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Post by transjoe on Mar 23, 2013 6:44:11 GMT -5
if there is such a driver shortage as the american trucking association claims why dont these trucking companies get off some money? when you figure the hours a driver puts is for over the road a local job at the paper mill pays three times more money. that local job is home every night and weekends. spending your life behind the wheel away from family is no picnic.
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Post by tincan on Mar 23, 2013 13:20:37 GMT -5
the big fleets are not having a problem hiring steering wheel holders for current pay. the trucking agents also have no problem finding truckers to haul loads cheap so why pay anyone more money? my advice is set your price and dont go under it. in the end you will find someone who will pay that amount.
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Post by wings3 on Mar 24, 2013 9:12:09 GMT -5
ur so right, i do not see anything other then yellow-roadway or abf that i would consider decent jobs paying anything close to good wages. these are union jobs with benefits. regular non union motor carriers are not paying money that matches the aggravation for driving a truck. they offer no benefits. these trucking carriers wonder why they cannot attract drivers. they why there maybe a shortage of drivers looming on the horizon but they continue to pay minimum wages expecting to find professionals to place in empty seats. u can bet it will hit them in the not so distant future. at that time there will be a mad scramble to raise wages but only if a faster growing economy forces them to respond to a driver crisis.
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Post by kingfish on Mar 25, 2013 13:11:51 GMT -5
what driver shortage? i dont look for my company to be offering raises anytime soon. why should they? the supply of newbies looking for work has increased double time since first of this year. the port companies have lower standards to meet their driver hiring quotas. csa scores are turning out to be about like the cdl license scare years ago. remember the companies believed there would be a truck driver shortage back then due to the restrictive new license coming out. the government claimed they were going to set tougher standards for licensing truckers but look what happened? just more bs like today. i bet most of the same crap companies are running this time next year with many of the same idiots behind the wheel leasing on junk.
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Post by peterbuilt500 on Jul 25, 2013 22:07:11 GMT -5
Trucks work ports and longshoremen don't! If you had to shut down your truck shut down the port!
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