Is the driver pay as horrible as Tim-the-Trucker on YouTube

After careful thought I agree.

One thing that is difficult for most is a grouch crying about paradise lost I believe is the term.

I don't mind old iron. The new trucks are nice but I like mine a certain way like a old boot because I understand them after a time.

UPS pays good on 60 hours. Is it the money I am paying them to ship a 70 dollar box to a customer on the bay that bought it from me asking for a relatively high dollar insurance on it? I cannot imagine a value of a 53 full of such cartons because i have not yet mastered the cube of the interior. I would like to learn how to cube a load. Then work out a value based on 50.00 packages going to say chicago. Out of intellectual curiousity this morning driven by positive information from other truckers.

I can be a bad grouch if I want to but here is not exactly the place for it. I already growled at a whiner yesterday trying not to get banned... I don't need to do anymore of that today.

Not everyone is going to do well in trucking. If you do not love this, and cannot live on what scraps fall into your payroll or living high on the hog or whatever then one must reconsider their situation and improve on it.

Ive been filthy rich, Ive been poor. And trucking does not hand that out unless you really intend to be a very bad trucker or worse a cloud on everyone, they would just soon do without you. When I was in the hospital that week last year I was a difficult patient. However there were two nurses that were angels. One someone older and the other only 20. She did very well for a 20. Battled like a 40 year old charge nurse two situations leading to near seizures I had. (That is one diagnosis I don't want, it's related to surgical pain that week.)

If you understood what they pay charge nurses and RN's these days for her she has a very bright and absolutely wonderful life ahead of her. Thats motivating. Half the floor was sicker than I was, one constantly puking up a lung. We asked for positive atmosphere in the room to keep that out.

I generalise a few things this morning early. At the end of the day whatever you make, I hope you are happy. Because if you aint as they say here in the south, you can cry #### on the rain....

 

Here's one just north of Denver: www.groendyke.com
CLASS 0 DRIVER:
Fewer than six months of over-the-road driving experience, or has completed a driving course from an approved school, finishing in the top of the class, with good attendance. 28-day training plan.

 

Coors rule the front range. And there is the meat plants probably among other things. It would be pretty good.

 

Pay is variable. Not only is pay for Driver A at Company A variable every week due to various weather/customer conditions. But pay varied wildly from company to company and within a company. There are dedicated driver positions where you pull freight for the same customer, maybe even the same route, where pay is consistent. There are Over The Road (OTR) positions where you pull whatever freight to/from whatever customers whereever that happens to be and when they have freight. It's a bit like asking "how much money do you make playing football?" It depends on whether you are talking about an NFL starting quarterback, a bench-riding 3rd string punter, a semi-pro or recreation league player.

The key is how much research do you do and where do you decide to work. IMO, 99% of people entering this industry focus 100% on what's the cheapest/fastest way to get the license and get working, when they should first research until they find the very very good companies that hire 1 or 2 drivers per year and the turnover among driver employees is zero. What happens is the rookies looking to have someone give them a license and give them a job take whatever comes along, believes any story the recruiters tells them, and then pronounces the industry is rotten.

If you enter the industry you will spend 99% of your career working for a company, so put 99% of your effort into finding a company that matches what you want, treats you well, and your career will be good to great. The license and initial training is a formality. You can train a half-drunk monkey to pull a trailer down the interstate. A couple of the skills take more time to learn but you have to try hard to never learn how to do them.

Find a company, then decide about school. You wouldn't decide who to marry based on which jewelry store is nearest your house or what church has the most convenient hours or cheapest wedding package. If you make quick and dirty decisions you will get quick and dirty results. Some guys make over $100k and many other barely make $30k.

 

It’s up to the driver to find the money.

I didn’t waste my time giving “tim the trucker” a YouTube view. But my guess? If he’s complaining, he’s prolly one of those guys making lateral moves from one crappy company to another and can’t figure out how to do the research to crack the nut.

I think most job fields are the same. Whether it’s IT, plumbing, HVAC, etc, etc. There’s guys who find the easy money and those who cant find their way out of the bottom loop.

 

This is the truth, absolute and undeniable TRUTH.​

 

Never mind the jewerly, bought rings in waco walmart on sale at 200, and wife and I enjoyed another sale in little rock at 95 for a small sapphire that was pretty good cut. Jeweler said that was something of a steal.

Alls well in that dept. Just worked with dispatch to take care of out of route for proposal. So that burnt a cool 700 miles in fuel that night before pointing to seattle for the 4th day.

 

Very few companies will give you top of the line equipment when your first starting out. The head ache is that you as a new driver will destroy alot of tires where your new to driving. Yet I wouldnt put swift or werner as top of the line companies. They are bottom feeders. If you are overweight, prime is antioverweight. Just letting you know.

 

The solution to ripping tires is take it out of his check, he will stop ripping them.

 

RIP