Quitting one company for another.

You'd do better to put your OWN money in a tax free fund similar to an IRA or 401k before giving it to ANY lessor. My bets are that it would pad the 'emergency fund' first.

 

You're YOUNG. Will build bulk and brawn, LoL. My wife's 5'3 and a buck 30 and when we did it, she manned up on her shift. Easy? Nope. Doable,? Sure. Met a guy missing an arm slinging tarps, mid 40's or so. War Vet. When there's a will there's a way.

 

Id keep on searching. If talking to dispatch to get into a better freight lane/different division is unsuccessful then start the 2 week countdown or hand in the keys.

When i was ready to jump ship to find something better I did months of research. From tankers to local to LTL, the schedules, reasonable companies hiring etc etc.

Last thing you want to do is take a spring board jump into an empty pool.

 

Yes it's called being dependable, if you jump ship after four months what to make the new company think you won't do the same to them when things get a lil slow? You could just stay where you are at and really do research to find a place that never slows down and by then you might have the time in at WE to get one of them to hire you. My job runs me out of hours weekly because they know I will do it and I'm not going to go anywhere, I was at my previous job for 17 years so it is in their best interest to give me the work I want because they know I'm not just gonna bail on them. Never just go to another job that is hiring, knock on the doors of the ones who aren't and wait until you can get in. Those jobs are hard to get for a reason.... people aren't leaving. All jobs suck at times, doesn't matter who you work for. If you had to drive half the trucks I drive you would probably be screaming at the steering wheel all day lol (I'm looking at you 1998 Sterling with no AC lol) but that's not a reason to quit, I'm new here and while they pay me very well and take care of me I do tend to get the crappy trucks.... it's just part of not having your years in with a company. Would you want to hire someone that jumped ship at their last job because they sat for a few days when you know freight is soft? If the answer is yes then you are just looking for seat meat and that's probably not real hard to get into for a reason. Let's say WE has a load going from X to Y. They have two trucks near X that need a load. One guy has four months in and the other one has ten years in, who are they gonna give the load to? It's just paying your dues and we have all done it. Everyone was new once and it pretty much sucked for all of us. Am I saying WE is your forever job..I don't know, it might... might not be but why bounce before you think you found that forever job? It sounds like they took a shot on you and you are throwing your hands in the air the first time things get hard, I know there are guys who will say I'm completely wrong but I don't think that's the way to do things. Just remember everyone has ####ty days, weeks, and months. Doesn't matter if you are company guy, lp, oo, local, dry, reefer, flat, hh, there are bad stretches everywhere and I guarantee you this....you will have this same problem from time to time no matter where you go until the freight market starts to pick back up. Now let's fast forward and you are at the new company and freight is soft and you sit for a few days after you have been there for a few months and you want to jump ship again. Do you think anyone decent is going to want to hire you now that you have had two jobs in the past eight months? Now you will have limited your choices to bs 1099 jobs or joining the gold rush lol. Just slow down and think it thru.

 

No problem, I'm not trying to be an argumentive douchebag, just trying to give you advice. I'm one of the people on here that loved my last job (was able to retire at 37 and love my new job so I'm not just grumpy and telling everyone "#### it...quit". Aftermarket auto sucks balls to do for a living if it is your hobby. I run a lot of SCCA races and some NASA races and I got I to race car fab work for the past year and it made me hate cars lol. I went back to driving a truck. Talking to your DM is a great first step, you know his hands are tied so you are going into this knowing that he can't fix everything and that good. He can make things much better for you tho, all dispatchers play favorites even if they say they don't. I kiss my DM ### so he will put me on gravy linehaul jobs because I like pulling doubles. Put the eight months in even if it sucks butt. With that year in your options will open up and maybe try something else. Local delivery, flatbed, tank, car haulers etc. As a new guy in otr it doesn't look like there is a ton of money to be made anywhere until you get the time in so jumping ship is only gonna hurt you from having to start over again for the same pay and benefits.