Austin TX to San Anronii about to have a huge line of automated trucks. Denver to Cheyenne as well. It's the beginning of the end fellas! Get your diesel tech and electric tech certificate now at your local community colkege!
With one truck companies, and will pull loads for .90-1.10 a mile. The brokers know that, and keep rates low. Not that companies and brokers are thieves, but most are. There are more trucks than available freight, because people bought into the driver shortage rumors ! A few years before covid, they kept saying there was a 400k driver shortage ! Now it's only 80k, and going to rise to 160k by 2030 ? That would mean that in just a couple years over 300k new drivers entered the market ! And there are still thousands of trucks with no driver ? Keep buying those new trucks, and use that as a data supply for driver shortage ! Manufacturers are pumping out way to many vehicles, just like ford ! Which has hundreds of storage places for vehicles they cant sell ! And quality is not what it was, that's a fact ! Cheap labor, over saturation, and rates are hurting the industry !
There is not truckers shortage , it is Bull sh**t . The reason we are not getting paid well is that there are too many truck drivers and not enough cargo.
Exactly!!!! The big companies say there's a driver shortage because they can't keep drivers. There are more then enough drivers they just don't pay them enough or treat them right!
The problem is peanut pay, cheap frieght, and b.s. brokers that destroying the logistics for so long! The only one getting dam rich other than logistics is this brokers! Overhaul in the Trucking industry needs to happen now. Before anything elses, to start, to make it possible all of the Trucker’s needs to unite to end this shit. If not, then this will be a never ending problem. Enough said!
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I am sorry about what you have been through. I have been through something similar and was almost depressed, till I contacted a spiritual counselor who helped me get my ex back and hence my life back
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Yep , that's greed , they're still making money on you no matter what , but they prefer to keep you from making some real money , I bet this whole trucking industry works like some kind of pyramid scheme , they just need some unknowing drivers , to make money for them while they go out to lunch and go home every night.
And they don't care. They don't give give one care about driver retention. Even what they do for us during driver appreciation week isn't for us- it's a recruiting tool.
Dude it’s the pay. Why am I gonna drive and be gone for weeks risking my life driving off a cliff at night if I’m gonna get paid the same as a random local $20 an hour job.
@@francescoavila6960what 900-1200 for a week Company breathing down your neck Being out for months working 14+ hour days Dealing with incorrect bols Etc etc
@francescoavila6960 if ur not home your working. Not driving and jerking off in the truck 1000 miles from home isn't considered being off of work. So u really making fast food money with overtime. I rather do lyft and make 1000 a week and be home every night than risking all that for 1200-1400... and if u got a girl or wife she cheating on u. Your daughter dating a drug dealer u got no clue about....u get my drift
@@w9nfmtrue, I get 0.45 a mile, but I hear 2 years + experience get 0.70, got brand new trucks, and all kinds of good stuff, until that time I have a truck with missing cabinet doors and 2 shelves don’t stay shut
Here’s a hint from basic economics. There’s Never a Shortage of Any Worker in a Capitalist Society. There’s only a shortage of Companies willing to pay enough to attract new drivers.
You are 100% right I’m an owner operator and I’m ready to hang my hat on the truck and industry. The way they treat us is unfair. I had seven trucks now I only own one when you are dealing with a volatile market where it’s supposed to be a flat rate to safe guard owner operators. From Louisiana their businesses trucks because of lowballing prices from brokers and shippers and receivers. Why would you wanna be a trucker when you are being mistreated and undervalued?
I hate to say it but nobody wants this thankless Over regulated, Excessively long hours, And UNDER PAID job anymore! And after 25 years pushing one of these trucks up the road I believe I have earned the right to say that! And I can also say that I'm not going to be on the road much longer!
Pay shortage, while DOT scales continue to scam and put drivers out of service, DMV and state fees, we barely have anything left to feed ourselves on the road. WTF
@MALO-w8k all we need is 10% of trucks to say no to see some change in prices It’s easy to change something But people won’t sacrifice for tham They sacrifice for brokers Think about this
I was a truck driver from 1973-2023 and there has never ever been a truck driver shortage. The only shortage there is, is good trucking Companies to work for the will pay good wages and treat truck drivers with respect. Who the heck wants to work for crap wages and crappy benefits. Work for Teamsters trucking companies and you can make great wages benefits and a great retirement that you will be payed for the rest of your life.
Union companies are scarce these days. There were lots of them when I started 23 years ago. I used to work for one of them that closed down just last year. Now there are only 2 union companies left.
@@willieg7895 There are many companies out there that manufacture their own products and are union and own their own trucks. You don’t have to work just for a trucking company.
Even teamster companies are not paying top wages these days. Their benefits packages are better but not hourly rate. It's sometimes hard to get 40 hours a week working for teamster companies so it makes it hard to stick it out waiting for the volume of work to increase. As a new guy bottom of the seniority list this can be quite frustrating.
Your calculations are wrong, you forgot mega carriers subsided tax write-off for training new drivers to drive down rates ...mega carriers are corporate welfare queens.
If your company paid you below 1250 for a week for OTR then you worked for a rate equivalent to below the federal minimum wage. If you ran OTR for that company for 6 months you have now worked more hours an average person worked in an entire year. What you do with your life is a choice.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. So, based on a 60-hour week, that would be $ 435 or 70 hours would be $ 507.50 gross. So, no, drivers aren't making less than the federal minimum wage at $1250 a week.
@@marvelandcregar4340 You cannot drive more than your ELD allows, OTR drivers are still at work when they have to be with their trucks or doing any trucking related activities minus the reset/10 hour breaks, and in reality most are even working during some of those hours as well.
, I am aware of how trucking works. I've been doing it for 25 years. I remember when a company driver for USX got paid $.26 per mile starting out😂 Now drivers love the companies that pay $.60+ per mile. It really isn't any different given inflation for the time. Not all drivers feel the need to make truck driving what they are married to.
We live in a Corporate Fascist society. Corporations will never let there be a trucker shortage, they're just going to hire people from foreign countries to take over the trucking jobs. It's already happened in Canada.
Exactly nobody admits this but the main reason freight doesn't pay is because we got too many foreigners working for pennies ruining the wages. This is why the pay is shit.
What you mean if somebody feels entitled and refuses to do their job they'll be replaced by somebody who will do the job? Say it ain't so. That's called business
I’m one year into my trucking career & honestly it’s not what NETTS hyped it up to be. Bison transport was my first job; weekly take home $350-400. Now I’m local $1275 a week making two runs (flatbed). Unfortunately I’m not satisfied.. this economy sucks!!
I left due to a lack of BENEFITS and GUARANTEED PAY and GUARANTEED SCHEDULE. I don't have time to play these stupid games. When UPS and ABF told me they're not hiring in my area for the next three years? I said screw that and took a state desk job. Set schedule, set pay, set work, amazing benefits. Would I rather be driving? Yes. But not for the no-benefit penny pinching pay the non-Union companies are offering.
just drove from one of these middle European companies out of Illinois, where the owner of the company still owes me $3,000 in pay. This was June 28th of last month I have yet to receive any compensation. I've filed two complaints with the State Department of Labor and I filed a complaint with the BBB and have yet to receive any type of response from either organization it's been a month and I'm being evicted I can't pay for my medicine and I can't find another trucking job out here it's crazy.Trucking is not worth it anymore & these big companies in the smaller European companies are not penalized for the unfair business practices.
