Want to stay broke? Work for Conway!

Vic, Joe experience, commitment, hard work. All earn higher wages, job hopping lowers them. There is a glut of job hoppers/newbies right now, so its an employers market. They can decide how much to pay, and you will accept it or not. Companies look for stability in past employment. Like it or not, drivers are subject to the consequences of their own decisions.

You may call it shilling, I call it honesty that you can't handle. Becasue it doesn't fit you limited world view of business is bad and government is good.

WE DO NOT NEED MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, contrary to popular belief by some.

 

Sideling Hill Service Area I-76 (PA on way to OH, E of Breezewood)

On any given evening, at any given truck stop, rest area or service area the range in pay runs easily from $300/day-5/day/week-home/every/night to $60 or less/day(if lucky and not sick, broke down)-earn a day off every 7-maybe get home on time maybe not. That's trucking.

double yellow, Surfer Joe, Railham and xlsdraw have experience with Con-way Truckload--so far. I don't. So I yield to all. (Although I may have more to say about their different experiences of Con-way in due course.)

I'd be more interested in the Con-way Truckload culture. What it's like to work there, money aside. I mean, just for the moment forget whether the checks were peewee checks or gigantic. What kind of a shop is Con-way Truckload?

Oh, MisterG, gov intervention is the ONLY thing that's going to change the mega carrier ripoff of new drivers. The ONLY thing. Much needed. You fly the Teamster banner and I wonder what you really know about it. I do. Hard fought, hard earned. Much eroded today. I can tell you about a strike that lasted 3 days we had one man killed... hard fought. Our guys were ex-Marines, Nam vets, ex-cons, biker gang president (a black biker gang by the way). Don't tell me I can't handle it. As I've told joseph, I was trucking when he was in babypants. In many ways he still is. Probably you, too.

The driver bashing here is lame and immature.

 

I despise Conway Truckload as much as any other former employee based solely on the deceptive and vindictive actions I experienced during and after my departure. Probably was the actions of one particular scumbag in Safety. But since they will not respond to former drivers that desire to correct the record, they will continue to be scumbags to me. Prior to that, I did OK there. I still refer them to newbies and those towards the end of their careers.

 

Sir I can tell you I am a driver and not from Safety.

 

The post was not directed at anyone driver. I am glad and not surprised that you are doing OK there. There IS or was a coward in safety named Chris that backstabs former drivers.

 

Keep drinking the cool-aid Vic.

Government intervention is what has caused us so many problems in this industry.

How many companies have you worked for in the last listed 10 years of experience? 1?, 3?, more? Like I said, its a glut of workers right now that is causing the erosion of pay, and the lazy ones who demand that they be paid for every hour in the truck. You wan that? Find an hourly paid gig, they exist, I have one right now.

As to having a man killed at a strike, that makes you complicit in murder (regardless of the reason). Not something I would be posting on an open forum.

 

Your 'logic' defies logic. You better keep that hourly job. Your 'thinker' is broken. We are, after all, the government. What the government stands for is what we insist on or fail to insist on. Same with our labor unions. And it doesn't come cheap. Have been running through the beauty of I-90, I-81, I-476, I-276 and now I-76 yesterday and today. These roads are what dreams of trucking the country are and were made of. Easy to see how our ancestors, forebearors, fell in love with the land and felt they could face down British muskets and armor over it. And did. And won. Difficult to understand how King George could let it (us, the US) get away except that the British Empire was so vast, spanned the globe. We were relatively small potatoes.

 

This thread is about Conway, lets keep the bickering out of it that has seemed to spill over from an unrelated thread.

 

If you are in that sleeper and away from home you are technically "at work", they are not gonna cut you a break because you were "off duty" when Swift takes off your bumper at the Peelot, you are still responsible for their equipment at all times and they will hold that against you as a DOT reportable when you leave, even though it wasn't your fault and it wasn't DOT reportable.

 

He's kidding ....it was directed at me lol!!

and not sure what was said ...bla bla bla but Chris is top of Safety

if you refuse a dispatch ...CAN or US with a forced dispatch company , it's prob gonna make its way to your DAC