Performance-based pay is OK in a dedicated operation like LTL linehaul. It's not such a good idea for the majority of irregular-route truckload...
Key words = "I think".
Are you serious? You would be wasting your time driving a truck. All of those languages...esp the Chinese dialects and Spanish...are very much in...
Nope. No way. No how. Dealing with that traffic all day? Then all the waiting/delays at the ports? If it were an hourly gig with a daycab...
I spent 4 years as a P&D driver for FedEx. It was a good job, but there were days where I really got stressed out. Like when I got behind on...
Just google "path to citizenship"...there are over 15 million illegals in this country...do you think we are going to deport them all? Military,...
Don't worry. As long as there's drivers willing and happy to work for .25 cpm and O/O wiling to haul for a buck a mile and lease-purchase idiots...
Well, I applied to NEMF awhile back after getting the shaft from FedEx. NEMF wanted to start me out at .38 cpm. .38 cpm?!?!? I can make that...
No need for unions in OTR. So many are happy working for .25 cpm.
Why people work for slimebag outfits like this is way beyond me. No way in hell should drivers be buying tires...it's their truck, let them pay...
Driver, I see you are from Michigan...a state that has been hard-hit by the exodus of jobs from the auto industry. Jobs that mostly went to...
Rails ARE adding capacity by double-stacking trailers, becoming more efficient, widening tunnels/track and adding/refurbishing miles of track....
Hey runningman....just curious, but what was the final nail in the coffin? Was it a culmination of events or was it the one bad day with the...
Me personally, I would not drive for a contractor period. You are better off either being directly employed by the company itself or buying your...
Yeah, that's great advice Chompi. Sit down there making $0.00 waiting for some two-bit coolie outfit to buy new trucks while the bills keep...
Well, there's the rub. Depending on what barn you hire-on to, you can be stuck on the bottom of the seniority list for a long time. What's it...
I would not get into trucking if I could go back and have another go at it, as I believe the future of this industry is very bleak. There are...
You can't really compare OTR trucking to any other job. Because it's not a job, it's a lifestyle (but it pays like a job). About the only thing...
I worry about the future of this biz. Really, I do. This job can't be outsourced like a factory job, but that doesn't mean the government/big...
Reason is that if the big company jerks you around, you're stuck there unless you bail-out early. If you bail, they hit you up with the whole...