Know the culture, you have to take something of theirs and show you got balls. If cop asks if you took something just say yes I had to requpe my losses on a job. Now it's a civil matter.
I've been driving for 5 years I'm going back to school for another trade. We are the only trade that gets the ultimate violation by taking our CDLs. But other trades don't get treated like that.
100% true, its a sick industry that some people in the Government and mega companies, try to make look unworthy of anything other than scraps - also as such being stated - no one sees truckers in any good light (as nasty dumb animals with little to no respect) but in reality, truckers are just disgruntle under paid, disillusioned…
My company cut our pay. Now I make what an employee at McDonald's makes in CA.(20$ p/h) They also took our ot pay, holiday pay and replaced with cpm to drive in LA traffic. I'm a minimum wage worker now. Yet they still want to make the case that we are "Professional Drivers."
90% of all new hires are foreign born visa holders. Pair that with a 90% industry turnover rate, and the industry is now over 50% of those drivers. Many of those drivers are actually SUBSIDIZED by the government to enter the industry, and are being flooded in as fast as possible. If it isnt obvious that american drivers are not being replaced by a much cheaper, non american workforce that can haul freight for half the rate, I dont know what to tell you.
I watch both you and Michael B’s channel. I appreciate how you respectfully brought the facts from the drivers perspective to explain. All the angles you mention summed it perfectly. I saw a lot of comments on Michael’s video rebutting so I’m thankful it’s was explained on your channel. 👍🏻👍🏻
I’ve heard this truck driver shortage now for 25 years now. And after working as a heavy duty diesel mechanic I got into truck during in 2007. If you’re a newbie driver just out of truck driving school you are treated like shit. Everyone takes advantage of you. It takes 1 to 2 years under your belt before you’ve got leverage over employers. You will pay your dues. Back then a lot of companies wouldn’t even talk to you unless you had 3 years on the road. And the ones that would will run you like a slave, and they know they can. And all this is after you pay 6,000.00 to get your CDL. Then even before all that is the truck driving schools don’t inform new perspective recruits about the DOT medical requirements. I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get my DOT card because of my age and other preexisting medical conditions and by that time I was 2 far in so I kept going, it was to late to back out but I made it. Becoming a truck driver and staying with it is like climbing Mt. Everest. Then add in the day to day BS , it’s a struggle. Now add in ELD’s what a S-show. Despite everything you hear and experience I love truck driving and being the big dog out on the road. There’s never a boring moment. And my absolute kick in the ass is driving through 6pm rush hour traffic pulling a 53Ft trailer and blocking traffic when backing into a loading dock out pulling out of a yard and taking up all the lanes and making Mercedes and BMW drivers sit and wait-it just doesn’t get any better then that. But I’m fully retired out of the business because of my age, just to dam old and my reaction times aren’t what they used to be. I had a lot of fun times out on the road driving the Pacific Northwest and looking at the scenery and driving and thinking I’m getting paid to do this. PS respect the Columbia River Gorge I-84 the grand old lady as I called her because at anytime, any day of the year she will kick your ass😂😂😃. I just loved driving I-84 no matter what the conditions. It never got tired of it.. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about cabbage hill🤪😂😂👍, if you know, you know.
My uncle retired as a long haul trucker for 27 years. Retired many years ago. The pay just got worse. BUT he has been to ALL the lower 48 states and nothing beats seeing the sunrise over the Grand Canyon, he says. Back in 88, he was near Area 51 and he saw these guys at the side of the ridge, and they were looking at a UFO. He never forgot it. Things he saw on dark highways makes your skin crawl. Saw everything from sasquatch and dogman cross the road to ghosts walking along freeways.
Lack of pay is why there is a driver shortage dumbass , $1100 net paychecks for a job to be gone from your family and never see your kids is a joke , it's all the stupid mother fuckers that keep doing the job for shit pay why trucking wages are so low , OTR trucking per week is like two full time jobs working 70 hours a week on ELDS and another 10 hours a week with work related activity 80 hours a week for a $1400 to $1500 average OTR earning paycheck is hilarious , it's the mindset of dumbass Americans working for that shit pay
Shitty dispatch shitty companies micromanaging driver to death, cameras, eld’s no parking and most companies hv shitty pay. I run oilfield flatbed only, 15 to 2k a week home several night a week my boss is badass i feel lucky with how shitty trucking is!!
There is no damn shortage of drivers. There are too many drivers right now and they’re all willing to haul cheap rates and it’s killing the industry. You can barely afford operating costs at this point.
Right no shortage Pay stinks If I had more options choose from round my small town I done been out of it But at the same time I don’t work well with others especially lazy ones that get payed the same and I do twice as much
Strange that the complete opposite is happening right now. No one is getting loads. Not in any auto or aviation industry. I have a couple of reefer friends not getting loads either
Under pay, over regulated, fuel price, fuel tax at the pump then your quarterly fuel tax, highway usage tax, and the overall lack of respect for drivers from shippers and receivers have pushed people away
I just finished driving for ANOTHER SH*T company that DID NOT PAY ME FOR MY WORK I am sooo sick of getting treated like sh*t ran like a dog then tossed out like a used bloody tampon last truck was a total piece of 💩 had over 800,000 miles on it no repairs no maintenance but companies want to know why my employment record is so long..... EVERY COMPANY IS SCUM
They must pay for days, not miles! 500$ a day for a driver no matter what, and that will make them arrange loadings and unloadings, fix shitty trucks and maintain them well!
I wish it was that simple. The pay across the board needs to go up by alot basically our politicians have allowed Truckers to shoulder the weight of inflation. Since deregulation of freight, Truckers overhead cost are going up and the price per load keeps going down lol its ridiculous.
Yeah it's time to find other jobs that don't require you to have so much responsibility for such shit pay and let the company owners figure out if and how long they can keep doing this for!
Until you get your time in and quit job hopping and keep a good driving record you aren't going to make that really good money. There are companies out there, like Western, the big blue Peterbilts, that pay really good but you have to have time served in the industry, a good driving record and a good credit score. You aren't going to start at any company making top pay, that's not how it works. You have to get some time in and make a name for yourself.
Also let's not forget the reasons companies like swift exist is because the government pays them a fat check per driver trained. That's why there schools are called puppy mills. They then force them into contracts where they barely make more then they did at McDonald's....but it's more so they stay, even though they don't have to stay. With classes of 20 students per class per week (depending on how many instructors they have) it's a huge bag of loot and probably makes them more then the freight does. That's how they stay in business during bad times like this. So they don't care if drivers sit, then ultimately drivers leave. This causes the actual fake numbers that don't exist. Once the government started paying puppy mills that's when it happened
There is no shortage. Period. Simply laws of supply and demand proves that. Rates would continue to climb to attract drivers if there were a shortage. The mega carriers have one problem, trucker retention. They treat drivers like nothing more than a number. They pay them crap wages, they impose absurd rules that drivers refuse to put up with, and they don’t take care of the driver or even care about them. Period, end of story. I say this as a driver for a mega.
