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And dont forget the clots

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But the glory holes tho

Covenant trucking

Happy Camper be your boss jack

Make you tithe and chit boy. Im tellin u what son

Pineapples or the old dude with ED?

By golly, I think I may have been mistaken.

I wonder if they ever hire any Catholics or Mormons?

You need to brush up on your British slang. Watch some more of those Midsommer Murders an scheidt.

Not if they are a Christian outfit.

For sure.


Couple years ago we a had three different trucks show up at once to haul calves home.


I know all three drivers.

One of them was a super stoner, thinking to myself.....fuuck this plan.

But he was good to go.

Vals...,
and you hit a big problem that has been in the industry forever.
When the economy is crappy, and there is no work, people are willing
to drive a truck. Except, there is usually less freight.

When every one is hiring, nobody wants to drive truck.


Dogcatcher
You are wrong about getting a trucking job.
If you can pee clean, have a good record and pass a physical, there are
companies that will either train you and pay lodging +food stipend.
Or tuition reimbursements for your driving school.

Schneider hired me at 21years and a month.
Contingent on getting through their school and passing CDL.
I had a 6 month commitment, or had to pay them $1k.
I think it's a year and $3k now.

Thing is schools charged thousand$ back then.
People would go through school take the test, and hand them a check.
Then go work where the want.

Much of this is payed for by job creation tax money.
That's a whole other big story, but in short the driver shortages
were intentional in the past.

Companies had their own schools, which got money for training drivers.
The companies got subsidies for the wages, which were pretty low
to begin with. Once drivers got up in the pay scale, it was financially
advantageous to drive them off. To be replaced by a new driver at a low,
subsidized wage.

Heck, the school I went to was at the Lancaster Vo-tech.
The state provided the classroom space, parking lot, fuel,
All teachers except the head teacher. Schneider provided the worn
out (but safe) trucks, head teacher, and maintenance.
It was only open for Pa residents. And a number of students were
ex-military on the GEAR program.


There was a huge lawsuit a few years ago involving SWIFT. And their
playing this game.

How about when they’re methed up and haven’t slept for 3 days?

Maybe that's where they got the saying Sure Wish I Finished Training!

All true. But bottom line, there is simply no driver shortage. The problem is retention. The large carriers, affectionally referred to as "megas", have a driver turn over of 100%, ore more, per year. Because they treat the drivers like seat-meat, the working conditions are abominable and pay is, for the hours worked, often sub-minimum wage.

I'll tell a story about my last truck driver hire. Went through the Prime training program, drove for them for a a couple of years. Gets a phone call from home, dad is in a bad way, not expected to make it more than a day or so. Driver calls dispatch, dispatch says "tough s#it, you're ours, we'll think about it after this load. Prime had FIVE trucks sitting at the same truck stop that could have re-powered that load. Needless to say, one of them ended up re-powering that load, after all. Driver now has over 500K miles with us, and ain't going anywhere, his wife tells me.. ..

When labor was abundant, the current over the road model was developed. Same as the fast food industry. Employers of last resort, and potential hires simply have much better choices for career opportunities, and the ones that do fall for a recruiter's spiel give the industry the finger as soon as the bloom is off the rose...... .

Why does anyone have to smoke weed?

why does anyone "have to" drink alcohol? gamble? go plinking? drink coffee? eat cake?

substitute any non necessary activity for "smoke weed".

and some folks either smoke it or use edibles for pain management. And get better and safer relief than opioids.

How does the sun set? How is a rainbow made?

How does a posi trac rear end in a Plymouth work?

It just does.

Great movie.

We have them in the transport industry here, and the majority are absolute incompetent filth.

Wouldn't bother me in the least if every single one of them dropped dead tonight.

Laws written to benefit Lawyers by politicians with Law degrees.

This.