I’m from US, got almost 20 years experience OTR, hauled mostly reefers, have worked everywhere including Alaska and Western Canada. I also hauled gas for a couple years. I’ve seen ups and downs but it had never been this bad. I used to be proud of my job, not anymore, cause it has changed from decent to a slavery. They want us to work just for food. I make less money now than I was making on my 2nd year of driving. And I was working 3 weeks a month then, now I have to work the whole month (and still make less) So I have decided to stop this madness and quit a month ago. Hopefully will never go back.
I'm a truck op, i own my truck and trailer out Wright but I'm barley braking even every month bcs rates are so cheap and some one is hauling so cheap, i use to take load from taxes to chicago for 3000$ now it's half and they taking it, i been at truck stop in st lewis for a week and can't find any load worth a dam, business won't be coming back bcs the economy is going down hell and it won't get any better, unless you are in the defense industry you won't make it
I had a run from Chicago to Dallas for 1900 and from Chicago to San Antonio for 2500. Where do you get your loads? I think it's about who you know. I think all the foreigners working together
Funny how everyone complains about the freight rates but is so happy to jump on $1.25 a mile spot rate. I refuse to accept any load paying less than $2 a mile. When the rest of you do the same and shippers cannot move their product, guess what, we will all be getting $2 a mile. Also, we need Congress to pass a “minimum wage” for trucking, including a minimum mileage rate for the spot market and a minimum CPM for drivers. Until companies and O/O stand together and refuse to move freight leaving shippers screwed, nothing will change. Blame yourselves.
The Biden administration made a proposal/plan to make Detention time FEDERAL REGULATED ......The love Jesus and against abortion freaks voted against it .
$2 per mile is a joke, that’s barely a profit. Uber charges between $1 and $2 per mile, with time calculated as well and you don’t need a CDL, IFTA, HHT, inspections, $800 blowout repairs, drive across the country, etc. the people who take these cheap rates are making it bad for us because they’ll keep posting these cheap rates until they stop taking them
Every company I have worked.for crys they cannot find drivers. After 1 year of working for them they are stealing your bonus money, jacking around your home time,messing with your pay,demanding you break laws and safe procedures when they want. And boom they lose a driver who had perfect attendance, great csa score,and excellent delivery record!!!
I believe that the trucking market is over saturated.. During the pandemic, many truckers started making video's of how much they were making, and too many people became truckers. I believe most of the government regulations are to put the owner operators out of business and run mostly mega carriers too.
@jbenz1990 Unless you have the contracts as a owner Operator with the shipper, it's been working out for me as a company driver. I get 2400 to 2800 miles a week and I get paid loaded and unloaded miles. I personally don't have any complaints about the industry. Only the strong will survive 💪🏿
Liers liers from recruiters to dispatchers to brokers that's what's wring with trucking. I was a lawyer for 18 years, retired, and got in trucking. I never encountered so many liers until i got into trucking
Brokers dont have any new lies left they lie so much you can see their lies a mile away.. i dont understand how anybody wants to do a job like that its always lying and bitching
19 years experience (13 of them Owner Operating) in Heavy Haul, Demolition, End Dump. Trucking was just a motoring at the time and I felt confident enough to buy a brand new ‘21 Western Star 4900SF Heavy Spec (pre inflated pricing, pre high interest rates) I figured go big or go home, satisfaction guaranteed! And it was, 600HP of pure nostalgic joy! Gorgeous ride! Things were going great. I started to notice it right around the last US Thanksgiving, just tough getting full weeks. And that ripple effect carried on, and is STILL carrying on for I’m hearing the next YEAR at least..! Nope, 19 years, I’ve been seeing the writing on the walls, and the steady steep decline of the Industry as a whole. I needed an exit plan, before I went broke! Within 30 days I found a buyer up in Northern Ontario. Cleaned out my bunk, gave her one last wash, and Made the deal. Handed in my keys. Walked away with a little somethin’ somethin’ Just blessed the bank didn’t get to her first… So……. 19years later 39 years old, starting a new career, maybe go back to school… who knows. But I do know one thing… I’ve never slept better since leaving the industry last Wednesday! Excited for a new beginning. “Change Is Good For The Soul” Cheers Ronen for telling it like it is all these years.
Your; knowledge of the industry would be invaluable. Should you somehow mentor someone or find a way to monetize your knowledge. base! Yet; takeaway I took from your situation “EXIT PLAN”! Tip my hat to U sir!
@@johncalvo1743 i have never personally driven one so i cant say. i think they are a little thirsty. i know they pull like an animal. hauling milk is impossible to compare to other forms of trucking anyways. i work for another company that runs cascadias with DD15 505 hp and pulling the hills with loads, doing farm pickup...... i cant even get 5 MPG. truck has a crappy automatic, not really the best truck for the job. my job offers more hours, closer to home and overtime at 40. the other company that runs the western stars pays overtime at 50 hours. so i make the sacrifice of running a truck i really dont like but get more money. my last job i was driving a T880 with an 18 manual and an X15 565. i absolutely loved the truck, but it was load pay and im DONE WITH THAT. hourly and overtime at 40, im done playing games. money talks and BS walks. i am not really overly impressed with the cascadia, it's kinda gutless and gets poor mileage. i do not pay for the fuel so i honestly dont care what it gets for mileage. maybe i would like the cascadia more if it had the DD16 600 and an 18 manual, but it doesnt. the automatic is pretty lousy at milk hauling, honestly.
