Of course everything in this industry affects me as much as you. If you dont know, I might have to fill you in. YOU AND ME HAVE THE SAME JOB.
Do you know what our job is? To make the company a profit. Whether you are a driver or a recruiter, this is what we are paid to do.
I guess I just realize the more profit the company makes the more money I make. The first thing I do when I come to work in the morning is look at the stock price. I tell myself, "what can I do today to help that price go up" Why? Because when I retire, that is the money I will be living off of. This should be the goal for anyone working in any industry.

 

you could always take a pay cut........ :lol: :lol:

 

That would depend on how you would define "benefits". Would you say trucking companies making more profit as a benefit? I would.

 

Redsfan, nobody is talking conspiracy to wreck the economy. The fact is the rich are trying to get richer. Look none of us are economists here, and I don't pretend to know everything, but something isn't right here.

Now I don't know where these immigrants from New Zealand, but I do know about Spanish immigrants as much as a white gringo can know. I speak spanish and I talk to these people. We paint them all with a broad brush but illegal immigrants come in many different forms (maybe that's a bad word). In south Florida many from South America are educated and as a matter of fact they themselves look down on the Mexicans and Central Americans. you call one of them a mexican and you see what happens.

These Mexicans, and really I know many more Central Americans, will work like you can't believe and take all types of abuse. Many of them can't even read or write in their own language. They are very humble people. I don't care who you pay 14 cents a mile to, it's abuse. My whole point which I keep saying, is you are not bringing them up by hiring them at slave labor, but bringing us down.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was already asked to be a trainer as they need Spanish speaking trainers. So the fact is this thing is coming. What do they need spanish speaking trainers for if by law all drivers are supposed to speak and write English?

Nobody seems to care until it affects them, here's a piece from the USA Today the other day:

Our view on Wall Street woes: Look who wants protection from foreign rivals now
With their own jobs, bonuses at risk, financial elite seek relief.
When Main Street jobs go overseas, Wall Street generally shrugs. The typical response from the nation's financial elite is that people who have lost work should tough it out and acquire new skills.

Now the tables may be turning, as Wall Street ponders its own potential job losses. Foreign companies are increasingly bypassing New York and listing their shares on overseas markets. If the trend continues, it could mean the migration of high-paying investment banking jobs.

The horror! Faced with this threat, Wall Street and its political supporters have sprung into action, commissioning studies and urging that the government help by easing post-Enron accounting regulations, adopting lawsuit reform and pre-empting state banking regulations.

Regulation and litigation are, to be sure, legitimate issues, ones that go well beyond Wall Street. But they are not why companies are listing on foreign exchanges. That is happening for the same reason that other industries have gone overseas — global competition.

New York has long been the world's financial center. Now bankers in other countries are mastering financial skills — much as others in past decades figured out how to produce textiles, cars and appliances — and are competing at prices that undercut New York. According to a study by the London Stock Exchange, for instance, New York firms' underwriting fees for initial public offerings of stock are about twice those charged throughout Europe.

Before Wall Street gets any relief from Washington, it should consider lowering its fees and expectations of exorbitant profits and bonuses. According to the New York comptroller's office, the average Wall Street bonus was a record-smashing $137,580 last year, hardly a sign of an industry in distress.

The pleas coming from Wall Street are akin to the National Association of Realtors arguing that the downturn in housing requires government action to help brokers.

The loss of financial services jobs would certainly be bad for New York and for anyone interested in being a U.S.-based investment banker. But from customers' perspective, the increased competition means more choice and lower fees.

Moreover, regulations are not designed to protect investment bankers. They are to protect investors and consumers. What do investors think? Some groups, like the mutual fund industry's Investment Company Institute, favor modest accounting law changes that fall far short of Wall Street's sky-is-falling attitude. Others, like the pension fund-oriented Council of Institutional Investors, are downright hostile to Wall Street's ideas.

The jobs in question are among the high-skill, high-wage ones that should drive the U.S. economy in a competitive age. But ultimately the way to keep them is by competing on the basis of price, quality and integrity.

That is something that Americans in other professions have come to know. Wall Street can do so as well.

Here's the link to the actual article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/02/post_30.html

 

Not at the reduction of driver's wages. If we all are making the same, or better, and everybody is making a good living, then the industry benefits.

 

My pay never stays the same. My commissions get cut all the time. On the other side of the coin, when the demand for drivers is greater, my commissions go up.

 

So, I guess all the hoopla about there being a shortage of drivers is just that...hoopla. If there really is a shortage of drivers then none of this will affect anyone. That's IF it even happens. You make it sound like outsourcing is something new. Where have you been the last 20 years? This is nothing new. And, forget about running to Congress or anyone else. They're the ones that started it and have to approve it.

 

HEHEHEHEHE HEHEHEHEHEHEHE

You, too, will feel the effects...not much pay involved in recruiting from Mexico.... :twisted:

Unless your company refuses to hire the Mexican National drivers...... :wink:

LOL

 

Your logic doesn't add up. Again I don't claim to know everything but if what you are saying is true than why don't we all just outsource everything at half the price and sit at home and invest in the stockmarket? As the quarterly dividend checks won't add up to much how are we going to live in the meantime?

 

Your right....let's see how this will turn out.
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