Abf

If you want to make good money be ready to bust your tail off.
No one wants to pay you to do nothing and put your feelings ahead of their business operations.
This applies to anything not just trucking.

 

I think he thought he could go to work and sit around in the breakroom and have immunity from discipline because it's a union job, then he found out that it is hard work and they expect you to work.

 

That's right. ...
If you agree to the wage offer
You then should do your part of the agreement
....if you discover that the agreement doesn't hold much value, you should then do the right thing and dissolve the agreement in the proper matter
"NOT CRY ABOUT IT "
Any union job is going to have an organized agenda backed up with a contract that has been voted in by ALL involved

 

Your own wife? Lmao

 

I am to sleep with only my own wife ? Been doing it wrong all these years ?

 

Well my fellow veteran truckers I myself as a new breed of truckers understand that it don't matter where you go you have to pay your dues, so please don't think we all are entitled brats, my current company gave me a chance to get on the LTL division and yes as the others fellow truckers have said bust your tail off and always be on time at the end it would paid off.

 

Personally, I think ABF is way over rated, and the pay really isn't all that great either.
In my area, you start off at 19 bucks an hour and max out at about 24 bucks an hour.
True, the pension and the medical bennies are great, but from the pay standpoint, for all the work and constant hustle and hellish (and I do mean hellish) dock work, 24 bucks an hour really stinks.
I worked for them awhile back and I was amazed at all the background checks done on me as part of their hiring process.....

All for a 19 bucks an hour part time job driving a truck.

I was a good delivery driver but I really sucked on the dock. Maybe I hated it so much, therefore I sucked; or maybe it was the other way around..... who knows?
Anyways, when I told them that I was quitting, most of my fellow employees along with management were mildly shocked; nobody quits ABF.
Well I did and I wish that there were some way to provide background checks on ABF for potential drivers so that any potential newbies don't waste their time trying to get in.

 

Ask the people in the Central States Pension fund how great their pension is.....

 

"...But...But...But... I've been out here six whole months, accident free. I even drove in the snow a few times! Now where's my $90000 per year job where I get an hour and a half paid lunch break, never touch freight in my trailer, never work before 6AM or after 9pm, etc