It’s a mega carrier, of course your just a number who deals with ridiculous rules and the last thing in the world they care about is you. You’re literally meat in the seat to them and if you don’t like it guess what? Somebody will be in that truck next week if your not. Probably have horrible home time. I’m very thankful I managed to never have to work for one but best believe if I was ever in a situation that I needed to… I’m going to another trade. I have my backup plans
@Daniel-oy8ic , I know what you mean. Had a Black Ice roll over Jan 22 @ 0130hrs. OkHP had me at a truck stop 0330hrs.Got back to terminal 11hrs later. Company fired me "to save face". I observed 18 people going through day 1 of orientation.
It's because foreigner come here to work for pennies. I worked for Werner and every week there is a new class of driver and they speak Spanish and suahili African shit it's so irritating and disrespectful. It's not even an American job unless your extremely successful owner op or you work for a decent company. They work here then they leave for their foreign country with the American money they make sickening. And Americans have to deal with it. Get Joe biend administration out of office pleas
I got my CDL A no restrictions TWIC and tankers and am younger and passionate about trucks and driving but still haven’t used the thing because these mega companies are asking way more than theyre paying …
You can take my job, I’m about to quit, lmao. Pay ain’t worth shit and the hours aren’t shit either. I do hazmat/tanker, boy was I a sucker for thinking this job would pay more.
I am going to school in a few weeks than working for covenant in Tennessee... I am fresh out of a divorce, kids practically grown, gave up the house and am excited to get paid to see the country as I've never been west of the Mississippi besides flying to Vegas once ... I am leaving my warehouse job to just go. I figure it'll pay better than the 600 a week you make slaving in the heat at a warehouse and I'm hoping that it will be a fun unique and different experience. I was a housewife for 15 years. Taking a leap of faith and hoping not to end up on any kicked off the truck by a trainer or team driver from hell story on TH-cam 🤣 someday I wanna run a crane to demolish large structures, dunno how to get there but a leap of faith on otr driving is the start to my new life just to see what happens. They say don't go into driving without a plan but that's exactly what I'm doing and I feel excited about it all. Should I feel discouraged? It could be a trial run to van life or great travel practice for my future adventures. ❤
@@sandasturner9529 ABF Freight is hiring I'm Little Rock, Dayton, Sauk Village which is Chicago. I think in Kansas City they was hiring in Atlanta. I work for ABF myself I made 150,000 last year total compensation
@MALO-w8k you know how many people sell there trucks and try to get on at ABF because they went broke many my friend. Or try to get on at UPS or any other unionized shop because it's just far superior place to work . I'm a 35 year teamster . I made 70000 in 1988 as a teamster that was excellent money in 1988 . I've seen so many companies come and go . You have no unity in a non union shop . Owner operators don't care about each other now day's. Teamsters are hired to retire not to quit to find another crap job with horrible benefits like health insurance I make 77 cents a Mile and 35 and hour for waiting or breakdown such as blown tires or waiting on dispatch or shop or whatever all time spent. When owner operators were under union contract they got there health and welfare paid plus paid 100 a hour for there truck while waiting in the docks etc on there loads. My neiwas a teamster and own his own truck leased to Ranger Nation Wide St Louis Automotive division making 2.25 a Mike in 1986 when fuel was 55 to 60 cents a gallon. A rat ran for 80 cents that's a scab . We get so many Fedex drivers or other non union drivers at our shops that got let go at there jobs but they wouldn't organize there jobs you guys bitch about teamsters but if the teamsters wasn't still present you wouldn't be getting what your getting. There isn't a company out there that gives a care about you
@MALO-w8k bad management ruined yellow if wasn't for Roadway yellow was going broke in 2002 . Roadway covered there wages in 2002 at 40 million twice. I know I drove for Roadway. Ol lady Rousch needs her ass kicked for selling Roadway in 2004 yellow Freight was broke already Bill Zollars needs to be in prison
Flip floppers are the reason there is cheap freight. They think $200 and a half eaten sandwich at weeks end is "alot" of money, considering they made $22 a week in their country. Then government grants and welfare pays them even more money to cover expenses, using the tax dollars collected from citizens... Sadly, trucking has become a damn migrant workers party, and these clowns continue to haul cheap freight...
In 2022 I paid 100k cash for a 2017 freightliner . Very soon after in ca. We got hit with ab5 law because my authoritie was brand new and I had no inspections I was unable to find good loads. I'd love to tell my story about how that pushed me out of trucking after 10 years of driving
I actually make good money. The problem is I made the same 25yrs ago. Rates stay low because of cutthroat carriers. Available freight always fluctuate. The way freight is priced is outdated. Anyone that posts a load on any loadboard for less than the price of fuel is the problem.
Thank you! When I saw the title to this... I RAAAAAAAAAN to these comments. I work for a company that represents owner operators and independent drivers...LET ME BE VERY CLEAR.... you were 10000% ON POINT!!!
My buddy was an independent trucker and three years ago he went with Walmart and loves it. Don't get me wrong there are some advantages of being an independent, I have a condo in Naples, Fl. and every winter he would try and get a couple of loads to Fl, and he would come and stay with me for a few days. However, when he gets a flat, and it is a Walmart truck, he calls dispatch, and they send out people to get him back on the road, and he is not paying for a new tire.
Mutha Trucker: did you hear about Prime Inc no longer hiring solo company drivers? All new people going into Prime will either have to go team or lease. The CEO said at a meeting that it's temporary, but others are saying it doesn't feel that way. I was gonna get my CDL through Prime but now I'm basically checking it off the list
@@MuthaTrucker If you look at their meeting on their youtube channel from 7/26, you'll see the CEO talks about it at 52:50 . But he sounds kinda weird the way he answers it so I'm not sure if it's really just a hold or if they're moving to ditch solo company drivers and only allow solo leases in the future, which it seems like they're pushing for. Leasing is just too predatory.
I commend you for not going for that scheme that Prime is trying to do because you will never own the truck. You will get hit with crazy amounts of deductions and expenses to where you can't live. They know that you will get fed up and walk away from the equipment so they get their big money off the top basically for a year or 2 while you get scraps. I say that because most lease drivers don't make it past the 1 year or 2 year mark so if you leave, you just lost thousands of dollars in something that was never going to be yours. They wash, rinse and repeat the cycle.
@@jadebotan83 Yep. I've never heard anything good about leasing from a mega. If I can't get into Prime as a solo company driver I'll either join a mini-fleet or sign up for Wilson or Stevens instead. I was only looking at Prime because they don't use the hair test and I only kicked my herbal habit a few months ago and I've heard so many horror stories of people failing the hair test up to a year after quitting.
Sure its a truck driver shortage now because we all quit and doing ither things, hope the nrokers can drive. People are tired of working for free plus i know 80 people that applied to 100 jobs each and difnt get a call back so something is going on 😂😅
@@MuthaTrucker check into it on the glass door site even people in tech can't get a call back and it's the same 15 carriers spamming all the sites, something is either coming or going on its like they upload ads for no reason, I sold my truck and rather sit local and do something else
Rapid Response trucking out of Wentzville MO made me work off duty back in May. I got fired while out on a medical leave a month later without reason. I've blown the whistle to the FCMSA on them and just want them to be exposed. Having trouble finding a lawyer to take my case. If anyone can help then thanks if not it's ok. After 10 years trucking I can no longer be a trucker now for a few reasons, but I'm looking back at those years and wondering what did I just do with my life. I love trucking, but wasted lots of life and got treated like crap at the end of it.
