In 10 years what has not changed..

Maybe he's the douchebag that left my current truck in the biohazardous condition I recovered it for the company in. I literally JUST finished cleaning foodstuffs out of it today. For the 3rd time. I have no doubts in my mind that I'm gonna continue to smell the stench of death, pull back some new panel that I haven't touched yet, and end up finishing cleaning foodstuffs out of it for a 4th time in the not-so-distant future. Probably even find another 3 empty cigarette packs as well. At this stage, I don't care that the truck is 2 years old. I'm gonna straight up tell the company that my recommendation is that they torch the ####er

 

Best advice yet!

 

Yes.......they call this job, trucking. No such thing as a 9-5 in this industry. The money made on the road isn't always in daytime hours. If you want a steady schedule, you should become a bank teller.

 

A bank teller is not for me. I would rot.

Not to mention as a licensed carry I would take the bad guy out. That would be so wrong in the eyes of our watered down culture.

Im happy to be a trucker. There is a lot of good in it. (With the bad...)

Most people slog through life joyless and dead in spirit having thrown it away not doing what they really want.

And that I think is the big rub. If you did get to trucking after all that and then whine about it? Eh...

Truckers don't whine to another trucker. Thats wasted motion. If you wanted to whine you sent it up the chain, for example.

Well dispatcher this loads fixing to be late, that emissions gone out again. Told you that shop did not fix it. And you don't listen.

Dispatcher: "Wait we will get back to you."

Safety: "We are reviewing your breakdown complaint"

HR: "You are being investigated for giving dispatcher hardtime"

Operations manager: 'Now what did you do to my truck?"

etc etc etc.

Don;t worry. If something is legitmately busted everyone will hear you and get back to you. But to whine on the internet? We cannot help you. Only teach you.

 

i will take the time to address your complaint of me (or others) that are my age, or close to it, or retired, at any age.

to me, there are NO GOOD starter companies...there i said it, and made it official.

starter companies pay crap wages, many times have crap benefits, very often work you to death, and make you sit at a rest area or truck stop for hours on end, maybe days on end, BEFORE they find you a load, just to get away from there.

i personally, NEVER worked for any mega company that so many here apply to. back in my day, they were not as large as they are now, point #1.

but i did work for large companies (not megas), and was very well taken care of, point #2

many (if not all) the employers i have worked for were either sold out, closed up, or merged with or bought out by the now what is known as "mega-carriers". so i could NEVER recommend those employers, and i'd certainly NEVER recommend you to any of them, if they still were, as my good name would be ruined in doing so.

given what I DO KNOW, about the treatment, pay, benefits, and all the complaints i READ ABOUT right here on this site, (and a few others i am a member of)....

why on this God's Earth, would i recommend such a place?...point #3.

i'd rather others that have experience WORKING at such places recommend to YOU and other newbies, where to go and get shafted, and for me to stay out of that foray of BS and banter on each of those companies.

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Reported. Mods do your job. This is a direct threat to me.

Edit: No. No. No. buddy just now edited his post after I posted this. Buddy put the reason for his edit as "spelling".

That is not right. Buddy deleted the YOUR which was capitalized in his original post. The "YOUR" changed the context of that whole sentence completely. He made a direct threat to me. That was not a "spelling mistake".

 

Trucking companies still try to nullify the hours of service rules by scheduling loads that constantly require you to sleep at different times of the day while their fat ##### clock in at 9am and out at 5pm everyday.

A VP once told me that I picked my profession, not him.. Looking back at it he was right. Want a normal job drive local. I start & end around the same time everyday within a hour..
If you are working at a irregular route OTR job being ready to roll when you have hours to drive is part of the job. I did it for over 20yrs so believe me I know how crappy it can be to keep changing when you drive. But I will tell you that I had more consistency when I ran in the evening & early mornings versus trying to be a solar powered driver.
Drivers should know that the OTR trucking industry is a 24/7 piece rate industry. They are exempt from the standard labor rules that most enjoy. And when you seat that truck you are basically on the job till you go home agian payed or not.
I know how crappy the HOS have become since I started driving. But the easiest way I found to solve my issues with the rules is to drive within a 115 road miles of my home terminal.

 

Actually the current HOS was pushed by citizen safety groups like MADD & CRASH with help & funding by the unions & railroads. If you think most trucking corps wanted this mess you bumped your head. If they had it their way OTR would still be on a 24hr clock with split sleeper allowed. The fact is that without shippers being held to account it makes it harder to run a trucking outfit under the current HOS & ELD/CSA mandate.
CSA scoring made ELD's a no brainer. There are still many companies using non- compliant cheaper alternatives for electronic logging that have about 2mos to get compliant for continuous recording of truck activity.

 

Threatening you? What's buddy gonna do? Come through the screen and beat you down? Thanks for the laugh