drivers in those free truckstop magazines and/or in those little card racks near the restroom at the Pilot.

If they run a company school.

If they'll let a driver with less than 5 years' experience become a trainer.

If they try to get you into a lease purchase.

 

If they have rap ads and offer 10 bucks for a survey on a Pilot card too

 

According to many the number one sign of a bad trucking company is that they have trucks

 

Well that's why I've looked at Werner's dedicated areas. Even though a lot of people warn me about Werner. I'd rather do that then get locked into a contract for 1 year because what if I end up not liking it?

 

Well, then at least you have a year experience and can go pretty much anywhere you want.

 

No kidding, all the things you'd list about a bad company is the direction my job has gone the past couple months. Pedestrian mileage, $h!t hometime, gone 10-14 days every trip, layovers, etc etc etc. It's gone from a bad stretch to just a bad job. I'm ready to either move out of hauling food completely or just leaving the industry. Haven't had a good job since 2011. Seems like every year I'm gone more to make less...

 

Exactly. A year is nothing in the grand scheme of things and everyone has to put their time in somewhere. Nobody worthwhile is going to hire a rookie right out of school, it's going to suck no matter where you go... just in different ways. Put your time in so you can go where you want to when your contract is up.

 

Alot depends on your home area
If you live in the back Hills
You're more likely to be OTR Alot
If you can handle city traffic hustle
You're more likely married with children and be p&d driver... LTL
.... Hauling food is hit or miss
... Hauling gas pays flat rate mostly,( which I think it should be unlawful to pay these drivers on a flat rate)
... And the list goes on
Garbage trucks, straight frame,
... Just because OTR isn't working out for you doesn't mean
You don't have other options

 

If you're not hitting around $250 per 10-12 hr day PER day! per 5 consecutive days
.... You are driving for a rotten company and you will never see the light of day again, they will work you for free at every opportunity and consume you're life with their self serving policies
Slowly they recondition you're thinking to respond to commands,... Things like : " that load MUST be THERE"
... we don't owe you YOU owe us and we deducted it imeadealtly sir
... You're new assigned equipment has the stench of urine and sleeper is berth full of bed bugs, particular track like stains on
mattress
... Plenty of parking lot camping and at the end of the day they pay their friends at" hire right corporation " to destroy your name and take a big dump on your face as you EVER try to get a decent job driving.... EVER AGAIN!!!
.... They have such a bad CSA score that they have DOT up YOU'RE rear end that eventually YOU become UNHIRABLE yourself
THEN they have you TRAPPED inside their money machine trucker slave squad
... You're final destination will be prison or suddenly standing butt naked in front of someone, ( who btw, seems to know you very well) sitting on a great white throne

 

Your right l believe you need a skill set to drive,I just relayed the message that we are not "classified" as skill labor..