Part of take care of yourself in trucking is learning what questions not to ask, finding an answer to a situation you see developing long before it develops, and showing everyone you are happy & pleasant, and hard working so they don't watch you like a likely trouble-maker.
Nobody enjoys more giving the "I not going to take this Baloney Sandwich (BS) one more second" speech more than me. But only a very few things are worth quitting over right now. If you don't give that speech & you get answers from other employees you might be able to make a small mistake, not obviously stick it to the company, and have the situation work more in your favor. If you have a trouble maker reputation then everything bad will be interpreted by the company as deliberate or sabotage, etc. Who needs that. Enough ambiguous & unexplained things will happen you need to foster a "good worker bee reputation" even when you are getting tired of certain things. I'm definitely not an expert about trucking or people but I've seen experts in both and experts do thing different than the average Joe. I borrow that expert behavior someone else worked hard to learn so my life is easier than if I acted in line with my temper and burned down a village over 5 cents of trouble. Others have their strategy & maybe theirs is better.
THERE IS NO DRIVER SHORTAGE (?!)
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by steve-in-kville, Jun 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM.
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There’s never been a driver shortage. That’s the medias and the.. megas theory.
There a driver retention problem. They’ll spend money to get you in the seat, just to screw you over in a second.77fib77, Sons Hero, Gearjammin' Penguin and 2 others Thank this. -
Most new drivers don’t take their CDL seriously. What I mean you’re in a transition from driving a car to a tractor. A lot of new CDL drivers try to drive the truck like a car. For instance they miss their exit, instead of being patient and going to the next exit they end up panicking and bust a U in the median. I’ve seen this with my own two eyes had to slam my brakes on the interstate. They get into too many accidents which leads them to getting pretty much disqualified from getting hired anywhere. Another thing is getting speeding tickets in the truck or in their personal vehicle. It’s no big deal to speed to work and get a ticket for going 20 over as a non CDL driver but it sinks a truckers career pretty quick. Get too many speeding tickets and you’ll be back to square one. Also at my job a lot of drivers are getting caught up with drugs. I’ve moved up probably 5 spots in seniority in the last 6 months to a year at my job cause of drugs. 100k+ year job and they still risk it.
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Also, look how many companies are paying percentage. No pay in deadhead (23% of 0 = 0) and we all know how cheap the freight rates are.
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There's no shortage on drivers just good drivers. With goo
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There's no shortage on drivers just good drivers. With goo
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My last employer had stacks of applications from “truck drivers”. None of which could qualify even the lowest of standards. Most without any grasp of the Kings English.
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