15 years of driving experience here from a former O/O. I left because who wants to work in an environment where you are pretty much treated like crap, and who wants to constantly be pulled over by LE just to have your paperwork and truck inspected when you're driving clean, good-looking equipment. What's really maddening is when you get passed by a piece of crap with the fenders flopping around and it looks like it was pulled from a junk yard and yet it passes right on thru a scale house without so much as a second look. And I haven't even touched on societies attitude towards drivers, although I will admit we have brought some of that on to ourselves, like throwing our garbage out onto other people's property. And then there is just the shear maddening experience of the traffic today, none of which is helped by those coming into this country illegally by untold numbers because I'm sure the count is made up and underestimated! And forget them obeying our laws because that means nothing to someone who broke our laws just by being here. So, no thank you, I sold my truck and found something else to do and give my respect to those that still put up with the mayhem of the road!
I got out of trucking in May 2022 about brand new freightliner Cascadia I paid it off in May 2022 I was making real good money but I couldn’t afford to take it and run my truck for $1.30 a mile and I wouldn’t want to do it so I sold my truck and got a good price out of that didn’t have 414,000 miles on it and I hope the guy that bought it. I hope he say good luck with it because I had really good luck and I agree with you there has never been a trucker shortage.
I'm new with no experience and none of them hiring me. Won't even give me the reason why. Probably cause I'm a white male. Guess they looking for gays arabs Indians or Hispanics.
The 3rd world runs american trucking. Almost 100 percent. Fill otr seats. Thats why pay dont exist in trucking, you work 90 percent for free. If you want to get cdl, thats the reality.
Way too much personal liability involved anymore with truck driving to begin with. I went back to welding after 13 years, better money and hours. But I still retain my CDL and medical card because I can
I'll tell you Alex. Ppl are leaving cause of brokers. There is no transparence and owner operators are the ones leaving the game I like you and enjoy your videos but get facts right. Cause I can make more money at McDonald's than what I can make as a owner operator 😢😢😢😢
I went to the truck show at NRG in Houston and I noticed it wasn't ONE trucking company there looking for drivers !!.. Now if it's a trucker shortage that's the first place you'd go is a place where a trucker would be.....🤔🤔✌🏾
hey i love both yours and micheals channels. i know you both live in florida and he is always looking for the truth in the economy. im sure he would love to do a video with you. i would love to see that.
I clearly remember back in 99 when i was in high school and was talking about driving my pops told me and my stepbrother after while trucking is going to be worst than workin at mcdonalds and be damn if he wasnt right.Pops now retired back in 2020 after being out here over 43 yrs.ive been out here now 19yrs3mos and im bout sick of it
The reason I got out in 2017 is because the pay in many companies isn't enough for what the companies ask a driver to do. Additional I didn't like the camera and be tracked everywhere I go or being tracked about how I drive. Every movement was being recorded so I left. I wasn't going to let them treat me like a baby being watched every move I make. I am so glad I did. I went back to college and now I have a way less physical job that pays way more than what I was making being a local Class A driver.
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NO shortage of drivers ...rather there is a shortage of good paying driver jobs!
Amen 🙏
Fact
Are there asylum seekers driving, I’ve heard they get licensed now I don’t know if it’s true.
Austin TX to San Anronii about to have a huge line of automated trucks. Denver to Cheyenne as well. It's the beginning of the end fellas! Get your diesel tech and electric tech certificate now at your local community colkege!
Exactly why don’t they pay us and treat us better than animals and maybe people would stick with a company
We are tired of everyone getting their money off the top and giving us the crumbs on the porch.
This industry saturated with foreigner drivers that is partly why we low rates
The amount of CMV drivers that can’t speak English is incredible. Go to a truck stop and most can’t speak much if any English.
With one truck companies, and will pull loads for .90-1.10 a mile. The brokers know that, and keep rates low. Not that companies and brokers are thieves, but most are. There are more trucks than available freight, because people bought into the driver shortage rumors ! A few years before covid, they kept saying there was a 400k driver shortage ! Now it's only 80k, and going to rise to 160k by 2030 ? That would mean that in just a couple years over 300k new drivers entered the market ! And there are still thousands of trucks with no driver ? Keep buying those new trucks, and use that as a data supply for driver shortage ! Manufacturers are pumping out way to many vehicles, just like ford ! Which has hundreds of storage places for vehicles they cant sell ! And quality is not what it was, that's a fact ! Cheap labor, over saturation, and rates are hurting the industry !
An illegal just killed 2 ppl
I don’t understand why anyone would agree to .9
Thats f-in insane
There is not truckers shortage , it is Bull sh**t . The reason we are not getting paid well is that there are too many truck drivers and not enough cargo.
Exactly!!!! The big companies say there's a driver shortage because they can't keep drivers. There are more then enough drivers they just don't pay them enough or treat them right!
The grass is always greener somewhere else...been that way for decades.
That's a crap of bs with to many trucks
The problem is peanut pay, cheap frieght, and b.s. brokers that destroying the logistics for so long!
The only one getting dam rich other than logistics is this brokers!
Overhaul in the Trucking industry needs to happen now.
Before anything elses, to start, to make it possible all of the Trucker’s needs to unite to end this shit. If not, then this will be a never ending problem. Enough said!
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This is a great Video. This brings back painful memories which i have been enduring. My relationship of 5 years ended 3 months ago. The love of my life decided to leave me, I really love her so much I can’t stop thinking about her, I’ve tried my very best to get her back in my life, but to no avail, I’m frustrated, I don’t see my life with anyone else. I’ve done my best to get rid of the thoughts of her, but I can’t, I don’t know why I’m saying this here, I really miss her and just can’t stop thinking about her.
I am sorry about what you have been through. I have been through something similar and was almost depressed, till I contacted a spiritual counselor who helped me get my ex back and hence my life back
Interesting. Who is this counsellor, and how do I meet the person?
Online, you'll find shelly renee white, revered for her expertise as a spiritual counsellor. She has the ability to reunite couples and promote holistic well-being
Thanks a lot. I just did. Impressive.
you bots😅
These companies treat drivers like shit. They get you in and out. High turn over rate.
Yep , that's greed , they're still making money on you no matter what , but they prefer to keep you from making some real money , I bet this whole trucking industry works like some kind of pyramid scheme , they just need some unknowing drivers , to make money for them while they go out to lunch and go home every night.
And they don't care. They don't give give one care about driver retention. Even what they do for us during driver appreciation week isn't for us- it's a recruiting tool.
I had over 7 trucking jobs since 2020. I’m about to resign and get another one in August.
Dude it’s the pay. Why am I gonna drive and be gone for weeks risking my life driving off a cliff at night if I’m gonna get paid the same as a random local $20 an hour job.
The pay is a lot better than that
@@francescoavila6960what 900-1200 for a week
Company breathing down your neck
Being out for months working 14+ hour days
Dealing with incorrect bols
Etc etc
@@francescoavila6960 no its not drivers are barley able to make 1200 a week and thats a perfect week
I cleared $500 last week. Low pay, low miles, sucks.
