... Wait until they see how little they get paid for all the hours they are away from home. Paid by the mile means fueling, loading and waiting is all for free.
The sad part is...you have to be logged "on duty, not driving" when fueling and doing pre and post trip inspections.............you dont get paid a dime for all that.................
Yes sir, probably the same reasons why drivers have been hanging it up for years. Nothing's changed all that much in the last few decades except pay has not kept up with inflation.
Do yourself a favor don’t do it. I’ve driven everything from dump trucks to gasoline tankers for 25 years now. Way too much unpaid time especially with OTR. Your average wait time in a dock is usually close to 2 hrs on average and guess what that’s 2 hours you don’t get paid for as well as the time you spend fueling your truck and inspecting it for defects every day. If your broke down guess what you are broke down and making no money 1000 miles from your house. Like to be watched by the boss by camera 24/7 and work 340 out of 365 days a year and work 70 hrs a week to make a living wage that most people with a good job make in 40-50 hours. The 1000 dollars a week they are probably “guaranteeing” you isn’t worth the sweatshop conditions you are about to experience. Locally you are going to be dealing with 6-7 day weeks and up to 70 hours a week still and relatively low hourly wage where I live the going rate I’d around 20-25/hr. Coupled with the disruption to your life cause by working 14 hours a day at night it’s not worth the money. In some areas in trucking it’s getting hard to get decent retirement or insurance even now. In short if you are considering changing careers consider being an electrician or another trade with a strong union that gets things done for its members. I made the career change from trucking in 2018 and haven’t looked back since and would advise anyone wanting to get in that godforsaken profession to run as far away as possible.
Dont do it not worth it! Go into another trade. Try IT, get a certificate on Comptia. As a truck driver, I get paid $28,000 annually after taxes. Working 14 hours a day 70 hours a week. Always on the road 24/7. Rarely see home time. Barely any benefits. Last but not least, you have no life. If you're a loner with no family and dont mind a low salary with a 70 hours a week of working . Than I'll recommend this for you.
Over the Road, long haul, pays by the mile. You only make money when you’re driving. Don’t get paid for anything else. If truck or trailer breaks, you ain’t making money. Waiting for a load, no money. Wait to load or un- load, nothing. Do your research before becoming a driver. Not worth it . Talk to drivers , they will tell you. The whole everybody is retiring story is a JOKE.
I work for a company, that keeps us moving. Sure, trucks can break down, but that's not that often. And it usually takes an hour for roadside to show up and another hour to get you going again. If you're talking about major repairs, they tow you and get you into a different truck asap, because they need to keep their drivers moving.
And that is a common thing. Not a once a month thing. I drove for 10 years. Got tired of sitting at docks not making money. What other kind of job requires you to go to work but not make money.
We need about five hundred thousand more parking spaces in this country, but government/land owners wont do any thing about it because theres no money to be made from it.
Don't even think about touching or adjusting brakes. If you're not a certified brake technician, leave the adjusting stuff alone. Crawling around the mechanics of a commercial vehicle's brake system/components is NOT for a novice. You'll end up at the nasty end of a lawsuit if and when, something goes wrong. Another piece of advice, some companies will actually take out of you pay, any road call involving any out of service because your brakes fail a DOT inspection.
@@johnsonbar5022 So a driver should stop at a brake check and continue on . or fly right by because he is not allowed to readjust brakes or call for raod service to check them?
10 years later.... "Truck drivers are losing their job a rate of 1,000 people per day. They are replaced by AI and self-driving trucks. Amazon and UPS just signed a contract with Tesla/Uber's new AI-fleet."
Let’s see AI back down ally’s and get out and hook up hoses to deliver gas. I’m waiting on a self driving truck to wreck havoc in NY, LA or I45 coming through Houston in stop and go traffic. Just a bunch of nerds trying to bring to life some crap they saw in a terminator movie.
I don’t doubt they can drive in a straight line but if your a truck driver like me then you’ve been to places that are almost impossible to back into. I pull a tank and I constantly go off road in some crazy places. No way a self driving truck is going to navigate through the places we go to without doing some serious damage. I predict it will hurt freight drivers the most.
But, they won't be able to get a truck driving job once they get out of school. Trucking companies want drivers to have at least 2 years experience. With a big shortage, they really can't afford to be picky, but the people who run trucking companies don't give a damn because they're doing good, they're making $100,000+-$200,000+ a year.
