All companies are liars!!!

He makes poor choices. I started drinking more blonde roasts and cold brew because it gives you more of a kick.

 

You being gullible is the problem not the trucking company.

You seem like someone who’s looking for new equipment top pay 10 days home 3 days on the road with 160k year salary .

 

...and that's where it should have stayed....

 

Recruiters are paid to put meat in the seat. If that means selling you a bill of goods, so be it. They can't stop you from quitting but if you make it to orientation they did their job.

 

Well, we're all looking for that--we just have different expectations regarding actually finding it.

 

and that's exactly why I ask...

 

I think most of them are pretty decent. They give you the respect you earned with them.

If you're a pile of garbage with a bad attitude you get scraps. If you are consistently working on being a top tier driver, you get treated like one.

Oh let me guess, OP is one of those drivers who confuses "hard work" with "Butt kissing", right? You don't kiss anyone's ###?

OTR companies don't lose great drivers.

To quote one of the best OTR drivers I ever met: "The moral to the story is that everyone's experiences are different, and everything in trucking is determined by the driver. If the driver is professional, conscientious, and communicates problems well the driver will be rewarded. Be flexible; do the unpopular loads when they come up and the great loads will come more often. Be proactive in trying to handle problems early, and you will earn the respect of others. Do things that make your Fleet Manager look great, and you will be compensated in many ways.

If you were a Fleet Manager, would you load up the driver who keeps fuel costs down, gets to customers early, always get repairs done promptly, and is safe? Or are you going to give those high mile loads to a guy who is constantly late, whines and complains over every little thing, doesn't seem to want to work, and doesn't bother to keep his truck rolling"

You chose to get into a "PERFORMANCE BASED INDUSTRY". It's like professional sports. Until you prove you are worth "Tom Brady" money, you will get back up punter money. If you aren't consistently trying to figure out ways to be more efficient and help your 'team' earn more yards, then you might get cut or relegated to the practice squad.

Lose the attitudes, ask for ways you can perform better, and do the little things that set you apart from every other average driver in the company. Clearly, not many of us are getting by on personality alone, so the successful ones (and I consider myself one) are doing something more.

As long as your ego calls it "butt kissing", you'll never be on the top tier of earners.

No one is going to tell you that there aren't bad companies, bad dispatchers, bad driver managers. Of course there are. But when that is your mental excuse at every single company you hop to, maybe its the driver who is bad.

YOU have control over YOU. Do all the things YOU can do to make sure YOU are making the most of YOUR time on the road.

But most of these drivers know that. They just want to blame others for their own shortcomings because they aren't willing to put in the work to make the changes they need to make to be successful. They can't get out of trucking because their attitudes have held them back everywhere. At least in trucking, a "bad" driver can still make over $50k per year doing the bare minimum. Not many other opportunities on earth paying over minimum wage for people like that.

 

One thing I like about this industry is my job is driving, nothing else. I open the doors, slide the tandems and maybe clean out a trailer every now and then with my electric power blower. (I don't do brooms.) Other than that, I sit in an air ride cab with strong AC and listen to the radio or stream live TV on my 10" tablet to entertain me while I drive. My dog sits on my lap and looks around and watches cars pass. I don't have to clean the truck, I don't have to do any maintenance, nothing. If it needs anything I make a phone call.

Where in the world can I get paid this kind of money to do THAT?

 

They don't lie come on. Just look at the ad it's point blank if it reads you can make up to..... what's that called answers please... I will answer" dangling that carrot" if you will Dont kid yourself there's liars in all sectors of business. Remember successful business is not based on personal agendas either. They have trucks to fill; but then you have due diligence to perform before accepting offer.