@francescoavila6960 if ur not home your working. Not driving and jerking off in the truck 1000 miles from home isn't considered being off of work. So u really making fast food money with overtime. I rather do lyft and make 1000 a week and be home every night than risking all that for 1200-1400... and if u got a girl or wife she cheating on u. Your daughter dating a drug dealer u got no clue about....u get my drift
With any job if they always hiring thats a red flag
it is a sign of cutting off the high paid drivers and hiring the low wage
No shiiiii lol!!!!!😂😂😂
There's no shortage of drivers. Just a shortage of good wages and respect.
If you want respect the best way is to look in the mirror on how you and others dress. Dress like a slob be treated like a slob
There’s not a shortage of drivers there’s a shortage of intelligent drivers
You get what you pay for. Pay crap wage... Get crap drivers.
@@w9nfmtrue, I get 0.45 a mile, but I hear 2 years + experience get 0.70, got brand new trucks, and all kinds of good stuff, until that time I have a truck with missing cabinet doors and 2 shelves don’t stay shut
Here’s a hint from basic economics. There’s Never a Shortage of Any Worker in a Capitalist Society. There’s only a shortage of Companies willing to pay enough to attract new drivers.
If there was a driver shortage, the loads would be paying more. The higher the demand for trucks, the higher the rates go.
You are 100% right I’m an owner operator and I’m ready to hang my hat on the truck and industry. The way they treat us is unfair. I had seven trucks now I only own one when you are dealing with a volatile market where it’s supposed to be a flat rate to safe guard owner operators. From Louisiana their businesses trucks because of lowballing prices from brokers and shippers and receivers. Why would you wanna be a trucker when you are being mistreated and undervalued?
There no such thing as driver shortages. Just pay shortages. 😂
😂😂😂😂 💯
Honestly!😂
Pay shortages lead to driver shortages dumbfuck
I hate to say it but nobody wants this thankless Over regulated, Excessively long hours, And UNDER PAID job anymore! And after 25 years pushing one of these trucks up the road I believe I have earned the right to say that! And I can also say that I'm not going to be on the road much longer!
Pay shortage, while DOT scales continue to scam and put drivers out of service, DMV and state fees, we barely have anything left to feed ourselves on the road. WTF
Say no to cheap freight
Florida CDL’s drivers stop stop booking cheap loads I can see 👀your plates
@MALO-w8k all we need is 10% of trucks to say no to see some change in prices
It’s easy to change something
But people won’t sacrifice for tham
They sacrifice for brokers
Think about this
Say no to cheap pay.
Too much capacity my friend.
The majority of people liking this are most likely the ones taking cheap freight.
I was a truck driver from 1973-2023 and there has never ever been a truck driver shortage. The only shortage there is, is good trucking Companies to work for the will pay good wages and treat truck drivers with respect. Who the heck wants to work for crap wages and crappy benefits. Work for Teamsters trucking companies and you can make great wages benefits and a great retirement that you will be payed for the rest of your life.
Enjoy your new adventure 😎
San Diego, California
Union companies are scarce these days. There were lots of them when I started 23 years ago. I used to work for one of them that closed down just last year. Now there are only 2 union companies left.
@@willieg7895 There are many companies out there that manufacture their own products and are union and own their own trucks. You don’t have to work just for a trucking company.
@@willieg7895what ups and abf?????
Even teamster companies are not paying top wages these days. Their benefits packages are better but not hourly rate. It's sometimes hard to get 40 hours a week working for teamster companies so it makes it hard to stick it out waiting for the volume of work to increase. As a new guy bottom of the seniority list this can be quite frustrating.
parts + maintenance + fuel = government interference = no money for drivers
Your calculations are wrong, you forgot mega carriers subsided tax write-off for training new drivers to drive down rates ...mega carriers are corporate welfare queens.
Stated best, add bankrupt companies next …
Don't forget about the companies wanting you to stay out for 3 to 4 weeks and then off for 2 days, not to mention the crappy pay
never understood how that's not a safety issue/concern. Should be 2 days off per week
Left 4 years ago and never looked back!
I'm a CDL truck driver but I preferred sit down on home that work for pennies for the big carriers.
yeah i got me a in town job
I hear ya
Ate at a Popeyes today. Yeah I know, real healthy! 3 chicken fingers, coleslaw, mash potatoes, large drink close to $19
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The cole slaw there is nasty
Popeyes prices have increased as much as 50%. I will only get the sandwich if i stop there
Don’t forget to add a trip to the toilet
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If your company paid you below 1250 for a week for OTR then you worked for a rate equivalent to below the federal minimum wage. If you ran OTR for that company for 6 months you have now worked more hours an average person worked in an entire year. What you do with your life is a choice.
Best comment today
How many hrs in a week did it take to get your gross pay!
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. So, based on a 60-hour week, that would be $ 435 or 70 hours would be $ 507.50 gross. So, no, drivers aren't making less than the federal minimum wage at $1250 a week.
@@marvelandcregar4340 You cannot drive more than your ELD allows, OTR drivers are still at work when they have to be with their trucks or doing any trucking related activities minus the reset/10 hour breaks, and in reality most are even working during some of those hours as well.
, I am aware of how trucking works. I've been doing it for 25 years. I remember when a company driver for USX got paid $.26 per mile starting out😂 Now drivers love the companies that pay $.60+ per mile. It really isn't any different given inflation for the time. Not all drivers feel the need to make truck driving what they are married to.
We live in a Corporate Fascist society. Corporations will never let there be a trucker shortage, they're just going to hire people from foreign countries to take over the trucking jobs. It's already happened in Canada.
@@dubMittelJ do you actually know what a corporation is?
Canada is a foreign country.
Exactly nobody admits this but the main reason freight doesn't pay is because we got too many foreigners working for pennies ruining the wages. This is why the pay is shit.
What you mean if somebody feels entitled and refuses to do their job they'll be replaced by somebody who will do the job? Say it ain't so. That's called business
aka. TRUCKERS ARE THE NEW SLAVE--- just wondering who gonna pay us for reperations?
For over 2000 a week, sign me up massa 😂
I’m one year into my trucking career & honestly it’s not what NETTS hyped it up to be. Bison transport was my first job; weekly take home $350-400. Now I’m local $1275 a week making two runs (flatbed). Unfortunately I’m not satisfied.. this economy sucks!!
I left due to a lack of BENEFITS and GUARANTEED PAY and GUARANTEED SCHEDULE. I don't have time to play these stupid games.
When UPS and ABF told me they're not hiring in my area for the next three years? I said screw that and took a state desk job. Set schedule, set pay, set work, amazing benefits.
Would I rather be driving? Yes. But not for the no-benefit penny pinching pay the non-Union companies are offering.
How do you get a state desk job anyway?
If I could make 1500+ average after tax id be happy. Busting my but for 1000 is tiring
I worked for a company 6 years ago and you had to turn 5300 miles to take home 1000. 1000 take home even today is good money.
just drove from one of these middle European companies out of Illinois, where the owner of the company still owes me $3,000 in pay. This was June 28th of last month I have yet to receive any compensation.
I've filed two complaints with the State Department of Labor and I filed a complaint with the BBB and have yet to receive any type of response from either organization it's been a month and I'm being evicted I can't pay for my medicine and I can't find another trucking job out here it's crazy.Trucking is not worth it anymore & these big companies in the smaller European companies are not penalized for the unfair business practices.
Know the culture, you have to take something of theirs and show you got balls. If cop asks if you took something just say yes I had to requpe my losses on a job. Now it's a civil matter.
