I used to work for a broker back in early 90s. They would keep 15%. I'd always try to help drivers out by giving them more money. How can this be legal for a broker to keep 40% when even a lawyer is capped at 33% by law when hired to go after money just like a broker. Everything that man stated abt the old drivers is true. Today's new drivers are very scary!
Many of broker are very happy with double broking and Corporating with them ( sharing carrier info with them ) and you thin you got from orginal broker but NO and eventually they share the profit . Absloutly DAT doing nothing .
In the early 90’s I was driving on I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie during a blizzard and I was finding it very difficult to see the road. A semi driver got in front of me, slowed down, put on his hazard lights, and got me through what could have been a deadly trip. I know he saved my life. I wish I could have given him a great big hug.
Thank you for saying this. Drivers who like this gentleman that have been driving as long speak as if the commercial transportation business is one of the few that aren't operated with integrity. That's really the real issue. At the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day it's a business and everyone has to work.
I’ve been an owner op for 11 years.. trucking is not dead to me…… the key for me succeeding is I’m my own maintenance guy…. And I stay close to home…..only 5hr out….Texas Louisiana Arkansas….. that’s me…… I own 2 homes and working to buy another to rent out….. maintenance is the issue… I do all my tires also…… I won’t lose… I bet on myself..
Eggzzactly! I’ve told kats this to, u have to stay regional an have certain mechanics u deal with that won’t screw u. Staying n the same region is less stessful most of the times also
Back in November 1991 I was driving from California to Pennsylvania to catch my flight to my next duty station in the Azores. A female traveling alone with a 5 year old little boy. My destination that night was Cheyenne WY. I had to stop and put chains on. While attempting this a truck driver offered to help. He and another trucker were both headed to Cheyenne and they told me to stay between them and they would make sure I arrived safely. We stopped once and I bought them a meal and coffee. It was horrible on the road but, thanks to those wonderful men my son and I arrived in Cheyenne safe and sound. I always give truckers the breaks they need on the road to make their jobs as easy as possible. I have a tremendous amount of respect for these hard working under appreciated men and women. I hate seeing what is happening to these professional drivers.
Thank you so much, for your appreciation for others! You have a good head on your shoulders! I have faith, that you've taught your child to do the same!! I'm a veteran truck driver myself, and know how treacherous winter driving can be, especially on ice and in blizzard conditions. I can't say how many times I've sat in Cheyenne, for as much as 3 days, waiting for the weather/road conditions to improve. Best wishes to you and your family.
My two-year daughter and I went on a road trip during the one anniversary of my husband’s death. We drove from Southern California to Seattle. During one of my gas stops, the driver of a large semi came over to me to let me know that all the truckers were keeping on eye on us re safety. They would just hand off the info to the driver ahead. This went on for hundreds and hundreds of miles. I felt very cared for and protected. Our daughter is now 38, and I’ve never forgotten the kindness of all those truckers. Many hugs to each and every one of them! ❤️
That’s an awesome story. The kind of thing that makes me have hope in humanity, because lord knows we as Americans “and I’m sure other places but I can only speak on here” have gotten so far from how GOD wants us to treat others… I don’t usually make the kind of comments but this particular story made me smile.
Truck driving is a thankless underpaid job. People use to think of us as Knights of the road, now they hate and shit on us. I'm a retired driver of 45yrs. on the road and I approve this message.
I used to hitch hike and yes we referred to you as the "Knights of the Road" and there are many still there. Thank you for giving me a lift, sharing your life stories, sense of humor, integrity.
I was definitely brought up see you guys as Knights of the a Road. I let you merge, I let you change lanes, I signal and I give you space! I do what I can do.
I was delivering an arcade machine once and it somehow slipped out of the back of my truck and smashed on the interstate. It was a trucker who stopped and helped me get the mess out of the highway. I was amazed that he was so willing to help a total stranger clear the road. I've never forgotten what a selfless act this this was, and he had no real need to do this for me. But he did anyway. Much love!
There is great news. A Chicago area trucking company, Agility Express, recently taught some brokers a lesson regarding ripping off carriers by commandeering dozens of loads and refusing to deliver until payment for previous shipments is made. Many paid up. And so if you're an O/O or a multi truck firm take note in how to fe with these crooks. Money is the only language they understand.
I've been in trucking for 27 years. 15 of them as a State CDL examiner and instructor. I can tell you the two biggest issues are CDL schools and big trucking companies. The quality of drivers the schools are pumping out is crap. Not everyone is able to become a truck driver, but the schools will do whatever they can to push a square block through a round hole. Big companies have destroyed the owner operator side of things by driving rates down. If you really want to be an owner op, you can still make money in the specialized hauling side. But a step deck, double drop or a lowboy with 3 axles and a swing axle, haul oversized and overweight loads, and you can still make good money. Refuse cheap paying loads.
yes i have a 1ton pick-up/car-haller ( central 2 axel-ed, and yes fine with it as it acts more as a forklifts/loader's do etc ) aka not a CDL but my dad did-RIP 20+years so i knowledge 1st handed experience with him and or summer's/school and the lifestyle and or sleep ( turned's me into a unsafe narcolepsy/insomniac*, and or hate the yearly/time-zone-jumping-etc summer family visit as work bookends both sides and or basically had to copycat dad's methods to pull it off etc ) i couldn't do 😴yes i can drive 12 hours straight but dealing with the interruptions i couldn't and also i forgetting the longer bridge/swing ( one boss tried having me tow ( sub 40 miles round trip ) the 5th wheel/~15000lb-rig-GVW bad idea as it's basically a mini-semi truck, light-poll got lucky that day ) of that style of trailer etc so no im better off as a sailor or auto mechanic 👨🔧or millwright-plant-maintenance flip is dad is scary ( im okay but out of practice-etc and or don't get much seat-time HPDE ) behind a racetrack/race-car or sport-car ie C7 as he cannot safely drive it and or forgetting that it's not a big-rig etc, same for backing-up in his( Boomer-gen ) jeep or sedans 💥🤦🏻♂my( zoomer*gen FWI ) vin/car's have gotten clobbered more than once in 20 years
I’m honestly dealing with the same thing in trades. The latest hire at my company was fresh out of apex trade school, couldn’t change bits on an impact, didn’t know how to use a ratchet… they’re just taking money and shoveling shit out now
That’s the problem, all these new guys taking all the cheap loads instead of sitting and waiting for the higher paying loads. You need an emergency fund instead of taking loads that bring everyone’s pay down. Be a part of the solution not the problem.
This gentlemen is completely correct. I've had my CDL for 34 years. I just recently surrendered my authority and sold my equipment. It is more cost effective for me to work for another company than to operate as an O/O. I saw the writing on the wall 2 years ago. Freight rates were dropping; the amount of loads available were dropping; fuel was through the roof; insurance was increasing; maintenance was increasing...and there weren't any politicians talking/attempting to make things better. Over the road truck drivers are hated and despised. We bring them everything they could want...but don't park your truck here, your truck is too loud, your truck is too slow (compared to the 4 wheelers doing 15 over the mph). *Truck parking continues to be an issue. States make laws prohibiting trucks from parking on on-ramps/off-ramps even when they know there is not enough parking. *The FMCSA continues to mandate laws/rules limiting the ability of a driver. The end result is the inability to make money. No thank you. I'll sit back and watch "civilization" descend into chaos and eventually burn. They don't want, or appreciate, all we do. They can suffer when drivers FINALLY say enough is enough...I will no longer deliver that for you.
Eventually, quite a bit of trucking will be done by self-driving trucks that will go by themselves from node to node. They won't need to stop for meals or for sleep -- and they'll never need to pee on the go. Only on short hauls and deliveries, where many complex decisions are required, and robotic stamina provides no real edge, will humans retain some advantages, and remain fairly common well into the future.
I've never been a trucker, but I remember the days when they would flicker their parking lights at you, and you could flicker them back. When one passed you, a flick of the high beams and they'd trust you enough to pull over and give you the parking light flicker in thanks. That caused my respect for them to grow, and I've always given them plenty of room for it. 🇺🇲
I grew up in a non trucking family, but my dear Dad was hip to the passing/signaling thing with the truckers, and showed me what it was about, on our trips. I'm an older trucker now, still carrying on that safe tradition! Thank you for comment, and being g a considerate human being! 😊
Your partially correct. It's greedy corporations that are destroying America. Corporatism is fascism. Once they control and industry, the industry has no more freedom or "independence"
Man that’s true I’m no old school driver but was taught by one, I’m 32 started at 24 and so true i always flash my lights when some one passes me to let them in the lane and no one blinks back in gratitude not that I’m looking for gratitude but shows you the level of respect some drivers have.
If you flash your lights at me to let me know I'm clear to come back over, I'll blink you back but I've been doing this off and on for the past 26 years. There was a time drivers would wave to one another when you passed on a 2 lane or when being passed on the interstate. And back in the day, you didn't ever see a driver in shorts and flip flops.
