Trucking Jobs...

[ricky05]

How many driving jobs have you had?? If you could, please tell why???

[carbon]

4 to be exact and that was back in 2000. The first was right out of school and the a@@hole still owes me 1500 bucks. delivered beer in Detroit for 2 months until I was held up at gunpoint ( he only got 6 cases of 22oz bud) shuttle drove for a foods company til I wasn't getting any sleep at night and the last was a driver leasing company. AND IF IT'S ANYTHING YOU READ IN THIS POST DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT DRIVE FOR A DRIVER LEASING COMPANY. They ran my only 2 days a week if I was lucky til they put me with a company that hauled auto parts. Needless to say I ran my ass off that is until my boss found out and fired me. He claimed it wasn't fair to the other drivers. When I asked the other drivers they had said they worked at least 32 hrs per week. What a cock of crap. That was in Feb of 2001. My dumb butt didn't look at my MVR or else I wouldn't be in the boat I am in now...Looking to get back in!

[GMAN]

Well Ricky,

I would say I have had no more than 6 driving jobs over more than 30

years. I like running my own show. That is why I own my own equipment.

You don't say why you are asking. Most drivers have a lot of jobs

with a number of companies. A lot of them think the grass is always

greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes that is true. However,

my experience is that there isn't a lot of difference in the companies. You

put them in a box and you can't tell one from another. Over the course of

a career you lose many thousands of dollars by switching companies. If

you find a good one you better stay with them. :P

[Bisquit]

Over the last 15 or so years I have had 6 counting my present. I left most because the freight slowed way down or when working local cause the work just dried up and was working like 20 hrs a week. I did get let go from one job. I had a wreck in Laredo,TX. I was ticketed but later got the ticket dismissed cause it wasn't my fault and I shouldn't have been ticketed in the first place. After 4 years with the company I was let go because the company( home office is in Bakersfield,Ca) instituted a zero accident policy. Too bad, i would have spent the rest of my working life there cause I really like the people I worked with and enjoyed my job. I made reallllllly goooood money and had excellent benefits. Oh well life goes on..............Don

[ricky05]

Thanks guys I just wanted to know since the trucking companies are now saying that there more interested in driver retention(DON'T WANT YOU TO UP & LEAVE) , instead of constantly looking for new drivers that don't know any better. I've had 6 jobs over the last 10 years that I actually worked any time with, twice with one, three times with another. But my good ol' DAC report says I've had 11, it doesn't make since 5 of the companies were just orientation only. Thankfully I have a good MVR.

[beaner]

i,ve only held 4 driving jobs the first was a straight truck hualing sand the second was for a large company lost that job to my own mistake 3rd job was hualing cars would,nt do that again 4th job was hualing logs out of the woods was ok i now drive for a small company in texas pulling a refeer cross country and hope to stay with them for a long time

[midnight rider]

Beaner, where you from?

[small]

Since my start in trucking back in 2000, I've had 6 trucking jobs. It's good to hear the trucking companies now talking about retention, but I'd have to see it to believe it.

A friend of mine is have a having a hard time finding a quality driving job because of the number of jobs they've had. Seems like when you have had more than 5 jobs...your still ok...if your last job was longer than 6 months. Now if you've had 12 trucking jobs, and you've never spent more than a year at any of them...good luck. Trucking companies think your just going to do the same with them...just up & leave.

But if the dispatchers had a little more training in dealing with drivers respectfully, keeping their word, & load planning...and companies paid drivers more, their turn-over rates wouldn't be as high. But that just my thinking...I'm just one driver :wink:

[bluebeetle]

We had a driver submit an application with 26 jobs in the last 5 years!

[727guy]

We had a driver submit an application with 26 jobs in the last 5 years!

If I did my math right, that averages out to 2.3 months per job. No sense in hiring him. He'd leave before you got all your new hire paperwork completed on him. Question is, exactly what is he trying to hide... or run from??
:?:


727guy

[ricky05]

[b]WOW!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

I thought I had alot of jobs.

[Turn Signal]

Ive had 3 since 1-1-03 two with same company , one that turned out to be seasonal and the one im with now. The one i worked twice for when i quit the first time i was right out of school and had worked two months and was having a hard time adapting so i left waited 3months and tried again with a different mind set and gave them 15 months till i finally left because of a obnoxious dispatcher with a people problem. From what i hear on the cb dispatchers are a big reason drivers leave jobs.

[SafetyIsKey]

Well if your not treated well at the job your at, you've asked for help & received NONE. I don't think you should stay. I've had 9 trucking jobs in the last 6 years. I'm happy at the one I'm with now, they treat me respectfully, keep their word, & plan the loads with enough time to get there. & they have yet to ask me for a "FAVOR" before getting a load home.

[kentucky orphan]

just for the record this is the only driving job I have ever had. Odds are that this is where I will retire. I got lucky and got a good one the first time.
I admit that it hasn't been all a bed of roses but in the overall the +'s have outweighed the -'s by a ton. It's little things that make the difference. Like earlier this year when I had a family emergency and needed to take a weeks vacation. I hadn't reached my next anniversary date to get my next round of vacation yet. Now they could have let me take off and waited to pay me until I had earned it but they didn't. They could have said that I could take the time off unpaid. They didn't. They let me take a week and trusted me enough to go ahead and pay me for it even though I didn't have it coming yet. There was never a question, it was " what do you need". When you find a company that treats you like this the small BS does not matter.

[SafetyIsKey]

Your very lucky K, most of us have to go a few rounds before we get it right...I'm happy for you & good luck