I have a CDL and CMV experience. the rules and regs are too insane and teh pay is too low now.
I've been driving for 5 years I'm going back to school for another trade. We are the only trade that gets the ultimate violation by taking our CDLs. But other trades don't get treated like that.
100% true, its a sick industry that some people in the Government and mega companies, try to make look unworthy of anything other than scraps - also as such being stated - no one sees truckers in any good light (as nasty dumb animals with little to no respect) but in reality, truckers are just disgruntle under paid, disillusioned…
My company cut our pay.
Now I make what an employee at McDonald's makes in CA.(20$ p/h) They also took our ot pay, holiday pay and replaced with cpm to drive in LA traffic. I'm a minimum wage worker now. Yet they still want to make the case that we are "Professional Drivers."
There is a over abundance of trucks out on the roads and limited amount of loads sitting for the trucks...
They just tryna put them auto trucks on the road... this load pay is terrible thats what's going on and they tryna push all owner operators out
Did you know the trucking industry is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to "wage theft"? That is one reason I want out.
Don’t worry about it,the Chinese,the indias,nicaraguans,guatemalans,etc.etc…know this and they are happy about it.
90% of all new hires are foreign born visa holders. Pair that with a 90% industry turnover rate, and the industry is now over 50% of those drivers. Many of those drivers are actually SUBSIDIZED by the government to enter the industry, and are being flooded in as fast as possible. If it isnt obvious that american drivers are not being replaced by a much cheaper, non american workforce that can haul freight for half the rate, I dont know what to tell you.
I always have a saying “If you ain’t paying I ain’t staying”
I watch both you and Michael B’s channel. I appreciate how you respectfully brought the facts from the drivers perspective to explain. All the angles you mention summed it perfectly. I saw a lot of comments on Michael’s video rebutting so I’m thankful it’s was explained on your channel. 👍🏻👍🏻
I appreciate that
I’ve heard this truck driver shortage now for 25 years now. And after working as a heavy duty diesel mechanic I got into truck during in 2007. If you’re a newbie driver just out of truck driving school you are treated like shit. Everyone takes advantage of you. It takes 1 to 2 years under your belt before you’ve got leverage over employers. You will pay your dues. Back then a lot of companies wouldn’t even talk to you unless you had 3 years on the road. And the ones that would will run you like a slave, and they know they can. And all this is after you pay 6,000.00 to get your CDL. Then even before all that is the truck driving schools don’t inform new perspective recruits about the DOT medical requirements. I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get my DOT card because of my age and other preexisting medical conditions and by that time I was 2 far in so I kept going, it was to late to back out but I made it. Becoming a truck driver and staying with it is like climbing Mt. Everest. Then add in the day to day BS , it’s a struggle. Now add in ELD’s what a S-show. Despite everything you hear and experience I love truck driving and being the big dog out on the road. There’s never a boring moment. And my absolute kick in the ass is driving through 6pm rush hour traffic pulling a 53Ft trailer and blocking traffic when backing into a loading dock out pulling out of a yard and taking up all the lanes and making Mercedes and BMW drivers sit and wait-it just doesn’t get any better then that. But I’m fully retired out of the business because of my age, just to dam old and my reaction times aren’t what they used to be. I had a lot of fun times out on the road driving the Pacific Northwest and looking at the scenery and driving and thinking I’m getting paid to do this. PS respect the Columbia River Gorge I-84 the grand old lady as I called her because at anytime, any day of the year she will kick your ass😂😂😃. I just loved driving I-84 no matter what the conditions. It never got tired of it.. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about cabbage hill🤪😂😂👍, if you know, you know.
@@MrMopar413 it's truly messed up. They found a way to exploit those without a higher education background.
My uncle retired as a long haul trucker for 27 years. Retired many years ago. The pay just got worse. BUT he has been to ALL the lower 48 states and nothing beats seeing the sunrise over the Grand Canyon, he says. Back in 88, he was near Area 51 and he saw these guys at the side of the ridge, and they were looking at a UFO. He never forgot it. Things he saw on dark highways makes your skin crawl. Saw everything from sasquatch and dogman cross the road to ghosts walking along freeways.
It'll never get better there is no trucker shortage there is a lack of pay!!!!
Lack of pay is why there is a driver shortage dumbass , $1100 net paychecks for a job to be gone from your family and never see your kids is a joke , it's all the stupid mother fuckers that keep doing the job for shit pay why trucking wages are so low , OTR trucking per week is like two full time jobs working 70 hours a week on ELDS and another 10 hours a week with work related activity 80 hours a week for a $1400 to $1500 average OTR earning paycheck is hilarious , it's the mindset of dumbass Americans working for that shit pay
Shitty dispatch shitty companies micromanaging driver to death, cameras, eld’s no parking and most companies hv shitty pay. I run oilfield flatbed only, 15 to 2k a week home several night a week my boss is badass i feel lucky with how shitty trucking is!!
15 to 20k or 1500 to 2000????
There is no damn shortage of drivers. There are too many drivers right now and they’re all willing to haul cheap rates and it’s killing the industry. You can barely afford operating costs at this point.
Yeah right they are short with 30CPM drivers.
Right no shortage
Pay stinks
If I had more options choose from round my small town I done been out of it
But at the same time I don’t work well with others especially lazy ones that get payed the same and I do twice as much
Too many drivers out here that don’t belong in trucking,bro!
They just like to replace drivers that expect to get paid what their worth.
Strange that the complete opposite is happening right now. No one is getting loads. Not in any auto or aviation industry. I have a couple of reefer friends not getting loads either
but sooo many trucks...
Under pay, over regulated, fuel price, fuel tax at the pump then your quarterly fuel tax, highway usage tax, and the overall lack of respect for drivers from shippers and receivers have pushed people away
Amen Mother Trucker. I agree with you, pay shortage.
It's the brokers who are helping keep wages cheap
I just finished driving for ANOTHER SH*T company that DID NOT PAY ME FOR MY WORK I am sooo sick of getting treated like sh*t ran like a dog then tossed out like a used bloody tampon last truck was a total piece of 💩 had over 800,000 miles on it no repairs no maintenance but companies want to know why my employment record is so long..... EVERY COMPANY IS SCUM
They must pay for days, not miles!
500$ a day for a driver no matter what, and that will make them arrange loadings and unloadings, fix shitty trucks and maintain them well!
I wish it was that simple. The pay across the board needs to go up by alot basically our politicians have allowed Truckers to shoulder the weight of inflation. Since deregulation of freight, Truckers overhead cost are going up and the price per load keeps going down lol its ridiculous.
Yeah it's time to find other jobs that don't require you to have so much responsibility for such shit pay and let the company owners figure out if and how long they can keep doing this for!
Until you get your time in and quit job hopping and keep a good driving record you aren't going to make that really good money. There are companies out there, like Western, the big blue Peterbilts, that pay really good but you have to have time served in the industry, a good driving record and a good credit score. You aren't going to start at any company making top pay, that's not how it works. You have to get some time in and make a name for yourself.
Do not waste your time or money with CDL school. Get certified to weld if you're able to work on your feet for 6 - 8 hours a day.
Pay pay pay. That’s the bottom line. It needs to increase NOW.
Stop the foreigner from working here and then your pay will go up. Vote for Joe biden what what you get
I agree. No shortage of drivers. Our industry is saturated with foreigners.
