I don't get the comments in this thread. Here is a company that DOES all the right things and pays damn well for experienced drivers willing to sit on their asses in a truck and get the stuff done. I did trucking for 16 years and loved it. But I sure didn't make these high wages. Nobody did back then.
Fellas, if you're out of work, I suggest you consider long haul trucking. Good pay, get paid to see the whole country, and have a girlfriend in every state if that's your thing.
Yeah trucking, with the electric monitor , can't get enough hrs , no places to park cops ,weigh stations ,shitty recievers, crappy food, governed trucks that won't go 55 over an anthill,pesky 4 wheelers that won't yield on entry to interstate. You to can have all this for 800 lousy bucks a week on average. I left when they went to the cdl, accidents went up 52% yeah trucking
Brother in law tells much the same story. He left trucking too.
I'm making $90,000/yr company driver, OTR. Yeah the ELD sucks but I still do just fine with it. That $800 average pay is only that low because of the mega carriers skewing the shit out of it.
You quit when they brought in the CDL? Man, you gotta be older than me. Governed at 55 MPH? Confirmation.
So, you drove for Swift? JB Hunt? Schneider?
I, for one, am not whining about it. Sounds like a good job.
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