Tired, not earning as much as they said you would?

So long as you work for somebody else, you are a pawn

 

So just let people crap all over you huh?

Your right, it's not rocket science. Neither are lots of other career fields.

That doesn't mean that you should have to do free work. I don't know any other career field that expects free labor.

 

We were raised different, no big deal. Who said I was earning minimum wage? 32cpm is what I make with 5 months experience. To me that's more than i made even when I was a deputy in the county jail. I'm making more than I have and I get treated like a person.

I am 21 but I've done a lot with my life, I ain't a high school drop out, far better than that thanks.

I do have a skill of driving this truck, but I'm not going to whine about wanting to be paid every time I lift a finger outside of it. I feel I am compensated for the work I do, and compensated well.

Ethan

 

Rocket science, eh? LMAO!

Ya know what "rocket science" is? Making sure absolutely nothing is different, nothing in the process changes from the last one that DIDN'T blow-up. Its "trained monkeys" there too. No difference, no respect - on salary means no overtime - and you WILL work 70 hour weeks. Or they'll find someone who will.

BTW... if you screw-up, and the rocket does blow-up? Best be looking for a truck driving school. There's a whole bunch of new-grads who will work for peanuts out there. Or the ever present cry of send us your foreign workers (because it doesn't even take peanuts to make them happy) - there's no one being trained to do the job - outside of the scads of never-had-a-job recent grads, and the laid-off workers who will never be called back to work.

This should all sound familiar. Because it is.

 

I love this arguement. You cannot compare trucking to an hourly job and its annoying when someone does, the second I leave my front door I should be getting paid? Even hourly jobs dont pay you anything until your clocked in. Your example is what I would consider a bad day and not the norm. Certainly not mine.

 

Shaking??? Really dude...take a deep breath...chill. Try to see things from another perspective, it might help you in other areas of your life.

 

Is it fact just because you said it? Lighten up man...find another career.

 

Burger flippers for the most part are part-time employees so they don't get full-time or overtime or beneifits, so that comparison is apples to oranges and makes no sense. Now if you're talking the manager of burger store that person will be there 12 14 15 hours a day, 6 days a week, constantly get phone calls at home on time off and make 34 to 40,000 a year on a salary is that the comparison you meant? Maybe I'll forget about starting this career where I have the opportunity to start at around 40,000 have endless opportunity to learn a business that I could eventually make 60 70 90,000 or maybe own my own and enjoy doing. Sounds like fun working with a bunch of whiney teenagers and customers whining about their french fries.

 

Where do you get this "go to the terminal" stuff. We're not the same. I take my truck home with me. I step out of my house and into my truck. Takes about 15 seconds, I should probably ask Roehl to pay me for that.

Then I drive to my customer, in this case it was a paper mill. I Bob tailed in so it was just a hook. Took 20 minutes from the time I entered the gate to the time I left with my paper work.

I then started driving loaded. Drove 400 miles and called it a day, so included with driving bobtail to the shipper for 30 miles. I have driven 430 miles both paid and hub match up. That's $137 and some change. Divide that by my 7 hour work day today and that's roughly $19/hour.

The thing YOU fail miserably to realize is I'M HAPPY!!!!! I wouldn't care if I could make the same amount as a burger flipper, you wanna know why? Here's the best part, because I wouldn't be happy, Trucking makes me happy. For the first time in my life I ENJOY working.

I live, breathe, and sleep trucking. Its all i talk about, why would I want to flip burgers for the same money as driving these things.

I'm gonna say this not to put a pin in your point, but to express how I feel. Here it goes....
I want to be an owner operator one day, and even if after all taxes and expenses I made the SAME amount every week as a company driver, id STILL do it. For the same reason I'm in trucking, its an accomplishment for me. Owning my own truck is a life goal for me, to own one even if i make the same as a company driver id be happy, you know why? Because I can say I own my own truck, that's an accomplishment for me, a goal.

There, now quote this and tell us more "facts"..


Ethan