How many times have you switched jobs

i switched more times, than Carter has liver pills.

that was back in the day, and it was normal.

now a days, try and stay with a company at least 1 to 3 years.

there may be no real companies to call home.

one time i interviewed and the guy asked me what i wanted

i said a place to hang my hat and stay a while.

rude SOB told me, that means people are lazy and don't wanna work.

needless to say, i went on to a better job offer, a dedicated accounts company, and that guy went bankrupt, as he had too many drivers get tickets, accidents, late pick ups, deliveries, and lost customers..

how did i find that out..??

1 of his drivers applied at my company

i got in the last laugh

 

Last 30 only 2.
1st 20 maybe 10.

 

2x 1993-2004
Worked for the biggest AH ever 2004-2021

Couldn't help it and hired back on with him again 2021-present

 

sorta like this....

 

I know of companies where job hopping is not a disqualifier and applicants with 15 jobs in the last 3 years have gotten hired. It all depends on the hiring policy of each company

 

When I started back in 1995 I switched jobs every 4 months for the 3 years on average. The forth year I made a year at one as well as the following year then I became a O/o for 6 months took a year break from trucking and worked another job for 20 years. Now as a O/o lease on again I've switch with one after 2 months of them messibg with my money. So far the current one has some dispatch personality deficiencies but I'm maintaining to put up with it probably until next year.

The key to success as a driver is to think ahead of those owners, managers, dispatchers etc. Plenty play mind games so you need to have a end goal as a driver. If you worked at 10 different places in 2 years state you worked at 3 and so on. No company representative wants to believe you're the problem as a driver when in more cases or less it's dispatchers or manager put drivers in difficult situations setting them up for failure.

 

They like the label us certain things in this industry to get out of facing the obvious. The reason so many truck drivers job hop is the way they’re treated at these companies. End of story. When you run into a company that doesn’t advertise because they don’t have to and their drivers stick around and then you go work for that company? All your questions are answered. After a couple months you start to think, “I will never leave this company“. It’s funny how drivers get the short end of the stick and almost every angle in this industry. We get blamed for everything even job hopping. When it’s these horrible companies, breaking promises, full of lies, ripping us off, force us to job hop. I finally found my final company. And let me tell you it was a true eye-opener to how badly I was getting ripped off and treated at these other two companies I worked at prior to this one.

 

I’ve lost count how many company driver jobs I’ve had because most of them weren’t worth remembering.

I did have a couple I thought I’d retire from.

One of them I made well over 6 figures, I was treated with respect, dispatchers were fired if they didn’t treat the driver fairly. It was like bizarroworld of trucking. After several years working there one day we get called in for a meeting and we’re told the company has been sold. The new owners promptly ran all the drivers out and it was out of business within a year.

Don’t ever get comfortable anywhere in this business.

There are no careers, just jobs. Most of them horrible.

 

I was a charter bus driver for 20 years, worked for four different companies during that time, usually changing because I moved to a different city. I switched over to truck driving four years ago, and got very lucky, the company with the closest terminal to my house ended up being a great family-run outfit that was a good fit for me, so I’m still with them.