Posted on 08/18/2013 7:21:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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How much does it pay?
My son tried it. All the big companies wanted were drivers who leased their truck. If you were not willing to lease, you were paid next to nothing, regulated out the wazoo, treated like dog dung and given loads where your 11 hour day included 4 stops...when you were being paid by the mile.
He gave it up and is now bringing in more money getting $9/hour as a security guard. And they wonder why they cannot fill the ‘demand’?
You want to be paid?
The big guys have driven all the independents out.
Oil field trucking companies are paying $3,000 signing bonuses right now.
Pretty much the same story I hear every day.
Great!
Then afterwards?
In Obama’s world, there isn’t/won’t be adequate salary for truck drivers or anyone else.
Getting paid by the mile is one of the most problematic aspects of a driving career. Under this system, the truck driver ends up bearing the financial burden as well as the heavy personal toll of all the inefficiencies in the motor freight transportation system -- from congestion to Federal hours-of-service rules to inefficient terminal operations where the customer doesn't load or unload the truck very efficiently (and the driver is "on the clock" but isn't getting paid because the truck isn't moving).
I hate to say this, but it's likely that the only way to fix the system is to have the Teamsters make some serious inroads into the trucking industry.
Teamster’s? Gotta be kidding? Right? They are part of the problem.
Who else but the Teamsters has been standing up to prevent the implementation of that provision of NAFTA that will allow Mexican trucking firms to do business in the U.S.?
They’ll “fix” the problem by having Mexican drivers work US roads under NAFTA.
Little different than how they “fixed” the engineering shortage by importing H-1Bs from India and China.
Trucker: Very long hours, very low pay. For the hours a person could get two jobs and do just as well.
5 dollar diesel and all the regulatory BS hasn’t helped, either
Trucking has not been the same since deregulation.
Raise wages and you won’t have a shortage of truckers. This is basic market economics for conservatives who actually care about such a thing. Or is this another job ‘Americans won’t do’ ?
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