Is there any trucking companies out there that treat you different like the old days where you were

They had to with a 55mph limit nationwide.

 

you learned from your peers, the old timers that knew.

if you screwed up, you were called on it and then you OWNED UP TO IT, and corrected yourself.

 

Dynamic Transit seems pretty old school

 

Exactly right.

 

@Moose1958 ahh the good old days!

Yes, compliance today is enforced more often, and it may cost more to be in compliance, yet I believe it is still less costly than the corruption that ran rampant in the good old days.

Not to mention imagine having a government agency tell you not only what you may haul, where you may haul it to/from and what you may charge for it!

Lastly, we all pick on the large carrier and some of it is deserved, however none of them are intentionally hiring drivers that will crash and kill folks -especially being self insured. It is just a matter of numbers, the shear amount of miles their fleets operate daily will.lead to so many crashes. As a former towing company owner I can tell you I have cleaned up as many, if not more, serious crashes from owner ops and small fleets as I have the megas.

I miss the camaraderie of days gone by but I sure don't miss the rough riding and sparsely equipped trucks. I learned to drive on the Diamond Reo in my avatar, love the truck and would love to have it as a collector item, but no way in heck would I want to still be driving it daily.

 

I remember an old guy that was then retired after moving to Georgia from somewhere in the northern midwest US. He drove for the old Brillion Ironworks and told me many stories of just how corrupt things were in the 20s and 30s. One such time was just after the 29 stock market crash and he was almost hijacked somewhere near Milwaukee. Yes, back in the good ole days it was corrupt! Heck, even what has then considered DOT was corrupt. You paid to play. NOBODY ran a truck without approval. One more thing, those lumpers you see in almost every grocery warehouse? They are a lasting legacy of a seriously corrupt time. I still think some of these lumper company owners have ties to the mafia.

 

Were making the same amount of money as we did 30 years ago

 

I think it can be argued that taking living on the road costs that are now limited in being deductible into account a driver's true buying power is less then it was 20 years ago. The average OTR driver is not keeping up!

 

Because it was better. Fewer regulations. No nanny Eld , no radar crash avoidance systems, no driver facing cameras. We ran hard and made good money without big brother looking over your shoulder all the time. The independence of trucking is all but gone now. The trucks are more comfortable today... that's the only improvement I can see.

 

I would also add that drivers had some manners when it come to fuel islands and blocking them. I can remember back in the 60s drivers would sit at tables and talk, some would read a newspaper, almost all would have a smoke. They also thought they should be the Sec Of State. I still remember watching drivers react to the casualty figures put up by the network news nightly broadcasts most at the time felt that we should bomb the Vietcong into last century. This was the days before cell phones, CB radios were just starting. No QCs so drivers were calling in for dispatch info. Sometimes drivers waiting in lines to use the phones. I was only 10 years old in 1968, but dang if I can almost taste how good those burgers were then.