"Why millennials should start considering truck driving"

The Media never discusses how easy industry disposes of newbies when they scrape a telephone pole or tear a door. They are fired and in need of replacement.

Secondly they never addressed the company pay at .35 or so for newbies. I advocate a salary that nets 1000 or better weekly to all drivers no matter what the truck does.

Thirdly the abuses of trucks sitting in food delivery for hours or days if they are just a little bit late or just out of spite making people wait and lose a bunch of money is excessive. If they want more young people to work, put a 18 year old on each of teh 100 docks with a fork lift and MAKE that truck EMPTY in 30 minutes and GONE.

If they need more warehouse space, build it. I get angry when I see 100 docks together and three people on forklifts. I know instantly this will be a while to wait. Especially when there are 200 more trucks at the gate or parked around it waiting and wanting in.

I hate to be difficult the Media sings a peid piper siren song to attract those who don't know enough about life in the real world out side of school to get into something that is just a little bit bigger than they are yet ready to deal with.

They are pretty close to mark saying 55's about all you get out of a trucker. If you are lucky. 100 wanna drive a truck at 21. 20 fail the medical and drug testing. That leaves 80. 30 are fired and gone within 6 months, that's 50 left. half of that will be gone within 18 months for a variety of reasons. That leaves around 25.

After 5 years you will have 15 left. The rest having been injured, fired or killed. 10 years on maybe 8 left.

Not many of those will get to 30 or more years.

You go through so many people just to keep that truck rolling. Half of it is self inflicted by a non tolerant industry firing people who need the lessons in hard knocks and a occasional scrape.

Finally as a parting shot, I watched my pay climb from around .24 something about that in the 80's to around .50 when not on trainer salary of 2200 a week gross, 1550 net. (I pay 175, 100 uncle sam and 75 state witholding over and above. This is the foundation for a new years savings for the next year)

Inflation ate up the regular pay. And it's gone. Roughly about 1.1 million or so over 30 some odd years.

Poof. Mwah thank you.

 

Most of these limp wrist pukes today do not even want to drive a car. They would rather live in a fantasy twatface world with communal transportation. stuff will just magically appear upon their doorstep at their demand. They would rather play with a computer generated pet than have the inconvenience of a live one. They think WII'ing themselves equates to real physical activity.

There are still good young men and women out there. Sadly they are a sliver of the worthless wastes video games and social media are churning out like fodder.

 

And any millenial with half a brain and any self respect wouldn't be willing to work for peanuts at a mega anyways.

 

I'm going to guess that you're a Baby Boomer. There's a parable about glass houses in the bible somewhere... Your generation is the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War.

 

Being a millenial myself, I agree. Alot of my generation is useless. More interested in smoking dope and snapchatting from mom and dad's basement.

 

... And a lot of us are hardworking and good at it. There have always been losers, and as automation gets better and low level jobs dry up there will be more of them in the future than in the past.

 

That is true. Although just from personal observation I've noticed the younger guys slack off a lot more at work than the older guys.

 

I think we need to get more of them working. Period. Maybe trucking can be sold as an easy career. Maybe a free PlayStation and tv and internet will solve it. Oh, and your own pad! No rent!!