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Post by kelly j on Oct 6, 2013 20:10:22 GMT -5
i am quitting trucking after twelve years. i see no future in this for me. i'm just sorry it took me so long to see the writing on wall. i kept hanging in there thinking things would get better each year as i learned more but that's not the case. this is a cutthroat over regulated business from a to z. plus i have never been in any other work where there were so many crooks allowed to steal from drivers pay with total lack of enforcement or oversight by the government. good luck everyone. i hope you find what you are after without losing your shirt. truly
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Post by jkb10 on Oct 7, 2013 6:54:06 GMT -5
join the club. except i traded my road tractor for a dump truck. best move i made. never looked back. containers were the deal buster. they are the worst. i worked for fourteen different companies in savannah,georgia. they were all crap. the last was evans. what a joke they are. that queer boy and his mother have ripped truckers off for years in charleston and savannah. lol to anyone who thinks they are going to retire working boxes.
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Post by Peterbuilt 500 on Oct 20, 2013 14:48:29 GMT -5
Yep, same here left that containerized hell whole known as the port. Went to haul the mail for half the weight and twice the money for half the hours. The mail contracts are the new oppression they are not perfect but will definitely add more cheese to your block. None of that deadly port environment s#*t and trickery. Easy runs and confidentially a 53 ft trailer that says US Mail get a lot more respect on the road.
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Post by Kelly on Oct 21, 2013 6:18:17 GMT -5
I left them too. Anyone will see within a month or two containers are a losing battle. It's smarter to never pull the first one. I would like to see these whore companies all go under.
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Post by rocky2 on Oct 26, 2013 18:54:21 GMT -5
that is sad drivers. trucking at the ports could gain back respect if there was unity among drivers. what ever happened to that unity anyway? years ago there was a lot of muscle behind the wheel of those big trucks on the waterfront. does anyone remember the dozens of trucker strikes at the docks along the atlantic? i do. now the conditions are much worse but there is silence from drivers. haul anything anywhere for a weekly welfare check while the management of these companies enjoy the high life. where are all the angry truckers who once threatened to shutdown at a minutes notice?
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Post by ilovdieselsmoke on Oct 27, 2013 8:10:05 GMT -5
No it's time to re-think the strategy of making real money in this business. The trucking companies are not going to hand it out like candy at the seasonal Christmas parade.. We have the power to make things happen which will benefit each of us working as a collective group. Yes we must work in unity together at some point. I'm not just talking about container haulers but all forms of truck transportation. Cheap rates from the intermodal boxes bleed over into everything else that moves around a port city. Soon all truckers within our industry suffer from this stagnate rate structure. Drivers and owner-operators alike have to continually fight to keep up any decent pay or leave the business. Either we need to return to the days of government oversight of rates (which is history) or figure a way to hold the trucking community around seaports to higher standards with a collective contract. It can be done if we want this bad enough. As of yet the majority of drivers only gripe or at the extreme end a few finally take some type job action without direction. This usually ends in failure.
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Post by tommy65 on Oct 29, 2013 15:23:27 GMT -5
i agree with you but good luck selling that to drivers. it is dog eat dog at the port. five years from now we will be in the same fix while listening to most b^t#h on the radio. no one has time to stop. no money with the truck running and no money being made with the truck wide open. what a choice.
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Post by sugar daddy on Nov 2, 2013 14:21:38 GMT -5
glad i dont haul containers anymore. i still like to check out this site. maybe it makes me feel lucky to be done with the port. lol to the ones who are still fighting the battle. word of advice, find another trailer to hook up to your tractor before it is to late to move. good friend of mine ran his in the ground pulling for these cheap ba#t@rds so now no choice but to drive a company truck.
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Post by frozenchicken on Nov 5, 2013 16:25:42 GMT -5
these drivers need all the help they can muster up. first they need ban together at every port round the country but that is a hard sell with so many of them wanting to be a leader of a small group. divide and conquer is working well for ocean shippers and trucking companies so far. a little unity among truckers could help but that remains to be seen.
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