Then who would do it?

I am not a driver in no way shape or form. I did grow up around it and spent a considerable amount of time in a truck with the old man. I am a couple years out from retiring from the Marine Corps and I have been researching different companies with the idea of possibly becoming a driver and hopefully ending up driving in the oil field industry.
There is just one confusing thing, I know it isn't all drivers, maybe the good ones are to busy working but...... Every company I have researched nobody has anything good to say about them for the most part, so this leaves a person to believe that they are all bad. How is this possible? I can remember my Dad shutting his radio off because he was tired of listening to people gripe. He would also say "less talk, more work". Are these the same people on the message boards? I cannot stand to work around negative people or complainers and that's all I seem to be running into. So...... if it's that bad, why do you do it besides the obvious (feed family, pay bills)? I am becoming very deterred from ever driving and the sad part is I think I would actually enjoy it. So again, why do you do it?

 

There many starter companies that have a good rep here. Here's a partial list hopefully others will name more:

1) Watkins Shepard

2) Central Refrigerated

3) Millis

 

People rarely go out of their way to praise a company but are quick to complain.

There are plenty of us happy with our career and the company we're with. Look around and you will find some positives.

 

Finally!!! Two positive people. I didn't think it was possible, Thanks!

 

It's called venting. Some folks may not need to but most do. Frustrations need to be released in some form. Not healthy keeping them bottled up. The continuous nature of driving and dealing with the Free-for-all and road conditions that exists on our highways does wear on most humans. There is plenty of good found on these forums if you learn to ignore the negativity surrounding it.

 

100% Understandable, and my topic did exactly what I wanted it to do..... I wanted to hear some people say that they enjoy their job. Thanks for your response.

 

I never considered trucking as work. I preferred OTR rather than local or regional. When I would hear someone complaining all the time, I would ask if they're so unhappy, why don't they change companies? They would say something like, "Oh, I'm looking!" Six months later, they're still looking, even with over 200,000 trucking jobs available, they're still looking.

If you go into trucking, get all the endorsements, passport, TWIC, tanker/hazmat. If you're going to do it, might as well go where the money is.

 

1 thing to consider on the NEGATIVE posts is that a lot of the posters have never worked for the particular company that they bad mouth , its their brother , cousin , ex co worker worked there , or they heard bad things from their next door neighbours wifes 3rd cousin who knew a guy that worked there 5 years ago .

 

Your exactly right, that seems to be the trend. Loads of second hand knowledge and it makes it really difficult to weed through the crap.

 

My head is spinning just trying to figure out who to obtain my license through. Again, way to much negative and not much good.