What would you do?

Same in Colorado, it's silly with the legal weed, yet they can't find anyone to do a drug test, and like you say, good paying jobs too. I turned down a good paying ( $30/hr + benes) to haul mail. The owner was literally is going door to door looking for ANYONE with a CDL. I suppose the tax collected ( 20.75% on all sales) is just too hard to pass up. Gonna take a long time to sort out this weed stuff, but for now, $288 million dollars a year to Colorado tax buys a lot of police cruisers.( and schools and hospitals too) I suppose they'll worry about the truckers later, as usual.

 

I am the kind of person to tell them where they can stick it. But frankly the more the merrier. Credit has no value to me as it once did. Im getting out of it the hard way. So I have no credit to speak of. So nothing of nothing is not a problem. The bills take care of themselves well enough. No worries here.

I have had no credit in life and Ive carried 750+ credit not too long ago in life. We used to be able to mobilize tens of thousands of dollars in credit with a phone call. Those days are over and done with. Memories. I rather have a little hovel in the forest rather than a showboat mansion that I cannot maintain each month. I come from a family who has been through war and a form of depression that really hurt the country once upon a time. We know how not to have anything. To the employer, they can stick it. If they have that much paranoia and lack of trust, they are in the wrong business.

The one credit type that mattered is medical billing. They are also among the most dangerous because for some of them according to our rules in our state there is very little protection. For example, if the hospital thinks you own a bass boat, a RV and a second home, they can attach all of that and send a Sheriff to come confiscate it after a judgement.

 

I suppose, depending on the situation, like a classified govt. facility, or a prison, it may be justified but for your everyday "off ramp"warehouse, I'd tell them to stick it.

 

i understand, but more and more companies are doing the credit checks these days..think of it as the wave of ELD's....many said they can "kiss my butt", but in the end, the ELD's are most likely here to stay.

 

I know, I talk big, but I'd probably comply. So what's next, drug testing and credit checks for dirt farmers?

 

semi, when i said in an earlier posting that i have been thru a credit check, (and it was no problem or big deal for me) it was when i went to work for the now long gone, Highway Express, out of Richmond, VA, owned by the former owner of Overnight.

we hauled cigarettes and all kinds of alcoholic beverages and electronics, from the defunct Circuit City.

all VERY high value loads.

we (you and me) as retired drivers, are out of this foray of either new or expanding intrusions into our privacy, but the new drivers i can assure you, will be having more such intrusions into thier lives then guys like you and me ever did.

(Celadon bought out Highway Express many years ago)

 

wouldn't that be the new ruling some day.??

farmers (some not all) drive to the co-ops to deliver thier harvest, so they are on the roads, right?

some farmers work to the bone in cash flow, don;t they?

i dunno, it seems to me the people that run the government want perfection, yet, the irony of that is.....when are THEY ever perfect?

 

yeah, they want perfection, yet they forget who is actually going to do these jobs. We aren't brain surgeons or Bill Gates, somebody has to do the mundane jobs of our society. It's what attracted me to trucking in the 1st place, it was a no-brainer job.They're the 1st ones to complain when their Sonic order takes too long because there's no one to bring them their dang food.

 

and wouldn't that be something to watch for in the future...more robotic servants..??

isn't it enough that many jobs are done by robots, wouldn't take much tom have robots serving us at the local Sonic or other drive up eateries.

being retired, i have no worries about employment, but if we become a nation dependent on robotics, in what fields would new workers be working in..???