🚨 DO NOT get into trucking… unless you can handle bad luck!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- OTR trucking can chew you up and spit you out if you’re not prepared. It can be mentally grueling and many just don’t make it. Bad luck is commonplace. Whether you earned it or not.
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It's like my mentor said, in this day and age if you want to survive as an owner operator for the long run, you need to ditch all other major expenses, especially if you're single. Don't be paying rent for a house or an apartment, put all your shit if you into a storage container if you gotta.
Hold on to a beater car if you need a vehicle as most companies have a lot where you can keep your vehicle just in case. As car payments can also add up and take a lot out of you.
Live in your truck, you already own your truck you're just making payments, treat that like your house now, live in the truck maintain the truck. It wasn't just my mentor that told me this I've heard this from many other owner operators, you need to live in that truck and you need jobs that take you cross the country not short-haul local crap, that's for people who want to stay home.
In order to pay off that truck and survive as your own business your own owner operator, you need to solely focus on that truck. No house payments, no wife no kids,, no car payments, none of that unnecessary shit just the truck.
It's because of this commitment that I have also been told by these same folks they recommend you have 10 years of cross-country longhaul driving experience, stick with jobs that have you drive everywhere, through the mountains under the hills over to Grandma's house whatever. It was explained to me 5 years should be treated as time to familiarize yourself, with another five to become a professional. It's like growing up all over again, you're a kid then you're a teen then you're an adult at some point you get your cherry popped.
That's trucking, it is 100% a way of life and it looks like if you're not dedicated to that life you're bound to fail. With both the good and the bad.
100%.
The first to drop are the guys with the mortgage and the family. It's a shame and it shouldn't be that way, but it is. It has to _be_ your life to make it.
Everything you mentioned and for the time you guys spend out there, just isn't worth it for most drivers. Young men and women should go learn a trade. They will make a lot more money and be home with the family where they are wanted and needed. This is not a shot at truckers. I did it. I am just saying think about it.
I thought about class B local truck driving but idk
One of the reasons why I stopped doing dry van and reefer is because I got tired of crap equipment. I got tired of something being wrong with every damn trailer I was assigned because other drivers would tear them up and just walk away. Managers never cared. No one ever went back to the other drivers. It never got any better. Now I pull the same trailer everyday. I know what the condition is of my trailer at all times.
You have to be able to roll with the punches absolutely correct
Why am I not surprised they don't pay detention. Really pathetic. I am glad there are people like you willing to put up with this type of B.S. to get us our items. Thanks
It's honestly the little stuff that will make or break,always having to go 40 or 50 miles to get a washout,trailers dropped too high or low,not having the correct PU numbers, picking up the most disgusting dirty trailers with no fuel,to me the little annoyances that can be prevented by the last driver being courteous is what fkn gets me
He's 100% correct.
One of the first things I learned was that there is no "bad luck", there's just trucking and the occasional good luck. There's a lot more problem solving and variables to this line of work than people realize until they try it.
Anywho, once you square that the "bad luck" is just the job itself, it becomes easier to manage. Psyching yourself into thinking that everything bad happens to you just kills your energy and motivation.
Truer words have never been spoken
I got into trucking because I was laid off from the IT industry and couldn't find work. I just run flat bed for a local company and it's pretty low stress. I'm just a company driver for now.
It’s still a good way to land but only if you can mentally handle it.
If you were laid off from IT, I'm willing to bet you didn't get your MS.
If I managed a warehouse, it’d have its own washout station. Built to wash 5 trailers at a time. 24 hours.
Those Petebuilders are extremely rare. If you get one of those you better hang on to it 😂
Yeah lol
Yeah man, when I was new, I was ALWAYS on that cliff of having a panic attack or wanting to throw in the towel. Especially when I was brand new in PSD. Most people don’t have that level of seeing through the tunnel, and I never had an issue with equipment, that was the only thing keeping me on track. When you’re new, you are usually only about 5-10 seconds away from throwing in the towel and just leaving the truck anywhere and going home. It’s been one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life, but once that part of your journey is truly behind you, the rest is easy. I’ve been truly blessed with my trucks but not everyone has that luxury. Trucking is a wacky industry
Hour early to shipper yesterday and 20 hours later drop & hook ready lol. 1750 miles to 90 Walmart otif with 57 hours to get there. 685 miles down first drive. 11 10 11 10 8 I'll be early yay. Gotta enjoy the suck😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 always be positive.its all good.
No detention shud be illegal
Don't haul food.
It’s called the law of averages.. if you drive a truck you are dealing with a complex machine and all the variables that are attached and all it takes is running over a nail or a def leak or any other issue.
And if you drive reefer products you add even more variables so you must have PATIENCE to make it work
First law of trucking, Murphy lives in the jump seat.
Murphy doesn’t ride in the cab, he is crammed in the reefer engine compartment door between the cab and reefer trailer. He’s always situated perfectly to ruin your day with either the trailer or cab
That's why you CYA before turn that key
seems to me more of a problem with Prime, totally poor loads ,poor mangement,, p poor company to work for,,,,,
That's a scam Im sure that money went into someone pockets..Only to offset bad luck is insurance and savings .
I can understand if one is an owner-operator and run into these mechanical issues which will be very costly, but if one is a company driver don't they pay for the repairs? How much does break-down pay compensate the driver? That one driver you mentioned that didn't make a penny in 3 months, did he have to pay the company something more than what he was getting in break-down pay? I'm a new Class A CDL holder and, after watching a ton of trucking videos, I don't expect to get paid much in my first year. Fortunately I have no family and I have no debt or mortgage. I plan on being on the road as much as possible my first 6 months to a year with as little home time as I can get. To me anything over $1,000 per week is fine with me, but hopefully I'll make more by being on the road all the time. Even with bad luck it still seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Hurts me to see very young people get into trucking. Not a good path
Agreed!
Age isn't the problem, it's lack of understanding the business and being fully informed. IMO.
The people that get into aren’t really cut out for the business lol
I thought about driving local dump truck or water bottle class B
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#ooooooohyeah
You all need to stop drinking the cool aid. Trucking isn't that hard. But it is if you work for a crap company like Prime. Good luck.
Also, this guy only knows one company . Word of advice to those watching. Take everything this clown says with a grain of salt. ✌️
You’re commenting to me on my video so don’t be weird and refer to me in third party. 🤡
And no, this isn’t hard work. It’s just a mind fuck. That’s refrigerated OTR in general and most reefer drivers will tell you that, no matter what the company is.
Take a deep breath. You’re gonna make it.
@@DriverLineup 😆 🤣 That was easy.
Great news. Glad I could help!
241546 hmmm sounds familiar.....
I miss it. Got a janky ass trailer when traded that one in 🤣
Send customer code on a macro 19 for full info on a proposal
Doesn’t always include the full version that’s on the actual dispatch, unfortunately.