@@TheGifted333 I turned 77 today, Feb 10, and still driving, but just in the province. I drove my first truck a year underage.,17 years old. You had to be 18 to get a chauffer's license in Manitoba Canada back then, and you had to have taken your driver's test in a standard tranny car. You paid $2 extra and you got a chuffers license. The flashing your lights and especially the wave to another driver I miss these days. Whether it's lites or a wave, maybe 1 in 10 might acknowledge you. Quite different these days. Be safe out there Gifted.
First off, most of the clown flashing to get over do so about a foot after you clear their front bumper... immediately tells me they are dangerous. 2) Using any indicator to tell someone else anything opens you up to liability 3) Too many knuckleheads so can't trust a dang gone one of them.
I can say this quite confidently. In the midst of broker carrier feud there are alot of shipper dropping rates drastically and profiting from this saga. Carriers think brokers are withholding money whereas, its the Shipper who have gone down drastically on their rates.
I know a lot of truckers they paid off houses cars bikes everything ! And I’m young with no kids no wife and homeless I need and want the job no matter what people say about truck driving!
This gentleman has the perfect voice for doing a long form podcast, radio show, FM talk show. Perfect resonance and tone, great sounding. He's got a future :)
Things have changed so dam much, they are pampered today. They have to have an automatic transmission because they don’t know how to drive a standard shift truck. They don’t know how to back up to save their butts, and most of them come straight out of a school and expect to get top pay. Back when I started you had to work your way up, I was constantly asking the them questions to learn, I had one who was home for a while waiting for his truck engine to be rebuilt, he taught me how to backup and make certain moves. I learned so much from him and for that I’m forever grateful. Trucking has changed so much that I’m glad I retired after 38 years
I’ve been out there almost 50 years and this gentleman is absolutely correct, nowadays no one is stopping to help you, your on your own, it wasn’t like that when I started, but I wouldn’t have done anything else, but I am glad I’m retired, but I do still miss it once in awhile
@shaydesofblue2281 keyword "should" just like all the Indians/Pakistanis should know not to block a line of trucks at the fuel island for 2 hrs for no reason.especiallu when they're team driving.
@@chuckliquor3663 Merge means the right-of-way alternating between two streams of conflicting traffic. E.g. zipper merge, where as the right lane comes to an end, and the way it is supposed to work, is that the left lane traffic and right lane traffic take turns, to make their lane changes. Yield means that the onus to give way to conflicting traffic, always stays with the same movement, and the other movement always has priority for the right-of-way. E.g. left turn yield on green circle. Left turns have the onus to wait for oncoming traffic, while straight traffic has a continuous right-of-way (except yielding for incumbent traffic in the intersection).
@@carultch The only caveat I'll add is that it is the ending lane's job to safely make the merge. I don't care if they merge ahead of me or behind, just don't drive next to my vehicle and force me to brake.
The guy is right. I sold my just 5yr ago. I was 3rd generation of drivers/op. I was the last one. Broke my heart but I seen where it was going then and know it's going to get worse. I'm one person, I can't compete against billion dollar world wide trucking companies.
@@charlesphilhower1452 oh I'm with you more than you will ever know, the value of labor or any skill is pissed on mate. I'm just saying what needs to be said as there are two sides to this shit story
25 years out here, 22 of that as an owner operator and this guy is spot on! The trucking industry has gone in the toilet hard in the past 5-10 years. Between the shady brokers, these mega carries just putting a warm body in the seats, the FMCSA and the government regulating us to death... I say bring back long hoods and manual transmissions and it will weed out a lot of people now days. Im so ready to hang it up. If this speed limiter thing does pass, Im out!
Great idea long hood,s and a manual transmission thats,why some have a vary hard time with fuel prices and the vary trying rates you have to be even more efficient than your competitor aero and mpg are up to 20,000 to 30,0000 dollar,s in the bank over 5 to 6 mpg in100,000 mile operation,s
@@kimberlyhemerson4828 My older FLD120 that non emissions, pre eld, 13 speed, 500hp Detroit, 7.5+ mpg all day long at 65 mph. Buddy has a 97 Pete 379 with a 500hp Detroit, 18 speed, 300 inch wheel base and a 110 inch sleeper and he manages 6+ loaded pulling a Conestoga. Screw all these new trucks. My neighbor has a 2014 Pete with a Cummins and my old freightliner gets better fuel mileage. Not by much, and his is in the shop almost twice a year for Def related issues and it's never cheap.
Long hoods and manual transmissions… I don’t think you understand fully what direction this industry is headed…. The end game is autonomously moved freight without human interaction. Thinking we’re going backwards to more human input involved freight relocating makes you sound so oblivious to the industry.
@@Daniel-oy8ic My original comment still stands. I have zero interest in self driving junk, battery operated garbage, none of that. Here in Northern Minnesota, ev's are garbage in the winter, I refuse to trust a self driving vehicle, and the mega carries pushing for all this stuff are what is ultimately ruining the industry for the guys like me. I've been out here 25 years now, trust me when I say it's garbage now compared to what it was when I first started.
@@Hippie459MNthe future isn’t waiting for you’re approval. It doesn’t care about your opinion. It doesn’t care about your career or your livelihood. Mega carriers are controlling the market more and more each year. They’re partnering with robotic companies and will partner with brokers to handle all the freight being moved EVERYWHERE. You’re going to have to accept the fact, your long nose truck with your manual transmission and pre emissions engine is the past. If you haven’t noticed already, this industry is going forward and not backwards. I’m sorry but you will be left behind and I hate it for both of us.
He is spot on. I have been driving over thirty years and the industry is not worth it. If you are going to be a truck driver, be a company driver. My advice is to get a trade. Go into welding, masonry, plumbing. Do anything except truck driving.
I've been in manufacturing for almost 20 years. There's no money in it unless you are a supervisor or manager. Stand on your feet all day and compete for a lead position, paying an extra $1.50. Disgruntled coworkers or management. Trucking can't be that bad.
@@1stdraft611 Nobody is trying to brake check you or cut you off in a manufacturing plant. You deal with the same people all the time, jerks or not. You don't have to be held up at a customer just because they don't want to do their job, waiting for hours because you asked how long will it be. Not everybody hates you because you " held them up " for 10 seconds. I've done both jobs, and they both suck. Just in different ways.
That description of old school and new school drivers applies to everyone, not just truckers. Being polite and helpful is a more and more rare character trait. What is a sad truth is that being in need is a place that low life scumbags target today as easy prey
The same thing happened to me in Atlanta on 285. I had someone call in a hit-and-run on me and wrote down my trailer number and there was a sheriff waiting for me about three counties north of Atlanta on 75 for me to drive by was sitting there waiting to see my trailer number and when I drove by, he pulled me over. He said you were involved in an accident hit and run. They said back in Atlanta 285 and I was not said someone called in and said that you hit their car on 285. I don’t believe it ever happened. They took my information, but I’ve never heard anything else about it.
Trucking is dead,,,,,,ive been in this business for 30 yrs,,,cant wait to get out of it,,,,hes telling you the truth,,,😂😂😂😂 i started with the old school truckers 😂😂,,,and yes we started early driving all kind of vehicles,,,and hes right about everything,,,he said,,,,, and alot he didn't say,,,,😂😂😂😂,!,!,,,the new people driving are dangerous,,,,
I agree that the new people driving are very dangerous. Because these trucking schools literally hand out the license as long as you pay them they’re 10 grand they give you a license. I’ve only had my license for less than two years. The Trucking School I went to was six weeks and I got tested at the DMV. It was not easy to get my license but once I got my license was a ready to drive? Hell no I was not ready not even close, luckily my husband who’s had his license for 25 years took me out in our truck every single day for three months and he taught me in phases until he was 100% comfortable with me driving the truck I now drive our truck from Boulder city Nevada to Phoenix daily. We have a 2007 Kenworth W9 18 speed. Now my sister who got her license about the same time I did told me how she only went to school for two weeks and that they felt bad for her and she literally was given her license. So when I took her out. She was all confident in saying that she could drive the truck so I let her get into the driver seat on a deserted road, and she couldn’t even shift the gears. I told her there was no way in hell that she was going to drive my truck. She wanted me to teacher but I told her you literally will have to come with me every single day for the next three months and first we’re gonna start on this deserted road and I’m going to teach you how to shift that is the first thing you were going to learn. Ask me if she ever came back and asked me to help her again??? She’s had her license for a year and she still is not driving now. She tells me that her boyfriend is going to Trucking School and the school is only three weeks. How in the hell is he going to learn how to drive in three weeks!? It takes three weeks just to learn your maneuvers, but that’s how the schools are here in Nevada specifically Las Vegas and it’s disgusting. They should be put out of business because it’s very very dangerous. The people that they are giving these license is two an even in the short time that I’ve been driving I see so many dumb truck drivers out there I especially love the ones that are on their phones texting while they have an 80,000 pound load. Am I Trucking School they didn’t even teach us how to properly tie down a load they didn’t go through flatbeds or reefers or any other type of truck not one word was even spoken about properly tying down a load. And some of you might say oh you don’t learn not until you get on the road. But I’m sorry for $10,000. You should be at least taught a little bit about it.