I’m not foreign, but I’m an indentured servant to the state of Ohio. I went through them to get my cdl at my local college. However, now I have to stay employed with any Ohio based company and using it. If I quit I owe the state $7K.
Yup. Here's how it works. A carrier puts up a $45K bond for the first work visa and $3K for subsequent work visas infinitum. Of course, the foreigner is indentured for these expenses and all other incurred expenses. The carriers throw 2 guys with poor to no training in a truck and call it a team. It's usually their own people who exploit them because many don't speak English. Many come with 3rd world habits. It's terrifying out here anymore. I never thought I would be a minority, and I am not talking about race, just minority American in my own country. I run Cali to TX.
If you don’t accept a $2.05 rate, it’s no longer a rate. If you close the door on immigrant drivers and revert the industry back to American operated industry. It will become a livable wage industry.
I feel like it's really harsh to close doors on immigrant drivers. In the first place, America is a country built from the efforts of immigrants. There has to be a better way to make this industry livable that hasn't been explored yet
You Said it in the end “It’s a Low Skill Trade”, soon they will be running dedicated routes with Autonomous trucks. High Skilled jobs like Techs are seeing increased in rates and demand. Let’s face it Sit behind the wheel and driving used to be a skill in old days, but new trucks can be driven on a dime by 90lbs girls now.
They will always keep a human in the cab. Someone has to take the blame when it wrecks and it won't be some office person going to prison. Besides, who will put the triangles out when a June bug takes a camera out
The trucking industry has always been the figurative Canary in the coal mine when it comes to the general economy and especially one that is consumer and financial services-based like America's. Trucking is the Bellwether. If Trucking is suffering you can guarantee that the rest of the economy is going to follow suit.
Everybody went up in price except the drivers. The trucking industry is bleeding the most important part of the industry dry until there’s nothing left for anyone.
I'm just tired of free labor at most trucking jobs. If I'm not moving I'm not getting paid. Messing with docks, drop n hook, fueling and pulling nails out of trailers in 100 degree weather doesn't make you money. Atleast at my company we mostly do John Deere stuff and I get 25$ stop pay to deliver 5 tractors over two days. The dealership's usually have me unloaded in less than 15 minutes. That's worth it in my opinion.
Since everyone wanna be a truck driver, I think this is the right time to do something else. Trucking as we knew it before is over. The problem is there are way many truck drivers not trucks and not companies. Thank you for all your videos Ronen!
Bringing in foreign workers has killed supply/ demand ratio for trucker pay. When you see hadji behind the wheel, that is a huge reason rates & pay are so low.
If you're East Indian in Canada and have 2 months of driving experience. You will make it as a truck driver government giving them free money, they talk their own language and the DOT leave them be. They run trucks that go to auction for a reason, quick patch job of duct tape, chicken wire, bubble gum. The truck is allowed back on the road. 9 of them will occupy the same truck they cut a hole in the floor. Use a bucket to take a crap through the floor of the truck. In Alberta the East Indians run the freight companies Syndicate is a big freight company they own. You walk in you can smell the curry. East Indians around Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray own the dump truck companies, and intown freight companies. They are even starting to branch into the oil patch to. I thought about going Owner Operator a few times. But it's hard to get a gig that pays well or lease out to a company that will pay well. I'll just stick to trucking in the oil patch for now in Alberta.
The sad truth is that truck driving ultimately is a low skill industry that almost anyone can do. The fact that so many trucks are now automatics says a lot about the talent level of drivers in the industry. The super high immigration that western countries are allowing into their countries includes mostly low skill, not well educated individuals and a school system that turns out high school graduates who have minimal reading and math skills. These are all people who need to work somewhere. A well experienced driver with good skills is usually paid the same as any other driver in the fleet. A 100 dollar safety bonus does bring the talent level up.
I'd disagree with the assessment of it being a low-skilled industry. That's demonstrated by the overwhelming demand for drivers with experience. If the skill required was simple, any new driver could easily get a job as a driver
I've been an owner operator. And freight rates are worse than in the 1970 $ . I made a lot more money decades ago. These freight rates suck. Need to be around $ 5:oo a mile at least for a van or a refrigerated trailer load.
In Canada East Indians took over trucking and brought wages down. My dad left truck driving after 40 years when he was getting forced to take covid shot
Oh please. That was his choice. A piece of wood has 11:32 better decision making skills. The horror of it all. I'm not going to partner up with another dtiver without them having latest COVID shots, flu shots etc.
@@timothyfoley3000you’re wrong. He did not have a choice. The choice was get the untested vaccine or lose your job. That is not a choice. The plandemic was an absolute joke. And people like you that feel for the narrative are the reason it went on for so long. Do your research.
