Not sure about my former company

Pros

Regional
Home daily (day cabs... which unfortunately you can't sleep in which REALLY sucks when you have down time)
Supposed to be 12 hour days, turns out it's only 5.5 paid hours at <.51/mile x 240-360 miles most days.
Holidays resulted in virtually no work, no pay, but you still had to get dressed up and commute to your truck (mine was 20 minutes or so going 80 mph).
They were good to me, I'll give them that. They cared for my truck after complaining over and over to fix it. Except there were about 5 yellow warning lights always going off, anything that was non essential like emissions controls were ignored in contrast to state law.
Virtually no time off, supposedly are flexible but wince and shake their heads every time you ask to come in late or leave early. Act like it's the disgrace of God if you need time at home to get a health checkup or pay taxes or anything normal like that. Sick days = 2 week notice OR ELSE. You must PLAN to be SICK ahead of time, don't you know?
Good pay considering its a first-timers job, looooong contract which I broke early to get out of and still owe money for my CDL "school".

Cons

They kept making me drive on a two lane highway at night when I chose the day shift, insisted on the day shift, oh but they insisted they "needed me" on the night shift.
They had 5 openings on the day shift but wouldn't let me transfer out of nights.
Shared 12 hour shifts with a day shift driver, could never work more than 12.
Dispatcher reminded me of a screaming 3 year old.
Dispatcher they trained, who ended up quitting faster than I did (quick learner I suppose), was the only person who was nice to me the entire time I worked there.
Guy who gave me my license was nice enough to pass me after tricking me on a road test (sign was bent and dirt covered the turn-only lane), he thought it was funny.
Pre trip was so important that they couldn't let you deviate from learning it to learn anything about hooking up trailers, alley docking, etc that REAL trucking companies teach. Literally I could write a pre trip verbatum while singing my ABCs backwards while drowning and force feeding a cat its own vomit... Idk but I got 100/100 without even thinking about it.
They never taught me how to turn the truck around a pole (or a parking lot for that matter) so I hit it on day #1, turn #1 AFTER getting my license. I guess they figured I'd learn some other way like crashing their truck.
Trainer thought I wasn't going fast enough at 58 mph in a 35 zone. I almost threw him out of the truck.
I should have run all my trainers over for being the dumbest idiots in the world.
My dispatcher loved to make rude comments about me when I walked in the door, he was racist as hell.
The locations which we delivered were the companies own private property, where they forced us to drive into alleyway-like locations 10' wide.
Delivering the product meant almost dying every 6 hours due to dangerous loading/unloading conditions.
Working for the company meant almost dying every 1-2 hours due to dangerous roads combined with dangerous trucks and dangerous equipment and dangerous, aging trailers that are permanently registered and uninsured.
And since it paid about $40-60,000 a year, my family is wondering why I would quit such a great job.

It beat my last job at $13,000 a year, forced part time hours, little vacation, felt like 18 hours a day because of the massive physical labor they exert on their ignorant employees.

Seriously, are all trucking/company jobs like that? or worse? I almost went with CRE and Swift when I was looking for my CDL, but thank god this company saved me from their nightmares. I quit to become a young fresh puppy o/o. I know I'm gonna need Gods grace to survive as my own Carrier, but for gods sake why are jobs so bad these days?

I see hundreds of thousands of people driving $70,000 cars to their $800,000 homes here in California every day. Where the F&@j do they work at!? And if financing that lifestyle with debt, where the hell do they borrow from!?