Trucking Companies

Your best decision is to talk to other drivers about a particular company. Drivers will tell you straight up. Also, most drivers have a, "Well this is how we did it at..." New company new rules. Relax on the entitlement attitude. Come in, do your job at the best of your abilities and get your money

 

Pay is important to me, but not the most important thing. The culture, the equipment, the physical part of it, is just as important as pay.

 

This post is so classic. Here goes the perspective of a rookie turned rogue trucker after a year. No one and I mean No one is going to be completely satisfied by hardly anything these companies are going to offer them. Think for a second. They get on the telephone with the "recruiters" and get fed the lines of B/S like: Free training (lie), $2000 a week (lie), brand new trucks (lie)... the list goes on. Now granted you went through the school and got that best training there was to offer, you are probably doing good. I'm local now due to a messed up DAC. Enough of that now to answer your questions:
1. Why do drivers speak so negative about all the trucking companies?
A. They get on the telephone with the "recruiters" and get fed the lines of B/S like: Free training (lie), $2000 a week (lie), brand new trucks (lie)... the list goes on. You're not going to satisfy the entire legion of truckers at any point. That's even if the trucks weren't governed and if you were getting 3500 miles a week. Also most of them are just lazy. Just saying.
2. Are there any good companies to work in modern times?
A. Define "good trucking company". These days it's what you make of it on any job. Not the right fit? Move around if you can.
3.How to make trucking companies benefit me the driver?
A. You have to be the one willing to work your ##$ off for what you want in this industry. All you have to do is to make sure the way you do it is ethical; not for the company, but for you. You're expendable. You mess up, there are 10-20 others waiting for your spot buddy. Nothing in life is given to you.