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Originally Posted by Snowman7
It's unbelievable how stubborn all you guys are! :roll:
Why cant we just talk about each others jobs rather than trying so hard to convince each other that ours is the best? I dont doubt for a minute that GMAN, Orangetxguy, Lebron, and Belpre all do well in their respective fields. And as for the union bashing we're not any different than you guys are. We want the best pay we can get just like you. Why do you sit waiting for $4 a mile when you have $1.50 there for the taking? The same reason I wont work for $12/hr thats why. And if I were an O/O and you a company driver we'd both be the exact same way. And I dont care about killing the cash cow. If he dies I"ll find another job! No problem! And lazy? Please! Do my job where I hook 4 sets/8 trailers every night, or DoubleR in foodservice, Lebron doing P/D, I dont think any of us are lazy or we wouldnt have our job or the motivation to get a good job. Well Mackman might be lazy, ITS A JOKE! I'M JUST KIDDING! You guys who have done well in OTR are the exception to the rule, congrats. By the same token good local jobs are hard to come by which makes us the exception to the rule also. We all do well in the field we want to be in. We should be sharing how we did it with those who are interested instead of bickering over who has the better way. Face it, 75% of all trucking jobs suck anyway so lets help those who want to know what else is out there.
Snow...I wish I did make $4.00 per mile on everything I haul. I don't..so I have to be pretty damn picky right now. Weekend before last, in order to get home for some down time, I took a "Dog" load, that I would not usually accept. I only took it to get home...and that is why the rate was a "Dog". The shipper's knows that trucks want to get home. That was why the "Dog" rate. Had I not been out on the road since June 27.....I woulda tossed that crap off...and given my dispatch an ear full....and he knew it when he offered it...which was why he included an apology with the qualcomm offer.
A company offering crappy wages isn't always hauling cheap freight. They offer cheap wages because they know someone will be desperate enough to TAKE the wage.
When those drivers stop accepting that...THEN things will change.
I only make a decent living because I work hard. I don't say NO just to spite my face. It is all dependant on each drivers attitude. You won't take $12.00 an hour...I would take the wage...if there was something else on the table with it. If there wasn't, I am not afraid to name my price.
When I say $24.40 an hour to work local...I know that I am worth that much..regardless of the "Locale". My driving history and my work record support that wage. I turned down an offer from ABF here, because it was a BS offer...and they knew it. I have laughed at countless offers from companies with the means to pay my rate. When they countered to me that their offer was "The prevailing wage", I told them to go hire the "Prevailing" driver then. I know what I am worth. THEY get what they pay for. They don't pay for me...they don't get me.
If I drive your truck, I am money in the bank. I know that when I leave the gate in a truck, it is going to re-enter that gate, in the same condition in which it left. The cargo is going to arrive at it's destination in the exact condition in which it was loaded.......I am money in the bank and expect to paid as such.
I am not afraid to tell a company so.
How many other drivers are willing or able to step up and say that?