Driver pay

Well mate, you can call me whatever you want but not everyone appreciates the Swift roadblock while 2 governed trucks are backing up traffic having a race to see who has the fastest 62mph. Some of us actually want to make some money.

 

A study on truck driver pay? How many millions are they going to spend on doing what I'm doing here for free? The "tires ain't turning, you ain't earnin" is all good and well until you're stuck in traffic, weather or held up at a customer location. Why don't they just give us half of the money that they plan to devote to this year long study and just have us tell them the answers? Although they'd get the answers for free if they just simply asked. When will they start asking the drivers instead of the CEO's of the megafleets? When will the ATA stop being the sole go to voice for the industry while anything from anyone representing drivers falls on deaf ears? When will the focus shift to retention as opposed to recruiting efforts? As another commenter on this thread said When a bucket is this leaky simply turning up the faucet does little good. The ATA represents corporations whose shareholders demand maximum productivity for minimum labor costs. They satisfy their shareholders by hiring primarily new drivers that they can pay by the mile then they keep them out on the road for weeks or even months at a time and just burn them out on the road. Then when the new driver burned out after not seeing his/her family for weeks where he/she has been confined to what has become a rolling prison cell finally looks over their logs, looks at their last paycheck, takes out their calculator and realizes that they didn't even make minimum wage they quit! Who could blame them? Until that gets addressed, until the government figures out that the ATA isn't actually complaining about a lack of qualified drivers but rather a lack of cheap labor to exploit all of their studies are just a waste of taxpayer money and resources.