WHY??? Why are so many starting with the worst companies?

Seems like dry van mega's are the worst, reefer mega's a distant second worst. Flatbed and tanker options that take new drivers seem to be the best way to start where overall pay and job satisfaction is concerned.

 

I know why, because a lot of people are idiots and smart businessmen know how to attract idiots who will work for little pay. Once the idiot realizes it, they quit and are replaced with another idiot. They also try to attract people who are bad with money who just need a job. The sucky companies offer free schooling to be a trucker, and later the driver realizes that he drives enough to pay for schooling three times over. Me on the other hand, had good financials and a lot of investments and side businesses going, and went to a college to drive a truck. It was a great experience, and I was hired by a top company while I was still in the classroom. I was offered jobs by a lot of good sounding companies, but took the time to research the best one and I spoke to them and made a list of important questions to ask and they responded professionally so I went with them.

 

People often view trucking as an "easy way out job", reality bites when they find out no matter who you work for, the job is anything but easy. Lack of research on a new career field is one major culprit.

It is not just a job change, it's a lifestyle change. Another thing that the 9 to 5 crowd can't seem to grasp.

 

This is how I feel, many just blame the company they started with for "general" trucking industry issues. New drivers will come in, blame every little issue on the company, quit start the process over at a new company that seems so great but is just the same with different names on the trucks. I didn't figure this out for myself until about 5 company changes myself in the first 5-7 years in this industry, now you will barely find me looking around, but I still look.

Only thing that would get me to quit a company now is if I made quite a bit less than previous year that was not something I did to effect this like asking for more time off, running locals etc. You typically waste more money moving around period.

 

Why so many question marks???

I like to think of truckers as individuals (especially if corporations are people too), not newbbbbbbbbbbbbbbies, who came up with this ####### word? I think it was you who studdered (trying to say the notorious "n" word). The only thing about companies I don't like is when they micro-mis-manage things that should have been perfected before I was born (I know, that's what religion is for). It wasn't my idea. I'd start out driving with the company that works out in the end, except I don't know if I'm there yet, and that isn't up to me either (just trying to meet someone halfway. It happens to be everyone's job description, in this sport, but are you a team player? Sure, give me the ####### ball already, pass the baton, something).

Anyway, I think a given company will work out for one driver and not another, for as many reasons not related to what they were trying to accomplish in the first place, that I wouldn't say a company is good or bad for anyone else. They must be doing something right to still be trucking. If that amounts to ####### with me, though, I can just as well blame myself for believing in them (I didn't apply for this job to question if it's a practical joke).

Overall, I think there needs to be more separation of concerns in this business, some of it should be none of theirs, or mine (or the customers). The more departments are cooperating with each other to give me the run around, or nag me about something beyond my control, the more difficult what should have been our simple logistics becomes, and my regulations were enough, to begin with, that the rest shouldn't seem as if it's designed to distract me from following them. If I'm losing sleep over your job, then you can keep mine. I don't even want to have an attitude about it, as much as they may want driverless trucks, I might like doing what they told me, if it made enough sense, and they left me alone to get it done, with a little leeway for not being perfect themselves. It's like, wouldn't you have to do that with a driverless truck? Whatever. I can't take you that seriously either, other than to be self improving (so I guess if the company sees this as me improving them, with this particular job, then I'd be happy to stay).