Old school drivers always saying the trucking industry changed…. But if you really think about it everything changes ? And if you really wanted new school drivers to be different why don’t you come out and teach instead of posting shit on bonehead truckers. Pass on the knowledge old man. Video is great but the old school times has passed and new regs and rules are because of the old school drivers lol. Lease operator is an owner operator old timer we have decided as lease operators not to deal with all that work ? I mean this guy just needs to retire just like all the other cranky old Karen’s. Fooh
@@41933you’re right trucking can’t die, it’s gonna be exterminated if the industry keeps ripping the drivers off, there’s no money in driving anymore, you have to be a desk jockey to make money. Drivers will eventually leave the industry and then the country will fall. As a driver we are being starved out of the trucks, and as a company driver too.
I'm 34 and been driving 2 years. Quite late to the game. Got a manual restriction bc how i earned my CDL, and honestly can only drive a 10 speed, but grew up around old school truckers bc my best friends family owned a log trucking buisiness. My Dad even drove log truck for them. They had slope nose 357 Petes, 9300 International Eagles, a w900, and even a badass turned up V8 Detroit Mack Superliner with 900Hp his grandfather had. Went on many logging trips using a cheeter pipe to sinch down log bunks. SCARY ROADS and looking over the edge down that hillside was unnerving. I flash my 4 ways to thank people who let me merge and slow down to let people pass me even though they only going 2 mph faster than me. I was raised that trucking is a brotherhood, we all a family out here doing the same thing, lets work together.
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I want to compliment you, you have said it all. I am a little business owner and I really want to expand my business to the next level by making myself an investor but I really don't know how to go about it..
Max respect for shunning these crooks known as brokers. There is no reason in the world they should even exist much less earn nearly the same as the person providing the equipment, fuel, insurance and labor to move the load.
Yep! The game has changed. These new truckers have no respect nor consideration. They don't care about others. They think that they will get rich, and with social media, they're famous.
Great interview and insights. My Dad was a 40 year trucker who retired after 30 years with Roadway. I never became a trucker but I have always been fascinated by the stories Dad and Grandpa would tell and how things have changed over the years. Both of them have long-since passed away but at least I've found a place to hear some trucker talk. You have my subscription.
Good interview!! I’m an old school trucker as well that guy knows what he’s talking about.. still make it as an O/O but I pretty much do all the repairs on my truck.Mechanical skills are must it saves tons of $$!
I’m practically new to driving, although I’m 55 years old, I’m old enough to not take risky chances and wise enough to run silent and learn from the pros. These foreigners and young bloods out here on the road scare the wad outta me. Stay safe and be blessed.
Every one is foreigner including yourself. The only difference is when was your root migrated to US. I have learned this from my native Cherokee friend. Btw, what’s your origins? British? Irish? African-American? Whatever you call it, either you are invader or …. Let’s respect each other.😊
@@dont3222gtfoh they lost, they didn’t have a society and culture that could compete with white people it is what it is. Natives are doing fine better than fine they can stfu or the US will finish what it started
Honest question, what's the problem with foreign drivers? I moved to the USA from Germany 13 years ago (Dual citizenship/Army Dad) and I'm considering getting a CDL.
@@dont3222, African American isn't a real thing that was another identity that was given in the late 80s, before that it's was afro American negro before that it was Indian, you really don't know You're history before 1492 if you did you would know it was plenty of people with dark brown skin that inhabit the Americans long before pale people arrived, I have plenty of family members who are different shades of brown in different tribes, America school system has lied about the history of this land but most people don't read, the real indigenous people of America is the one you call "african Americans" which most of us didn't come from there we was already here, where are the slave ships?
10 years, female driver, ❤ not anymore, paychecks bounced, insighting embezzelment, stolen, work as company driver, put with unknown driver, split pay 3 ways, owner, driver, co.driver, keep truck rolling, then came in an idea...a slip seat gets $0.11/mile?
Back in 88 when I started driving trucks, the first two years was like being on vacation and getting paid for it. The rest of the years were working, but worth it. I retired a few years ago. I always drove company trucks. I hated going to Hunts Point.
Love this guy. I don't think he realizes how big your channel is. this dude wouldn't make it a month as a company driver. He says he would be a company driver but they micromanage the hell out of you.
As 28 year diesel mechanic with a mobile diesel repair service & drove for 3 years OTR before I started mechanics. I can tell you this buisness is dead in the water I've seen the good, bad & ugly this is the worst I've ever seen it, I closed my shop I had for 3.5 years new from the ground up now I only do mobile and theirs no money in trucking anymore. I use to have them lined up down the street doing 5 to 7 calls a day now I hardly do 3 a week on mobile service. 😢 I'm getting out of it because I know this buisness & I see the direction it's going. I purchased me a sprinter van & my ass is going to get into local cargo van delivery. I spent half my life sacrificing for a dream & now it's just dead in the water. All the owner operators are dropping like flies and the foreigners are taking over the trucking game. All my phone calls come from africans and Russians, Pakistanis and man are they cheap inexperienced and whinny😢😢😢. I have to argue about my invoice 89% of the time. I'm tired now 52 years old and I have no more fight for this buisness and these new drivers they are dangerous and all they care about is loads not safety or maintenance on their truck. If your getting in this buisness better do your homework, because its definitely not the same and never will be. GREED$$$$ has come into play instead of passion for the buisness. Foreigners can live off that low pay Americans can't we dont stick together like they do. 😅 try at your own risk & I wish you well.
That might be a big problem for me. If the company is presuring me to make and drop off my truck load. Yet, there is four feet of snow. or black ice. Or a EF-5 tornado. Or a huricane. I might have to let the company know the weather is too bad. I do not feel safe driving. Thats why I will only carry none refrigerated frieght . It will not get or go bad. Better to be safe then sorry. California Labor Code : 6300. No employee is required to do anything unsafe or illegal . The company might cut my hours and fire me. Yet, at least I did not get hurt or hurt any one else. So if the company fires me. I would get Employee Rights Lawyer, Don D. Sessions in Orange County Calif. To help me file for a wrongful termination. Of coarse my hours might be cut. Yet, if that termination is hurting my chances of getting another truck driving job. Then I have no choice to sue the company for a wrongful termination. Why ? To protect my work history on my resume. Big companies some times do not care about the small guys. A truck driver might survive if he is in a good union that protects all truck drivers. All employees in California are required to work with Best Efforts. Calif. Labor Code:2924. However : I will no drive on Black Ice. I will not drive through a huricane. I will not drive in a EF-5 tornado or drive through floods. That would endanger my self or other drivers. So its better to be safe then sorry. Haste makes waste. He that studies a situation is wise. These are two scriptures in the Holy Bible. In the Book of Proverbs. I have heard about truck companies presuring drivers to go to that designated place to drop off or pick up. Yet, what is the traffic like. What is the weather like? Driving a Big Rig truck over the road is not a easy job.
This man is speaking facts! This is the problem with people opening up their own businesses who are not capable of doing most of these things which they end up out sourcing. These ppl are feeding the growth of these brokers, dispatch companies, loan shark/finance companies
@@kajg4236 Absolutely, I comprehended your point entirely. Essentially, the main idea of what Im pointing out is that almost every business delegates different tasks to external sources. As a business owner, why should I incur additional costs and burdens when I can simply outsource that task? Once again, it seems like your concern lies with the way business operations are conducted in America.
Yep..the freight in California was one of the best paying with the frieght...now it's all the same ghetto money 💰..poverty money 💰 to move freight..it stinks
Drove most of fifty six and seven,only quit when doctor said I was destroying my kidneys with truck seats. Most I ever drove without stopping except for fuel was seventeen hours.Only good roads then was the Pa. Turnpike. I have never been sorry for leaving the industery. The govt. we have nowis going to destroy everthing with over regulating everything!
That is so sad that my babies don't ev Even like they job I did not know all of this was going on please don't quit because we need all truck drivers because u guys bring us food clothes and furniture and many many more I know alot of people don't thank u but I will do it for them u are well appreciated thank u for all u guys do God bless and be safe out there❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Manufacturers need brokers to get trucks to pick up loads from them because their docks are difficult to back into or they treat you like shit and no Driver will ever Go there again.
I myself have 34 years of trucking under my belt as an owner operator. I've seen a lot of things on the road and my years of driving. And this gentleman was 100% correct. American truck drivers are dying breed there are foreign truck drivers now and there are foreign Brokers and they're all operating with cheap freight. That may be good for the soccer moms Clarion at the grocery store. But what the public doesn't realize is that most of these foreigners cannot read English and have been given CDLs without training.. so if you think there are accidents and people dying on the highway now you wait until all of us American drivers are gone no one's going to be safe and on the highways anymore and what's going to happen is that the insurance companies that run these trucking companies the rates are going to go through the roof and then next I'm going to be the American trucking companies they're going to have to close their doors. So yes. He's absolutely right the trucking industry is dead.
