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Looking forward to things picking back up in about, oh maybe 5-10 years from now, and watching carriers fight over drivers again. It's pretty easy to treat your people like ca-ca when you know they have nowhere else to go.
Just hope I don't have to wait that long to get out of this business.
once you're at the *ULTRA HIGH* pay rate of 34cpm, things may or may not quickly go downhill for you. when richard stockings took over, that's when all the sudden lame changes began without notice, and things were flattened by a landslide of bullchit, and i eventually got starved out until i quit. i put up with it for long as i could.Originally Posted by Flydragon
Trying to think of anything to add to that... nope, that pretty well sums it up.Looking forward to things picking back up in about, oh maybe 5-10 years from now, and watching carriers fight over drivers again. It's pretty easy to treat your people like ca-ca when you know they have nowhere else to go.
Just hope I don't have to wait that long to get out of this business.
what made me finally give notice is that after arguing with people in payroll, threatening a lawsuit to be paid for all the unpaid detention, layover, and breakdown. i received all of that the following pay period. i got a load that only went 200 miles. they tried short-changing me on that deal by paying me as if i had done a 300+mi run. another call to the payroll department and another argument ensued. suddenly i found myself sitting an entire week. they screwed me on layover by sending me an impossible load that needed to go from the south-east to the pacific northwest in 2 1/2 days. once you decline a load, your layover pay stops.
all these companies want to do is keep the wages low by only hiring trainees. fly, get out while you're still young and/or intelligent enough to do so.
