The Driver Shortage is a huge lie.

The whole industry is a joke now.

 

My favorite meme ever...

 

Nope. Direct shipper.

 

If you don't know what you are doing, you would grab those cheap loads and complain here all day long. I live in Houston and never had a problem to book decent load to get out. Especially first 6 months of this year was crazy. I remember beginning of June booked a load from Houston to Columbus Ohio, 1150 miles for $3,000. Never booked anything under $2.00 per mile, but I admit it is super slow now. A lot of people heard these kind of rates and bought trucks and joined the industry. Here we go, we have more trucks again.. Also I don't believe driver shortage. It took me 6 months to find a driver. I did job postings different web sites and also pm drivers who looking jobs here. Even I give guaranteed $1,500 for weekly which is written agreement, still had no luck. Some drivers called and said they want at least 100K a year and they said they have only 3 to 4 years experience. I feel either these people are troll or everyone in this industry lose their mind. Unfortunately whatever you do is not enough for some drivers. They usually go get screwed somewhere then come here and complain how horrible truck companies etc..

 

$1500 is good, but how fast is your truck??

 

Or.....could it be that people tend to look towards the megas first? People go with name brands before they go with an unknown commodity. Like it or not, megas can offer a lot of things the little man cant. How many of their terminals do you drive by, and see unoccupied trucks? All those orientation classes, thousands of cdls issued yearly. Most people don't even make it past the first year. So yeah, there is reason to believe there is a shortage. The money isn't the best but you can make a living. By the way, you should have put $1000 per week minimum in the ad.

 

I never understand the argument that when you go to the store, shelves are full so there's no driver shortage. I didn't know retail products were the only loads that moved

 

My truck is not governed. Experienced and quality drivers should know the importance of their CDL.

 

If you're name was Swift, Crete, JB Hunt, Werner, etc it would not have taken you 6 months. You're also operating in the era of the "diva driver "

 

If it does not go past 75mph on flat ground it governed.
It it tops out at 96mph at 2100 rpm its rpm restricted.