Overall insight

This what holiday pay look like for some of us truck drivers who gave up those times to be with family and friends continuously and chose to work and still get on. A 5 DAY PERIOD I DROVE 1400 MILES (65mph X 10 Hours= 650 MILES THAT CAN BE LEGALLY DRIVEN) The first thing that’ll be said is “freight volume is low” or “you were in a bad area”. You never hear “my bad I f**** up” or “We’ll make sure this doesn’t keep happening”. I don’t care to boast or brag about driving a truck because I’m humble enough to know better. There’s a point in time when you got to expose the ugly truth about an industry to bring some type of awareness. This industry is a constant revolving door that’ll have you lose everything because there’s this, there’s always another driver to fill the seat motto within this business. You barely get paid for waiting and might find yourself chasing trailers 300 miles away and the gov’t wonders why nobody want to drive trucks. It has nothing to do with drugs at all on why there’s a high turnover but everything to do with pay and time and if time doesn’t equal the pay, then what’s the worth when everything is going up except a driver pay rate to be able to afford a place to live and provide for themselves comfortably.

 

I can break my lease anytime I want with no cost but what’s owed for maintenance But let’s face it there’s always something that will be owed cuz their going to want to take it into shop and fix everything that’s not broken or need fixing. I have 5 years experience and a clean driving record but at this point I’m over the industry as a whole because I’ve lost more than I gained from driving trucks, literally. I stay out 30 days at a time and barely will refuse my loads even when they’re crap. I lost my apartment and barely can afford my car and insurance every month because of the low miles I get. I only manage to keep that because I know how to save

 

I been a lease driver before so trust me I’m not complaining about it. I’m bringing awareness to those who want to drive a truck from someone honest. It’s not about being a o/o cause how can you buy a truck without the funds to do so cuz we all know company drivers don’t make that great either.

 

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