When them drivers graduate and become a company driver for a mega carrier. 60-70 hrs a week working. After taxes that paycheck gonna be under a grand. 700-900$. U can make that driving a forklift. Work by the hour not cpm If you can.
My friend got his hazmat endorsement and is driving tankers and in 2 years and a half he already making 3k per week after taxes. Nothing come easy in this world people think just because you get your CDL you should be making the big money right away.
It's not likely to help matters much until the industry changes it's ways such as ending all free labor such as waiting time being unpaid. People aren't going to remain out on the road for weeks at a time with only one day off for every week worked. Truckers are also fed up with being cash cows for trial lawyers and ticket happy cops. This just scratches the surface as probably 90% of these students won't be doing it a year from now. And now many of the companies have cameras in the trucks watching everything they do and hearing everything they say and thus people will avoid the industry like the plague.
Wow so its the same issue as all the other industries that are striking out?..the pay and the treatment of the employees?? I havnt seen many people talk about this so im genuinely grateful for the info but also upset cz not too long ago i remember people touting drivers as heroes for delivering the goods we needed during the pandemic but then come to find out i guess not heroes enough to want to treat them better and properly compensate them for what they do smh.
@@cortezyvonne The drivers are indeed the heroes. There are companies out there that still treat them like crap and forget that without the driver they'd be out of business.
There is NOT a shortage of drivers! This shortage everyone talks about is for FUTURE needs! If there was a shortage of drivers, there would always be parking at truck stops and there would be no one parking at rest areas, weigh stations, and exit ramps!
We need more truck stops parking than new trucks. The highway will become a customer area unless we get more truck stops and more place to park the trucks.
I Used To Be A Bus Operator In The City. I Loved My Occupation Very Much + Along With My Passengers; Yet I Let It Go, Because Of All The Wreckful Drivers On The Road; Not To Mention All Of The Pollution That Trucks, Buses, Cars, Motorbikes etc Put Out Within Minutes Of Starting Their Engines. I Know Truck Drivers That Quit Driving Trucks To Drive Buses. The Pay Isn't Worth It. Oh, & My On Duty Manager Would Get On My Bus Sexually Assaulting Me Before Allowing Me To Start My Work.
Before the E Logs, DEF and cameras in the trucks I use to always encourage guys to become truck drivers. Now… not so much. I just avoid the question when people ask so I don’t have to lie. Trucking is to regulated and the pay doesn’t match the headaches you deal with. I love this industry but it’s to corporate now. I don’t blame the drivers but I do blame our government and the EPA. Sates like California who will do anything to destroy the trucking industry. I believe most of the problems come from college educated people who control trucking hate to see a normal high school graduates make just as much as they do. Good Luck new drivers and stay safe.
I believe the insurance companies have a lot to do with it. You don't even have to get in an accident to be let go on account of the strict guidelines the companies have to abide by to keep insurance low.
I live in Houston and almost every local company has cameras. They say it’s the insurance companies but I know that’s a lie because even the self insured companies have cameras. Plus they all pay the same 1k a week. The cost of living is going up so making 65k a year is like making 35k a year.
I’m currently a Amazon delivery driver regular license based out of Los Angeles saving up my income to get myself in trucking school to obtain my Class A license and get to trucking 24 years young wish me luck 🍀👍🙏
I wish you luck. I drove OTR for 10 years. I quit in 2007.. Back when I was driving there were company’s that had their own training so you didn’t have to pay a driving school. Also, there was company’s that would hire you and reimburse you for school cost. Try to find job that pays by hour, not by mile.
Don't listen to these trolls. Too many drivers want to be OTR and leave a bunch of openings in local. My company offers $7500 bonuses but still can't get drivers in and few left went to OTR.
Driver 👉 there are a bunch of drivers, the thing its the department of motor vehicles or the states have a lot of useless regulations against drivers 🤔 drivers prefers to be a Uber driver, instead comercial or work on something else.
@@Perich29 How? If I had to worry about what gear I was in(because my mind doesn't trust itself to remember) I wouldn't be focusing on what is going on around me as much.
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... Wait until they see how little they get paid for all the hours they are away from home. Paid by the mile means fueling, loading and waiting is all for free.
FACTZ
The sad part is...you have to be logged "on duty, not driving" when fueling and doing pre and post trip inspections.............you dont get paid a dime for all that.................
@@numbaoneUFCfan even when you are off duty, you are still working by taking care of the truck.
%90 of them will quit within 6 months. Would be nice if they followed up with the students in this class and ask why they left
Yes sir, probably the same reasons why drivers have been hanging it up for years. Nothing's changed all that much in the last few decades except pay has not kept up with inflation.
