What has happened to this industry???

Take this with a grain of salt, because I agree with you..

Suck it up! It's not what you want but what THEY require.

Better to buy your own truck, get your own authority, buy your own insurance.

 

Maverick would treat him like he was a rookie and stick him with a trainer for 6 to 7 weeks at 550 a week. Cant make a living at 550 per week.

 

You must have been drinking the magic Kool-Aid. Maybe you should go back to your Occupy Wall Street party. Maybe learn the way some old timers learned- if ya grind a gear ya get slapped alongside the head. Ya back into something, kiss your ##### goodbye. Having a school instructor sign off on my driving skills???? No thanks. Nice try. Not when I probably have more experience than he or she does. Oh and the headlight thing...I love when you flash your brights to let me know I can come back over and slow down just enough to screw you on the next hill

 

The simple truth of the matter is the industry is so short of drivers that they'll let anyone drive as long as them wheels are rollin who cares about anything else ? Right

 

here is a possible way for you to find out the real answer to why you can't get hired. do some research and find some people who have worked for trucking companys in the HR dept but no longer do it people you might know or a friend of a friend so to speak. someone who will be honest with you and most of them will be, because that's why they left their high $ jobs is they couldn't live with what they were required to tell drivers. the only thing I will say is one of the biggest reason's you won't get hired is that you know the trucking industry and that is something most company's do not want.

 

2 words...federal government!!!!!!

 

for those of you that don't like how the industry is going. quit! get out of it! walk away from the industry! if you are unhappy with the trucking career. that is because it's not for you. so go find another job that better suits your needs and life style. plus when you are picking that new career. try using your brain and not the t.v. shows. trucking has always been a low paying career for drivers. less then 5% of the drivers ever reach wages in access of $50k a year.

for the ones that the career field is working out for. you are taking a hit in pay due to non or limited jobs in other markets. so many are having to enter the industry as a last resort plan. the same thing happened in the great depression of the 30's. so companies feel that they don't have to pay top dollar for drivers. one thing i do know. is there is a driver on every street corner. so some solid advise. take the money you are making now. and use it to invest into income investments things.

for every one out there. you should of had a plan before entering the industry. many do it to either get the money for school. or they are doing it to travel the country. and some are in the industry, because from the time they were a small child. this is what they wanted to do with there life. theses groups of people are the ones that do a really good job. and never give any problems. the ones out there in the industry that seem to always be unhappy. that is due to the fact that they have no idea what they want to do with there life. they started trucking to as a last rresort plan or to hide from the world. but they just can't hide from there selves or there problems. and now that they are closing in on middle age. and time has slipped away from them. now they are set to make every one they meet just as miserable as they are. so the one thing that they never see coming. is the day they put there selves out of the industry. job hopping can been seen as a sign as unhappy as a driver. so after a while. nobody will hire them. and they end up back where they started out at in life.

 

Agree 100% "Driver shortage" my arse . . . and if there is one indeed it's solely because of how drivers are being treated which is like pure dog ####!

CR England is self-insured 'cause their accident rate is high but nobody really cares . . . and once you hit 6 months they'd made their money off you and just as soon see ya GONE its a revolving door!

I'm driving a school bus, am home everyday and with weekends & summer off LIFE WITH KIDS is GREAT!
( screw the CSA report just keep yer home state license clean! NO MORE some other idiot loaded OVERWEIGHT AXLES FOR ME! )

 

Look at the bigger picture.
My generation won't see the "american dream" the foreign bankers that own the USA are squeezing it hard before it becomes Germany/Greece. And they move onto china.

Restrictions, laws, hoops, $$$, its all part of their game. You either adapt and thrive or give up like they want. I mean who would actually want to work today?

Theres more value in 20 unemployed anthropologists than 1 guy that knows how to build a house.

My generation is absolute trash and I apologize for it though. Its Facebook,me me me $$$.

Boy did I rant and go offropic. Post anyway