What do 4,000 miles a week look like

Then apparently you need a reminder.

Unless you're driving a bus, I hate to tell you this but YOU sir are indeed a "freight hauler" too.

Oh, the humanity!!

4K is a lot of running. That's probably not bad once in a great while, but every week?

No thanks. I personally prefer to work smarter, rather than harder.

"You all..."?

That makes me wonder if you are even a driver at all.

Please, enlighten us mere "freight haulers" with more of your "wisdom" as to where you're finding all these long runs, since you may have actually talked some people into deciding that they want to "work" for a change, as if they don't already.

 

Tell them whatever you like.

If they're not people, they're freight. Get over it.

To a point I share your sentiments on what you call "today's excuses for drivers". These are usually the ones who lack common sense and will blindly follow their GPS as it leads them right across a pedestrian bridge.

However, to dismiss all who pull a van as somehow beneath you is the pinnacle of arrogance.

Let me tell you something. For THIS "door slammer" to slam my trailer door well north of 20 times in one day is by no means out of the ordinary, so don't sit there and presume to tell me or anyone else about those among us who don't want to work. I see them day after day.

80% of the work in this terminal is done by 20% of the drivers.

You're obviously full of yourself, but I glad your ship came in.

After 15 years in this business, my opportunity DID come, thank you. I got a $28 an hour job with a nationwide LTL running an area I like. $1000 net weeks are not uncommon, WITH weekends off, and chasing 4000 miles in a week is NOT required to do it.

Not bad for a mere "freight hauler".

One thing is for sure, I question the claims you've made here. I don't see 4000 miles in 5 days being possible, at least not legally, without SOME degree of running outlaw.

I don't know how old you are, so forgive my presumption here. There's an old adage among bikers which reads something to the effect of "there are old riders, and bold riders, but very few of both." I feel it also applies to some extent to the trucking industry. If a driver does choose to run outlaw, he would do well to at least attempt to stay off the radar. The loud and proud types who boast do little more than potentially draw the wrong kind of attention to themselves. Furthermore, running outlaw can and WILL catch up to a man eventually. It always does, and from where I sit it is not worth the risk.