Its not a foreigners thing entirely....we are being shafted, lied to and stolen from by natural born citizens. Wake up! They distract you by making you hate minorities
Naomi Dean stands out from other brokers because of her realistic approach, unlike those who often set unattainable targets and fail to deliver. She's truly unique!
I remember when I started driving in 1992, your arm would get sore by waving at pretty much every driver you passed. Now they’d give you the finger rather than the wave. Now I drive part time and I’m trying to figure out how to completely quit.
most of them work on 10 to 15% margins. these companies are not stupid and they know what freight goes for. It's not like brokers can get whatever they want from businesses wanting to ship things. think about it. If this is the case, then you should be a shipping consultant for huge corporations. You would make millions just by telling them how much they're over paying brokers...
@@pokerman9108Then they need to explain to the shippers than their products can’t be shipped for that rate. Every service and product rate has increased, yet we OO are getting lower rates? Makes no sense.
Iam 70 years old and drove from Ontario Canada to California for many years and this gentleman you interviewed could not have been more truth about the way it used to be and how it is now I couldn't have said it any better good job
Shout out to my good friend and brother Matt Mickenburg . Hauling those loads across the country and kicking ass keeping us going. Thank you truckers!⭐️😎👍🏼
This man is truth and facts 💯 If you want to be the best truck driver around and make money. Pay a man like this to let you be his co driver and get a beginners CDL license and pay him vs. A driver school. He or other good men who know can get help driving and make extra money on more loads and money 💰 from you weekly. You make 2x as much money and be 💯 % better off. I did it at 1 time years ago. 400 a week and 6 weeks up to 12 weeks. They are all still professional drivers today, and most make 3x what other drivers do. I spent 14 years OTR I learned to drive by an old driver this way, and I did 2x to 3x more than new drivers.
He is 100% spot on! My older brother just shut down his owner operator trucking business due to poor load prices. He had to go drive for somebody else because brokers are taking way too much of the load money and the trucker is getting reamed in the ass. As a former non-over the road driver my biggest peeve is drivers in a truck governed at 68mph feels it necessary to pass another truck that is 60-65mph governed backing up and impeding the traffic as he takes 20-30 mins to pass! That 1-4 mph difference is not going to get you there any faster so back it off 1mph set cruise and enjoy the ride. It is better than creating road rage incidents while you attempt to pass another truck and do not have the power to do it in a timely manner.
I drove for other people for 20 yrs before i bought my own truck/trailer and became a true owner operator theres a lot to being a owner operator vs leased operator or company driver. You definitely better be business savy if you decide to to become a owner operator or even a leased operator.
Exactly, being disciplined enough do crunch numbers on the daily and know when, why and how each dollar was spent... I have a trucker friend, he doesn't even think about paying taxes, let alone figure out how much he made, how much was spent on fuel a year and so on... Be disciplined or suffer, like my friend does.
I have been trucking since 1995 driving a C.O.E. I fell in love with trucking talking to the old school truckers. We use to sit around at the iron skillet over dinner and talk about the week, talks about their trucks and gave advice to the younger drivers just as myself. I miss the old school days of trucking!!
I've been driving for 39 years and the new breed of truckers is hurting the industry as well with automatic trucks they're too busy holding their phones 😕
Old school here. When you saw a fellow trucker in trouble......you stopped and helped....no excuses, thats real trucking. Today it very rarely happens. I drove in the 70s until early 90 and said im done! Great video
I haven’t watched the video yet getting ready to the title already got me the problem in trucking is the same thing everywhere. If the government puts their hands in it’s gone to hell. They fk up everything.
This man is speaking a language called facts!! everything he just stated is 100% true. Sad but true about the trucking industry now especially the owner operator part.
17years here…….and I’ve been there….done that…..he’s spot on…… but when you try to tell a new ambitious driver this…..he thinks your “hating” on him trying to get his own truck…..so I’ve learned to 🤐 unless they REALLY want truth……
If you have any questions for Frank?? He said to email him @ Frieghthoppers@yahoo.com
I used to work for a broker back in early 90s. They would keep 15%. I'd always try to help drivers out by giving them more money. How can this be legal for a broker to keep 40% when even a lawyer is capped at 33% by law when hired to go after money just like a broker.
Everything that man stated abt the old drivers is true. Today's new drivers are very scary!
Great interview; straight up honesty without sugar coating the info.
My experience in trucking having my own authority, and being in the industry since the late 90s; is so wildly different than this guy.
Many of broker are very happy with double broking and Corporating with them ( sharing carrier info with them ) and you thin you got from orginal broker but NO and eventually they share the profit . Absloutly DAT doing nothing .
Brokers were needed back before apps existed. If a good app existed brokers can be bypassed today
In the early 90’s I was driving on I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie during a blizzard and I was finding it very difficult to see the road. A semi driver got in front of me, slowed down, put on his hazard lights, and got me through what could have been a deadly trip.
I know he saved my life.
I wish I could have given him a great big hug.
I was that trucker. I put my hazards on trying to tell you to quit following me. 🤣😂
@@DecrepitBiden liar, it was me. i saved his life. i want my money now
@Amirherife_Nassir
That was me blowing coal🚛🚚🦉
Did you suk him off at all ghey?
There's no loyalty or Integrity in any business anymore it's not just truck driving
This has been my general experience, ha
The competition for ever slimmer profit margins yet increasing stock prices eats up everything else.
Thank you for saying this. Drivers who like this gentleman that have been driving as long speak as if the commercial transportation business is one of the few that aren't operated with integrity. That's really the real issue. At the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day it's a business and everyone has to work.
....truth....everyone is essentially...disposable...
@@rickthompson1422 people are just commodities
I’ve been an owner op for 11 years.. trucking is not dead to me…… the key for me succeeding is I’m my own maintenance guy…. And I stay close to home…..only 5hr out….Texas Louisiana Arkansas….. that’s me…… I own 2 homes and working to buy another to rent out….. maintenance is the issue… I do all my tires also…… I won’t lose… I bet on myself..
Yesss. Love this!!!!
Eggzzactly!
I’ve told kats this to, u have to stay regional an have certain mechanics u deal with that won’t screw u.
Staying n the same region is less stessful most of the times also
Finally a comment on here that actually makes sense and is the truth other than just complaining about brokers.
Not enough loads to stay mainly in Texas. Unless leased to someone. TX leasing be low pay unless flatbed or oilfields.
Sounds like a internet Guru trying to sale something....... all O/O suffering but you.
Back in November 1991 I was driving from California to Pennsylvania to catch my flight to my next duty station in the Azores. A female traveling alone with a 5 year old little boy. My destination that night was Cheyenne WY. I had to stop and put chains on. While attempting this a truck driver offered to help. He and another trucker were both headed to Cheyenne and they told me to stay between them and they would make sure I arrived safely. We stopped once and I bought them a meal and coffee. It was horrible on the road but, thanks to those wonderful men my son and I arrived in Cheyenne safe and sound. I always give truckers the breaks they need on the road to make their jobs as easy as possible. I have a tremendous amount of respect for these hard working under appreciated men and women. I hate seeing what is happening to these professional drivers.
...Air Force !
Feel bad for my self and all truckers on the road now adays
Thank you so much, for your appreciation for others! You have a good head on your shoulders! I have faith, that you've taught your child to do the same!! I'm a veteran truck driver myself, and know how treacherous winter driving can be, especially on ice and in blizzard conditions. I can't say how many times I've sat in Cheyenne, for as much as 3 days, waiting for the weather/road conditions to improve. Best wishes to you and your family.
@@tkoborny much obliged 🕉
My two-year daughter and I went on a road trip during the one anniversary of my husband’s death. We drove from Southern California to Seattle. During one of my gas stops, the driver of a large semi came over to me to let me know that all the truckers were keeping on eye on us re safety. They would just hand off the info to the driver ahead. This went on for hundreds and hundreds of miles. I felt very cared for and protected. Our daughter is now 38, and I’ve never forgotten the kindness of all those truckers. Many hugs to each and every one of them! ❤️
That’s an awesome story. The kind of thing that makes me have hope in humanity, because lord knows we as Americans “and I’m sure other places but I can only speak on here” have gotten so far from how GOD wants us to treat others… I don’t usually make the kind of comments but this particular story made me smile.
The FBI needs to crack down on this broker companies in charge them with embezzlement
It’s called broker price gouging
FBI hates truckers
Love it great interview
Screw that the FBI needs to be shut down for good.
@@lilbfrom094princeton8 don't take the load....go get a load without the broker...see problem solved
Truck driving is a thankless underpaid job. People use to think of us as Knights of the road, now they hate and shit on us. I'm a retired driver of 45yrs. on the road and I approve this message.
I used to hitch hike and yes we referred to you as the "Knights of the Road" and there are many still there.
Thank you for giving me a lift, sharing your life stories, sense of humor, integrity.