I left the industry after 5 years. It wasn’t the pay. It was the lifestyle for me. I felt like life was passing me by. Also the loneliness on the road got to me. Always being around strangers. You couldn’t pay me $200K a year to be a trucker. Now I barely drive. lol I’m in my best shape ever & always home with family. I don’t miss it. I’m actually angry at myself for becoming a trucker in the first place. Now I have to start all over again in a different career. I’m a cop now. 🙄🤦♂️
I'm in CDL school right now as I recieved a scholarship from the state. I'm already wondering if this is the right move since I was looking to only do it for 5-6 years as a means to maybe afford a home one day, but I started considering basically what you just described. I don't know if I want to start a new career in my mid 30's.
@@HannibalOrMaybeJustRex For what? Your truck is your home. Your actual house it’s more like a vacation home & where you receive physical mail. Also if you buy a house. You’ll be force to be on the road trucking to continue paying for it. So you’ll never be home!!! You won’t be able to leave the industry. Only get into trucking if you want to get paid to see the country & work alone. But long term. You’re wasting your life away. Good luck.
@@GuestUA-camUser Well I suppose I meant to get a good downpayment for a home, at which point that's when I'd also find something else. But, as I'm typing this I'm realizing how ridiculous that is. Just a young, single guy trying find his footing. Maybe I'll look into an electrician apprenticeship or something. I appreciate the insight as it is helpful.
@@v1kaash619I met a lot of drivers from India getting abused by their own countrymen. For instance I'd pull a guy out of the ditch and he'd tell me the bill will be deducted from his pay which is illegal. I felt like I was taking food from his mouth, but it wasn't my name on the side of the tow truck and I don't set the rates.
Great vid Ronen, you definitely nailed a bunch of stuff on the head. 22 years in this business and only a year and a half as an o/o and I have never seen this industry in such shambles as it is now. I live and breathe this industry, but sad to see it state now.
I've been trucking for 11 yrs my Ðad was a driver also. I appreciate your videos and honesty. I want to buy my own truck but right now doesn't seem to the right time. Thanks for your videos!
I advise all small fleet owners to invest in diesel software and maintenance your own equipment because the shops are robbing drivers especially when you don’t have a scanner tool to atleast know your own equipment
I can tell you how they doing it they hire drivers from Mexico making $.34 per mile with the excuse that we have a driver shortage I spoke to a driver and he told me he supposed to pick up a load in Mexico delivering the US pick up in the US deliver in Mexico, but a lot of times they pick up a load the US and deliver in the US and that’s illegal but they are doing it for $.34 a mile that’s how they can make payments to brand new trucks
the last time I drove a truck was in 2016, I had my own truck and leased it to a bigger company and the loads I got paid $1.25 a mile, and in six months I had to let the truck go back and file bankruptcy, E logs doesn't help, and I told my wife van drivers should get $2.50 minimum, $2.75 for refer, and a minimum of $3.25 a mile for flatbed, flat bed is a lot mor work than the others, so they should make the higher money, and I done all of them
How do I make it? I'm a cockroach trucker. I've been with the same insurance guy for 17 years (no claims, no tickets) I pay the same now as I did 17 years ago, I drive a 1989 cabover at 56 mph, I have a propane APU, I never haul over 20k lbs (my tires age out before they wear out). I haven't even put a brake shoe on in 10 years, or a clutch in 1.6 million miles. I don't go more than 500 miles from home (Florida). I average (after all expenses) $1.23 per mile-all miles including DH and my DH is 50% of my miles. My MPG is 10.8. I average 350 miles per day when I'm on the road, I stay home a lot 2 weeks out 1 week at home. Even I am having a hard time, I can't imagine a guy with a truck/trailer payment, I don't even have a mortgage, I own my home and property.
Chiming in with a positive perspective: started in 2007-2010 doing OTR, left for 10 years to chase a different dream, and got back into it during Covid 2020 when I was laid off indefinitely from my job, didn't trust CERB, and the industry was desperate for drivers. I finally managed to get my foot in the door of the construction sector, and got valuable industry exposure to very diverse equipment; even lead to time on cranes and heavy equipment after proving myself. I make $36/hr (company driver, private fleet, non-union), am home every night, work Monday to Friday, and love trucking more than I ever have!
One of the problems is that carriers that want to play above board and have integrity get beat out of the industry by carriers that under pay drivers and don't spend the money to keep their equipment up. Pay less wages and don't repair the trucks and they last longer than quality operations.
When people accept cheap freight, usually foreign companies hiring illegals and work visa drivers that don't have an american CDL, that hurts us all. And hearing about rapid growth, that's one reason my company I was always bragging about went under, instead of 25 good drivers in 25 semis, he buys 25 more power units... and hires bad drivers. How do you screw up a truck with less than 50k Miles? My semi survived a rollover and it didn't have those issues these drivers were reporting.
Truckers deserve much respect and appreciation (no I'm not in that business). They should be well paid and their rights protected. Who's going to bring our groceries and products to the store if we don't have truckers?
