Career change to TrUcKiNg......

I am 100% sure that this has happened AT LEAST once in the last 20 years................Has to have happened............I have fed drivers, given them rides, even got one a job for the company I was working for.........

I have met drivers who had been fired, walked on, spit on, trucks repo'd, etc. I have heard a million stories and only seen 20 or so truck drivers who were down on their luck who could provide simple proof of their profession (CDL or Valid Medical Card).

WHen I worked for Munson, a driver pulled in next to me and started asking questions about Munson. I gave him the number and answered his questions.......20 minutes later I was went a Quailcomm message to return to the truckstop and pick that driver up and call in. I was on my way home, (Munson's main terminal was here) and was told to bring that driver with me. They gave him $100 eating money and a job and we went down the road. He told me his story and it started with, "I haven't eaten in 2 days". I let him drive most of the way home..........he kept bugging me to drive..........He was a better driver then me and I learned allot from him. That was about 1990. things have gotten allot worse since then.............

Consequently, Truckers in soup lines would not surprise me even a little bit.

 

Yes, rohel(rail),schenider would be at the top of my list.

 

Their are many better companies to start with then PAM......Right now Schneider, Crete and Rhoel seem to be the best ones......and that too is subject to change with-out notice........

 

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Are you insane? things have gotten a lot beter. beter pay, beter equiment. I am stuned you would say that.

 

Better equipment? Yes! Better Pay? No. Better working conditions....not a chance........I started driving truck legally in 1979. Ever since then things have gotten a little worse every year........

Insane????? I have been accused before................

 

Ok you have been driving longer than i have been alive, so you most cerentaly have my utmost respect. but i have to disagree,Like i have said before my father owns a trucking company. And i have witnessed the changes thru the years, and seen the standard of living improve greatly
for his driver's, better homes, clothing and better cars( most of them drive better cars then i do,and my dad owns the company... but i digres.)
He does not pay more or less then the big boys, but he does pay them lol.

 

I just notticed you said you started driveing legally in 79,I started driving ilegal also(but don't tell any one)

 

I have worked for more then a couple who didn't pay me at all..........

 

I know you're not lieing.