Even flipping burgers pays more

If you think you are being paid an incorrect amount you should be speaking with the payroll department, not your driver leader.

 

Huh ? ...this is truck driving not a mecum auction .
Ya get what you are given and if ya got pride ya clean it up and make it yours .
My first issuesd truck was an 83 flc cab over with rusty wheels and stunk .
That changed over one weekend of elbow grease .
Suck it up dog .

 

You should be making a 6-figure salary in your first week! Not fair.

 

I'm a former smoker, i vape now. My wife is a heavy smoker at over a pack a day. The smell nauseates me. I gag anytime she gets close me after she smokes.

Every truck I've gotten was smoked in, except for my brand new mack that builders gave me. It had 12 miles in it when i got in it.

Of the smoked trucks, you'll have to deal with it. Smoking and trucking go to together like bars and beer.

 

Personally, I wouldn't put up with all that crap, driving around for free collecting abandoned trucks, then having to cleaning up said trashed truck. Waiting around for free, like someone else stated doesn't seem like they're that busy with freight. Oh ya some will mention the "old days" of trucking twin sticks, plywood across the seats of a day cab for a bed, no A/C or power steering... Back then men were men... Ya but back then the rates were higher, meaning you actually made money. Today all this is lost. You have to drive 4k miles a week, actually work 80+ hours a week @ .35cpm. After you break it down you're better off flipping burgers or bagging groceries..... At least you'll be home at night and actually get paid for hours on clock. Bottom feeder mega companies don't care, hire a hundred if one person lasts a year it's a success.

 

I don't mean disrespect but this job is what you make of it overall
And NOTHING gets handed to you ..I hate smoke smell too and the truck I just bought stunk ...clean every inch of it and it will go away .

 

I may do some stuff without getting paid, but if you take my weekly pay divided by my weekly hours, I'm making nowhere near as low as a burger flipper, even counting overtime hours, which burger flippers do not usually get, because they don't want to pay those rates.

And anyone who works for 35 cpm without getting serious accessory pay is either new, has a crappy record, or is not bothering to find the work that pays what they are worth.