The trucking industry has been sick for the last 30 yrs... No one is proud of pride having clean nice rigs, stop on the shoulder to give help, exchange info on CB radio. Truck stops are dumped in the open sky . Rate never changed but everything went up. The worst of all is the lack of confidence in customers. Shippers are bitches for the cheapest,, not the best.
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News more than one action is needed to solve this. Automatic transmission brought a lot of steering holder. No one cares about their fellow drivers anymore. I think the good old days of trucking are gone. Customers are looking for the cheapest and not the best. The cheapest fleet will remain but 0/0 will instincts. You get what you ask for after all. A lot needs to change to bring the good driver back behind the wheel.
k , ..and so what ...? The problem is not the shop rates the problem is YOU .....by voting for a so called FREE market ....Back to The Seventies ..REGULATION ...and the Hell with brokers
@@jamesweddington4557they are fking thiefs 200h for a mechanic is a fking joke.. they are not doctors for god shakes .. what kind of fuckery is that? Piss me off they other day i got my break jake changed and it took the mechanic 1 and a half hour he ask me 200 bucks and told me yoi see how much i worked? 😮😮😮i was gonna say dude you didn't do shit you just changed 1 thing in the steering wheel .. they think we are stupid
I am driving for .50 CPM no overnight, breakdown, no drop hook no, dock pay. Only pay is if I am moving. I get 2500 to 3000 miles per week. No accidents 100% on time and quarterly avrage is 9.11 mpg
Rates absolutely stink. The only ones making any money are the ones that never see or touch a truck. Our wonderful government keeps making more and more regulations and everyone is taking from your pocket. And as long as they continue to let totally unqualified people drive it’s never going to be a good business to be involved in
Deregulation is the problem. Trucking was always a tough go been in the industry for over 40 years. Deregulation was the worst thing for the industry any one can by a truck now with no understanding of the industry charge less than the going rate and steel the freight from you by charging less The people that are trying to run a good honest business can’t get a decent rate for decent service. The guy that stole your business goes broke, but the rates don’t go up because there’s somebody else ready to come in and do the same thing.
You know nothing about trucking with that comment. Trucking is not regulated enough? With all the DOT regulations? Are you kidding me? Trucking is the most regulated industry in America. Brokers on the other hand and shippers and receivers are completely unregulated.
@@SMD-i3v let me educate you I have been at this for 50 years this October so yes I am old. In the early 80 we hade deregulation. Before that you hade to have operating athoraty you could not be a trucking company with out it. We spent a lot of money getting athoraty and you only ran were you athoraty let you. Then when that want away any buddy with a down payment could buy a truck and is now a trucking company. We were getting better rates in 1985 in some traffic lanes than you can get today. It called more better faster for less. I sold my last truck in 2005 don’t tell me what I don’t know.
@@chriswoodward5368 you still need a mc authority to operate and the insurance, ifta, and other government fees that come with maintaining it costs a fortune. The only other way is to be an owner op under someone else’s authority. So what do you mean?
@@SMD-i3v you are clearly to young to understand. IFTA is just tax reporting you always need insurance dot number. In the the old days you needed athoraty to pick in Maine and deliver in Texas if your athoraty was for Kentucky only you could only go to Kentucky. If you didn’t have athoraty you went no where and hauld nothing. You need to understand wear this industry came from to know we’re it is going. It you are from a time before bingo cards. That is before 1980
I have a Western star with a cat in it, and people say, man if you just gotta economy truck. Then you talk to in the next week. They say, oh, I'm gonna repair shop. Computer shuts down. I'd derrating but me and my cat. The me and my Caterpillar keep on Trucking
It's all about maintenance. I've got a 2017 International Prostar Cummins ISX 15 10 speed 725,000 miles. Never had issues. However oil gets changed every 10,000 miles. All fluids changed once a year. Def fluid filter is replaced twice a year. It's all maintenance.
As an Experienced driver and instructor I agree with you 💯!!! But the solution is super easy! We all need yo unite and protest till changes will take in place for us since we have the power. Look what the pilots in air canada did and they got %30 increase in pay
I used to work in an office, only started trucking when I was 50. You say you wish you had picked a different career but I found working in a corporate office to be hellish. I'm just a company driver but at top of the pay range and do okay. It beats being a cubicle jockey going to diversity training meetings and other corporate BS, for me anyway.
i haul milk locally. we have HOS exemption and NO ELD since i run locally and stay within the 150 mile radius of my starting point..... still it's not unheard of for me to run 300+ miles in a day. i do farm pickup, so allot of the time is spent loading trailers and pumping milk on. a job that requires an ELD, for me is a NO GO. i dont need the gov telling me when i can, and cannot work.
I started trucking 15 years ago and yes I started at Werner were a vet driver told me they make 20-30 dollers per load at Werner. I noticed they were delivering volume to stay in business.
I’m a Kiwi and drove 22wheelers in Australia for a few years for company called TNT, and enjoyed it, log books, what are they , I was only 21yo with rocks in my head , and it was great back in 1982 ,now I’m 64yo , but it seems like a dark cloud is over the whole industry, the atmosphere has lost its Mojo, too many laws, regulations , insurance, over the top health and safety, price slashing and fuel cost, your right in what you say , an old driver told me, “anyone can drive a truck, but can they handle a truck”, cheers……NZ.