An illegal just killed 2 ppl
Also let's not forget the reasons companies like swift exist is because the government pays them a fat check per driver trained. That's why there schools are called puppy mills. They then force them into contracts where they barely make more then they did at McDonald's....but it's more so they stay, even though they don't have to stay. With classes of 20 students per class per week (depending on how many instructors they have) it's a huge bag of loot and probably makes them more then the freight does. That's how they stay in business during bad times like this. So they don't care if drivers sit, then ultimately drivers leave. This causes the actual fake numbers that don't exist. Once the government started paying puppy mills that's when it happened
There is no shortage. Period. Simply laws of supply and demand proves that. Rates would continue to climb to attract drivers if there were a shortage.
The mega carriers have one problem, trucker retention.
They treat drivers like nothing more than a number. They pay them crap wages, they impose absurd rules that drivers refuse to put up with, and they don’t take care of the driver or even care about them.
Period, end of story.
I say this as a driver for a mega.
appreciate the insight
It’s a mega carrier, of course your just a number who deals with ridiculous rules and the last thing in the world they care about is you. You’re literally meat in the seat to them and if you don’t like it guess what? Somebody will be in that truck next week if your not. Probably have horrible home time. I’m very thankful I managed to never have to work for one but best believe if I was ever in a situation that I needed to… I’m going to another trade. I have my backup plans
@Daniel-oy8ic , I know what you mean. Had a Black Ice roll over Jan 22 @ 0130hrs. OkHP had me at a truck stop 0330hrs.Got back to terminal 11hrs later. Company fired me "to save face". I observed 18 people going through day 1 of orientation.
@@michaelwillard6897 they are the trash of the trucking world. I will never understand how some actually like them.
It's because foreigner come here to work for pennies. I worked for Werner and every week there is a new class of driver and they speak Spanish and suahili African shit it's so irritating and disrespectful. It's not even an American job unless your extremely successful owner op or you work for a decent company. They work here then they leave for their foreign country with the American money they make sickening. And Americans have to deal with it. Get Joe biend administration out of office pleas
Its not ever going back up we are fucked
I got my CDL A no restrictions TWIC and tankers and am younger and passionate about trucks and driving but still haven’t used the thing because these mega companies are asking way more than theyre paying …
Go with local supply steel lumber Mason w e fw web ferguson
I do amazon local. Very easy, home daily. Hourly pay so I make overtime every week.
@@angelgjr1999how much take home
You can take my job, I’m about to quit, lmao. Pay ain’t worth shit and the hours aren’t shit either. I do hazmat/tanker, boy was I a sucker for thinking this job would pay more.
There has been a lack a pay since deregulation
Lack of pay is due to the cost of fuel.
True
Pay is better now. Just everything cost more
@@codyfolsom365 $1.37 a mile is a joke.
@@codyfolsom365 I was making 70,000 in 1986 in 1991 I made 90,000 at Roadway in 2001 120000 plus my benefits
I left a comment on Michael's video basically discouraging anybody from becoming a trucker so that we don't have any more oversupply of Truckers LOL
🤣😂🤣😂 You're bad for that haha.
You're a bad sport for that
Lol
I am going to school in a few weeks than working for covenant in Tennessee... I am fresh out of a divorce, kids practically grown, gave up the house and am excited to get paid to see the country as I've never been west of the Mississippi besides flying to Vegas once ... I am leaving my warehouse job to just go. I figure it'll pay better than the 600 a week you make slaving in the heat at a warehouse and I'm hoping that it will be a fun unique and different experience. I was a housewife for 15 years. Taking a leap of faith and hoping not to end up on any kicked off the truck by a trainer or team driver from hell story on TH-cam 🤣 someday I wanna run a crane to demolish large structures, dunno how to get there but a leap of faith on otr driving is the start to my new life just to see what happens. They say don't go into driving without a plan but that's exactly what I'm doing and I feel excited about it all. Should I feel discouraged? It could be a trial run to van life or great travel practice for my future adventures. ❤
ABF never has trouble finding drivers. We're under union contract
Can I apply? I have a cdl
I've been outta work for non months
@@sandasturner9529 ABF Freight is hiring I'm Little Rock, Dayton, Sauk Village which is Chicago. I think in Kansas City they was hiring in Atlanta. I work for ABF myself I made 150,000 last year total compensation
@MALO-w8k you know how many people sell there trucks and try to get on at ABF because they went broke many my friend. Or try to get on at UPS or any other unionized shop because it's just far superior place to work . I'm a 35 year teamster . I made 70000 in 1988 as a teamster that was excellent money in 1988 . I've seen so many companies come and go . You have no unity in a non union shop . Owner operators don't care about each other now day's. Teamsters are hired to retire not to quit to find another crap job with horrible benefits like health insurance I make 77 cents a Mile and 35 and hour for waiting or breakdown such as blown tires or waiting on dispatch or shop or whatever all time spent. When owner operators were under union contract they got there health and welfare paid plus paid 100 a hour for there truck while waiting in the docks etc on there loads. My neiwas a teamster and own his own truck leased to Ranger Nation Wide St Louis Automotive division making 2.25 a Mike in 1986 when fuel was 55 to 60 cents a gallon. A rat ran for 80 cents that's a scab . We get so many Fedex drivers or other non union drivers at our shops that got let go at there jobs but they wouldn't organize there jobs you guys bitch about teamsters but if the teamsters wasn't still present you wouldn't be getting what your getting. There isn't a company out there that gives a care about you
@MALO-w8k bad management ruined yellow if wasn't for Roadway yellow was going broke in 2002 . Roadway covered there wages in 2002 at 40 million twice. I know I drove for Roadway. Ol lady Rousch needs her ass kicked for selling Roadway in 2004 yellow Freight was broke already Bill Zollars needs to be in prison
Dude, you need to go rnc convention and speak this truth. Or someone. Us truckers need to come together for us
Flip floppers are the reason there is cheap freight. They think $200 and a half eaten sandwich at weeks end is "alot" of money, considering they made $22 a week in their country. Then government grants and welfare pays them even more money to cover expenses, using the tax dollars collected from citizens... Sadly, trucking has become a damn migrant workers party, and these clowns continue to haul cheap freight...
In 2022 I paid 100k cash for a 2017 freightliner . Very soon after in ca. We got hit with ab5 law because my authoritie was brand new and I had no inspections I was unable to find good loads. I'd love to tell my story about how that pushed me out of trucking after 10 years of driving
Alex, I’d love to see you do a video with the camera pointing at you while walking around random truck stops, kind of how like Michael does.
Would be epic!
When they realize that driving a truck should be classified as a skilled trade and pay accordingly there won't be a problem.
I actually make good money. The problem is I made the same 25yrs ago. Rates stay low because of cutthroat carriers. Available freight always fluctuate. The way freight is priced is outdated. Anyone that posts a load on any loadboard for less than the price of fuel is the problem.
Insurance is keeping me from working.
Thank you! When I saw the title to this... I RAAAAAAAAAN to these comments. I work for a company that represents owner operators and independent drivers...LET ME BE VERY CLEAR.... you were 10000% ON POINT!!!
