stunned...........

GbtwD

.......ok let's just say we agree that we disagree ....if anyone wants to know the facts feel free to check into this and see for yourselves what DEREGULATION has done to this industry ......i watched good paying driving get degraded into low paying jobs nobody wanted anymore .....ummm 2007 hard times in America
.....i wonder if this man took advantage of his fellow countrymen offering a lower wage or was he fair to his drivers
....only he knows for sure but yes it happened to alot of good men and women of this nation during those hard times
....hopefully we will never be in that position again ......funny he should mention that along with praise for DEREGULATION it kinda fits right in doesn't it?

 

I'ts like being a UNION driver... If Union negotiated better rate for him than the industry average, it's good for him... but bad for the company and for the economy. Deregulation was good for the economy, but bad for the guys who benefited from the way it was before the deregulation.

 

Tech guys smoke all the pot.
Painters drink all the beer.

 

Don't listen too the road dawgs anymore. Nothing more than a platform set up to spew the regulatory, compliance koolaid. I will sift through my trucking mags to get my info.

 

If you mean, did I run my own truck to pay my drivers as their trucks weren't breaking even, until I ran out of savings and had to let them go and liquidate equipment, yes. You sound like some union schlub that never had an ounce of initiative and only demands others provide for you. You have the audacity to question my morals?????????????????????????????????

 

Hey OP, don't give up. There are plenty of driving jobs.
I just finished my CDL school, passed my DMV tests, got my Class A w/HAZMAT, tankers, doubles & triples endorsements, passport and passport card in hand, ready to roll.

In the last few weeks of my training, the running joke in our student truck was that when we saw a Werner truck we'd say there goes my crazy ex-girlfriend, because of the way the Werner sales folks keep calling and writing and I'm just not that into them. I did the pre-apply thing before I came on here and found out about people going broke driving for Werner. We even had a Werner rep come to solicit our class for applicants. Nobody got suckered in that I know of and the recruiter was pretty sleazy and only revealed their stunningly low 26 cpm hiring wage along with all kinds of smooth talk about bonuses when pressed to do so. Pure sleaze. Then the Qualcom squawks that you over-revved the engine once or hard braked once and --POOF!-- bonus gone. Then he mentioned teams, $80K to $100K to the truck. Sounded all "Ooh-aah!" until you do the math and realize that's being paid about $7 an hour for living in a truck that's moving all the time. Unbelievable. A student asked him if the star on his belt buckle was a Texas thing and he replied that no, it wasn't. The student says, Oh so you're just playing cowboy then, and this guy says, well, since I have thirty horses I guess I'm entitled to play cowboy. Wealthy liars abound. Watch out for them.

I road tested and got my CDL on Friday the 13th at 9:15 in the morning and I had an interview at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon with a small local trucking company. They run overnight regional and get their drivers home for weekend resets, $100 a day during training, $45K to $55K in the first year after training. And all of this right from the company owner's mouth to my ears sitting in his office within six hours of paying for my CDL at the DMV. I take a road test tomorrow.

Schneider is my last-ditch mega carrier fallback option after I exhaust my local options, and I still have several to go if this one doesn't work out. Getting your CDL is an opportunity, just like my CDL class was an opportunity. I got out of it what I put into it and I busted my butt to make this happen. [I paid cash myself at a community college.] Getting your Class A isn't an automatic ticket to the golden life of wealth and relaxation and worry-free living, but another opportunity -- treat it as such.

In life, love, and business, there are takers. The megas are takers, for the most part. They'll suck you empty and toss your corpse aside and move on. Ask around, do your research, and chose wisely. You don't have to go OTR. Trash trucks, dump trucks, beverage, whatever, LTL if you're not afraid to handle some boxes.
Look out for yourself and follow your gut and make it work for you the way you want it to be.

 

Well, it is what it is. The fact is most of the problems facing this occupation (including the increased number of accidents) are caused by government regulation. You see in 2008 America made a big mistake and repeated the same mistake four years later. We now have a government full of incompetent and unqualified thieves, degenerates, and con-artists leading this country straight down the path to Hell (as intended). CMV accidents have risen by nearly 20% since '09 (also working as intended).

Without trucking America falls apart so its an ideal target for those seeking to bring this country to its knees. The mega carriers are there to keep wages down by hauling cheap freight for large corporations and knowingly churn and burn new drivers for government subsidies. If you notice the DOT very rarely targets these carriers. In return, these mega carriers make huge political donations to political interests which they can also claim as a tax write-off. The government can then scare the public into submission with the increased amount of unsafe driving (the problem they caused with over-regulation and the Megas helped propagate by putting a ton of new inexperienced drivers on the road and working them for peanuts).

Now the major political donors have a workforce that actually costs them next to nothing... the government can levy whatever fines they want against drivers (particularly independents who the megas want taken out)... and the public will support the dog and pony show out of fear (caused by the increase in accidents due to inexperience). This also obviously means the lawyers get a cut of the accident revenue- because when someone gets hurt or killed, someone else has to get paid- 20% goes to the victim, 80% to the lawyer. Everyone wins... except the American people... screw those jerkoffs- slaves don't have rights.

What's so hard to understand... it's Corruption 101... One hand washes the other. Its not exclusive to trucking either...

 

Keep spouting your non union cliches you know nothing about. Unions now represent less than 5% of the truckers and when they are gone we'll all be a bunch of Underpaid, nonskilled steering wheel holders.

 

.....i dont know you sir or what you did during those times but i do know what was happening across this nation and it wasnt basic bussiness more like blood in the water to sharks .....am i wrong ?