What do you consider good pay?

Post paystub with hours or it didn’t happen

 

My idea of good pay has always been a little bit more than I’m making.

 

Why we never truly get ahead of the game. Truckers our backbone of America yet we make chump change compared to some kid sitting in mommies basement streaming videos games or even better your social influencers. Now sure it's comes down to individual needs or lifestyle but truckers should somehow make way more then we do. And some companies will proudly advertise hiring for 100k a year. In this current economy that only 75k a year of course I can't prove that but with stupid inflation it's probably not far off.

 

Nobody but you decides what you should make. There is no Commissionor of Fair Pay.

 

Someone may be right they deserve this or that much pay for all the hard work and sacrifice but if there are that many others willing and capable to do the same then it is a driver supply and demand game.

 

Your question doesn’t make sense.It’s the same thing as what is cheap frieght.Is $1900 good and $1899 low?Is $3 a mile good and $2.99 cheap?Theres always more to consider than a dollar amount

 

I think you are correct and this could be the the tool used to improve pay and conditions for entry-level drivers. If driver groups where to make a concerted & combined push for longer training & higher standards to certify training has been completed several big issues could be improved.

CDL schools train just to pass the state exam, so new drivers show up at companies and have no real-life polishing (cannot back, block fuel pumps, show up at customers demanding things or cannot handle their ELDs, etc). FMCSA no longer let's newbies show up with a permit & take the road test. Newbies are required to have Entry-Level Driver Training from a school before the road test. Likewise, an organized list of requirements in real-world trucking that any first employer/trainer must verify the newbie can demonstrate before going solo, is an idea. Also, I'd want a functioning 2-way radio and proper use or requirement to be on during certain situations & maneuvers. We can all add our individual items. Instead drivers don't organize their voices, complain that ATA & companies that do organize their voices don't add our voices to their efforts, or accept random from foreign lands with no culture of driving on our roads just will never fit in.

Also make the requirements to open a trucking company be much stricter & include financials allowing for more comprehensive training & checking of inexperienced drivers.

 

It’s not hard to get a good paying driving job if you have a clean driving record and experience. You just have to be willing to do stuff a lot of people don’t want to do. Working nights and weekends, longer hours, hauling hazmat or permit loads. Those Sysco food service drivers make good money, but it’s work. Early AMs, rolling cases of food down a ramp on a 2-wheeler into the back entrances of restaurants and schools. Not a real glamorous job.