Truck Driving Jobs

cdreid · #51 05-08-2012, 06:59 AM

Mitchno1 and op and those of you sucking that bs up... Trucking companies just looooove using you subservient authoritarians up. They sit you on the side of the road for 2 days, pay you 80% of the miles you run, put you in junk trucks, push you to drive illegal then punish you for it.. "forget " to get yo uhome or.. give you a swingby for half a day.. and you just suck it up. And then you get on the cb complaining how the gubmint or obama or god knows who is screwing you over. Real truckers dont and never have put up with that.

I've run all over and everything from dry van to bedbugging (which i actually like except for the hometime). I work for >MONEY<. I'm noones b*tch. I work HARD. Im on time. My logbooks are always legal. My truck is always legal and if somehow it aint or my dispatcher needs me to finish a run a hair shady ill get it done. In return i expect and Demand to be treated with respect. I demand my pay, all of it. Most of all i demand my hometime. Ive never had a problem with a dispatcher except one who Was NOT my dispatcher and called to complain i hadnt finished a 400 mile run they had dispatched me on 30 minutes earlier (yes i'm serious).

So go on. Be servile. Listen to the idiot op. Suck it up.. make 700 a week living in a vibrating box getting fat and losing your friends and family. I deserve more than that. You all do too but a few of ya dont know it.

And to ANY idiot who says "omg dont jobhop ever u should never quit if they treat yo ulike crap"... the day a hardworking class a driver cant get a job is the day this country no longer exists.

tenn trunk monkey · #52 07-08-2012, 02:52 AM

cdreid,,,you got it right ,,newbes,,,learn from this..

rookie rating,,,well,,not quiet right,,,millon miler save driver..

Tami Paulus · #53 09-06-2012, 08:58 AM

Good post steelhauler...... I agree with you that you need to do a lot of research before getting into any industry (and company). The more you know about your industry, the better off you are. Also, you always get better with experience. The start of any career is always the toughest.

Tami Paulus · #54 09-12-2012, 10:37 AM

It is best to work with companies that treat you well. It mostly happens with union companies, where the union has their set of rules for the drivers. Most of the non-union companies are popular for taking advantage of their drivers. You might face problems like less pay or not getting the time off for going home when you wish to.

universalspiritwalker · #55 09-20-2012, 09:57 PM

really ? this is my opinion you either started as a company driver for a corporation an have been molded in to a company driver or when the industry fell to the favor of the corporations you had no choice but to jump from o/o - l/o to company driver an have been converted to the majority of the bs on the other hand a few things you have expressed i agree with

k8cpa · #56 03-12-2013, 07:07 AM

Good thread. Wish I'd know about this forum in 2003, when I was in school. Now sitting here, 10 years later, after getting my CDL-A, and having a problem and not working for like 8 years.

I really screwed myself, hardcore.

k8cpa · #57 03-12-2013, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by k8cpa

Good thread. Wish I'd know about this forum in 2003, when I was in school. Now sitting here, 10 years later, after getting my CDL-A, and having a problem and not working for like 8 years.

I really screwed myself, hardcore.

For more on that, see here:

apologies for silence - Thinking Americanist

k8cpa · #58 03-12-2013, 07:16 AM

Just realized my blog is redirecting to an ad here on mobile. Not sure why. I go have ads but this is odd.

Sorry about that

janeclark · #59 01-16-2014, 10:15 AM

I agree that sometimes it is our problem when we are new in our job.Cause before i used to be a professional staff in a recruitment agency in Finland at http://www.raukola.fi/ i use to do a lot of mistake and i just develop my self to be professional and now i am driver and i left that agency cause i wanna explore my self and the fact that i am not a perfect cause i still do mistake even in driving.

yea buddy · #60 07-28-2014, 02:36 PM

Hello everyone id like to know where you learn about freight lanes and rates like steel hauler said in number 12, I'd love to be a owner operator just not sure where to start been driving local at 57k a year but not satisfied with working for a corporate company anyone understand me??? I like competition hustling for my things and I love driving any advice???