I was definitely brought up see you guys as Knights of the a Road.
I let you merge, I let you change lanes, I signal and I give you space!
I do what I can do.
@@Find-Your-Bliss-same no matter how big or small the vehicle I’m in is!
Exactly 💯
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I was delivering an arcade machine once and it somehow slipped out of the back of my truck and smashed on the interstate. It was a trucker who stopped and helped me get the mess out of the highway. I was amazed that he was so willing to help a total stranger clear the road. I've never forgotten what a selfless act this this was, and he had no real need to do this for me. But he did anyway. Much love!
It’s a brotherhood if you really a driver
That's the way truck drivers used to be. Unfortunately those drivers are long gone.
M8, Aussie truckies will be happy to help make sure everyone else gets to travel safely.
Hopefully you helped someone in the same situation!
Was it a busy highway?
There is great news. A Chicago area trucking company, Agility Express, recently taught some brokers a lesson regarding ripping off carriers by commandeering dozens of loads and refusing to deliver until payment for previous shipments is made. Many paid up. And so if you're an O/O or a multi truck firm take note in how to fe with these crooks. Money is the only language they understand.
I've been in trucking for 27 years.
15 of them as a State CDL examiner and instructor.
I can tell you the two biggest issues are CDL schools and big trucking companies.
The quality of drivers the schools are pumping out is crap. Not everyone is able to become a truck driver, but the schools will do whatever they can to push a square block through a round hole.
Big companies have destroyed the owner operator side of things by driving rates down.
If you really want to be an owner op, you can still make money in the specialized hauling side.
But a step deck, double drop or a lowboy with 3 axles and a swing axle, haul oversized and overweight loads, and you can still make good money.
Refuse cheap paying loads.
yes i have a 1ton pick-up/car-haller ( central 2 axel-ed, and yes fine with it as it acts more as a forklifts/loader's do etc ) aka not a CDL but my dad did-RIP 20+years so i knowledge 1st handed experience with him and or summer's/school and the lifestyle and or sleep ( turned's me into a unsafe narcolepsy/insomniac*, and or hate the yearly/time-zone-jumping-etc summer family visit as work bookends both sides and or basically had to copycat dad's methods to pull it off etc ) i couldn't do 😴yes i can drive 12 hours straight but dealing with the interruptions i couldn't and also i forgetting the longer bridge/swing ( one boss tried having me tow ( sub 40 miles round trip ) the 5th wheel/~15000lb-rig-GVW bad idea as it's basically a mini-semi truck, light-poll got lucky that day ) of that style of trailer etc
so no im better off as a sailor or auto mechanic 👨🔧or millwright-plant-maintenance
flip is dad is scary ( im okay but out of practice-etc and or don't get much seat-time HPDE ) behind a racetrack/race-car or sport-car ie C7 as he cannot safely drive it and or forgetting that it's not a big-rig etc, same for backing-up in his( Boomer-gen ) jeep or sedans 💥🤦🏻♂my( zoomer*gen FWI ) vin/car's have gotten clobbered more than once in 20 years
I’m honestly dealing with the same thing in trades. The latest hire at my company was fresh out of apex trade school, couldn’t change bits on an impact, didn’t know how to use a ratchet… they’re just taking money and shoveling shit out now
That’s the problem, all these new guys taking all the cheap loads instead of sitting and waiting for the higher paying loads. You need an emergency fund instead of taking loads that bring everyone’s pay down. Be a part of the solution not the problem.
Most of the truck driving schools are also crappy.
This gentlemen is completely correct. I've had my CDL for 34 years. I just recently surrendered my authority and sold my equipment. It is more cost effective for me to work for another company than to operate as an O/O. I saw the writing on the wall 2 years ago. Freight rates were dropping; the amount of loads available were dropping; fuel was through the roof; insurance was increasing; maintenance was increasing...and there weren't any politicians talking/attempting to make things better. Over the road truck drivers are hated and despised.
We bring them everything they could want...but don't park your truck here, your truck is too loud, your truck is too slow (compared to the 4 wheelers doing 15 over the mph).
*Truck parking continues to be an issue. States make laws prohibiting trucks from parking on on-ramps/off-ramps even when they know there is not enough parking.
*The FMCSA continues to mandate laws/rules limiting the ability of a driver. The end result is the inability to make money.
No thank you. I'll sit back and watch "civilization" descend into chaos and eventually burn. They don't want, or appreciate, all we do. They can suffer when drivers FINALLY say enough is enough...I will no longer deliver that for you.
Dido 🎯💯
Run for office.
Eventually, quite a bit of trucking will be done by self-driving trucks that will go by themselves from node to node. They won't need to stop for meals or for sleep -- and they'll never need to pee on the go. Only on short hauls and deliveries, where many complex decisions are required, and robotic stamina provides no real edge, will humans retain some advantages, and remain fairly common well into the future.
@@polarvortex3294 no...si is a nothin burger, provides 0 growth to country.
Ai*
Two things the government needs to regulate out of existence...
1. BROKERS
2. LUMPERS
Socialist. lol.
And the government needs to bounce too
That’s what we need more government regulation telling us who we can and can’t work with. I’m say this sarcastically.
Without lumpers FAT, LAZY, CHEAP WRECKLESS drivers like YOU would still be sitting on your FAT AZZS looking for some LUMPER to do YOUR JOB.
Lobbyists
He's speaking nothing but TRUTH.
I figured mountain dew and little Debbie's is what's killing drivers
Same. Totally thought this was going to be about health issues
Looks like he’s had a few
It’s about a bragging ole dinosaur
Lot lizarditis
I would say diet is a key point in mental clarity doing this type of work.
I've never been a trucker, but I remember the days when they would flicker their parking lights at you, and you could flicker them back. When one passed you, a flick of the high beams and they'd trust you enough to pull over and give you the parking light flicker in thanks. That caused my respect for them to grow, and I've always given them plenty of room for it.
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I grew up in a non trucking family, but my dear Dad was hip to the passing/signaling thing with the truckers, and showed me what it was about, on our trips. I'm an older trucker now, still carrying on that safe tradition! Thank you for comment, and being g a considerate human being! 😊
@@tombeyer375 You're welcome!
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America can Greed will destroy America. Greedy Brokers, Greedy Lawyers, Greedy insurance companies!
This stems beyond trucking… America has started WW3
Idk the stock market has been thriving for 100s of years. You must know something about greed they don’t.
You forgot greedy politicians.
You are 100% correct.
Your partially correct. It's greedy corporations that are destroying America. Corporatism is fascism. Once they control and industry, the industry has no more freedom or "independence"
Man that’s true I’m no old school driver but was taught by one, I’m 32 started at 24 and so true i always flash my lights when some one passes me to let them in the lane and no one blinks back in gratitude not that I’m looking for gratitude but shows you the level of respect some drivers have.
So right
If you flash your lights at me to let me know I'm clear to come back over, I'll blink you back but I've been doing this off and on for the past 26 years. There was a time drivers would wave to one another when you passed on a 2 lane or when being passed on the interstate. And back in the day, you didn't ever see a driver in shorts and flip flops.
@@TheGifted333 I turned 77 today, Feb 10, and still driving, but just in the province. I drove my first truck a year underage.,17 years old. You had to be 18 to get a chauffer's license in Manitoba Canada back then, and you had to have taken your driver's test in a standard tranny car. You paid $2 extra and you got a chuffers license. The flashing your lights and especially the wave to another driver I miss these days. Whether it's lites or a wave, maybe 1 in 10 might acknowledge you. Quite different these days. Be safe out there Gifted.
@@rodedawg77 lights off then on, not hi-beams
First off, most of the clown flashing to get over do so about a foot after you clear their front bumper... immediately tells me they are dangerous. 2) Using any indicator to tell someone else anything opens you up to liability 3) Too many knuckleheads so can't trust a dang gone one of them.
The problem is there are too many brokers and shippers charging 🙄 too many fee's. 🙄
Not shippers are charging.. brokers are charging the carriers
I can say this quite confidently. In the midst of broker carrier feud there are alot of shipper dropping rates drastically and profiting from this saga. Carriers think brokers are withholding money whereas, its the Shipper who have gone down drastically on their rates.
It all goes to back to the shippers who use brokers to find trucks instead of doing it themselves and saving money in the process.
@@petrosaguilar8916 exactly 💯
I know a lot of truckers they paid off houses cars bikes everything ! And I’m young with no kids no wife and homeless I need and want the job no matter what people say about truck driving!
This gentleman has the perfect voice for doing a long form podcast, radio show, FM talk show. Perfect resonance and tone, great sounding. He's got a future :)
Good observation, agreed
His voice alone, tells me he's a trucker. When he stops driving, he needs to pick up a microphone. Great tv/radio voice
I started trucking 1974
Complaining is all truckers do when not trucking.
