Maverick: Want to hear why people are quiting

Keendriver · Dec 10, 2011

Meltom said: ↑

Would you haul this load?

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Nope, if I can't drive it on I don't want it.

bhowe · Feb 5, 2012

Krom said: ↑

I forgot about an added bonus of 34 hours restart, but people who mess with HOS remember about that.

You know, this emphasis on "poisitivity" of yours didn't come with your momma milk. You've been trained to be cheerful and positive from the ripe age of 2, corporate world and media world are saturated with positivity and for a reason. First reason is obvious - selling stuff of dubious value/necessity without (faked) positive attitude decreases sales. The rest are not that obvious. Cult of positivity is a new religion that was supposed to deliver us from all evils, yet as more folks trash their individuality to become a positive drone (as seen on TV), things are getting crappier and crappier all around (not speaking of boring sterile uniformity of everything). I don't want to go into lengthy discussion of details, just a main point - cult of positivity "helps" wage units to stick their heads deeper down their arses that, in its turn, creates a nation wide effect of the "Matrix". Cult of positivity is nothing but a corporate sponsored escape from sad reality. Way too many are eager to escape, if self-adjustment doesn't help, there are variety of pills to get positive and cheerful. how many are on Prosac etc.? 20, 25%, that's a huge number pointing at some major trouble.

Personally, I don't have a problem with naturally "positive" folks and never try to convert them into my personality, I dislike uniformity. By you are SO brainwashed, you don't think twice about hinting on abnormality of different outlooks than that of the religion you embraced. And that kind of righteousness doesn't come with your momma' milk either. Being positive, it's just another way to cope with reality, no matter what they say it doesn't increase your chances in the wild. Yup, with relatively recent corporate push for uniform positive attitude and corporate personality "positive" (fake and real) crowd has a definite edge in the rat race due to rampant personality discrimination. Yet, I'd rather be myself than a self-adjusting dron shaping and reshaping himself according to the latest race requirements. There is so much fakeness around already.

Look, if I'll ask you, "What you are positive about?". Most likely you'll answer, "I've got a good job, life, children, etc.". In other words you are positive in the sense "I've got mine, screw (or ignore) everything and everybody outside of my happy and positive world, nothing can rain on my parade". In a way, a pig on feedlot is positive and happy in the same way if his trough is full, a pig doesn't care about shiet leeching in drinking water, soil eroding, Mississipi blooming with algae, Mexican gulf dying, antibiotics, slaughterhouse, etc., etc.. His trough ("glass") is half full, and that's all that matters. And that's depressing. Honestly, if you have a little of knowledge and critical thinking (that's little bit self-aggrandizing, but oh well), there is nothing to be positive about UNLESS you concentrate on your trough (glass) and go for it. I guess some people are genetically incapable of creating mental states of obliviousness to be sufficiently positive, the way they like it.

I've been a flatbedder for 4 years, a good one, safe and stupidly helpful (that reciprocity is a biaatch), . I didn't do it to maximize my earnings, I knew stuff I posted here 4.5 years ago. I guess priorities change, at some point in time having less stress and extra 3 hours (at least) per day, 15 hours per week, 60 hrs per month, 1200 hrs per year to do other things (than securing & tarping) without sacrificing income and home time become more important to me. It's OK if 1200 extra hrs doesn't mean anything to hardcore flatbedders, but some naive souls are preparing to make a killing as a flatbed drivers because it pays extra 3cpm, I wrote for them. You cannot pull flatbed trucking out of context of economy (and ideology of two legged labor commodity) and fix it, it's not going to happen.
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Krom, you are a very 'aware' fellow. Cheers!

Donzi · Feb 18, 2012

Does Watkins and Shepard in Conover NC require the drivers to assemble furniture that is shipped?

ParkRanger · Feb 19, 2012

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Does Watkins and Shepard in Conover NC require the drivers to assemble furniture that is shipped?
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What does this have to do with Maverick?

sewerman · Feb 19, 2012

Maybe the furniture is going to maverick. LOL

Donzi · Feb 20, 2012

Well excuuuuse me! I thought this was a helpful forum

aladdin sane · Feb 20, 2012

Kind of a weird out of the blue question Donzi. Can't figure out what it has to do with this thread.

Cruzer Dood · Feb 20, 2012

Maybe supplimenting there income, due to lack of miles? Krom would know

topnotch626 · Feb 21, 2012

hey man....hang in there....it may be best to stay put. at least your over the 2000 mile mark...if you average that, stick with it if you can

ama91761 · Feb 22, 2012

My 2 cents pulling a flatbed its best to get paid percentage rather then mileage. The company is getting the loads that yield the highest revenue to the truck with the least amount of miles. The less the miles the less the operating cost, making the truck more profitable. So you see that might be the reason that your avg. little miles.

I drive for prime and know several drivers that constantly average approx. 3000 miles. and we tarp quite a bit, so tarping and strapping doesn't cut into your hours. It's should take approx 1.5 hrs to do that. Hope your miles increase and things get better for you.

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