Experience...Does It Really Matter Anymore?

Freight is a commodity, moving freight is a commodity. in most industries the Top 10 players control as much as 80% of the industry. The Top 10 trucking companies, by size or revenue, control a lot less than that. The industry needs a vast amount of consolidation.

 

Hope I'm not clogging up the thread, but I just wanted to say one last thing: If you feel you're being underpaid or getting mistreated or whatever the reason, now is the perfect time to go after the job, pay and working conditions that you want. Don't sell yourselves short and know your worth, plenty of great companies hiring right now. It won't be an employee market forever.

 

Really?

 

i guess knowing where all the potholes are and red light sequences on some stretches of road equals more money

 

is it respect or is it money. its a job, what added value can a company really offer other than money.

you're barking up the wrong tree. most truckers are underpaid.. it really has nothing to do with experience
its the entire economic system, not many sectors have wages keeping up with cost of living for a very long time. and trucking has always been scraping the bottom of those charts

 

I understand a company driver working for company X at $0.60cpm thing and that there might be a cap and feeling of being underpaid

But this industry definitely has many avenues a driver can take to put themselves in a better paying job

A van is a van is a van but work for a company on a % that does something more specialized like oversized. Flatbed. Car hauling or ?

If you want to bump docks and get the average pay then how is that different than the person who wants to run a cash register rather than do landscaping because it’s indoors with ac and easy?

Every career has an avenue for more money and reward but you need to make a change and do something not everyone else wants to or can do

 

I'm not sure what attributes trucking use to have. I started in 2010 so I don't know what other veterans speak of.

It's kind of headed the way of consolidation...see Heartland Express. Lol. I think the smaller guys who don't things the right way are the ones that need to be exiled from the industry. Not everyone can own a company or business and it's too easy for anyone to do it.