No, they might quit their jobs but not trucking. It's the same in other fields like nursing, engineering....
1k a week is not enough, truckers deserve more.
Absolutely. $1,000.00 a week isn't even $50,000 a year. Not a lot.
That's starting out. You get paid for experience.
You can easily make 100k just starting out on otr
You can always see the country for $325.00 unlimited travel for 30 days on greyhound.
I’m in my early 30s working a part time job. Been wanted to drive a truck for a while now. I think it’s finally time for me to make the move!
get a local driving job
Do yourself a favor don’t do it. I’ve driven everything from dump trucks to gasoline tankers for 25 years now. Way too much unpaid time especially with OTR. Your average wait time in a dock is usually close to 2 hrs on average and guess what that’s 2 hours you don’t get paid for as well as the time you spend fueling your truck and inspecting it for defects every day. If your broke down guess what you are broke down and making no money 1000 miles from your house. Like to be watched by the boss by camera 24/7 and work 340 out of 365 days a year and work 70 hrs a week to make a living wage that most people with a good job make in 40-50 hours. The 1000 dollars a week they are probably “guaranteeing” you isn’t worth the sweatshop conditions you are about to experience. Locally you are going to be dealing with 6-7 day weeks and up to 70 hours a week still and relatively low hourly wage where I live the going rate I’d around 20-25/hr. Coupled with the disruption to your life cause by working 14 hours a day at night it’s not worth the money. In some areas in trucking it’s getting hard to get decent retirement or insurance even now. In short if you are considering changing careers consider being an electrician or another trade with a strong union that gets things done for its members. I made the career change from trucking in 2018 and haven’t looked back since and would advise anyone wanting to get in that godforsaken profession to run as far away as possible.
Dont do it not worth it! Go into another trade. Try IT, get a certificate on Comptia.
As a truck driver, I get paid $28,000 annually after taxes. Working 14 hours a day 70 hours a week. Always on the road 24/7. Rarely see home time. Barely any benefits. Last but not least, you have no life. If you're a loner with no family and dont mind a low salary with a 70 hours a week of working . Than I'll recommend this for you.
@smokysarchive9675 it hasn't changed. It's put me in the hospital a couple times. Non crash related.
@@omikredarhcs8221local pay sucks! I made $40k/yr less to stay local than my buddy is an OTR team run as company driver
I’m surprised they teach them how to drive a stick… most of the trucks now are automatic.
If you can drive a manual transmission, you can drive an automatic transmission. Not the other way around. Some trucks are still manual.
At my job 40% of our fleet is still manual
most will teach you the 10 speeds manual, NOT 18 speeds with two splitters because they just train them to pass the test, not to be a trucker.
DRIVERS BEWARE
Nope it is hard staying out driving big rigs. You don't get home at night and you drive in all kinds of weather.
& mozt people get taken ADVANTAGE of .
Give up home time. X-mas , birthdays, anything special that you would like to be home for isn't gonna happen
Over the Road, long haul, pays by the mile. You only make money when you’re driving. Don’t get paid for anything else. If truck or trailer breaks, you ain’t making money. Waiting for a load, no money. Wait to load or un- load, nothing. Do your research before becoming a driver. Not worth it . Talk to drivers , they will tell you. The whole everybody is retiring story is a JOKE.
I work for a company, that keeps us moving. Sure, trucks can break down, but that's not that often. And it usually takes an hour for roadside to show up and another hour to get you going again. If you're talking about major repairs, they tow you and get you into a different truck asap, because they need to keep their drivers moving.
And that is a common thing. Not a once a month thing. I drove for 10 years. Got tired of sitting at docks not making money. What other kind of job requires you to go to work but not make money.
@@thomasbrown7728 You should be getting detention pay. If not, I'd work for a different company
I always wondered why they don't help load or unload their trucks Not their job?
I quit in 2007, started doing electrical work, hit a time clock now, paid every minute I’m at work, plus overtime.
We need about five hundred thousand more parking spaces in this country, but government/land owners wont do any thing about it because theres no money to be made from it.
Keep your heads up truckers, thank you
God Bless these truckers
There's like ten people in that classroom? 'Booming?'
Class are small because they need to be for this type of instruction and the time and practice it takes
@@BiggTruckHer Spec Ed trucking schools?
Well it was just 5 students before
I wonder if the schools teach how to adjust brakes, or give a few lesson on driving up hills and down hills?
