LOL Job "Opportunity"

I started out in the LTL business 21 years ago at $12 per hour... $11.50 this day and age, while driving at night is not an option, it is financial suicide!

 

I won't disagree with you on this but I will say alot depends on how you hold yourself because nothing beats efficient experience, done with confidence....
I'm very picky about who I drive for & there's alot of scum bags to choose from in this industry but this doesn't mean a resourceful old driver can't get around garbage piles

 

$11.50 an hour sounds about right LOL

 

Not hard to see where all the money went. They'd find guys willing to drive something shiny and flashy for a crap wage, especially if it's local work they're dangling. Been there done that. I was excited as hell to get $15/hr and not have to sleep in a truck anymore back when I was sick of my first OTR gig and found a little mom and pop LTL to hire me with only 6 months of seat time (To be fair it paid OT after 8 and they were a good bunch of guys).

 

I'm working on it myself. Being an experienced driver is still a marketable skill sure, but to really clean up in any industry you have to own the means of production, which in our case is the truck and trailer. The drivers are just a cost of doing business and don't think for a second that the big guys like UPS and Walmart that pay top wages would continue doing so if they could figure out a way to make the trucks drive themselves. They'd put the drivers out on the street and make the shareholders ecstatic.

 

Not far away

 

..... Let em keep their money and enjoy the rest of of their day
Keep in mind these are also the same kind of people who like to start wars across the world so they can buy low and sell high on Wall Street , not to mention seeing to it that our economy runs stagnant, also for the same reasons
..... All for the love of money
Buy low , sell high , these investors are not our friends, trust me, they could care less about our nation as long as they are lining their pockets

 

I hear ya. I probably wouldn't trust anybody willing to do it that cheap anyway. Wrong driver can cause one hell of a mess and make your company look really bad.

I only stayed at that job about 3 months before I found a job with a better company paying $18 + OT and I stayed there awhile. Then eventually I got on with OD and was making $22.50 + OT.

IMO local work should pay no less than $25/hr straight time in a typical major metro area. Personally I don't like the concept of overtime at all. It compels guys to go out there and duff it for an extra hour or two every day to pad their pay check. Pay a stronger straight time wage and it cuts some of the crap.