Anyone discussing this?

Sadly even Walmart looks to have dropped there standards. Now they only want a year,

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSee...=myrec&IPATH=JEHRAXA&sc_cmp2=10_JobMat_JobDet

 

Oh no I was posting on another thread and it was about his Walmart drivers were the cream of the crop. Well I guess that's changing.

 

Sadly. I live less than 5 minutes from that DC. They have a few drivers with just a little over a year experience. Not knocking them as so do I. Just sucks to see they might start acing like all the great companies they use to haul there freight.

 

As is the case with many industries, there are many who are approaching retirement. There will be a vast array of job opening's in the near future in a variety of fields. The current crop of 35-40 year old's are of the college degree group, so the replacemnts for the industrial jobs will fall to the less experienced 25-35 crowd.

 

Many of those of all ages with college degrees find there are few openings in their field. They have to turn to other careers.

 

How true...... Metro paid me $8.00 an hour to right seat an Otter on a regional hop. I think I was in for 40k by the time I got that job. I try not to think about that anymore.......

 

It just reminds me of that book The Grapes of Wrath, when all the dustbowl farmers went to California looking for work, and then they would see fliers for work picking grapes or peaches, claiming they needed the workers, paying 25 cents a bushel, and then when more workers came, either takes 22 cents a bushel, or someone else will take your spot. Then more people came, and the pay went to 20. Then 15.

These CDL mills are almost the same thing. They keep bringing in more and more people, saturating the industry with more and more drivers, more and more trucks. Isn't 10,000 trucks enough?
I still cannot fathom how a company that big doesn't completely buckle under the weight of their own largess.

And yes, I do remember seeing JB Hunt's trailers saying hiring up to 42 cpm. And every 4th trailer I see going down the road would have some sort of pay offer on the back. Hiring at x cpm. Now I don't see that at all.

I think it's about time the government does away with these tax breaks. Instead, they should be spending more on giving states money to build more rest areas, tax breaks to build a truckstop with x amount of parking, and upgrading and building more interstate highways.

If I69 was completed all the way from MI to TX by now, my job would be much easier. I don't particularly enjoy taking US59 all the way from Texarkana to Victoria. It would be great if it were all limited access by now.

 

WOO thread of the day.

 

There is no "overall" driver shortage, the driver shortage lie is perpetuated by mega carrier CEO's (through thinly veiled recruiting "news" stories)- who can't grow their own companies (money talks - BS walks - always has) - and have to constantly cannibalize each other to keep arses in the seats.

The vast majority of freight is still hauled by independents anyway.

 

And yes, I do remember seeing JB Hunt's trailers saying hiring up to 42 cpm. And every 4th trailer I see going down the road would have some sort of pay offer on the back. Hiring at x cpm. Now I don't see that at all.


That was for hazmat and it was pie in the sky.......You were basically limited to 2500 miles / max a week under hazmat and it wasn't a steady diet. Just another gimmick. Or so I was told.