Don't even think about touching or adjusting brakes. If you're not a certified brake technician, leave the adjusting stuff alone. Crawling around the mechanics of a commercial vehicle's brake system/components is NOT for a novice. You'll end up at the nasty end of a lawsuit if and when, something goes wrong. Another piece of advice, some companies will actually take out of you pay, any road call involving any out of service because your brakes fail a DOT inspection.
@@johnsonbar5022 So a driver should stop at a brake check and continue on . or fly right by because he is not allowed to readjust brakes or call for raod service to check them?
10 years later.... "Truck drivers are losing their job a rate of 1,000 people per day. They are replaced by AI and self-driving trucks. Amazon and UPS just signed a contract with Tesla/Uber's new AI-fleet."
Let’s see AI back down ally’s and get out and hook up hoses to deliver gas. I’m waiting on a self driving truck to wreck havoc in NY, LA or I45 coming through Houston in stop and go traffic. Just a bunch of nerds trying to bring to life some crap they saw in a terminator movie.
@@dknight5249 your underestimating technology but i do agree with your point
I don’t doubt they can drive in a straight line but if your a truck driver like me then you’ve been to places that are almost impossible to back into. I pull a tank and I constantly go off road in some crazy places. No way a self driving truck is going to navigate through the places we go to without doing some serious damage. I predict it will hurt freight drivers the most.
@@letstalkaboutit6043 they are underestimating what the job requires. They are still in the stages of automating the steering holder part.
@@dknight5249 Facts!!
But, they won't be able to get a truck driving job once they get out of school. Trucking companies want drivers to have at least 2 years experience. With a big shortage, they really can't afford to be picky, but the people who run trucking companies don't give a damn because they're doing good, they're making $100,000+-$200,000+ a year.
Showing a trucker wearing a mask in his truck is not helping.
I can barely parallel park my Ford Escape… I guess trucking is not for me
When them drivers graduate and become a company driver for a mega carrier. 60-70 hrs a week working. After taxes that paycheck gonna be under a grand. 700-900$. U can make that driving a forklift. Work by the hour not cpm If you can.
My friend got his hazmat endorsement and is driving tankers and in 2 years and a half he already making 3k per week after taxes.
Nothing come easy in this world people think just because you get your CDL you should be making the big money right away.
Maybe they should try paying the driver’s they already got…
I have my class a but i stay closer to home with a class b job, i love what i do, the pay is not bad for a class b and that’s about it lol
Why are you do double clutch you don’t need to do double clutching twist in Time
1/2 the story some double clutching bs, the other half , the old drivers are retiring. What a joke.
double clutch while DMV person is in truck with you.
It's not likely to help matters much until the industry changes it's ways such as ending all free labor such as waiting time being unpaid. People aren't going to remain out on the road for weeks at a time with only one day off for every week worked. Truckers are also fed up with being cash cows for trial lawyers and ticket happy cops. This just scratches the surface as probably 90% of these students won't be doing it a year from now. And now many of the companies have cameras in the trucks watching everything they do and hearing everything they say and thus people will avoid the industry like the plague.
Yes no privacy is insane. Glad we don't have that in Europe.
Boy you got that right !
Wow so its the same issue as all the other industries that are striking out?..the pay and the treatment of the employees??
I havnt seen many people talk about this so im genuinely grateful for the info but also upset cz not too long ago i remember people touting drivers as heroes for delivering the goods we needed during the pandemic but then come to find out i guess not heroes enough to want to treat them better and properly compensate them for what they do smh.
@@cortezyvonne The drivers are indeed the heroes. There are companies out there that still treat them like crap and forget that without the driver they'd be out of business.
There is NOT a shortage of drivers! This shortage everyone talks about is for FUTURE needs! If there was a shortage of drivers, there would always be parking at truck stops and there would be no one parking at rest areas, weigh stations, and exit ramps!
Where I live at everything that you listed points is applied
We need more truck stops parking than new trucks. The highway will become a customer area unless we get more truck stops and more place to park the trucks.
Im a commercial driver an they don’t pay you $1,000 a week when you start
I Used To Be A Bus Operator In The City. I Loved My Occupation Very Much + Along With My Passengers; Yet I Let It Go, Because Of All The Wreckful Drivers On The Road; Not To Mention All Of The Pollution That Trucks, Buses, Cars, Motorbikes etc Put Out Within Minutes Of Starting Their Engines. I Know Truck Drivers That Quit Driving Trucks To Drive Buses. The Pay Isn't Worth It. Oh, & My On Duty Manager Would Get On My Bus Sexually Assaulting Me Before Allowing Me To Start My Work.