I'm in the same boat. I own a small 4-truck fleet. As much as I LOVE trucking, I also HATE trucking (especially the rip-off artist mechanics). Where I live, there's $230/hour shop rates at the dealers and they still often upcharge and over bill hours. It's insane. FMCSA should step in and begin regulating shop rates and shipping rates because trucking is the prime example of what happens when oversight doesn't exist. I'm typically for less government intervention, but trucking has been sliding down hill ever since deregulation. It's time to bring back regulated shipping rates
when I thought about becoming a truck driver it was 23 ents a mile. at 2500 miles a week that was 750 a week. after taxes bring home maybe 550 I said no way I will bust my rear for that. and stayed where I was. still would not do it today.
Add to it as a driver, you’re almost always treated like crap. Be it by dispatchers, brokers, shippers/receivers, truck stops, other drivers and every day folk. Unless someone personally knows a driver, was one or grew up with one in the family, were kinda viewed as uneducated, fat and lazy. When it should be underpaid, overworked, and constantly stressed by outside sources. Yet we don’t fit into society the same as others. We might have got into driving for the money, but despite all the drama we stay because in some way we love what we do. It’s hard to get the freedom of being alone in a truck anywhere else. And it’s hard to be at home after being in one so long
True I know someone that went to credit card debt cause low rates were killing him slowly, and he said I wouldn’t recommend for new cdl become owner operators
Other industries are having the same problem when it comes to electrician and plumbers because the housing market is in a downturn and they can’t find work. It’s really bad and it’s just.
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News True. I'm a carpenter contractor and this August was the worst ever. I worked at dozens of high-end homes before like employee and later as a sub. I have photos at architectural digest and again this year is bad. It is bad since 2022.
The drivers of carriers/fleets from: Russia, China, Mexico mostly, are grabbing up loads that English speaking drivers won't. I'm in trick repair industry. Get sick of calling translator service.They drive from 11pm to 7am on routes in the middle of nowhere. Second frustration; they expect repair places to be open 24/7 and 75% of them are not open. Nor are parts dealers either. Third frustration; their dispatchers or drivers call and CAN SPEAK English to cry and cuss us out. WTF??? Only reason I tolerate it is because I'm too old and disabled or I'd get out it. Employees don't last long its that much out of control with those NON ENGLIS Speaking drivers destroy tractors and trailers so frequently and companies bare the financial burdens.
Everything is up except for the cost of shipping the middle man needs to go already brokers are dinosaurs. I've seen a Kenworth shop rate at 220 a hour.
You think real estate business isn’t garbage, think again, do you know how many estate agents there, and what is the demand for them? Think again. Not true about 3 in trucking and you fail. I had my MC for 1 year and I’m going just fine. Cut your expenses, hire right drivers, watch your business hourly, stay on top of everything. Tell me what’s easy now in this country. Nothing.
Exactly. I own 2 trucks and 2 reefer trailers. Both myself and my driver came from Sysco foods. I'm on top of my business like a hawk. We haul ice cream out of SoCal ( good pay) and end up with garbage coming back from the east coast. Gotta hang in there.
one big problem is during the covid boom insurance companies, mechanics, dealerships they all saw the rate increase so they followed suit by increasing there prices. But now that rates are down again they refuse to adjust its insasne that a regular body shop is charging 130-160 and hour just for regular work.
everything that involves transient lifestyle sucks. aviation is very close to that... imagine being on standby in a shitty hotel in thailand for 4 days unable to do anything because you have to be at the gate in 30 minutes if needed, around the clock. and nothing happens. and then you get sent to another airport. its not trucking itself, its the lifestyle of the job. people underappreciate the quality of a fixed clock sleep in your own house daily life.. trucking deals with questionable people too more than other industries simply because its mostly 0 care low pay 0 education industry. you have drivers with ged (or not), security sitting in a booth dribbling spit, some angry strung out methhead loader pissed at you for not wanting to wait 8 hours past your appointment to be loaded up, downright infuriating truck stop staff etc etc. it all combines into one huge pile of shit and you have to shovel it. hey that sounds very much like life itself. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I got my real estate license and tried it in my 20's (20 years ago). It's glorified used car sales. Its one of the few licenses/careers you can get being an ex convict. Honest genuine people do not survive...because for some reason they are the ones clients don't trust. I work blue collar now and much happier.
God job again. Criminals don't like to hear the truth...the truth makes them squirm. It has to be done though. Greed is one of the worst crimes...we're all feeling the effects of it more and more. They need to be stopped.
The industry needs more trucking companies to fail. When the riff raff is removed. We'll see a boon again. The truth hurts. Good riddance to the over saturation.
I wouldn't want to wish for the downfall of other companies for the upliftment of our own. Maybe there just needs to be a minimum rate per mile set across the board and have all these brokers, manufacturers, etc, adhere to that or face legal ramifications. Then drivers, whether company or otherwise, can stop making cents per mile and all be given hourly wages
The big problem was the US president. He destroyed the whole country. I hope next year will start slowly to be better not only in the trucking but in all businesses.
