My new adventure with Gordon Trucking

Haha...well said..well put

 

LMAO! very good!

 

You know, for the amount of work that a driver contributes to a company, combined with the responsibility, the sacrifice and the working conditions; here's the bottom line: Drivers are grossly underpaid. In fact, the pay is downright lousy.
It's when people are afraid to question anything, while at the same time accepting mediocrity, that their lives (and livelihood) begin to suffer.
Sure, without the company, you wouldn't have a job. Don't forget, though, that without employees, there wouldn't be a company.
And these large companies really do have their own, best interests in mind. There are plenty of other, negative posts to support that fact. As long as the majority of drivers keeps trying to convince themselves and others that acceptance of driver abuse is somehow an indication of personal strength, well, then their conditions will never improve.
And here's a little secret that Gordon (and all the other large companies) hope that you'll never, ever, figure out: They need you every bit as much as you need them.

 

I take it you got the caddy shack reference...

 

You have a valid point Joe.. all companies are out for themselves and what may appear to be concern over drivers is really self serving. That said I will admit that Gordon is not perfect and there are things I don't care for and have stated earlier but they don't cheat drivers out of money by paying short miles . They do provide well maintained equipment and pay an above average wage for the industry.

 

Again very well put. Driving is what it is. There are a lot of low paying and unappreciative employers in this country. The big difference is most people go home after their shift is done where as an OTR driver lives in his truck and can't escape from the madness at the end of the day. We also know this going in to it and all the crying is not going to change anything about trucking. Hell the unions tried and almost had it right but then deregulation hit and really how many union OTR companies still exist?

 

Well, I am hanging out in your neck of the woods. I had a load to PA and doing a reset between drops at the Pilot in Bentleyville. I had drops in Cecil and Bethel Park at nurseries and there are some tiny roads and thanks to Rand McNally I almost got stuck in an underpass that was pretty much a one lane track. Height was okay, but the left turn going in and the right turn coming out made it a bit of a challenge. No scrapes and worse case scenario I would have had to back out about a mile to go around. Not the end of the world, but would have been late for the requested time to be at the nursery.


Hope things are still going well at the baby blue outfit. I used to work for a crane company in Tacoma WA and the owner and shop foreman went to school with Gordon. Hopefully all the macros don't give you the blues . Glad we don't have any of that stuff. We are old fashioned and use trip envelopes, loose leaf paper logs and I can drive, fuel and do my thing. Nobody cares as long as I get my stuff done. Usually, I am on my own anyway with problems. The last time I called in with one the owner asked me what do you want me to do about it? So, I did what I thought was right and told him later how I fixed it and he was happy. Works for me.