I hate to break it to all it is not just K&B, it is trucking biz that is built in such a way that you just cannot be legal and make any kind of...
I am sory if you need to stick a label on reality to feel better. Positive psychology is a rage in the corporate world. A positive peon puts up...
OTR job is OK only if doesn't last too long, otherwise, you'll have mighty hard time making the best of it. And then, of course, there are anti...
I worked on a dedicated account. The amount of backstabbing and behind back action was about the same as elsewhere, which is quite amazing...
Some janitors make over 100k, so? I'll give my personal anecdote. One certain big company I worked for advertised my old almost local job offering...
F Trucking is a classic example of a dead end job, you start as a truck driver, you end as a truck driver. On the average one makes about the...
Trucking is an employment of the last resort that leads nowhere (except maybe early death, it is not like you live much when you drive). Otherwise...
Deflated airbags did this for me last time.
It takes just a few days to purge cigarette smoke smell, in a week it is all gone no matter what cancer law suits say. This industry lives off...
It is called wage slavery for a reason. The cards are stack against the people who must sell their labor to live. And it really sucks to be at the...
OTR driving makes simplest things hard or impossible to do, especially if there is little help at home. Hurricane evacuation while doing OTR for a...
I've been around. You cant run 9 hrs/day like a clock, it takes clock like dispatch and outside circumstances, which is rare. I used to run 6...
You have basically to give up on your life, health and yourself to "run hard" to make a few extra pesos that would not make a dent in the looming...
Public service. It is a warning to the newbies who get skewed ideas about the job after reading flatbed fans like yourself. A person new to...
Sure you don't. You invest all the energy into creation of a soothing bubble validating your choices. Why bother? If you like to flatbed you do...
Is it a public forum or it's a reinforcement club for your kind? If you like to flatbed, you like it, it is your preference. I was addressing...
I wonder how flatbed industry will work in ELD mandate. They are so used to stealing drivers time, it could be the shock they are not equipped to...
I wised up long time ago. It was a shock to make 1.3 times more money for 50% less work while tripling + home time, and I took 2cpm cut to get on...
Most home every weekend dedicated van jobs pay way above 1k even at 41cpm on a slow week. One has to be really down the food chain to consider...
From my 4 years + of flatbedding experience with major flatbedfing companies - company flatbed driving is more on the stupid side. So much hard...
