Wages - the limiting factor of hiring

Very interesting. The airline industry also has a mandatory retirement, unlike trucking.

 

Ya get what ya pay for .

 

The flip side is also true. You want more than the minimum? You must put forth more than the minimum.

 

So what I'm seeing here is the pay and employee treatment basically sucks across many sectors of the entire transportation industry? As in planes, trains, and trucks?

Oh well. At least I didn't pay as much for my training to be a truck driver as some poor SOB did to fly a plane. Good thing I'm scared of heights!

 

There are far too many steering wheel holders out here who think the world owes them something. Many can't even spell their own names but they have bought into the lie that a CDL is a golden ticket. No, it is merely an opportunity to prove yourself.

 

Only if you're very diligent, very careful, and very lucky. Otherwise, you often don't even get what you pay for...

 

Hyperbole. People typically become truckers out of desperation. There aren't enough professional positions out there, paying professional salaries, and the barriers to entry include cost, time, and training, which not everyone has, or can get. Trucking has a deceptively higher wage rate than most jobs with it's much lower threshold of barriers to entry, and desperate people are easy to decieve. Yes, there are a few self-entitled jack-holes. That's true of every industry, and they gravitate towards government. But on the whole, you're blaming the victims.

 

Not ALL of us come into the industry out of desperation....well not those of us that inherited the "business of trucking" mindset from our dads, anyway. Other than that, agreed.

 

Victims? Victims of their own poor choices, nothing more. It is called personal responsibility, plain and simple. No one owes you or me anything, the only right any of us have is the right to try.
Enjoy your pity party, I have work to do.