[sarasmom]

Truck drivers used to make decent money, doing a job most citizens wouldn’t want to do, at twice the former pay scale.

But if a transportation company can hire someone to do the same job, at less than half the price, who cares if the driver is really qualified to to do the job?

I do.
My customers call me to clean up the mess of non-english speaking drivers trying to shake them down for “inside delivery charges” to offload their cargo quite often.

I often drive on the interstates, and no longer assume the 18 wheeler driver passing me on the right or the left has even the vaguest clue as to how to drive that big rig safely and professionally.

[org.whodat]

My customers call me to clean up the mess of non-english speaking drivers trying to shake them down for “inside delivery charges” to offload their cargo quite often.

I would say there in is the problem, it should be against the law for a truck driver to be ask to load are unload freight. I don't want to be on the road with a driver that just spent six hours unloading a truck and logged it as off duty time.

[sig226]

“inside delivery charges”? I’d love to get my hands on one of those guys. We get them fairly often - they walk up to the loading dock door waving the freight bill in front of them. They’re Russians and South Americans. It makes me wonder what kind of idiot would hire an OTR driver that can’t read the signs on the highway.