I am still out here, still long haul, still love it.
you started trucking when i was 10 years old. damn. much respect.🤩😍
@@draco4540 laying back in my KW Sleeper
Thank you have a great week 😃
@@draco4540lol
“35mph in the parking lot with the jake and 40mph in the middle lane” man I felt that one 😂
Things have changed so dam much, they are pampered today. They have to have an automatic transmission because they don’t know how to drive a standard shift truck. They don’t know how to back up to save their butts, and most of them come straight out of a school and expect to get top pay. Back when I started you had to work your way up, I was constantly asking the them questions to learn, I had one who was home for a while waiting for his truck engine to be rebuilt, he taught me how to backup and make certain moves. I learned so much from him and for that I’m forever grateful. Trucking has changed so much that I’m glad I retired after 38 years
I’ve been out there almost 50 years and this gentleman is absolutely correct, nowadays no one is stopping to help you, your on your own, it wasn’t like that when I started, but I wouldn’t have done anything else, but I am glad I’m retired, but I do still miss it once in awhile
That's basically what my old school trainer said. If you are being passed on the right you are in the wrong lane.
Unless you're in Calgary, lol!
Edit: Only disco lights will get me outta the middle there! Jus' passin' through you monkeys!! Leave me ALONE. 😇
@@c.thompson9771 to far north for me unless I can find a load coming back to make it worth it lol
I don't know how many times I've said that on the CB. Guys in Chicago love that hammer lane at 60 mph..
Unless there is that turning lane on the left. But everyone should know the right lane is the slow lane.
@shaydesofblue2281 keyword "should" just like all the Indians/Pakistanis should know not to block a line of trucks at the fuel island for 2 hrs for no reason.especiallu when they're team driving.
The difference between yeild and merge 10 thumbs up for that !!!
Yesss
yield* moron lol
A merge. That's when you ride alongside the vehicle next to you and just maintain speed until your lane runs out right?
@@chuckliquor3663 Merge means the right-of-way alternating between two streams of conflicting traffic. E.g. zipper merge, where as the right lane comes to an end, and the way it is supposed to work, is that the left lane traffic and right lane traffic take turns, to make their lane changes.
Yield means that the onus to give way to conflicting traffic, always stays with the same movement, and the other movement always has priority for the right-of-way. E.g. left turn yield on green circle. Left turns have the onus to wait for oncoming traffic, while straight traffic has a continuous right-of-way (except yielding for incumbent traffic in the intersection).
@@carultch The only caveat I'll add is that it is the ending lane's job to safely make the merge. I don't care if they merge ahead of me or behind, just don't drive next to my vehicle and force me to brake.
When he hangs up his spurs he should do voice acting and audiobooks reads. I could listen to that man jaw all day. Butter.
The guy is right. I sold my just 5yr ago. I was 3rd generation of drivers/op. I was the last one. Broke my heart but I seen where it was going then and know it's going to get worse. I'm one person, I can't compete against billion dollar world wide trucking companies.
Do what makes you happy
So very true no loyalty or etiquette now new drivers are selfish
It's not personal it's just business
That is a general decline in society.
@@orianna1220Business ind immature selfishness are two very different things.
@@charlesphilhower1452 oh I'm with you more than you will ever know, the value of labor or any skill is pissed on mate. I'm just saying what needs to be said as there are two sides to this shit story
25 years out here, 22 of that as an owner operator and this guy is spot on! The trucking industry has gone in the toilet hard in the past 5-10 years. Between the shady brokers, these mega carries just putting a warm body in the seats, the FMCSA and the government regulating us to death... I say bring back long hoods and manual transmissions and it will weed out a lot of people now days. Im so ready to hang it up. If this speed limiter thing does pass, Im out!
Great idea long hood,s and a manual transmission thats,why some have a vary hard time with fuel prices and the vary trying rates you have to be even more efficient than your competitor aero and mpg are up to 20,000 to 30,0000 dollar,s in the bank over 5 to 6 mpg in100,000 mile operation,s
@@kimberlyhemerson4828 My older FLD120 that non emissions, pre eld, 13 speed, 500hp Detroit, 7.5+ mpg all day long at 65 mph. Buddy has a 97 Pete 379 with a 500hp Detroit, 18 speed, 300 inch wheel base and a 110 inch sleeper and he manages 6+ loaded pulling a Conestoga. Screw all these new trucks. My neighbor has a 2014 Pete with a Cummins and my old freightliner gets better fuel mileage. Not by much, and his is in the shop almost twice a year for Def related issues and it's never cheap.
Long hoods and manual transmissions… I don’t think you understand fully what direction this industry is headed…. The end game is autonomously moved freight without human interaction. Thinking we’re going backwards to more human input involved freight relocating makes you sound so oblivious to the industry.
@@Daniel-oy8ic My original comment still stands. I have zero interest in self driving junk, battery operated garbage, none of that. Here in Northern Minnesota, ev's are garbage in the winter, I refuse to trust a self driving vehicle, and the mega carries pushing for all this stuff are what is ultimately ruining the industry for the guys like me. I've been out here 25 years now, trust me when I say it's garbage now compared to what it was when I first started.
@@Hippie459MNthe future isn’t waiting for you’re approval. It doesn’t care about your opinion. It doesn’t care about your career or your livelihood. Mega carriers are controlling the market more and more each year. They’re partnering with robotic companies and will partner with brokers to handle all the freight being moved EVERYWHERE. You’re going to have to accept the fact, your long nose truck with your manual transmission and pre emissions engine is the past. If you haven’t noticed already, this industry is going forward and not backwards. I’m sorry but you will be left behind and I hate it for both of us.
He is spot on. I have been driving over thirty years and the industry is not worth it. If you are going to be a truck driver, be a company driver. My advice is to get a trade. Go into welding, masonry, plumbing. Do anything except truck driving.
What if you're not good at anything else though..
I've been in manufacturing for almost 20 years. There's no money in it unless you are a supervisor or manager. Stand on your feet all day and compete for a lead position, paying an extra $1.50. Disgruntled coworkers or management.
Trucking can't be that bad.
@@1stdraft611 Nobody is trying to brake check you or cut you off in a manufacturing plant. You deal with the same people all the time, jerks or not. You don't have to be held up at a customer just because they don't want to do their job, waiting for hours because you asked how long will it be. Not everybody hates you because you " held them up " for 10 seconds. I've done both jobs, and they both suck. Just in different ways.
Sounds like a really cool guy with a lot of knowledge
That description of old school and new school drivers applies to everyone, not just truckers. Being polite and helpful is a more and more rare character trait. What is a sad truth is that being in need is a place that low life scumbags target today as easy prey
I hate the over regulation especially with CPAP knowing every second you’re moving around in your bed.A total violation of privacy.
One of the best interviews I have watched on this channel. Thanks Alex.
Appreciate you
@@MuthaTrucker Quit interjecting so much... I want to hear from the interviewee. Thanks
At the end he wasn't lying, that was the way it was. Wish him the best.
He is telling all the truth 😊
I totally agree with the difference between old and new. I am glad I am retired after 40years.
The same thing happened to me in Atlanta on 285. I had someone call in a hit-and-run on me and wrote down my trailer number and there was a sheriff waiting for me about three counties north of Atlanta on 75 for me to drive by was sitting there waiting to see my trailer number and when I drove by, he pulled me over. He said you were involved in an accident hit and run. They said back in Atlanta 285 and I was not said someone called in and said that you hit their car on 285. I don’t believe it ever happened. They took my information, but I’ve never heard anything else about it.
Trucking is dead,,,,,,ive been in this business for 30 yrs,,,cant wait to get out of it,,,,hes telling you the truth,,,😂😂😂😂 i started with the old school truckers 😂😂,,,and yes we started early driving all kind of vehicles,,,and hes right about everything,,,he said,,,,, and alot he didn't say,,,,😂😂😂😂,!,!,,,the new people driving are dangerous,,,,
Trucking is the only business that cant die. Theres a reason your still trucking $
I agree that the new people driving are very dangerous. Because these trucking schools literally hand out the license as long as you pay them they’re 10 grand they give you a license. I’ve only had my license for less than two years. The Trucking School I went to was six weeks and I got tested at the DMV. It was not easy to get my license but once I got my license was a ready to drive? Hell no I was not ready not even close, luckily my husband who’s had his license for 25 years took me out in our truck every single day for three months and he taught me in phases until he was 100% comfortable with me driving the truck I now drive our truck from Boulder city Nevada to Phoenix daily. We have a 2007 Kenworth W9 18 speed. Now my sister who got her license about the same time I did told me how she only went to school for two weeks and that they felt bad for her and she literally was given her license. So when I took her out. She was all confident in saying that she could drive the truck so I let her get into the driver seat on a deserted road, and she couldn’t even shift the gears. I told her there was no way in hell that she was going to drive my truck. She wanted me to teacher but I told her you literally will have to come with me every single day for the next three months and first we’re gonna start on this deserted road and I’m going to teach you how to shift that is the first thing you were going to learn. Ask me if she ever came back and asked me to help her again??? She’s had her license for a year and she still is not driving now. She tells me that her boyfriend is going to Trucking School and the school is only three weeks. How in the hell is he going to learn how to drive in three weeks!? It takes three weeks just to learn your maneuvers, but that’s how the schools are here in Nevada specifically Las Vegas and it’s disgusting. They should be put out of business because it’s very very dangerous. The people that they are giving these license is two an even in the short time that I’ve been driving I see so many dumb truck drivers out there I especially love the ones that are on their phones texting while they have an 80,000 pound load. Am I Trucking School they didn’t even teach us how to properly tie down a load they didn’t go through flatbeds or reefers or any other type of truck not one word was even spoken about properly tying down a load. And some of you might say oh you don’t learn not until you get on the road. But I’m sorry for $10,000. You should be at least taught a little bit about it.
