Professional Drivers are they history ?

personally i think whether you have alot of experience or very little...the bottom line is if you are a trucker who continues to even slightly bash another trucker for a lack of the most minor of professionalism or experience then that is the type of division big trucking companies thrive on....DIVIDE AND CONQUER!!!...OH YES THEY HAVE AND CONTINUE TO.

 

i hit tab and sent that too soon....my message is that not matter what your issue or issues with another type of driver is....by all means express but try not to let it get to you...some are out here by choice others are not but still have chosen to be around you and i....TRUCKERS RUN THIS #### COUNTRY NOT COMPANIES!!!....however our ignorance keeps us from realizing it and until we can cooperate and multiply as a unit of stance and resistance we can all expect it to just get worse...whenever i here a driver bash on another driver it sickens me and calls me to urge that driver with the issue to stand down turn in his truckers goggles....CANT ANYONE SEE THAT THE BIG COMPANIES STICKING TOGETHER IS HOW THE BIG COMPANIES HAVE COME TO ##### SLAP THE INDUSTRY!!!..they look out for each other on a grand scale to protect their interests...INTERESTS= MAXIMIZING PROFITS FOR LEAST AMOUNT OF PAYOUT...big companies mindsets have adopted a modern day slavery type format to obtain the wealth they have obtained....if any trucker bashes another trucker he has weakened his cause and his comrades and does so by playing into the hands of the BIG COMPANIES....LETS STICK TOGETHER!!!....RELEASE THE AIR!!!...SHUT DOWN!!!...AND BE HEARD!!!

 

You are so correct.
Then if that shinning apple does get pat on the back, that's all it is, a light pat on the back. Oh maybe a letter of Thanks, or something to the effect, in his / her file.

 

I doubt very much that the big companies are in cahoots. I think they've just denegrated the system down to what it is by pushing the envelope a piece at a time, and copying each other.
Getting drivers together? Ha. Especially in these harder times. Too many applicants willing to warm seats. To move cheap freight.
Still, I feel for the pro's who deserve the better routes, pay, and respect who get lumped in with noobs and wasteoids and treated unfairly. Long ago truckers were considered the Knights of the Road, back when you dared to stop and help someone in distress. CB was clean and licensed. Work was done with pride. You'd get shot and highjacked now.

 

Big Companies = Big Business$$$$...anytime money is involved you can't think so naive....they are one as an industry but apart or marginal in freight and accounts....when one big company is hurting for freight they share...you havent heard of that????....my god when i pulled for central ref. i did a number of CR england loads because they didnt have the drivers or sudden logisitcal nightmares arouse....all im saying is that they lump together as an entity because drivers are so scattered and divided as a workforce.

 

I don't know much on this, like as in what we know about the automakers, but how did you think it was CR England loads? Was the paperwork marked for them? And it would seem natural that if they couldn't fill the bill, somebody else would have to haul it; it still had to move.

 

I have always felt that they gave us the title "proffessional" to make it easier for us to swallow the things they jam down our throat. Do you think Doctors and Lawyers would put up with the crap we have to. I never considered myself a proffessional, I am a owner op trucker. To me its a way of life, my life, what I choose to do and how I live. I take pride in the fact I can do things with a semi, haul loads, been places and survived things that only those with years of experience can honestly say they have done. I find the ones that call themselves proffessional are the one who need a title to cling to, something they can hide behind then turn on and hate with a passion when things do not go their way. They are on the phone contantly with their company 'cause they need their hands held or they think that they need to tell on everybody around them. They think it gives them "brownie "points but find that they get sold down the river just as fast as anybody else when they screw up and then sit around a coffee pot(or a computer) and tell anybody who will listen on how they were wronged. Like I said, that to a proffessional this is a job, to a trucker, its a way of life, my opinion anyway

 

That's your opinion but I disagree . I think a professional is someone like yourself , experienced and not needing their hand held . I don't agree being a professional makes it easier to swallow crap . If you're a true professional you don't have to take it . There are companies out there that will treat you with respect .

 

So, should we finger point and blame the old timers for allowing trucking to go down the tubes? After all, most of this stuff happened before alot of the people you complain about started driving.

Some people in here seem to complain lots about one's dress. I understand that showers are awesome and believe you me, I take as many as I can, but complaining that someone is wearing shorts (after all UPS and USPS wear them year around) or the shoes they wear, while the quality of the shippers have gone down. I'm sure going to impress someone on the dock that hasn't showered in a week and they go home each night, or that person with face tats and ear plugs are really going to care if I'm wearing a company shirt, that the company tries to charge me for. I don't call people "sir" or "ma'am", doesn't mean I'm not polite, I'm just not going to do it.

Where are the professional drivers at? They are everywhere, the question is, where are the professional companies and shippers at? I haven't seen one in a long time. 45,000 pounds on the BOL, but 48,000 pounds in the box. Using the docks as storage so you have to play dodge 'em pallets to back it in. Ever try getting your paperwork when the dock jockey is listening to his/her iPod or saying sweet nothings on their cellphone? Unmarked shipping offices? How about Customer Service Clowns telling you to get their ASAP on a load then the company won't take you for another day and a half, can't drop that load, it's special!

Yes, where are the professional drivers that allowed this to happen on their watch?

 

All my loads are weighed when loaded . If there is too much weight they take it off . I have waited a day and a half to unload and I was paid hourly detention time for every bit of it . We have had drivers fired for wearing shorts and even short sleeved shirts because customer safety policy states long pants and long sleeved shirts . Old timers and old carriers didn't run the industry down . The megacarriers did it . I've never worked for any of them and never will . Used to be most trucking management had a real background in trucking . Now most companies are run by lawyers and bean counters .