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Originally Posted by Drew10
I was going to speculate about 1 company per year average. My opinion drivers "hop" companies before they find a "niche" or understand and adapt to the company they are with. Drivers should spend more than 1-6months with a company before settling on an opinion about the company.
Another possible reason for the "job hoppers" is the Truckstop rags, the on that are nothing but blazing adverstisments for companies. Each one sounds like the "perfect" company, so drivers take the "hook" and before they know it are in a company just like the one they left except the color of the truck is different.
Im also certain that alot....if not most...of the "bad mouthing" of companies come from drivers that havent been with that company more than a year.
Ill bet some the recruiters on this site could offer some "insight" into this "job hopping" industry.
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I'm beginning to believe that "churning" works.... Recruiters will tell you- and companies will try to 'scare' you into staying with them. They sight- stistics that show-- you'll lose income that year you jump ship...but everytime I've ever hopped-- I've improved my Gross Income over the last year at the previous employer.... But this is due to the fact that companies are focused on retaining drivers for a magical 1 year- then the years afterward-- they Kick the ol' dog on the porch-- and shift their concern to the constaint stream of new hires-- and keeping them Happy, Fat and running hard.
But the downside is-- you can't 'hop' every year-- without establishing a pattern which is very unattractive.. recruiters will identify you only being 'worth' a low ball cpm starting wage because they know you're be gone in 1 year.
Do your best-- try to 'work' with your employer-- but keep your eye on the
$$$ numbers-- this is a dog eat dog business. Everyone in the world is trying to improve their standard of living-- and this is very hard in Trucking- as these times are getting hard-- it's important to just Maintain that standard of living-- so you got to look at the numbers--