Does Experience mean nothing??

Just wait a while because the oilfield is about to pop up again, you mark my words on this. I would love to be in your shoes right now though because I hear a lot of drivers like the load choice board.

 

There are some jobs where a driver is paid for what he knows, as well as what he does. But those jobs usually don't advertise.

 

These so called monkeys are the ones always running into something and not reading signs.The true professionals are skilled and very good at it.

 

Turn wheel left
Turn wheel right
Put strap on

Learn it in 15 minutes like Sly Stalone.

Some ppl just suck.
Its not hard.

 

lol

 

LOL... When I enlisted in the Army I scored pretty high on the ASVAB test and the guy at the AFEES Station spent about an hour and a half trying to convince me to enter a bunch of different fields, but at 17 I knew what I wanted and told him to put down truck driver and Europe or I was leaving.

He said, and quote "I can teach a chimp to drive a truck" I said, well I should be no problem then LOL

 

Just think that there is no driver shortage, we are swamped with drivers who pull the wages down. We need a real drivers shortage to make demand higher than supply.

One issue is we are viewed as a commodity, not a professional and that is our own fault. When this happens, wages go down and nothing helps.

Do you think unionization would help with professionalism?

Not a bit, it makes it worse.

 

What we have is a huge shortage of excellent professional drivers that have a passion for what they do.But steering wheel holders,ya we have more then enough of them and getting worse.There's ppl waiting in line to take the place of steering wheel holders.

 

Yesterday or the day before I was trying to just be a regular guy that figures out the implications of a possible IPO. Not that the current rates (cpm) are very favorable but this is more than what it was 5 years ago. I've gone through old threads on here and seen it to be 5cpm or more less than the current rates. It's gone up but not significantly. I've been on crossroads to run across the "why we want to remain union free" section. I clicked it. Kind of funny. In short, "we want to keep freight cheap for our customer" was the main focus. Not "we're huge and could find a way to pay our safe reliable drivers like well paid union drivers". It's pretty much all about keeping freight cheap. Even the IC program doesn't pay as well as it should. If you take into consideration that for every successful IC that nets 70k a year there are 2 more unsuccessful that go broke. Probably more like 4. But if that is the case, the amount paid to that successful IC driver is a wash. Because of the 4 that failed. They really don't care. I'm sure they made money somehow on each driver. Getting back to my original point though, with an IPO the interest fades to profits for the share holders. That's assuming the interests are not already on the profits. The mega scheme doesn't work with any situation when it comes to the workers. Unless you're talking about profits for the company. Like mentioned above, side deals are made for fuel, tires and so on because of power. This ends up hurting the smaller companies or an O/O. Unions can be good and also bad. Ultimately I haven't come up with an overall answer. Other than we're screwed! Can't we just make Trump and Hillary president at the same time? Both are clearly owned by corporations. There's no end in sight....