Owner operators our dangerous part 3 wtheck is up with closing the thread

yes, it would be nice

especially if these brainwashed company drivers stop parroting the propaganda from their safety managers, they would be welcome members of the trucking industry

but right now, they are pawns, being used by the megas to create the divide and conquer demise, and you cant tell them any different

 

So what one company driver did made up your mind about every company driver, wow. It doesn't matter what I say, I know a o/o is going to say that a o/o is a better driver, which I don't really understand. A better business man, I would agree, one that's been around for a while anyway. Like I said before, the only thing it takes to be a o/o is good credit and a year of experience.

I think the biggest thing is, someone says company driver, and one of the mega carriers come to mind. And one of the biggest reasons guy go o/o is so they can say they are an o/o, because unless you have your own authority, you are not doing much better than a company driver with experience, and knows how to research for a good company.

 

i wonder how you know that "unless you have your own authority, you are not doing much better than a company driver"?

that speaks volumes of either your knowledge or your ignorance

i dont have my own authority, and for a company driver to make what i make, they would have to drive upwards of 5,000 miles per week

but i will let you explain your statement

 

Did you do research on this or did you have hands on EXP as an O/O..?Do you lack the knowledge.?.Or is this something you heard on the CB Radio.?.I will bet my great life as an O/O, that i do much much better than many many company drivers..Not to mention I HAVE AN AMAZING LIFESTYLE with an O/O's pay..

Please Explain this.

 

it is the "businessmen" who are destroying our industry and sucking all the profits....

Lets be carefull about business predators! the businessmen who are destroying our industry are called cronie capitalism! these are the ones hurting free enterprise, you are starting to used the language of the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and because of a couple of bad apples, the whole capitalistic system is viewed by the clueless as evil,inmoral, heartless, predatory of the poor! listen folks, i personally hate the word truck driver, trucker, wheel holder etc... when i bought my tractor, i was doing a business investment, im in the transportation business! what i did to improve my business? i felt that the fuel card that the company im leased to gave me, was not giving me nothing in return for the gallons of fuel that i was buying. I did my research and i found Marathon gas stations offer me a better deal per gallons and in rebates. Now by thinking and business planning, i started saving $140.00 a week, something that Florida port consolidated was not doing. Did some research and found a shop that has a rate of $60.00 an hour for service. Thats part of being a business man a doing some repaires yourself will save too! Now, company drivers, i remember the dispatchers that died of a heart attack. He put 30 years on this company and half as driver and the other as dispatch. Before he died, the week before he told me how low and discourage he was about the company he worked for 33 years. He said that in the 1980s, he made so much money in trucking as a driver that he bought 7 homes for rental. In the 1990s he lost them all. He still stayed with the company man mentality and now, he knew the company wanted to lay him off because he was making too much money. Thats when he told me that he felt that he threw his life away, giving this company his loyalty and now, they are waiting for the right time to get rid of him. The only thing that kept him there was one account that he knew very well. So company drivers, these were the words of somebody in this forum.......why am i going to drive a truck and make money to someone else when i can do it myself and get full rates for my service! thats all you need to hear and even today, i still see 25 to 30 years drivers with that company and almost all those guys have lost their house, their marriage due to $300.00 checks a week! They have been mentally indoctrinated that being a company driver for years has lots of benefits even though, they can't even buy new clothes.

 

You really cannot understand things unless pointed out.

I used one example and stated this. HOWEVER, there are many others over the years.

I know a friend that drives for a company and he takes really good care of the truck. He tells me of the many at his company. I see them at the fuel stops.

I was a company driver several times. I always took care of my truck.

The clue to me was that my income was generated from the truck being moved down the road, not sitting broke down.