[CaliTrucker]

LOL yeah right...this came from one of the local news website.

Applications Pour Into Local Trucking Companies - cbs13.com

Really you can make $40-60K a year and only 5 grand for about a months worth of school for your new career. :thumbsup::flame::ginsu:

I needed a good laugh today.:smokin:

[mike3fan]

The American Trucking Association says there are plenty of jobs; the long haul sector alone is short about 20,000 drivers.

Thankyou ATA for all you do!

Bunch of @&&holes

[Mpneypit]

OH OH where can i sign up LOL. Hopefully trucking will be booming in a year or two but now well thats just a joke.

[Uturn2001]

The only two groups of people more out of touch with the reality of what is going on in the trucking industry than the ATA are the dispatchers and the government.

Of course probably 85% of the info the government uses to make decisions comes from the ATA.

The ATA has been spouting that there is 10's of thousands of empty driving jobs for years and years, but if that was true freight rates would be a lot higher, drivers would not spend time sitting waiting for a load assignment, and trucking companies would pretty much be kissing a drivers back side to keep them.

I have know drivers all my life and drove for many years myself and I have yet to see or hear that happening.

The ATA represents trucking companies and the only reason they keep spouting this is they continue to hope to get truck driving listed on the Dept of Labors list of jobs that can't be filled with domestic help so they can bring in foreign labor at a lot lower pay rate.

[Orangetxguy]

:tears::tears: Forgive me please. :tears::tears:


I fired off a rant to that silly reporter. :moon::moon:

[Windwalker]

Originally Posted by CaliTrucker

LOL yeah right...this came from one of the local news website.

Applications Pour Into Local Trucking Companies - cbs13.com

Really you can make $40-60K a year and only 5 grand for about a months worth of school for your new career. :thumbsup::flame::ginsu:

I needed a good laugh today.:smokin:

It isn't a matter of "can you"... The simple fact is... "YES, YOU CAN". The right question to ask is... HOW MANY DO?
Answer... Not very many at all.

[CaliTrucker]

Now I think I'm gonna puke:

In Hard Times, Trucking Keeps On Truckin' - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento

With all these news articles about how "Great" trucking is doing, it seems like they would be interviewing an actual truck driver:roll: Oh wait, the OTR guys are too busy running those cross country, high-dollar loads, and the local guys are too busy fighting traffic, customers, and busy warehouses and rock quarries to stop for an interview, that's it.:thumbsdown: Hell, I'll even let them interview me, I got plenty of time, I haven't seen my job in almost 2 months.issedoff:

The reason that the turn over rate may have dropped is because the drivers that have a job are holding on to them with both hands. And good luck to all those new drivers, who are dropping (probably their last) 5 grand on a great career change.

[GMAN]

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

:tears::tears: Forgive me please. :tears::tears:


I fired off a rant to that silly reporter. :moon::moon:

I couldn't help myself either, Stan. I wrote a letter to her too. I don't expect to hear from her but I felt the need to set the record straight. Regardless of this situation perhaps she will think twice and give more thought to the next story she does about this industry. Perhaps she could actually interview a real driver next time. :roll:

[golfhobo]

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

:tears::tears: Forgive me please. :tears::tears:


I fired off a rant to that silly reporter. :moon::moon:

Nope. Can't forgive you Stan! But, I might SALUTE you if you'll give us a peek at it! :clap::clap:

[Jumbo]

Originally Posted by GMAN

I couldn't help myself either, Stan. I wrote a letter to her too. I don't expect to hear from her but I felt the need to set the record straight. Regardless of this situation perhaps she will think twice and give more thought to the next story she does about this industry. Perhaps she could actually interview a real driver next time. :roll:

Perhaps she could interview the man in the blue mask and ask the really hard hitting questions. Like which truckstops have the best food.