Truck Drivers Need To Wake Up!!!!

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by yungtrucker86, Dec 29, 2010.

  1. yungtrucker86

    yungtrucker86 Light Load Member

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    Why is it that truck drivers get what leftover a company made off a load???
    Let me break it down.... Your at home looking for a job on the computer or a friend refers you to a company. You call the company and talk to the "Recruiter" His/Her job is to see if you qualify. So you go to orientation and meet yo dispatcher or whatever. You get your truck then you get your first load. The Load come from the "Broker" then the broker passes to the "Load Planner" and the "Dispatch" dispatches you.....


    Doing some research I find out "Recruiters" Get anywhere from $400-$1000 per person they get to company rather they quit during orientation or not.

    The "Broker" makes any where from $40,000-$1,000,0000 depending on how long he's been doing it and how much customer he's got under his belt.

    The "load planner" makes anywhere from $30,000-$65,000 just to put load together...There the ones that make the decision if you go home or not lol

    The "dispatcher" make hourly or salary so like $10-$20 an hr or $1000-$1500 a week plus bonuses...


    The "Truck Driver" You........... Make $.14-$.45cpm and more then half of truck drivers bring home less then $30,000 a year but most of you brag about how many miles you got :biggrin_25523:..........Life of a truck driver
     
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  3. chompi

    chompi Road Train Member

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    This is all very true! However we all have the option of applying for any one of those positions you have listed above. I personally would much rather opt for the low paying driver position, but that's just me.
     
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  4. Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Dude, load planners/dispatchers DO NOT make the big bucks. I've cozied up to a few over the years and after a few beers, the truth comes out. Especially the companies that hire college punks off the street, like 20 or 21 years old that still live with mummy/daddy. I knew a Werner Terminal Manager from Fontana years ago, I was shocked at what he took home.
     
  5. Sequoia

    Sequoia Road Train Member

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    Do you realize how much b.s. load planners and dispatchers have to deal with on a daily basis? Aside from current loads, they have to set up pre-plans. Then once they think they got everything covered, 3 drivers send in messages saying they can't do those loads. Now they have to figure out who is nearby or who will be nearby that could possibly run those loads. Then you suddenly have 5 drivers sending messages that they cannot deliver their loads because of bad weather. Now you have to contact customer service to find out if the delivery date can be rescheduled. If it can, great! If not, now you have to figure out if it's possible if someone is in the area that can run that load and hopefully have the hours to run that load.

    Then all of a sudden, along with four phone calls in queue from drivers having problems at a shipper or receiver you get called away for a mandatory driver manager meeting. How on earth are you going to get anything done when you have to step away for a meeting?!

    I say we drivers have the better deal here. We just haul the stuff and do what we can to get it there safely and legally. If we can't, that ball gets put back into someone else's court to figure out. If you get heat from your LP or FM about getting the load there on time, all you have to do is call up safety. "Uh yeah, (so-and-so) wants me to deliver this load and I can't legally do it and they know that." Safety will take it from there.
     
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  6. yungtrucker86

    yungtrucker86 Light Load Member

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    Some companies are paying that if you have exp. you have to find them i know my dm make like 850 a week
     
  7. Working Class Patriot

    Working Class Patriot Road Train Member

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    Where'd you pull those out of?....Certainly not anyplace where most of us would like to go......:biggrin_25526:
     
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  8. yungtrucker86

    yungtrucker86 Light Load Member

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    so true!!!! im not saying go be a dispatcher or something i was putting the information out there for the new drivers that have these college degrees and cant find something else to with there self....we all getting screwed no matter where u go.....
     
  9. Working Class Patriot

    Working Class Patriot Road Train Member

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    This thread is an example of the extreme....Not unlike the O/O's who start threads claiming their average is better than $2/m........
     
  10. yungtrucker86

    yungtrucker86 Light Load Member

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    where did i pull what this information?? This is true do your research.....dont be a fool and think truck drivers make the big bucks because thats a lie .....the big ad like make up to 50,000-60,000 a year.....key word there is make up to.....truck drivers get left overs weather you believe it or not
     
  11. yungtrucker86

    yungtrucker86 Light Load Member

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    explain what is extreme about???
     
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