Amazon is now rolling out branded tractors in its latest move to become a full-fledged trucking comp

Amazon will be first one to kick you out on a side like a dog, as soon as they lobby in parliament to allow self driving trucks on a public roads...

 

I've come to the realization that my kid's generation is going to be the first to go INTO The Matrix.

They care very little for reality they just want to be plugged in. Although it's something of an overrated Willy Wonka copy, Ready Player One sorta had the same theme.

Play video games, get your soylent green delivery (some ######## actually started a company called Soylent Green just to be a wise guy. It makes some sort of food-paste. Nutritionally correct, appetizing as a tube of toothpaste.)

If there's any bright side to this, it's that inspite of a mad rush to replace us with robotrucks, we're still 20 years out from a viable network. All the retail jobs, construction, warehousing, etc. will melt away before we do. Although the "great thinkers" haven't yet figured out what to do with 60-80% of the population unemployed (and the fact that they're already HAVING these discussions is chilling!) so truckers will probably be the last "unskilled labor" to be employable.

 

Kinds and millennials living in smartphone cause your #### generation totally ####ed the economy, I hear on left and right from older people , how they could afford to buy house or nice car just for working at McDonald's, nowdays thanks to your generation who sits on 3-4 houses renting it to other people and enjoying life, we millennials can't afford to buy anything, ####ing Big Mac meal in some states cost more then hourly minimum wage! You swallowed HOS, regulation, your swallowed ELD's, now you swallowing 1$ a mile loads !

 

Aiming a little high with that shotgun rook.

I'm right in the middle of the GenX demo. (And at this point I take pride in it, cause I don't have much else going for it.)

Highest divorce rate among parents? Check
More likely to have siblings through remarriage than biology? Check
Economy crashed when we entered the workforce? Look back when the first wave of factory jobs went overseas, 70's-80's
AIDS? Yeah that was when I was in my 20's and we all thought sex would get us killed.
The only good thing about the housing collapse is that I missed it because I wasn't in a position to buy in my 30's. I was still stringing together one deadend job after another and living with my divorced mother in a two bedroom apartment I grew up in. AT 35!

So yeah, save it for the OK Boomer crowd.

Xer's had to scramble and:
A.) built the gig economy, without apps!
B.) monetized the internet
C.) started many of these hipsters artesian small business that are revitalizing downtowns

Fact is, kiddo, you won't make REAL money until your in your 40's. And as a little investment advice, always look where people aren't looking. I got away from the Big Apple where I was running in circles and moved to a small Pennsylvania city with one of the highest crime rates per capita in the country. But when I was getting my feet on the ground in the job market half my "competition" couldn't keep away from the pot. So by working while others were doing drugs and flaking I got a good rep.

When I started driving trucks nobody would go to NYC. And a lot of the ones that did would hit bridges or get lost. I had a marketable advantage. Which I now profit from.

Is it a stable 9-5 where I get $65k to sit in a Dunder Mifflin cubicle all day? Hey when The Office looks better than what you actually do for a living, that ought to tell you something. But I'm getting by, and you will too.

 

Oh and another thing,,,

Boomers refused to retire at the traditional age. Holding onto most of the high paying upper management positions while cutting cost across entry level and middle management. It wasn't uncommon in the 90's-00's to be expected to do the work of 3-5 downsized positions for absolutely no increase in pay.

If anything Millennials will have a chance to rise through traditional corporate ladders as they are still young enough to pursue the track as Boomers finally retire/die off. While Xers (now in our 40's-60's) are too far along in our careers to change jobs.

Shoot, some of us will be eligible for SS in a decade, and place your bet when the first anti-social security movements will start. Boomers have enjoyed pensions most of us could never dream of (work 20 years, get paid retirement for 30 more!) Xers paid into the broken system but I'm sure major (admittedly needed) reforms will probably start being implemented in the next 20 years.

 

Anybody told you that BS knew they were talking to a sucker. Never was a time you could buy a house working at McDonalds

 

Not true, but you have to put in the time. At least, you could at one time.

One of my Uncle's had a brother in law (so not blood related but I see him maybe every 5 years at family gatherings.) went to "McDonald's University." Started out in the back, became a manager, became a "fix it" guy for failing franchises for a while, then gave it all up to study "this whole home computer thing". Probably the only guy in the family that can code. He was building computers in the late 70's!

But yeah, his McDonald's work paid for his early years in the 70's.

 

To be fair, the warehouse pay totals out to about the same as I was making at Swift. So it's not great, but it's still far from the worst.

Oh, they do. The employee handbook makes VERY clear that they do. It's a ####ing minefield in this company.

This. Only reason I'm considering driving one of their trucks is because I'm already in the warehouse, so it would be considered a lateral move to switch tracks like that, and because I'd like to actually use my CDL again. Also, I'm pretty happy with my benefits, so... yeah. Really don't feel like going through that setup process YET AGAIN.

Pay is currently $15.60/hr in the warehouse, not just eligible for OT but actually required certain times of the year. I haven't been able to get any confirmation RE: any aspect of the Class A driving positions, though, because nobody in the company seems to know what's going on just yet. Talking to HR today, I got the impression I was the first they'd heard of the new tractor fleet, because they thought I was talking about the non-CDL panel van positions... which is some other BS in and of itself. $20k investment to become a fleet manager and own a handful of the AMAZON BRANDED panel vans... not your branding as an IC with a "Leased to Amazon" decal somewhere on the van, but an actual Amazon company branding. I can't begin to express the level of insanity that reaches

Again, this has not been confirmed. Nobody I've talked to in-house knows quite what's going on just yet. The only $15/hr listings that I've seen thus far are for NON-CDL positions. Let's see what the Class-A listing actually ends up saying when the inevitable hiring actually starts

Forgive me for this, but my god, I hope the Millennials don't decide THAT'S the route they want to go. I hope to god it's my peers, GenZ, that decide to climb the corporate ladders. At least then it skips the insane generation and goes straight to a group that's sick equally sick of the Millennials' ########, but for the reason of we came AFTER the fact and largely refuse to buy into the propoganda

 

@MGE Dawn i have talked to many Amazon TOMV drivers, that’s what they are called at the Large warehouses across three states, the yard jockeys can and do take out the blue tractors to deliver local trailers to 20-50 miles away, they told me their hourly stays the same. Maybe they aren’t mentioning CPM but I doubt 50 mile trip will be worth It compared to hourly.