Indian River Transport, Co. - Winter Haven, FL.?

I just read the last few threads and I'm surprised that some drivers will work for so little. bringing home less then 1k a week and working weeks on end with only 1 day off for every week out. mitchtazz sounds like he getting paid well.

 

Working weeks on end and getting a day off for every week out is the norm in the OTR world. It isn't for everybody, but neither is being home all the time.

 

I get being out for weeks at a time but being paid as little as some drivers get paid is sad. I did a year in half of OTR and I know its a tough gig. I drive daycab now. My hat goes of to the drivers that live in there truck for weeks at a time just think they deserve a better wage.

 

It's only a small percentage of those that don't make much money who have themselves to blame. 9/10 of those who don't make much just aren't with the right company and aren't in the right situation. But I will agree that driver wages to need to increase tremendously. The reason we have to work as hard as we do to keep the bills paid is because we have to make up for cheap wages. No one would run 3000+ a week if they could make the same money while running fewer miles, and the industry wide problem of driver fatigue would get much smaller.

 

So because a driver can make the choice to work for whatever company he wants as long as he meets their qualifications, that somehow makes it ok for companies who pay next to nothing to continue doing so? The drivers of a company are the ones who generate every penny of revenue because the only product a trucking company has to offer is service, which is provided exclusively by the drivers. Without the drivers, those in the company who have an executive role and are making money hand over fist would have nothing, and yet the driver is always the lowest on the company payroll's totem toll. Are you telling me you don't find any fault with those who do all of the work receiving the smallest piece of the pie and then being told if they don't like it they can essentially go #### themselves?

 

Spring Chicken...ever consider a career change? I've read a lot of your posts and almost every one has a definite negative tone to it.

Man, if you hate driving so much why not just get out of it? There are things in this business that will never change. The bosses and the top execs make the bucks. They're harder to find and harder to replace than drivers. It's always been that way and I don't see it ever changing. Sad but true.

A good driver can make a good living but that's all he'll ever do. I think you need to be a little more realistic in what your expectations are for a driving career. Or...get promoted, get a job in the office dispatching and work your way up from there. See what it's like on the other side of the desk. I did...and it was a real eye opener.

 

Spring chicken. What's up with the photo of the Buick?

 

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