$ per hour worked..

Are you sure you have 27 yrs experience?

 

8x10 ? That's a pretty good sized sleeper . You look sillier with every post . Nobody tells me anything about how much to idle and I've had somebody pound on my door maybe once in the last 6 months .
If you say drivers park on deserted ramps in the middle of nowhere you must work in the middle of nowhere to see them parked there when you go to work . There are plenty of parking places in OH . I've pulled out of several truckstops that had quite a few open parking spaces , more than enough to accommodate the trucks that were parked on nearby ramps . Drivers parking on ramps usually do so because they lack the ability to back into a truckstop space .

 

Let's face it we are not going to change those guys' opinion! If their company required them to be analy penetrated once a day as a condition to keep their "jobs", they would probably just lube up and bend over AND still want to denigrate anyone who dared to fight the "company policy" cuz the company is always right and that "just how OTR trucking is suppossed to be"!
YOU CANT FIX STUPID!
Personally, I think this industry can and should change to make life for the drivers more palatable. "Just because it's always been this way" is simply not a good enough reason for me to get screwed over every day and nite!
You can call me a cry baby all you want, But I think YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! People accepting their garbage is how these companies continue their abuse. I will not be the companies little lap dog and accept their table scraps while they dine on filet mignon that I PAID FOR WITH MY HARD WORK! If you are fine with that, good for you! But you dont have the right to critize me for demmanding my fair share!
I knew OTR meant sacrifice, but I used to make over $1000 a week and was home EVERY weekend. Now the SAME JOB, 15 years later, pays $600 a week and I am expected to work 4-8 weeks before I reluctantly allowed by my employer to come home!!!
That is not "making a sacrifice", that is selling your soul to the steering wheel!!! Maybe you are okay with that, but dont you dare look down your nose at me for refusing to be treated that way!

 

My location says: Cleveland, OH.
This is the 42nd largest metro area in the United States...meaning it is a fairly large city.
What big cities do you know of that have lots of parking for big trucks?
Actually, there was 1 truckstop located in Cleveland but it closed down a couple of years ago.

With every post, you look sillier and sillier!

Amen, truckerdave!
These diehards and supertruckers will NEVER get it.

 

So how long have you continued doing this for 4-8 weeks at a time for $600 a week ? Why did you even accept it to begin with ?

 

You guys are the ones who will never get it! Suck it up quit your whining and go get a job in an office where you can use hand lotion all day then go home and take a candlelit bath and have a glass of wine!

NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO DRIVE A TRUCK. IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT OR CAN"T HANDLE IT QUIT!

It's not our problem you work for a piece of sheyat company and that you allow them to stick the porksword up your backside.

 

Dave do i need to post a link for you to revisit your thread about how bad Knight stuck it up your rear end and how many times you stated that it was YOUR FAULT because you had jumped from job to job and that is why you had to settle for working for a company that treated you like that? How is it all of a sudden different? everybody makes there own bed and has to lay in it. Some of us have done a better job than others at it. If any of you work for a company such as you are talking about it is nobody's fault but your own.

 

Make up your mind . Are these trucks parked in the middle of nowhere or in a fairly large city ? Drivers have 11 hours a day to drive . There is no need to drive into a city and search a parking spot .
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I'm sure most of us understand this but since you asked I'll explain it to you. The 4-8 weeks at a time for $600 a week was not where I started. I never would have accepted that! It gradually morphed into that after about 6-7 months. As I'm sure you know it is very difficult to find GOOD employment when YOU CANT GET HOME TO GET AN INTERVIEW! So actually Knight did do me a favor when they fired me. I finally had the time to find other work. I have a new job, it's local and hourly and they pay overtime! It's not the best hourly pay or new equipment but it will do for now until I find something better or closer to home.(as I drive 80 miles a day, back and forth to work)