Pay,Risk and Talent

Keep pushing for more money than your work is producing and that gives companies more reason to push for driverless/robot trucks.
The current pay structure right now is just fine and any driver that keeps this in perspective will agree.
Drivers that make poverty paychecks are either incompetent or can't manage money.

 

Okay you do realize how businesses work, right? Business offers a job, says this is what we pay and what you get out of it. You decide if the risks are worth your time. If they are, you do the job. That's how businesses and jobs work. So what exactly is your point?

 

Don’t feel bad - I read the post 3 times and missed the point. Posted in ‘Discuss favorite trucking Company ‘ - I guess I’m a novice, or not very bright today.

 

Novice driver, lol.

It seems that you are being a drama queen as posted and I see your a novice poster.

"Going to jail or getting killed"? "Lives and Freedom"? Really? There's risk in every job, granted some greater than others, but if your climbing into a truck everyday worried about going to jail or killing somebody and money is the driving factor behind it because you think your risk is greater than someone else's you might be in the wrong profession, imho.

A "Professional Truck Driver" gets behind the wheel in his/her truck everyday and does what they need to do to be safe, it's part of the job and goes without saying and to the old timers it's why they were called "Professionals". I never got into a truck and thought, "I hope I don't go to jail today" or " I hope I don't kill somebody today", I was very confident in my abilities and paid attention so I never thought about it like that, it's everybody else you have to watch out for and if you do that the rest of it falls into place.

 

That's an original perspective, maybe your on to something.

Good luck on your quest Captain Ahab