Driver retention

No. The future emplyee (driver looking for a job) decides if the ABC Trucking pay & benefits are acceptable to him. 90% of the prospects & newbies coming into trucking want to get a free CDL and get paid starting today and then start B.M. & C. that the bottom of the barrell company THEY picked pay is low, home time is scarce, and has a broken truck. They won't research, ignore warnings, and want the govt to solve all of their problems.

 

It seems some companies will not raise pay but simply find drivers in poorer or more crime-ridden countries where making $500/week is more than everyone in the 5 nearest villages combined. Drivers have no power because you can "make a new driver" in 3 weeks. Trucking companies have little power because even the mega company has less than 10% of the capacity he could withhold from a bad customer. It's like one rain drop going on strike tn a hurricane.

 

My customer, when I worked for hourly pay, charged the party responsible for a production line stoppage thousands of dollars per minute. The owner of the supplier causing a delay would show up if I had to wait over 1 hour because it would cost him days to weeks of revenue. The whole world of business isnt like the skid-row reefer side of trucking.

 

I was hourly for 18 years. It's not a solution for everything. You get rid of some problems and receive other problems to replace them. But since drivers are regulated by hours, we have electronic monitoring of those hours, and instant commumication of that data in real-time hourly pay removes a lot of dishonesty that all sides of the steering wheel have depended on for generations.

 

Or do a "jetset" program to fly poors in from economically depressed areas because they don't want to pay the area's prevailing wage.

 

I always read those dumb posts about young people not wanting to work... don't be jealous that they're not falling for the dumb stuff you did. If enough of them stand up where you didn't, some actual changes might happen in the industry, rather than a bunch of dopes puffing out their chests and acting like they're hardcore for getting duped by corporations. Lmfao

 

It's not right on any level that this industry largely does not pay overtime. End of story. I will not watch you do your contortions and mental gymnastics to make it sound like I'm wrong. The end.

 

My last hourly pay job still had drivers that would flat out rob the company by working and driving as slow as they possibly could. The company knew what they were doing (driving at 55mph on empty 70mph highways etc) but were powerless to stop it.

Whenever job performance came up, driver ran to the union, claimed he was being forced to drive in a manner he felt was unsafe and the company would back down.

Even with 30 hrs OT at the busiest times when I was local, I still make more doing OTR/CPM. Sure it would be nice to have every working hour paid, but I don't want to trade bigger paychecks for "all time worked, being paid".