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-NewsIs not only he, its the U.S. Government. They destroy every asset of human civilization by putting all these legislation rules and regulations without representation. Bringing foreigners that don't even speak English to this society. And its not gonna get better anytime soon.
My sister been driving for years she is smart 3 homes and now she is worried...not about the rental homes but about what's next ..and for me I say bring it on ..we still have our 2nd ammendment
Thank you Ronan for the great video. 100% spot on 👏👏👏. We are in this together. I am not sure if you have a video about the Mexican driver destroying the rate on south and MidWest .
SBA loans are getting ppl bankrupt. High rates, can't get rid of it easy, market pressure, crazy stuff... they would end up on the streets. Don't take SBA.
I started at age 24 trucking as an owner operator , never went over the road just doing regional, i have managed to live a good life while saving some money. 2.05 a mile is not enough for a company trying to make a quick buck. For an owner operator like me that is not scared to get his hands dirty 2.05 is plenty. I am Just riding the wave now until steering wheel holders lose their trucks.
Landstar and Bennett double brokering. I’m leased to Bennett and we are fighting them internally. That’s just 2. Imagine every carrier doing it. Keeps rates to the truck down also. They are bidding against each other internally also
I’m from US, got almost 20 years experience OTR, hauled mostly reefers, have worked everywhere including Alaska and Western Canada. I also hauled gas for a couple years. I’ve seen ups and downs but it had never been this bad. I used to be proud of my job, not anymore, cause it has changed from decent to a slavery. They want us to work just for food. I make less money now than I was making on my 2nd year of driving. And I was working 3 weeks a month then, now I have to work the whole month (and still make less) So I have decided to stop this madness and quit a month ago. Hopefully will never go back.
You should be a wealthy person. Hopefully, you can afford to bail.
Lol. You feel like 80% of all workers in USA. 😂 Welcome to the club.
I'm a truck op, i own my truck and trailer out Wright but I'm barley braking even every month bcs rates are so cheap and some one is hauling so cheap, i use to take load from taxes to chicago for 3000$ now it's half and they taking it, i been at truck stop in st lewis for a week and can't find any load worth a dam, business won't be coming back bcs the economy is going down hell and it won't get any better, unless you are in the defense industry you won't make it
Did the same
I had a run from Chicago to Dallas for 1900 and from Chicago to San Antonio for 2500. Where do you get your loads? I think it's about who you know. I think all the foreigners working together
Trucking is a joke. Rate was $2 in 2005 and rate is $2 in 2024.
And our expenses have only climbed since then too!
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@@johnnydhillon5212 actually $1.80 in most states today
i’ve heard two different stories some say it’s the best decision they’ve made and some say it’s not
It was 23 cents a mile in 1995 as a company drive out of truck driving school.
Funny how everyone complains about the freight rates but is so happy to jump on $1.25 a mile spot rate. I refuse to accept any load paying less than $2 a mile. When the rest of you do the same and shippers cannot move their product, guess what, we will all be getting $2 a mile. Also, we need Congress to pass a “minimum wage” for trucking, including a minimum mileage rate for the spot market and a minimum CPM for drivers. Until companies and O/O stand together and refuse to move freight leaving shippers screwed, nothing will change. Blame yourselves.
Better do your cost analysis. $2 is cheap. $2.50 plus more like it.
@@DavidTrucker-lo4bs$2.50 is super cheap also.
Heavy on the minimum wage and minimum mileage rates!
The Biden administration made a proposal/plan to make Detention time FEDERAL REGULATED ......The love Jesus and against abortion freaks voted against it .
$2 per mile is a joke, that’s barely a profit. Uber charges between $1 and $2 per mile, with time calculated as well and you don’t need a CDL, IFTA, HHT, inspections, $800 blowout repairs, drive across the country, etc. the people who take these cheap rates are making it bad for us because they’ll keep posting these cheap rates until they stop taking them
Cheap drivers, like Indian, South American, killed the industry.
@faithfamilyfreedom5750 Don't blame them, blame the companies and the government.
@@AtillaGenghisHuyter blame them and the companies that hire them, they both know what they are doing SCREWing AMERiCANS
You fell for the bait. Those little guys have no power in this. But the real criminals have distracted you with racism
True
Every generation has blamed immigrants while companies explode in profits. It’s the companies and the government’s fault for letting this happen.
Automatics, immigrant drivers, low rates and high insurance
The second two!
Wrong…tell the truth.
you must have been to Harvard .....Geeze ... the stupidity ......
What's wrong with automatics?
Facts. IDK about the automatic
Every company I have worked.for crys they cannot find drivers. After 1 year of working for them they are stealing your bonus money, jacking around your home time,messing with your pay,demanding you break laws and safe procedures when they want. And boom they lose a driver who had perfect attendance, great csa score,and excellent delivery record!!!
It really makes you wonder
there is no driver shortage ...for you a dozen others
Yep , not to mention the ASSHOLE shippers and receivers.
