Why do drivers have to accept freebies

Well duh! Its not the drivers company! If it was yours would you operate in the red just cuz your employees wanted more?

 

Yeah, and I should have been born rich instead of so darn good looking too...but...

BTW, here is my DMV photo....

 

I don't know why people keep saying it's a driver shortage that's BS itslopez a slave wages that keeps a good drivers for coming back to work driving a truck is unskilled labor says the label Boards of the United States government it will never stop until it is a nationwide complete shutdown of the trucks to get them to get us give us what we should have long time ago

 

I recently had a load that was 18hrs delayed at pickup (paperwork wasn't ready) and 4 hrs delayed at delivery ( those kids at Amazon goofing off). I got a whopping $150 layover pay.

Why stay and give away my time for free?, because the pay, when I'm actually driving, is still pretty good and I am not confident that other OTR gigs would net me any more income.

 

I'm not a driver yet, still looking into it all. One question is, how are the dispatchers paid? I've worked as a commissioned light/medium duty truck tech for over 30 years so I understand this aspect. If they are paid hourly then why should they even give a crap. I think they should be commissioned as well. The slackers would be gone in a heartbeat. I was a stealership tech and the dispatchers would all play favoritism to their friends or find a way to manipulate the system. I worked with this one guy that would give the dispatch a $100 a week to keep him fed with easy high paying jobs. I actually caught on film and took it to the parts and service director, nothing happened! Dispatchers were paid hourly.

 

Well,you DON'T have to accept it.If I don't get paid after 2 h of waiting I start looking for a new job.And I don't care whether broker lays detention or not,I don't make deal with brokers.You my friend are part of the problem!

 

You obviously haven't bought milk in while. Wal-Mart brand Great Value Milk is $3.35 a gallon.

 

There is an overabundance of milk. You're lucky to be working [consistently] in the milk transportation industry. They are literally dumping milk in places and at some times

Need milk? Dozens of Wisconsin dairy farmers scrambling to find buyers in saturated market

Bank Report: Dairy Processors Stretched by Milk Gains