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Fair points. But you know truck driver wages are going to go a lot higher.

1300 for a 70 hour week is a thing of the past. 18 dollars an hour is what is paid. Meanwhile a person can get a local job $30 an hour and be home every night.

I don't know what company you work for or your work record, but it seems you are underpaid.

 

It's comparable to any other company out there. My check is different week to week as you know how OTR is. I'm probably not making any more or any less than any other OTR driver. I think I'm doing fine lol. My job is doing what I need for it to do and I like where I'm at.

 

That's what it's all about. Being happy with what you have is worth a lot. People who chase dollars seldom catch them.

 

Ditto.
Of course,it also helps that I’ve been with my current employer for a while (6 years and counting) and not job hopping left and right. I get paid a decent amount of money (plus other benefits).
Not many companies do that for drivers nowadays. But then again you also have to look at the company’s stability.

 

####. Don't know how you do it. You must have a cool head at all times.

 

Stability is everything. That was one thing I was finally glad to be able to get to after so many years. Staying with one company really pays dividends, and I'm in year 3 with this one here. I just never understood how some drivers can't make one company work, they're all pretty much the same in a lot of ways. Sometimes drivers make change for the sake of change and that can be devastating.

 

That last sentence was one of the most profound statements I've ever read on here, and I wrote it down in one of my load assignment notebooks. Thank you for that. I agree with being happy with what you got. My mother used to tell me that it's better to choose happiness then to chase it.

 

Yeah. Mom was right. I'm not trying to say that money isn't important. I'd much rather have money than be broke. I chased dollars for awhile until a heart attack made me re-examine the way I was living.
It's a funny thing but I did better at accumulating money after I decided it wasn't my major goal in life. I'd rather go to my great grandson's t-ball debut this weekend than anything else I can think of.
If drivers want to chase money that's fine by me but for some people there will never be enough.

 

True. But you know what it feels like to be down and out?

It makes you want more.

 

But companies change, too. I was at my last major employer almost 9 years. It was no where near the same company I started at. Gave up some good benefits, seniority, vacation time, etc, because they went down that far. Hear from friends still there, that they can't hire drivers, have a lot of contractors moving their product these days.