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ost_uid8]Well, Mr. Beetle sir...
I'm not sure if you need to be commended or commited!
It is great you like your job, there are quite a few who don't and feel trapped by the choices they have made.
I used to like trucking a lot, there is no other profession where a person can be by themselves and not have to look over their shoulder worrying about a co-worker stabbing them in the back. Now I don't care for the job as much. The changes that have come about have made the job more stressful and a lot less fun and I have heard the rhetoric before, "If you don't like it, get out of it!" It's not that easy after a person has been driving for quite a few years!
With the exception of your place of employment and maybe a few others, trucking companies have set a dangerous standard of just hiring warm bodies to fill the seats of idle trucks,which in turn causes a lot of ill feelings among the experienced drivers. The rate of pay is substandard and should be brought up to 21st century economics. Hours of service is way too long for the amount of pay the driver is not getting, ie, waiting time, deadhead pay. There is also way too much free labour, shippers and receivers eye the driver as such "[b
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ost_uid8]" My contention has always been "It's your freight, you unload it" or "load it" depending on the situation. God help the driver who gets hurt on a receivers/shippers dock!
As for the "dittoing" you mentioned, no matter how many drivers are asked the same reply will be given.
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ost_uid8]You get to educate people[/quote
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Do you get teachers pay for the educating? I try to, in my own specila style, educate people also! I was a driver trainer, but gave it up cause my nerves couldn't take it. Plus, I have some definite opinions about certain establishments for trucker education!
Sorry Bill, don't want it to sound as if I'm railing on you, but this has become a sore subject.
I guess any ideas I've had about being a recruiter will be for naught, cause I can't colour coat a serious problem!
I'm not trying to run prospective drivers off, but some education before the dotted line is signed will be very valuable.[/color
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Edited By Doctor Who on 1040029211