They all suck!

Yet you're still doing it. Trucking isn't the only job that sucks, maybe you could look at driving a dump truck or something along those lines.

 

Wage world sucks arse, especially on the lower end, when you drive a truck you get exposed to multitude of degrading ways one can work his life off and it just makes you wanna cry.

 

Wait a second. Shaffer sent me a text saying that I can avg 80k a year working for them. So how can they suck? Oh thats right, I got to work the equivalent of 2 full time jobs & sleep in a box while hardly having any life outside of driving a truck delivering to a-hole grocery whses that treat you like pond scum.
Whats not to like ?

 

I saw Crete advertising 72k a year. Western was saying 80k a year but that was a while back.

Schneider had ads for West Texas 65k/year.

 

Mathematically and physically impossible. On an 8 week out, 1 week home basis, the average OTR driver is out 46 weeks a year. At that rate, $80k a year is $1740-ish per week worked, before taxes. At $0.40/mi, that's 4,347 paid practical miles/wk. Average 17% I was gypped on practical comes to 5,086.

72k a year would be $1,565 per week worked, before taxes. At $0.40 a mile, that's 3,913 paid practical miles. Adding 17% mover's guide rip-off, that's 4,578 hub miles.

Even running 52 weeks a year, you'd have to average 4,000-4,500 miles a week to make that kind of money. In a fleet truck? I call bullsh-t. Even at 60 mph average (possible but not easily achieved), that's 67.5 hours driven. 2.5 hours a week for fueling and PTI. Not happening in a fleet truck.

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You and I know that. New people dont.
I was just making a joke in response to the other guys joke about Schaeffer.

I saw the Crete ad on CL the other day.

 

Shaffer in the text says & I qoute,
Shaffer Trucking drivers (?) get the Crete 3-Peat! Crete Carrier & Shaffer raise pay 3 times in 2018! Next raise Sept. 1 Top 25% of National OTR drivers will avg up to $80k per year.
Marten says & I qoute,
Want more home time & more pay? 100% home weekly Options+ Avg 62 CPM!
If these Refer outfits are so high paying & have great benefits & hometime, why do they have to try & recruit a driver 1500 miles away to come work for them? They should be turning down people lined up outside the terminals.

 

You WHAT?
What they don't say is that raise #1 should have come about 15 years ago, raise #2 should have come about 10 years ago, and raise #3 should have come about 5 years ago. I trained at CRST in 2013 for $0.25 / mile. Now they're hiring at $0.39 / mi, or so I was told.

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My brother, I was gonna say ALL TRUCKING COMPANIES since the govt took over day to day and invoked this shifty csl 2010 and all the fun games the owners have given in to and insurance companies have stolen, hell, from us all and our govt pretends to be so poor and they all learn from each other. And if you pay attn to the inner workings of most safety departments, most of them can't even drive, what do they know.Bingo, there's one of manny answers. Look at the CDL test, it's not even written by people that have taken a loaded T/T down cabbagepatch on an icy snowy morning.

Sorry y'all, I needed to say something..have a safe day