I get a cost of living raise every year.

Maybe for you.

Don't jump companies...jump INDUSTRIES. Get out of coolie OTR trucking and into something that pays better. Go to school and get a degree, learn a trade, take some classes at your local community college or vo-tech. OTR trucking is a dead-end job.

Well that's an extra 2 hours per week you have to work to make the same money. Or an extra 4 days per year.

 

Yet another pearl of genuine CAD wisdom. Clear, concise and correct. I applaud you, my friend*.

You, me and Lebron should start a club.


*A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.

 

So . . what the heck is trucker math?

My company will be much better off if I hop in the seat and drive for free, therefore I'll drive for free?

Or maybe "Our trucks operate most efficiently with the key in the off position, therefore we'll leave the keys in the off position?"

The freight has to move. No freight = no economy = no USA. There is a cost associated with moving freight. As the cost of fuel rises, have the maritime workers said they'd work for less? Have the railroad workers stepped up to say they'd work for less? Are bus drivers volunteering a pay cut?

Which freakin' planet are you from and why do you value your work so little?

Despite the best efforts of the turds that have squirted their way onto the American political scene, the huge majority of US freight is still moved by US citizens. US citizens who raise kids, maintain homes and buy the very freight which we commit our lives to moving.

Pay needs to go up and not down, you . . you . . I can't say it at the risk of being deleted.

 

They're all the same. They justify paycuts and working for free so they can keep prices low at the stores...except of course that prices AREN'T low at the stores.

Don't get mad, just get out of that industry filled with dumbasses.

 

During difficult economic times, everyone will need to make compromises. Or you could do like the steel union workers did some years ago and refuse to make some compromises to help make the company viable. They lost their jobs and most steel is now produced abroad. I won't get into to the pay cut debate, but unless your rate has changed, then you are still making the same pay as before. :wink:

 

Why don't the CEO's take paycuts from their multi-million dollar salaries? Why doesn't ExxonMobil take paycuts from the billions they rake in each quarter? Why doesn't the government take paycuts and cut our taxes in these difficult times as you say?

If you want to pull for the same rates you did last year, 2 years ago, etc then have at it. It's a free country.

Because union workers wouldn't agree to work for $4.00/day?

Well I'm making more than I did last year and the year before. And I'll make more next year too. Not everyone out there is dumb enough to take paycuts.

 

The rate can change but the real issue is miles. I left a .32cpm position at Swift to go to a smaller outfit that pays .30cpm, and do you know why? Miles.

Would you rather be like some of those guys at JB or Swift and make serious cpm and get no miles? That's why I steer everyone who asks clear of JB. That .42 cpm looks great on paper. But 0 miles times any rate still equals 0 dollars and that's not trucking math, that's third grade math.

 

LeBron James said "Because union workers wouldn't agree to work for $4.00/day? "

So how is being unemployed better than taking a pay-cut?

kc0iv

 

Now...... don't go confusing LBJ/CFM..or his issues. Low man on the totem-pole still makes fewer $$ in a union than the mid level or top level totem-pole sitters in a union shop..and he doesn't want to talk about that...just like he doesn't want to talk about union's doing "give & take" when a company is on hard times...or on the rocks.

 

You've got it backwards. Why don't you find an outfit that pays more .cpm and runs you less miles?

Explain to me how someone is supposed to live in the US on wages paid to workers in China and Mexico? One of my customers is Eaton and they closed down one of their US hose-making plants...a NON-UNION Texas plant...and moved it to Mexico because they could pay workers $14.00/day and one meal.

It is not preferable to be unemployed, however it is preferable to find a lesser-paying "service economy" job that can't be outsourced like OTR or better yet, go back to school and increase skills/education.

Of course low-man makes less money - it's called paying your dues. Do you walk into an OTR outfit and start at top-rate and get a brand-new spec'd out Pete and all the gravy runs? Of course not.

How would you like to have 20 years in a place and the company cuts your hours and gives your run to a new-guy making less money? That's why there's a seniority system in place...not that you would understand it.