Fleeting want to shake up the trucking industry

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  1. scott180

    scott180 Road Train Member

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    A really really good pre trip would be needed.
     
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  3. Old Man

    Old Man Road Train Member

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    So they send you out, you get to the truck and it is a pos and super nasty inside. No thanks.
    But if I could dream up a start up and attract investors ......
     
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  4. Harry Flashman

    Harry Flashman Medium Load Member

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    Quite simple. You the driver, use the app to select a different company that has a load going home.

    Have fun testing out different tractors and moving all your junk in and out of a new truck after every load.

    No way.
     
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  5. scott180

    scott180 Road Train Member

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    It's easy to the potential and the downsides. I have a friend who would be happy to only work half a month.
     
  6. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    You guys may not know this clown but i and a few others do. He is trying to exploit a lie that we have a huge disconnect between drivers and jobs, driving a shortage of drivers in the industry at the very time we need less drivers and less capacity.

    Here is a quote from some interview he did.


    We want to change the stigma of working in transportation logistics — make it more appealing to bring more millennials, LGBTQ communities and other marginalized people to understand how important trucking is and that they can make a lot of money on their own terms. These are the things that in five years we look to be pioneering and leading: a new generation in trucking.

    Stigma?

    Working in "transportation logistics"?

    This all marginalizes it as a profession and shoves it right back into it being just a job.
     
  7. Old Man

    Old Man Road Train Member

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    Same as many brokers and shippers believe, a truck is a truck, they are all the same.
    But they just want a piece of someone else’s earnings.
    Will never get to 10,000 drivers as his business plan is built on.
     
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  8. Dale thompson

    Dale thompson Road Train Member

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    This concept has been tried. Blue something was a temp driver service and brokerage.
     
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