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For all that care the ride was nice. We stayed on the gravel as that my newest boy doesn't quite have the stanima nor the coridination for riding along the paved road. We also went to the hardware store and foolishly spent some money instead of hoarding it in these gloomy times. We got and installed some floodlights over the garage doors and continued the ongoing project of basement remodeling.

 

Really no true falses? Could have sworn I remembered them but alas it has been awhile.

 

When I started the economy was in a lot better shape and there weren't tens of thousands of out of work experienced drivers competing with hundreds of thousands of inexperienced people for jobs . The industry has changed considerably in the last year . No one is voluntarily giving up a good job . Spending thousands of dollars on trucking school to take a seat left by someone that had enough of being abused and underpaid is not better than unemployment . Many of the eager beavers that signed into the Welcome Wagon a few months ago are now unemployed . Go ahead . Check the Welcome Wagon forum and show me all the members that are happily employed now . You might find a handful but far less than 10%.

 

mo family man you are alright!! the trucking industry does suck right now but anything is better than nothing for sure!!

 

In the last ten years has seen some of the best economic times and some of the worst in the modern era. I submit to you that during all times your informal welcome wagon poll would yield similar results. As I said I speak from being in the cab for seven years training these new guys. Watching the happiness they all felt at the beginning wilt away to be replaced by grim reality. The realization that it wasn't the two weeks away from the wife that they thought they could handle but rather two weeks followed by two more weeks and so on.

 

The bottom feeder carriers love that attitude and it's why no improvement is in sight . Desperate wannabes figure living in a truck and earning enough to eat is better than sitting on a corner with a sign "Will work for food " . They have a 70 hour a week job that gives them grocery money but not much more . That's why companies like Werner are still hiring drivers from schools while they are reducing fleet size and finding excuses to fire experienced drivers .

 

Actually most companies do require a refresher course if you have not used your CDL in 12 months.

My Fiance was OTR for a year and then decided to to go back in the army and then after his enlistment was up he went back to OTR and then back in the army for obvious reasons (Better benefits)

He went to Central refrigerated over a year ago and he still had his CDL and still had to do the 10 days at the school and then 28 days with a trainer.

He is still with Central after a year so there not all that bad in our opinion.

Have I ever wanted to go in and beat the load planner to death with the tire thumper ......Sure I have.

I know someone will say they are just a CDL MILL and yeah in a lot of ways they are.......They still have a few experienced guys there, who just do there job and don't whine and Biotch.

But they're also not hiring anyone with experience right now unless they want to Lease and there is a waiting list on the Lease trucks.

Personally if I owned a large trucking Company I would be looking at guys who worked at the crappy companies and stuck it out for a few years, least I would know they were one tough Cookie........But that's just my opinion and not even my Therapist agrees with me, and aren't they supposed to?