My buddy was an independent trucker and three years ago he went with Walmart and loves it. Don't get me wrong there are some advantages of being an independent, I have a condo in Naples, Fl. and every winter he would try and get a couple of loads to Fl, and he would come and stay with me for a few days. However, when he gets a flat, and it is a Walmart truck, he calls dispatch, and they send out people to get him back on the road, and he is not paying for a new tire.
Mutha Trucker: did you hear about Prime Inc no longer hiring solo company drivers? All new people going into Prime will either have to go team or lease. The CEO said at a meeting that it's temporary, but others are saying it doesn't feel that way. I was gonna get my CDL through Prime but now I'm basically checking it off the list
Was it last weeks meeting? Email me muthatruckernews@gmail.com
@@MuthaTrucker If you look at their meeting on their youtube channel from 7/26, you'll see the CEO talks about it at 52:50 . But he sounds kinda weird the way he answers it so I'm not sure if it's really just a hold or if they're moving to ditch solo company drivers and only allow solo leases in the future, which it seems like they're pushing for. Leasing is just too predatory.
Good choice
I commend you for not going for that scheme that Prime is trying to do because you will never own the truck. You will get hit with crazy amounts of deductions and expenses to where you can't live. They know that you will get fed up and walk away from the equipment so they get their big money off the top basically for a year or 2 while you get scraps. I say that because most lease drivers don't make it past the 1 year or 2 year mark so if you leave, you just lost thousands of dollars in something that was never going to be yours. They wash, rinse and repeat the cycle.
@@jadebotan83 Yep. I've never heard anything good about leasing from a mega. If I can't get into Prime as a solo company driver I'll either join a mini-fleet or sign up for Wilson or Stevens instead. I was only looking at Prime because they don't use the hair test and I only kicked my herbal habit a few months ago and I've heard so many horror stories of people failing the hair test up to a year after quitting.
I believe they put stuff out like this to prep our minds to get us to get ready for the autonomous driving trucks
U are 💯 right !!!
No Shortage brother! The work and lack of pay!
Sure its a truck driver shortage now because we all quit and doing ither things, hope the nrokers can drive. People are tired of working for free plus i know 80 people that applied to 100 jobs each and difnt get a call back so something is going on 😂😅
Definitely
@@MuthaTrucker check into it on the glass door site even people in tech can't get a call back and it's the same 15 carriers spamming all the sites, something is either coming or going on its like they upload ads for no reason, I sold my truck and rather sit local and do something else
Rapid Response trucking out of Wentzville MO made me work off duty back in May. I got fired while out on a medical leave a month later without reason. I've blown the whistle to the FCMSA on them and just want them to be exposed. Having trouble finding a lawyer to take my case. If anyone can help then thanks if not it's ok. After 10 years trucking I can no longer be a trucker now for a few reasons, but I'm looking back at those years and wondering what did I just do with my life. I love trucking, but wasted lots of life and got treated like crap at the end of it.
There are so many tricks on the road making it dangerous to drive on the interstate without having a wreck.
15 years of driving experience here from a former O/O. I left because who wants to work in an environment where you are pretty much treated like crap, and who wants to constantly be pulled over by LE just to have your paperwork and truck inspected when you're driving clean, good-looking equipment. What's really maddening is when you get passed by a piece of crap with the fenders flopping around and it looks like it was pulled from a junk yard and yet it passes right on thru a scale house without so much as a second look. And I haven't even touched on societies attitude towards drivers, although I will admit we have brought some of that on to ourselves, like throwing our garbage out onto other people's property. And then there is just the shear maddening experience of the traffic today, none of which is helped by those coming into this country illegally by untold numbers because I'm sure the count is made up and underestimated! And forget them obeying our laws because that means nothing to someone who broke our laws just by being here. So, no thank you, I sold my truck and found something else to do and give my respect to those that still put up with the mayhem of the road!
💯 lacking pay
It takes a certain breed to be a long-haul driver. All the automatic trucks in the world will not change that.
💯 correct
I got out of trucking in May 2022 about brand new freightliner Cascadia I paid it off in May 2022 I was making real good money but I couldn’t afford to take it and run my truck for $1.30 a mile and I wouldn’t want to do it so I sold my truck and got a good price out of that didn’t have 414,000 miles on it and I hope the guy that bought it. I hope he say good luck with it because I had really good luck and I agree with you there has never been a trucker shortage.
Mega carriers don’t want drivers with experience and common sense anymore.
It’s a mega carrier… what do you expect 😂
I'm new with no experience and none of them hiring me. Won't even give me the reason why. Probably cause I'm a white male. Guess they looking for gays arabs Indians or Hispanics.
There are plenty of people that want to enter the truck driving career but the regulations are hamstringing the industry.
The 3rd world runs american trucking. Almost 100 percent. Fill otr seats. Thats why pay dont exist in trucking, you work 90 percent for free. If you want to get cdl, thats the reality.
Way too much personal liability involved anymore with truck driving to begin with.
I went back to welding after 13 years, better money and hours. But I still retain my CDL and medical card because I can
Foolish guy knows nothing … trucker pay shortage lol
😂😂, he knows pretty well what’s going on, he just got sponsored to say so…
And the FMCSA Ain’t no help either 😤
Do you really want the government to step in and bankrupt everybody in the industry? Always remember this anything the government or unions touch dies
There are to many drivers as it is! IF THERE WAS A DRIVER SHORTAGE RATES WOULD BE STEADILY CLIMBING!
I'll tell you Alex. Ppl are leaving cause of brokers. There is no transparence and owner operators are the ones leaving the game I like you and enjoy your videos but get facts right. Cause I can make more money at McDonald's than what I can make as a owner operator 😢😢😢😢
I do talk about broker fraud and middleman eating alot of Truckers money in the video
Truck stops aren’t full sir. You have to actually be there to witness it.
really???
What kinda drugs are you on????
I'm at a One 9 and it's pretty full at 21:00 CDT. Mr. Fuel I-20 ex 129 Mississippi.
If you talk about truck stop in the back road they always empty
Depends on where you are. But I can tell you the ones that are full, a lot of the trucks there don’t move.
Facts!!! Too many truckers on the road and no truck parking
I went to the truck show at NRG in Houston and I noticed it wasn't ONE trucking company there looking for drivers !!.. Now if it's a trucker shortage that's the first place you'd go is a place where a trucker would be.....🤔🤔✌🏾
hey i love both yours and micheals channels. i know you both live in florida and he is always looking for the truth in the economy. im sure he would love to do a video with you. i would love to see that.
When I was driving, freight was cheap and there was never any parking.
Sounds like things haven’t changed in 20 years.
I clearly remember back in 99 when i was in high school and was talking about driving my pops told me and my stepbrother after while trucking is going to be worst than workin at mcdonalds and be damn if he wasnt right.Pops now retired back in 2020 after being out here over 43 yrs.ive been out here now 19yrs3mos and im bout sick of it
If there is a huge shortage of something, be it drivers or fuel or lumber or widgets, if you have a shortage, you don’t have low wages.
The reason I got out in 2017 is because the pay in many companies isn't enough for what the companies ask a driver to do. Additional I didn't like the camera and be tracked everywhere I go or being tracked about how I drive. Every movement was being recorded so I left. I wasn't going to let them treat me like a baby being watched every move I make. I am so glad I did. I went back to college and now I have a way less physical job that pays way more than what I was making being a local Class A driver.
Wow. This is pretty profound. Because its 100 percent.