Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Actually starts wit an F and ends with two f’s.

 

If you want your drivers to recruit, make them happy to work there. Multiple problems solved.

 

Sadly the mentality is rapidly becoming more of a throwaway transitional role vs one that fosters long term employment.

Sad really…

 

Seriously, I have one previous employer I would legitimately recommend. That's it. I've been working since I was 16 and I'm 32 now.

 

How ironic, I literally meant Moore Transport. lol. I just can't do carhaul anymore and I was going to back to them hauling into Canada, but a week outside messing with a trailer had me convinced I'm done climbing trailers permanently. I'm singing on to a lease purchase and connecting my cryptocurrency miners in the bunk to help make the payment. Free electricity right? lol. But seriously, if you want to haul cars, Moore or Virginia are the place to be depending on where you live. I ran local NB GM stuff with Moore and ran a midwest triangle between Detroit, OH, KY, and NY.

 

There’s no way in hell I would recruit for my company. The main reason is because what I make, where I run and my hometime, new drivers expect to get the same thing if they come onboard. They should if they qualify, but that’s not how they do things at my company. On top of that, our operations department has run off more drivers and DM’s in the nine years I’m here then I’ve ever seen or heard of at any other company on earth.

Whenever I’m asked by a driver I meet, and they ask me what the starting pay is, I literally have no idea. I just hand them a card with the phone number to recruiting and tell them to call, if they make it through the first few minutes, then they have chance. I also implore to them not to give the recruiter my truck number. I want no part of the fallout if they hire on and quit in 90 days.

 

Whoa whoa whoa. That makes too much like sense. Pump the brakes there let’s not get carried away. Sheesh.

 

Had to fuel up at the loves in west Memphis this morning. Every lane had a truck in it and I kid you not I managed to take a 30min break while waiting behind someone. In that 30 minutes only 2 trucks moved. Some people in line began backing up and leaving to fuel somewhere else.

 

That's happening to me more and more. All pumps have trucks, maybe 1 or 2 are fueling, often zero. They don't give a rats ### about anybody else. Even at the Petro I stayed at the night before, there were plenty of close spots free but I saw two guys come in and park at the pump without fueling. It's becoming an epidemic.