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Currently making $116,000 a yr locally at small company, but they are reducing pay

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$83,000? For dry van work out of Atlanta? Yeah, I'd definitely be looking elsewhere. $116,000 a year for dry van work is the bottom of the barrel. $83,000 is entering C.R. England level pay.

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Scooter Jones said: ↑

$83,000? For dry van work out of Atlanta? Yeah, I'd definitely be looking elsewhere. $116,000 a year for dry van work is the bottom of the barrel. $83,000 is entering C.R. England level pay.
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my sarcasm detector just went off the charts!

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Bakerman said: ↑

my sarcasm detector just went off the charts!
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And so did mine

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83K, home all weekends and not work hard for decent employer??

I'll come out retirement for that!!!!!!!!!

that's a job most everybody that doesn't like OTR is hunting for.

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I am reminded of a very old story which is based somewhat on the sea. The boy who stood on the burning deck to keep the battleship in the fight even though it might cost him very much or everything.

In this case 83K is awesome. Stack it until the one paycheck fails to clear. Then you will know if not already that the company is finished.

Go down with your boots on buried to your knees in brass casings I say.

With Cass Index last friday and Baltic Dry's continued failures this week I am getting to where this is the time to do what you can to be ready for a shortage situation in our Economy. We will get through this time but you have to play for keeps. All of us have a number to our days.

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I was very fortunate to get on with this company through a friend. I lucked out because I was going to work for a mega. have been working here for the past few years. It's kind of small with only 13 drivers and I have loved it here mainly because we don't work all of that hard. We get weekends off every single week and we don't touch any of the Freight. Only use an average of 8 hours a day on our clocks.

Yesterday, the boss called all of us in for a meeting and told us that they are going through a couple of setbacks and unfortunately he is going to have to cut our pay. He did say it is only temporary, but could not give any of us a time estimate on when everything would be back to normal. He says that he thinks of all of us like a family and appreciates all of the hard work we have done and said he understands if we want to leave, but said he will not forget those of us that have stuck around and went through the hard times with him.

I asked a driver who has been working here for 15 years and he says that this is the first pay cut that he has ever seen oh, but he did say that the boss is a very fair man and he does his best for us.

So far, one driver has been talkin about quitting.

As of this moment, my pay has been cut all the way down to $83,000.

my question is how long should I wait this out before I start seeking other employment?
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One thing I learned is honest bosses remember loyal employees.

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truckerdave77 said: ↑

I was very fortunate to get on with this company through a friend. I lucked out because I was going to work for a mega. have been working here for the past few years. It's kind of small with only 13 drivers and I have loved it here mainly because we don't work all of that hard. We get weekends off every single week and we don't touch any of the Freight. Only use an average of 8 hours a day on our clocks.

Yesterday, the boss called all of us in for a meeting and told us that they are going through a couple of setbacks and unfortunately he is going to have to cut our pay. He did say it is only temporary, but could not give any of us a time estimate on when everything would be back to normal. He says that he thinks of all of us like a family and appreciates all of the hard work we have done and said he understands if we want to leave, but said he will not forget those of us that have stuck around and went through the hard times with him.

I asked a driver who has been working here for 15 years and he says that this is the first pay cut that he has ever seen oh, but he did say that the boss is a very fair man and he does his best for us.

So far, one driver has been talkin about quitting.

As of this moment, my pay has been cut all the way down to $83,000.

my question is how long should I wait this out before I start seeking other employment?
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Your boss might have lost out on a good contract and maybe a mega is going to take over for cheap.

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$83,000? For dry van work out of Atlanta? Yeah, I'd definitely be looking elsewhere. $116,000 a year for dry van work is the bottom of the barrel. $83,000 is entering C.R. England level pay.
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C.R. is closer to 90.

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I don't understand this bashing of 80000 #### dollars. Come on now. My income is a #### sight less than 18000 a year. And I am scratching out something from that. If I had suddenly come into 80000 clams there is going to be a one hell of a clambake .....

In fact I might just drive a truck once every 5 years. It would be a hell of a good time off between the necessary need to make that kind of money to finance the next 5 years.

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Mid-May Trucker said: ↑

C.R. is closer to 90.
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Okay, so I was off by $7,000 a year LOL

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