Old school drivers always saying the trucking industry changed…. But if you really think about it everything changes ? And if you really wanted new school drivers to be different why don’t you come out and teach instead of posting shit on bonehead truckers. Pass on the knowledge old man. Video is great but the old school times has passed and new regs and rules are because of the old school drivers lol. Lease operator is an owner operator old timer we have decided as lease operators not to deal with all that work ? I mean this guy just needs to retire just like all the other cranky old Karen’s. Fooh
@@41933you’re right trucking can’t die, it’s gonna be exterminated if the industry keeps ripping the drivers off, there’s no money in driving anymore, you have to be a desk jockey to make money. Drivers will eventually leave the industry and then the country will fall. As a driver we are being starved out of the trucks, and as a company driver too.
@@truckingwithtobee Yeah, imagine that! $10k for only 2-3 weeks of truck driving school, with not even the basics. Total scam!!!
I'm 34 and been driving 2 years. Quite late to the game. Got a manual restriction bc how i earned my CDL, and honestly can only drive a 10 speed, but grew up around old school truckers bc my best friends family owned a log trucking buisiness. My Dad even drove log truck for them. They had slope nose 357 Petes, 9300 International Eagles, a w900, and even a badass turned up V8 Detroit Mack Superliner with 900Hp his grandfather had. Went on many logging trips using a cheeter pipe to sinch down log bunks. SCARY ROADS and looking over the edge down that hillside was unnerving. I flash my 4 ways to thank people who let me merge and slow down to let people pass me even though they only going 2 mph faster than me. I was raised that trucking is a brotherhood, we all a family out here doing the same thing, lets work together.
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You’re right but a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance
Max respect for shunning these crooks known as brokers. There is no reason in the world they should even exist much less earn nearly the same as the person providing the equipment, fuel, insurance and labor to move the load.
Hit the nail on the head with this driver he's a what a great interview thank you Alex.
I love this guy , He seemed to be very honest hard-working man I wish I knew him as a friend.
Yep! The game has changed. These new truckers have no respect nor consideration. They don't care about others. They think that they will get rich, and with social media, they're famous.
Yep.so true
Well some are getting rich with social media it’s a new day. But I agree
Great interview and insights.
My Dad was a 40 year trucker who retired after 30 years with Roadway. I never became a trucker but I have always been fascinated by the stories Dad and Grandpa would tell and how things have changed over the years. Both of them have long-since passed away but at least I've found a place to hear some trucker talk.
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The world needs to be like an old school trucker…nice interview
Good interview!! I’m an old school trucker as well that guy knows what he’s talking about.. still make it as an O/O but I pretty much do all the repairs on my truck.Mechanical skills are must it saves tons of $$!
This guy was fantastic ... the most information packed into one truthfull interview
Get this guy a TH-cam channel. He's amazing.
Thanks for sharing, Kudos to all you truck drivers. Amen💯💯
He’s right they’re messing up the game of trucking
Better drive Uber
When people started calling this "business" a "game," that's when it got fucked up
I’m practically new to driving, although I’m 55 years old, I’m old enough to not take risky chances and wise enough to run silent and learn from the pros. These foreigners and young bloods out here on the road scare the wad outta me. Stay safe and be blessed.
Every one is foreigner including yourself. The only difference is when was your root migrated to US. I have learned this from my native Cherokee friend.
Btw, what’s your origins? British? Irish? African-American? Whatever you call it, either you are invader or ….
Let’s respect each other.😊
@@dont3222gtfoh they lost, they didn’t have a society and culture that could compete with white people it is what it is. Natives are doing fine better than fine they can stfu or the US will finish what it started
Honest question, what's the problem with foreign drivers? I moved to the USA from Germany 13 years ago (Dual citizenship/Army Dad) and I'm considering getting a CDL.
I’m a foreigner - Jamaican, and I’m fearful of the drivers from India. Honestly.
@@dont3222, African American isn't a real thing that was another identity that was given in the late 80s, before that it's was afro American negro before that it was Indian, you really don't know You're history before 1492 if you did you would know it was plenty of people with dark brown skin that inhabit the Americans long before pale people arrived, I have plenty of family members who are different shades of brown in different tribes, America school system has lied about the history of this land but most people don't read, the real indigenous people of America is the one you call "african Americans" which most of us didn't come from there we was already here, where are the slave ships?
10 years, female driver, ❤ not anymore, paychecks bounced, insighting embezzelment, stolen, work as company driver, put with unknown driver, split pay 3 ways, owner, driver, co.driver, keep truck rolling, then came in an idea...a slip seat gets $0.11/mile?
Dang, I really wanted to become a truck driver so I could buy a home
Back in 88 when I started driving trucks, the first two years was like being on vacation and getting paid for it. The rest of the years were working, but worth it. I retired a few years ago. I always drove company trucks. I hated going to Hunts Point.
Love this guy. I don't think he realizes how big your channel is. this dude wouldn't make it a month as a company driver. He says he would be a company driver but they micromanage the hell out of you.
He was awesome 👌
As 28 year diesel mechanic with a mobile diesel repair service & drove for 3 years OTR before I started mechanics. I can tell you this buisness is dead in the water I've seen the good, bad & ugly this is the worst I've ever seen it, I closed my shop I had for 3.5 years new from the ground up now I only do mobile and theirs no money in trucking anymore. I use to have them lined up down the street doing 5 to 7 calls a day now I hardly do 3 a week on mobile service. 😢 I'm getting out of it because I know this buisness & I see the direction it's going. I purchased me a sprinter van & my ass is going to get into local cargo van delivery. I spent half my life sacrificing for a dream & now it's just dead in the water. All the owner operators are dropping like flies and the foreigners are taking over the trucking game. All my phone calls come from africans and Russians, Pakistanis and man are they cheap inexperienced and whinny😢😢😢. I have to argue about my invoice 89% of the time. I'm tired now 52 years old and I have no more fight for this buisness and these new drivers they are dangerous and all they care about is loads not safety or maintenance on their truck. If your getting in this buisness better do your homework, because its definitely not the same and never will be. GREED$$$$ has come into play instead of passion for the buisness. Foreigners can live off that low pay Americans can't we dont stick together like they do. 😅 try at your own risk & I wish you well.
Not my company. 100 trucks we move freely. Just obey ELD. Were good
That might be a big problem for me. If the company is presuring me to make and drop off my truck load. Yet, there is four feet of snow. or black ice. Or a EF-5 tornado. Or a huricane. I might have to let the company know the weather is too bad. I do not feel safe driving. Thats why I will only carry none refrigerated frieght . It will not get or go bad. Better to be safe then sorry. California Labor Code : 6300. No employee is required to do anything unsafe or illegal . The company might cut my hours and fire me. Yet, at least I did not get hurt or hurt any one else. So if the company fires me. I would get Employee Rights Lawyer, Don D. Sessions in Orange County Calif. To help me file for a wrongful termination. Of coarse my hours might be cut. Yet, if that termination is hurting my chances of getting another truck driving job. Then I have no choice to sue the company for a wrongful termination. Why ? To protect my work history on my resume. Big companies some times do not care about the small guys. A truck driver might survive if he is in a good union that protects all truck drivers. All employees in California are required to work with Best Efforts. Calif. Labor Code:2924. However : I will no drive on Black Ice. I will not drive through a huricane. I will not drive in a EF-5 tornado or drive through floods. That would endanger my self or other drivers. So its better to be safe then sorry. Haste makes waste. He that studies a situation is wise. These are two scriptures in the Holy Bible. In the Book of Proverbs. I have heard about truck companies presuring drivers to go to that designated place to drop off or pick up. Yet, what is the traffic like. What is the weather like? Driving a Big Rig truck over the road is not a easy job.
What do you mean by the companies will micromanage you?
As a true OO (not leased), this fella is right. The only thing I do differently is I don't do my own factoring anymore. Got tired of chasing my money.
This man is speaking facts! This is the problem with people opening up their own businesses who are not capable of doing most of these things which they end up out sourcing. These ppl are feeding the growth of these brokers, dispatch companies, loan shark/finance companies
it's basic business... It sounds like you have an issue with Business in America.