@@mitch8575 Get a union gig and go local.
I believe that the trucking market is over saturated.. During the pandemic, many truckers started making video's of how much they were making, and too many people became truckers. I believe most of the government regulations are to put the owner operators out of business and run mostly mega carriers too.
How’s that Hope and Change Part 2 working for ya?
@jbenz1990 Unless you have the contracts as a owner Operator with the shipper, it's been working out for me as a company driver. I get 2400 to 2800 miles a week and I get paid loaded and unloaded miles. I personally don't have any complaints about the industry. Only the strong will survive 💪🏿
In 2008 a brand new Pete sleeper was $64,000. Same truck today ,2024 is $150,000
Inflation!
How’s that Hope and Change Part 2 workin for ya?
@@jbenz1990 I'm a Republican, so I guess it's working the same for you as it is for me .
@@abc123lov7 Vote Red
Try almost $200,000 for a new Ken worth t680 now... brand new Pete, kenworth, western star w900 $250,000 to $300,000 now. Ridiculous.
I appreciate your honesty. I am a Trailer dealer, worst business I've seen in 40 years.
We try to always be honest
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News Really ...and so were actually you are from ...?
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Liers liers from recruiters to dispatchers to brokers that's what's wring with trucking. I was a lawyer for 18 years, retired, and got in trucking. I never encountered so many liers until i got into trucking
And lawyers aren't liars? Lol. But I know what you mean.
Cops lie just as bad as lawyers.
So for 18 years while being a lawyer you didn't lie? Lol. Sure.
called the < North > American dream .
Brokers dont have any new lies left they lie so much you can see their lies a mile away.. i dont understand how anybody wants to do a job like that its always lying and bitching
19 years experience (13 of them Owner Operating) in Heavy Haul, Demolition, End Dump.
Trucking was just a motoring at the time and I felt confident enough to buy a brand new ‘21 Western Star 4900SF Heavy Spec (pre inflated pricing, pre high interest rates) I figured go big or go home, satisfaction guaranteed!
And it was, 600HP of pure nostalgic joy! Gorgeous ride!
Things were going great.
I started to notice it right around the last US Thanksgiving, just tough getting full weeks. And that ripple effect carried on, and is STILL carrying on for I’m hearing the next YEAR at least..!
Nope, 19 years, I’ve been seeing the writing on the walls, and the steady steep decline of the Industry as a whole.
I needed an exit plan, before I went broke!
Within 30 days I found a buyer up in Northern Ontario. Cleaned out my bunk, gave her one last wash, and Made the deal. Handed in my keys.
Walked away with a little somethin’ somethin’
Just blessed the bank didn’t get to her first…
So……. 19years later 39 years old, starting a new career, maybe go back to school… who knows. But I do know one thing… I’ve never slept better since leaving the industry last Wednesday!
Excited for a new beginning.
“Change Is Good For The Soul”
Cheers Ronen for telling it like it is all these years.
Good luck to you. What mpg were you getting from that beast? How did you spec her?
Your; knowledge of the industry would be invaluable.
Should you somehow mentor someone or find a way to monetize your knowledge.
base!
Yet; takeaway I took from your situation “EXIT PLAN”!
Tip my hat to U sir!
i haul milk locally for a living, one of the haulers runs that exact truck and they sure are nice. 600 HP DD16 18 speed manual.
@@andrewdonohue1853 What kind of mileage do they get?
@@johncalvo1743 i have never personally driven one so i cant say. i think they are a little thirsty. i know they pull like an animal. hauling milk is impossible to compare to other forms of trucking anyways. i work for another company that runs cascadias with DD15 505 hp and pulling the hills with loads, doing farm pickup...... i cant even get 5 MPG. truck has a crappy automatic, not really the best truck for the job. my job offers more hours, closer to home and overtime at 40. the other company that runs the western stars pays overtime at 50 hours.
so i make the sacrifice of running a truck i really dont like but get more money. my last job i was driving a T880 with an 18 manual and an X15 565. i absolutely loved the truck, but it was load pay and im DONE WITH THAT.
hourly and overtime at 40, im done playing games. money talks and BS walks. i am not really overly impressed with the cascadia, it's kinda gutless and gets poor mileage. i do not pay for the fuel so i honestly dont care what it gets for mileage. maybe i would like the cascadia more if it had the DD16 600 and an 18 manual, but it doesnt. the automatic is pretty lousy at milk hauling, honestly.
How many foreign drivers are being brought into the US to be indentured servants on wheels? Don't you think that's making a huge difference?
Of course especially when they drive illegally on two clocks.
Thanks,tell ‘em
I’m not foreign, but I’m an indentured servant to the state of Ohio. I went through them to get my cdl at my local college. However, now I have to stay employed with any Ohio based company and using it. If I quit I owe the state $7K.
