What would you do ?

I ve applied to a company with a salary of $75.000 a year shunting trailers from a pet food manufacturer to their drop yard mon-friday. I might have to go in for 11pm-12 am sunday night , Here’s my problem it’s a 5 year contract with 3-4 years left and when asked so what happens if you guys lose the contract or decide not to renew . I asked would there be other local work for me and would i stay at the $75k salary . The recruiter said he didn’t know he couldn’t guarantee anything . He said if you’re a good driver they could probably find you something . The pet food manufacturer owner is good friends with one of the managers at the trucking company and the recruiter him self knows the owners son and got his friend a job working with pet food company . we all know in contracts it comes down to $$$ not necessarily personal relationships . Recruiter said they are in the process of buying up another small company who has local trucks so there might be a position available if they did lose the contract


My question is would you leave a job who you’ve worked for for 12 years that yes is a lower paying job for a guaranteed $75k job but no guarantee once the contract comes up they will have a local position available . Or should i stay where i’m at and look for something more concrete but no salary guarantee

 

the local market in the GTA sucks it’s either crappy pay or high paying companies with bad management or other issues. I’ve been looking for a while and it’s not so easy to jump from one company to another. just when i think a found a decent company it’s either one thing or the other . Also the $75k company only offers 2 weeks vacation instead of my current 4 weeks off and no retirement plan right now

 

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Yah a raise isn’t going to happen , i talked to a fellow driver this week who likes to kiss ### and talk to dispatch and everyone in head office . he asked the manager in prescott hey are we getting a raise soon , her response a raise yah no there’s no future plans for one . which really pissed me off when he said that . especially since we’re the lowest paid out of all the companies we own .

My biggest fear is not being able to retire and i don’t see how i will be able to working here making $55-60k a year and oh don’t forget that big bonus of may 2k for the year . They do have a match program if you can afford to put any money towards it . i’m 38 now with nothing put towards a pension and was talking to a driver just last week who’s 67 and he says he will never be able to retire which is really said and he stays with his daughter