@@pokerman9108 sounds like you have a problem reading
@@kajg4236 Absolutely, I comprehended your point entirely. Essentially, the main idea of what Im pointing out is that almost every business delegates different tasks to external sources. As a business owner, why should I incur additional costs and burdens when I can simply outsource that task? Once again, it seems like your concern lies with the way business operations are conducted in America.
The 70s and 80s were the golden days of trucking.
Anyone who makes a false claim on a driver should receive jail time.
What’s a false claim. Never heard of making a claim on a trucker
🤠 Howdy y'all, much respect and love to all yall OTR truckers bringing in our needs and wants.
Man out here in california they took $400 off the loads again. Now we on the point people running loads for $1.10
Yep..the freight in California was one of the best paying with the frieght...now it's all the same ghetto money 💰..poverty money 💰 to move freight..it stinks
I just got offered a 1.10 load out of there said no thanks I'll sit
Y even move the truck for that how can they be making any profit
That’s low.
If you're accepting loads under $2, just go company, you're prolonging that pain of deep debt or bankruptcy.
It's not only the trucking industry. The entire country has been over regulated by an out of control government.
Wasn't trucking better before it was deregulated?
Drove most of fifty six and seven,only quit when doctor said I was destroying my kidneys with truck seats. Most I ever drove without stopping except for fuel was seventeen hours.Only good roads then was the Pa. Turnpike. I have never been sorry for leaving the industery. The govt. we have nowis going to destroy everthing with over regulating everything!
The government can't stand it, when you take money home
Keep em honest.😊
@Paratrooper.369So do Greedy Companies. 😊5
Absolutely speaking facts!!!❤
That is so sad that my babies don't ev
Even like they job I did not know all of this was going on please don't quit because we need all truck drivers because u guys bring us food clothes and furniture and many many more I know alot of people don't thank u but I will do it for them u are well appreciated thank u for all u guys do God bless and be safe out there❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
WE DONT NEED BROKERS!!
Manufacturers need brokers to get trucks to pick up loads from them because their docks are difficult to back into or they treat you like shit and no Driver will ever Go there again.
@@lewis9888So, how do brokers fix that? Don’t need them in these modern times. Websites and Apps.
@@lewis9888 STOP IT!!THAT MAKES NO FCKN SENSE!!
@@lewis9888💯that’s what I am telling all times
Here in Brazil ...we don't have brokers....
Best interview you done in my opinion. I've been driving for 25 years on and off he is right on everything he said.
Appreciate you!!! Getting back to interviews.
Agreed
I agree 100%
I myself have 34 years of trucking under my belt as an owner operator. I've seen a lot of things on the road and my years of driving. And this gentleman was 100% correct. American truck drivers are dying breed there are foreign truck drivers now and there are foreign Brokers and they're all operating with cheap freight. That may be good for the soccer moms Clarion at the grocery store. But what the public doesn't realize is that most of these foreigners cannot read English and have been given CDLs without training.. so if you think there are accidents and people dying on the highway now you wait until all of us American drivers are gone no one's going to be safe and on the highways anymore and what's going to happen is that the insurance companies that run these trucking companies the rates are going to go through the roof and then next I'm going to be the American trucking companies they're going to have to close their doors. So yes. He's absolutely right the trucking industry is dead.
Its not a foreigners thing entirely....we are being shafted, lied to and stolen from by natural born citizens. Wake up! They distract you by making you hate minorities
Alex,you're awesome and the gentleman that you interviewed.
It's good to hear it from veteran drivers.
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Investing can be complex, so it's smart to get professional guidance when building your financial portfolio.
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How can I get to her?
I remember when I started driving in 1992, your arm would get sore by waving at pretty much every driver you passed. Now they’d give you the finger rather than the wave. Now I drive part time and I’m trying to figure out how to completely quit.
The middle finger is the new era for waving hello😅.
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Brokers are pure greedy.
That's a fact 💯 👌
most of them work on 10 to 15% margins. these companies are not stupid and they know what freight goes for. It's not like brokers can get whatever they want from businesses wanting to ship things. think about it. If this is the case, then you should be a shipping consultant for huge corporations. You would make millions just by telling them how much they're over paying brokers...
@@pokerman9108Then they need to explain to the shippers than their products can’t be shipped for that rate. Every service and product rate has increased, yet we OO are getting lower rates? Makes no sense.
😂😂😂You need to watch the rerun of Shipping Wars.
It's ain't just the brokers.
That's what America runs on their all Greedy everybody Look at our former president Trump and the members of Congress that supported him.😢
27yrs on the road,brokers
blow. Glad I'm retired.
I'm going to be semi retired in 8 months. Congrats on your retirement 👏 🙌 👍🏼 😀 I'm next lolll
Iam 70 years old and drove from Ontario Canada to California for many years and this gentleman you interviewed could not have been more truth about the way it used to be and how it is now I couldn't have said it any better good job
These words are so true, I am old school and had just over 50yrs behind the wheel of a truck.
i hate to say it, but we let em do it to us.
Yup, many Americans, dead, and illegals voted the current president who doesn't even know he is still alive😅.
Shout out to my good friend and brother Matt Mickenburg . Hauling those loads across the country and kicking ass keeping us going. Thank you truckers!⭐️😎👍🏼
I am 38 years in the trucking industry and the industry the way I remembered it is dead I have retired from the scam it has become.
This man is truth and facts 💯
If you want to be the best truck driver around and make money.
Pay a man like this to let you be his co driver and get a beginners CDL license and pay him vs. A driver school.
He or other good men who know can get help driving and make extra money on more loads and money 💰 from you weekly.
You make 2x as much money and be 💯 % better off.
I did it at 1 time years ago.
400 a week and 6 weeks up to 12 weeks.
They are all still professional drivers today, and most make 3x what other drivers do.
I spent 14 years OTR
I learned to drive by an old driver this way, and I did 2x to 3x more than new drivers.
He is 100% spot on! My older brother just shut down his owner operator trucking business due to poor load prices. He had to go drive for somebody else because brokers are taking way too much of the load money and the trucker is getting reamed in the ass. As a former non-over the road driver my biggest peeve is drivers in a truck governed at 68mph feels it necessary to pass another truck that is 60-65mph governed backing up and impeding the traffic as he takes 20-30 mins to pass! That 1-4 mph difference is not going to get you there any faster so back it off 1mph set cruise and enjoy the ride. It is better than creating road rage incidents while you attempt to pass another truck and do not have the power to do it in a timely manner.
“35 through the parking lot with the Jake going and 40 miles on the interstate clogging up the middle lane” 😂😭😭
I drove for other people for 20 yrs before i bought my own truck/trailer and became a true owner operator theres a lot to being a owner operator vs leased operator or company driver. You definitely better be business savy if you decide to to become a owner operator or even a leased operator.
Exactly, being disciplined enough do crunch numbers on the daily and know when, why and how each dollar was spent...
I have a trucker friend, he doesn't even think about paying taxes, let alone figure out how much he made, how much was spent on fuel a year and so on...
Be disciplined or suffer, like my friend does.
Your input newbies like me is needed. Please let us know where to go from here after obtaining out CDL A. Thank you in advance.
this man is correct paper logs are the best hands down!
Facts!!
I love this interviewee. He's so experienced, and so down-to-earth. Sharp sense of humor too.
I have been trucking since 1995 driving a C.O.E. I fell in love with trucking talking to the old school truckers. We use to sit around at the iron skillet over dinner and talk about the week, talks about their trucks and gave advice to the younger drivers just as myself. I miss the old school days of trucking!!
I've been driving for 39 years and the new breed of truckers is hurting the industry as well with automatic trucks they're too busy holding their phones 😕
Ok Boomer
And the old school truckers were too busy jerking it on the CB. Today's problems are here because old school truckers fell asleep at the wheel.
Look at those views shooting up!!!! Bring back the interviews!! I love it man, I’m excited for you going back to the old style, so informative.
Awesome video, that guy was telling the straight up truth. Tracking is definitely different than before.
Iam sure glad we grow up in the glory days of trucking ..........
Old school here. When you saw a fellow trucker in trouble......you stopped and helped....no excuses, thats real trucking. Today it very rarely happens. I drove in the 70s until early 90 and said im done! Great video
I haven’t watched the video yet getting ready to the title already got me the problem in trucking is the same thing everywhere. If the government puts their hands in it’s gone to hell. They fk up everything.
This old good old boy is about 10 times smarter than Alex
You're wrong. Probably 10,000 times
This Guy broke it down well 🏆 Lease drivers punching the air now😂
Lease drivers are glorified company drivers.
@@thedevilandhertrumpets4268 🤣🤣 i totally agree
Unreal! Very genuine guy explaining reality
This man is speaking a language called facts!! everything he just stated is 100% true. Sad but true about the trucking industry now especially the owner operator part.
17years here…….and I’ve been there….done that…..he’s spot on…… but when you try to tell a new ambitious driver this…..he thinks your “hating” on him trying to get his own truck…..so I’ve learned to 🤐 unless they REALLY want truth……