Whoa!
Because there plenty of place to park the bus than trucks, and you don't sleep in the bus.
I graduated with 70 Students in my class within 2 years they all quit driving except to me
Before the E Logs, DEF and cameras in the trucks I use to always encourage guys to become truck drivers. Now… not so much. I just avoid the question when people ask so I don’t have to lie. Trucking is to regulated and the pay doesn’t match the headaches you deal with. I love this industry but it’s to corporate now. I don’t blame the drivers but I do blame our government and the EPA. Sates like California who will do anything to destroy the trucking industry. I believe most of the problems come from college educated people who control trucking hate to see a normal high school graduates make just as much as they do. Good Luck new drivers and stay safe.
I believe the insurance companies have a lot to do with it. You don't even have to get in an accident to be let go on account of the strict guidelines the companies have to abide by to keep insurance low.
Drive local.
I live in Houston and almost every local company has cameras. They say it’s the insurance companies but I know that’s a lie because even the self insured companies have cameras. Plus they all pay the same 1k a week. The cost of living is going up so making 65k a year is like making 35k a year.
As fast as the old drivers are retiring the new ones will quit faster than that 4 drivers per year
HOW MUCH MONEY UPFRONT FOR SCHOOL???
I’m currently a Amazon delivery driver regular license based out of Los Angeles saving up my income to get myself in trucking school to obtain my Class A license and get to trucking 24 years young wish me luck 🍀👍🙏
I wish you luck. I drove OTR for 10 years. I quit in 2007.. Back when I was driving there were company’s that had their own training so you didn’t have to pay a driving school. Also, there was company’s that would hire you and reimburse you for school cost. Try to find job that pays by hour, not by mile.
DONT DO IT .
I wouldn’t do it
Don't listen to these trolls. Too many drivers want to be OTR and leave a bunch of openings in local. My company offers $7500 bonuses but still can't get drivers in and few left went to OTR.
They are on strike. No shortage. Let Freedom ring. Global Freedom Convoys.
According to the videos I see, there are easier ways of going broke,...
Team up with your wife plan on living in your truck have no home just stay on the road. Avoid ports. Be nomads that can work.
and get divorced in a year
My friend and I thought about becoming one before COVID-19 laid us off from our💩 job. Now we have an opportunity to be a stay at home wives.
*Bring out the Tesla trucks!* 🚛
Yeah as a matter of fact I DO 😢
There something strange about this Duncan. 🤔
I wanna be a trucker but I’m only 18
You can get your CDL at 18. You just can’t leave the state until your 21. But they are talking about changing that law.
@@Idahoprepper71 thanks for the head up. But there's another problem I'm in California which I heard it's the hardest place to get a CDL
@@spjulyer3124 not true, they are all the same. Do not take any easy option.
@@omikredarhcs8221 I plan for the.
I plan for the challenge, the challenge prepares me for more
Heres a link to the school takes like week
There s NO DRIVER SHORTAGE, JUST DRIVER S PAY...U WONT SEE THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE ..IN THS FIELD OF WORK. That's FOR SURE
Let’s get it 🔥🔥
I want to job as a new driver but how? I am from Malaysia and rationality Bangladesh. Who can help me for this job.......😊😊😊
just go toany trucking company, they will help or they will send you some where else
Driver 👉 there are a bunch of drivers, the thing its the department of motor vehicles or the states have a lot of useless regulations against drivers 🤔 drivers prefers to be a Uber driver, instead comercial or work on something else.
Yup
After trucking school.. never double clutch. Always float your gears instead. Easier and saves the clutch in the long run
No, dont drive stick
I miss driving a standard shifter, it was fun but they put all of us in the automatic transmission trucks.
@@3bydacreekside sticks are easier to drive when bumping the dock and hooking up the trailer.
@@Perich29 How? If I had to worry about what gear I was in(because my mind doesn't trust itself to remember) I wouldn't be focusing on what is going on around me as much.
Yea i was never taught to double clutch in school we floated gears since the first drive
Lmao I ain’t driving stick
You want to see something funny? Type in news story about truck driving and there are many ( news) stories just like this 10 years old or more.
Good, we need them. The US has enough woke idiots with liberal art degrees who do nothing. We need employees who actually work for a living💯
amen. Trucking > woke lib art degrees
BLESS THEM..THANK YOU TRUCKERS....XOXOOX
Good for them!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lol