Poor pay

In my present job, $15/hr is a MASSIVE raise; even in my last job it would've been a 75cent raise.

So, yeah.

 

TSRH. We need to recognize that the most important part, the greatest asset, of ANY organization, is their PEOPLE. Too often, those on high forget or refuse to remember this little fact, that without people they would have NOTHING--no business, no trucking, no frieght, no sales, no money, NOTHING.

Once we all remember that, and that our government is a government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, and we TAKE IT BACK from the psycho/sociopathic politicians and robber barons, then things will improve for ALL of us, everyone.

But it's up to us, first and foremost.

 

Exactly, and it killed manufacturing, engineering, and even finance (I'd be willing to bet your job got outsourced too).

Fixed for correctness. Don't forget our government has been sold out to business, and we are the ones paying the price.

 

It's not just fast-food workers: it's WalMart, DollarTree, any place that pays less than a living wage, and only part-time work so they can avoid paying benefits. NO ONE can live on minimum wage, unless you're squatting in a cardboard box--and they tend to be very cold in the winter; and one case of the flu, strep, or pneumonia will kill you.

 

Hope for change lies with those, like blacky, who thought, 'Why not trucking'--assumed a fair day's pay for a fair day worked--only to find they had stepped back into sweat shop, poverty wages. By the time a trucker gets past the rookie stage and into a job that actually pays, he/she typically just moves on and happy to have left that (poverty wages) behind. We are all at fault.

It's not okay. A rising tide raises all boats.

 

Youre looking in the wrong places for the causes.

 

Once I pull the trigger on this, I plan on being so flexible and available that I'll get the choice loads and long runs, and hopefully crack the $40k mark in my first year; also, I'll be d4mned happy to make anything over $32k, which was what I made at my last job. Anything over will be gravy.

 

Newspaper delivery may pay more than $12/hr, but it's still part-time work, your net yearly income will still blow.

Speaking of a job that's slowly becoming obsolete...

 

The difference with your train engineer relative was the fact he was union, and the union contract spelled out what he could and could not do, and what he was to be paid to do. Basically, it was regulation that ensured he was adequately compensated for his time, and given adequate time off for rest and family, and made sure he was paid well enough to live.

What we are discussing now, came about because deregulation made it easier for companies to overwork and underpay the truckers. 70 hours a week without overtime?? Despite the driving time restrictions (that aren't realistic or workable), truckers still aren't paid what they're worth.