Seriously need some suggestions for beginner tanker companies.

LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum

 

#### I was thinking about giving them a 2 week notice as I am getting ready to leave once my 6 months is up but if they going to tell me to just clean my truck, they can #### themselves.

It's not just Atlanta. They either hired too many people or their customer base dried up. I ran across a guy that was in my orientation class and he is going regional out of Reserve, LA...he said he is making $400 a week, WTF.

They do that because they hire a bunch of regional people but really they dont have the regional freight to keep them busy so they tell them either sit and making $65 a day or run up to Chicago or NJ. So basically they lie to get them in the door and give them an offer they can't afford to refuse.

 

Is the count FF on vacation.......

 

???? Well we tried to help him not be financially ruined.

 

It does not make financial sense to spend all this money training people, only to lose them 3-4 months later. So why lie and tell these guys they are going to b regional knowing full well they don’t have the loads to support regional. They have to know that these guys are going to quit and find something else, 400 hundred dollars a week, I can get that collecting cans off the street

 

And they wonder why there’s a so called driver shortage~$400 a week is below poverty level my son made that much working part time a couple days a week washing cars at a local dealership wtf

 

Well they have figured a way it makes financial sense to them. I am guessing these companies get government money to hire people off the street. They also dont give a crap if you leave or not.

 

They have a training department, they might as well use them. The trucks are all write offs. The labor cost changes upwardly only when they are running a truck. Which means making money. Pay somebody to do a move every 23 hours so you don't pay them 65 a day isn't that hard. Yet I met local driver's for them, SNI, that are happy doing tank work.

 

You have to have patience if you expect to make it as a truck driver. The dispatchers (DBLs) don’t just start you off with regular top dollar loads, they have to find out that you can do the job, do it well, be on time, update your NAT, .......in short, be dependable. Sure, we’ve all had a crappy pay week now and then, but also, there’s the huge pay weeks, it’s like a roller coaster some times, but it all balances out, as long as you give it a chance.
It can be tiresome listening to the guys who think unexpected problems should never happen to them. You have to be prepared to be flexible to whatever might happen each day. I stuck with it, though I was often frustrated with the unexpected. Every year here at Schneider Tanker (SNBC) is better than the last. I’m glad I didn’t give up. It’s the best job I’ve ever had. If you talk to all these guys who’ve been driving for them for 20-30 years, and ask them what the secret is, they’ll tell you. #### happens, you deal with it, you rest at the end of the day, you get over it, and you get up and do it again tomorrow. PEACE!