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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2024
- Truck Driver With 39 Years Exp. Exposes Why Truck Drivers Are Going Broke 🤯 (Mutha Trucker Podcast)
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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
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.
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
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
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!
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 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?
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 !
When he hangs up his spurs he should do voice acting and audiobooks reads. I could listen to that man jaw all day. Butter.
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
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*
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.
Schools are just businesses these days and will put as little effort into their students as the government will allow. Less effort = more profit.
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
He's speaking nothing but TRUTH.
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....
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 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.
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"
He is so right 100%.
39 years trucking. This gentleman every one should listen to him.
So what’s the best way to make money out there !!!!!
Ever heard of the guy who worked for 40 years and did the same mistake for 40 years? If you did a specific thing for a lot of years doesn't necessary make you good at it. He might be a very good driver, he might know a lot of stuff, but by what he's talking about about brokers and how he calculates his net, he's doing some rookie mistakes.
Not if they don’t give a shit about trucking.
So what’s your advice for someone who still wants to be a trucker. Currently going for my cdl. Im all for different opinions but the job still has to get done.
Thanks for sharing, Kudos to all you truck drivers. Amen💯💯
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
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!!!
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 totally agree with the difference between old and new. I am glad I am retired after 40years.
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.
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.
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.
I love to hear a old school truck driver talk.... 💚🇺🇲🚛💨
I've been driving for 35 years and have never had another trucker stop and help with truck trouble and no one has EVER bought me dinner
What a load of bullshit
But it's who you are. No one likes you 😂😅
😅😅😅
Guys used to at least get on the CB and ask if you had help coming back in the day. Now they barely will get over when passing you on the shoulder.
My sister is a long hauler trucker. She said no one uses CB's any more because the ones who do use this it's all drama and crap. And due to things getting dangerous out there for truckers they are advised to never stop to help someone because you don't know if it is a trap to hurt you or kill you. There are a lot of truckers coming up missing and being found dead any more. Stay safe out there all you truckers. You matter. What you do for us matters.
@@candymartin6882 They don't use CBs anymore because their companies tell them not to and they can't have their headphones on watching videos if they're listening to their trucks and listening out for the CB....
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.
“35mph in the parking lot with the jake and 40mph in the middle lane” man I felt that one 😂
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
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.
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.
His voice alone, tells me he's a trucker. When he stops driving, he needs to pick up a microphone. Great tv/radio voice
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.
That was an Awesome interview, "I'm glad a found this. Thank You 😎👍
At the end he wasn't lying, that was the way it was. Wish him the best.
Sounds like a really cool guy with a lot of knowledge
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!⭐️😎👍🏼
Alex,you're awesome and the gentleman that you interviewed.
It's good to hear it from veteran drivers.
I started trucking 1974
Complaining is all truckers do when not trucking.
I am still out here, still long haul, still love it.
I like this guy! This guy is what an Old School trucker is. I miss the days of interacting with drivers like this, both on the road and at the old Mom’N’Pop truck stops with the diners and the liars bar. It saddens me to know I have watched the end of an era and the death of a piece of Americana.
I agree 100%. Every now and then I get a little change to Talk with a Old School truck driver and listen every word and story they say. I notice these guys are very down to earth and very knowledgeable and just real nice person.
I miss the ole mom and pop truck stops more than anything out here. I-40, exit 184, Williams or Belmont Arizona, I can't remember which; there was a truck stop that had the best chili on the road. It even said on the menu that it was an "old west trail recipe." I hadn't been through there in a while and was looking forward to stopping in for a bowl of chilli. I pulled off the ramp and turned and I didn't see the truck stop. I thought I had gotten off at the wrong exit. I was at the right exit and there sat a God damn Pilot. Pilot had bought it, dozed the building and put their fk'n shit in the place. I made a loop in the parking lot, left and I haven't been back. Another one was Weidmeyers in St Joe. Loves put their outfit in across the street and put Weidmeyers out of business. Hopefully one day these big outfits put each other out of business.
@@JamesStreet-tp1vb Oh come on now! You mean you don't love standing 15 deep in line at the check-out in a Pilot to buy a day old corndog?! Just joking! I miss those mom-and-pops so much! There are still some good ones, but it takes years to find them it seems.
I was eating at the old sit-down TA restaurant in Lodi, Ohio a year or two ago and I was talking to the waitress about the sit-down restaurants going by the wayside and she said "Enjoy your meal because they're closing this restaurant in 2 days.....to put in some chain outfit". Broke my heart!
Amazing interview! Love hearing from the "Old Schoolers" on how things used to be vs. now. God bless Mr Frank!!!
Alex
God bless that man. He hit everything on the nail. I hope he has a long and prosperous life in front of him.
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.
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.
Excellent interview with a knowledgeable driver. thanks for putting this video out here.
hey, great interview and thank you for your perspective!
Facts I preach that all the time "Do Your homework"
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
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.
He is telling all the truth 😊
Hit the nail on the head with this driver he's a what a great interview thank you Alex.
I love this interviewee. He's so experienced, and so down-to-earth. Sharp sense of humor too.
Salt of the Earth dude right there, Salute and God Bless!!
I love this guy , He seemed to be very honest hard-working man I wish I knew him as a friend.
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 $$!
Great interview, very informative to the people that don't know much about trucking, or think they do
Great lessons. Great value!
