Can I negotiate higher than 36 cpm for non experience , right out of CDL school?

I love it too, he should get every penny he can. I never begrudge a person trying to earn as much as they can as long as it's honest.

 

40 years ago I was still in the Air Force, I had just that summer made E4 and was close to going TDY back to Chanute AFB for my 7 level training. Anybody in here sharp enough to catch that E4 - 7 level thing knows it was rare. Had to do it because my AFSC was only about 25% manned, and I had a special waiver. Dang I should have stayed in too! I was making the great sum of $505 a month!

 

Mid 20's to high was the rate combined with 25% percentage here and there. Otherwise Union Pay for larger amounts.

I am expressing the stagant wages if not actual falling wages because the constant inflow of newbies who know nothing about history of pay in trucking today being told that they will have pay in the .30's per mile range.

"Oh ok." I don't think so. That is why I am taking a strong position to advocate that if I am being paid close to 50 in 2001 it's freaking 18 years later while COLA has probably raised my disability between .03% to 3% a year (Including a period of no increase at all during the Obama presidency) to try and keep up with cost of living increases, trucking wages have NOT kept up.

I did way better in the late 80's early 90's before NAFTA and CDL stuff than I have ever done later in life. Keep in thinking also the quality of the american dollar went to bottom since we were taken off the Gold Reserve in about 1971-1974 time period.

 

Yeah, that's a bit more like it, fella.

It's still second-hand knowledge to you and I.

 

You didn't express that very well. You made it sound like that's what YOU were making in trucking in 1978.

Which you weren't. Because you weren't trucking then.

 

Hey, I include myself!!

November 1978 I was just getting settled in my sophomore year in high school.

Our Frequent Poster is two years younger than I am.

I'm just losing patience with all the bad gas he's pumping......

 

I don't understand how someone can go through all their teens AND 20s and never work. I'm a gamer too, there's nothing like sitting down and indulging in some fantasy now and then. But I had to have money to buy them.. and I wanted money!