The world needs to be like an old school trucker…nice interview
Love this guy. I don't think he realizes how big your channel is. this dude wouldn't make it a month as a company driver. He says he would be a company driver but they micromanage the hell out of you.
He was awesome 👌
As 28 year diesel mechanic with a mobile diesel repair service & drove for 3 years OTR before I started mechanics. I can tell you this buisness is dead in the water I've seen the good, bad & ugly this is the worst I've ever seen it, I closed my shop I had for 3.5 years new from the ground up now I only do mobile and theirs no money in trucking anymore. I use to have them lined up down the street doing 5 to 7 calls a day now I hardly do 3 a week on mobile service. 😢 I'm getting out of it because I know this buisness & I see the direction it's going. I purchased me a sprinter van & my ass is going to get into local cargo van delivery. I spent half my life sacrificing for a dream & now it's just dead in the water. All the owner operators are dropping like flies and the foreigners are taking over the trucking game. All my phone calls come from africans and Russians, Pakistanis and man are they cheap inexperienced and whinny😢😢😢. I have to argue about my invoice 89% of the time. I'm tired now 52 years old and I have no more fight for this buisness and these new drivers they are dangerous and all they care about is loads not safety or maintenance on their truck. If your getting in this buisness better do your homework, because its definitely not the same and never will be. GREED$$$$ 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?
I could sit and listen to this guy all day. Great interview.
Great interview. I couldn't stop watching it.
This guy was fantastic ... the most information packed into one truthfull interview
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.
Great interview. Thank you sir!
These words are so true, I am old school and had just over 50yrs behind the wheel of a truck.
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
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.
Great interview. Spot on.
What this driver is saying seems so very true. I wanted to become an owner operator but watching the market over the last 6 or 7 years shows me that unless you can get into a truck cheap, do 90% of the repairs yourself, have a solid base of shippers and can stay out of trouble… it’s probably not going to happen. The days of finding a decent truck for cheap are gone; doing your own repairs requires computer programs most people can’t afford and shippers don’t care about loyalty and reliability like they used to. I still have hopes and dreams about it but I’m not holding my breath! Frankly I’m not sure how anyone can make money spending 225 to 285,000 dollars on a truck.
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?
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.
Brother is keeping it Real!!!!!!
DAMN I need to hear this!!!!! Straight truth
“35 through the parking lot with the Jake going and 40 miles on the interstate clogging up the middle lane” 😂😭😭
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
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Thank you 🙏 for sharing
I love this guy. He told it how exactly how it is. Since I started back in 09’ it has just gone to sh!t. The majority of drivers these days are steering wheel holders that only care about themselves. Everyone is always in a dang hurry flying through truck stops, construction zones etc. They have no respect for anyone. But it’s not just in trucking. The whole world is like this. It’s just sad.
09? Well ..guess you gotta start some where...81 for me
🤠 Howdy y'all, much respect and love to all yall OTR truckers bringing in our needs and wants.
Thank you Alex for this interview! I love this guy you interviewed (no homo). He is 1000% correct on all angles and told it like it was. I’m not even that old (gen x/millennial) and got out of trucking in 2017 bc of everything he listed.
There was no damn elogs, automatic trucks we’re almost unheard of. No cab facing cameras, you drove how you felt and ran with 2 log books loose leaf and made it work and enjoyed it.
It went to complete dog sh*t with elogs, automatic trucks, collision avoidance bs and nannies, cab facing cameras, heavy regulation, and after Covid with everyone jumping on board it became saturated with everyone wanting to drive a truck and the rates belly upped.
Been out of it for 7 years and don’t miss it one bit. Had a blast the 8 years I was doing it though. Well over 1.5 million safe accident free miles
I miss being on Owner Operator back in the early 2000’s 😢
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 retired....thank god....but this guy made me smile
Outstanding open conversation.
Great information..This was a great interview
Lol that BACK haul bs pissed me off when I was over the road.
The dreaded 900 dollars from New York City to Chicago load. Every time you pull into Vince Lambardi Travel Plaza. You knew there more than one fool out here swinging it for the hills.
Great interview. I’m glad to hear guys tell it like it is. No BS.
Good Video, Blessings Guys.
Frank is so right on, trucking is going away faster than u think.. you can't find a driver that wants to work and take care of a truck.
These new drivers get their windows tinted so dark u can't see through.. I've been an owner operator for 37 yrs can't wait to get out of it..
Very informative information im still new to truck driving 2 years and 2 months but i like listening to guys like this with this much experience the more drivers they have on the road the cheaper the freight is. I thought about being a owner operator but I'm definitely not in a hurry to because its a tough industry listening to this guy and allot of the old timers that's been doing this for 30+ years im going to continue learning and not taking that step any time soon. And as for lease drivers u never get to go home becuz of the payment but if u decide to go home for a week and come back now you a week behind in payments its a way for the company to keep that truck moving and making them money so u will never get home and you'll be out there forever thinking u allot to own the truck
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.
Unreal! Very genuine guy explaining reality
Thank you for this video i can say he just saved my trucking career with this entire knowledge
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😅.
Old Schoolers, thank you for all the years you have kept this nation going. Times have changed but you'll never be forgotten. 🇺🇲
Great interview!
man this is some great trucking information and education!!
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