Yup. Here's how it works. A carrier puts up a $45K bond for the first work visa and $3K for subsequent work visas infinitum. Of course, the foreigner is indentured for these expenses and all other incurred expenses. The carriers throw 2 guys with poor to no training in a truck and call it a team. It's usually their own people who exploit them because many don't speak English. Many come with 3rd world habits. It's terrifying out here anymore. I never thought I would be a minority, and I am not talking about race, just minority American in my own country. I run Cali to TX.
Yep and you most likely voted in favor of that
If you don’t accept a $2.05 rate, it’s no longer a rate. If you close the door on immigrant drivers and revert the industry back to American operated industry. It will become a livable wage industry.
I feel like it's really harsh to close doors on immigrant drivers. In the first place, America is a country built from the efforts of immigrants. There has to be a better way to make this industry livable that hasn't been explored yet
Americans are the ones who own these conaonies & being greedy running everyone into fhe ground for an extra nickel.
I did it for 50 years. It sux now more than ever before.
Sorry to hear that
You Said it in the end “It’s a Low Skill Trade”, soon they will be running dedicated routes with Autonomous trucks.
High Skilled jobs like Techs are seeing increased in rates and demand.
Let’s face it Sit behind the wheel and driving used to be a skill in old days, but new trucks can be driven on a dime by 90lbs girls now.
They will always keep a human in the cab. Someone has to take the blame when it wrecks and it won't be some office person going to prison. Besides, who will put the triangles out when a June bug takes a camera out
That may be the case for all the door swingers. There's other skills required in other areas of trucking.
@@juliogonzo2718 We can only hope they mandate safety drivers.
The trucking industry has always been the figurative Canary in the coal mine when it comes to the general economy and especially one that is consumer and financial services-based like America's.
Trucking is the Bellwether. If Trucking is suffering you can guarantee that the rest of the economy is going to follow suit.
Everybody went up in price except the drivers. The trucking industry is bleeding the most important part of the industry dry until there’s nothing left for anyone.
I'm just tired of free labor at most trucking jobs. If I'm not moving I'm not getting paid. Messing with docks, drop n hook, fueling and pulling nails out of trailers in 100 degree weather doesn't make you money.
Atleast at my company we mostly do John Deere stuff and I get 25$ stop pay to deliver 5 tractors over two days. The dealership's usually have me unloaded in less than 15 minutes. That's worth it in my opinion.
Since everyone wanna be a truck driver, I think this is the right time to do something else. Trucking as we knew it before is over.
The problem is there are way many truck drivers not trucks and not companies.
Thank you for all your videos Ronen!
If everyone was to stop 4-3 weeks, you'll see how fast the rate will go up
Something like UPS was about to do.
Bringing in foreign workers has killed supply/ demand ratio for trucker pay.
When you see hadji behind the wheel, that is a huge reason rates & pay are so low.
@@1Surt Racist much? You probably talk shit about Sikhs being muslim...
@b20linken Get a local union gig and you'll make way than you ever did otr.
And all the while the MEGA CARRIERS scream-"There is a severe driver shortage".???😮😅😮
Cause they are cheapies and are looking for slaves who would work just for food.
Yeah, they say that so people will get their CDL and then they have cheap labor.
@@chadchadchadchadchad They get their license, so to be an immigrant of this country, faster..
If you're East Indian in Canada and have 2 months of driving experience. You will make it as a truck driver government giving them free money, they talk their own language and the DOT leave them be. They run trucks that go to auction for a reason, quick patch job of duct tape, chicken wire, bubble gum. The truck is allowed back on the road. 9 of them will occupy the same truck they cut a hole in the floor. Use a bucket to take a crap through the floor of the truck. In Alberta the East Indians run the freight companies Syndicate is a big freight company they own. You walk in you can smell the curry. East Indians around Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray own the dump truck companies, and intown freight companies. They are even starting to branch into the oil patch to. I thought about going Owner Operator a few times. But it's hard to get a gig that pays well or lease out to a company that will pay well. I'll just stick to trucking in the oil patch for now in Alberta.
And now the East Indians want to make Kamala president in the United States. Kamala's Mom is from India.
So you telling me that's not yellow rain on my windshield???????
Chicken Biryami ...😁
That is cobra invasion ..😂😂😂😂
What u plan to do about those East Indians???
The sad truth is that truck driving ultimately is a low skill industry that almost anyone can do. The fact that so many trucks are now automatics says a lot about the talent level of drivers in the industry. The super high immigration that western countries are allowing into their countries includes mostly low skill, not well educated individuals and a school system that turns out high school graduates who have minimal reading and math skills. These are all people who need to work somewhere. A well experienced driver with good skills is usually paid the same as any other driver in the fleet. A 100 dollar safety bonus does bring the talent level up.
I'd disagree with the assessment of it being a low-skilled industry. That's demonstrated by the overwhelming demand for drivers with experience. If the skill required was simple, any new driver could easily get a job as a driver
I've been an owner operator. And freight rates are worse than in the 1970 $ . I made a lot more money decades ago. These freight rates suck. Need to be around $ 5:oo a mile at least for a van or a refrigerated trailer load.
yes and the Reason....? . It's called GOVERNMENT ...REGULATION ...
@@papasmurf1904 Most likely you voted against your own Interest ...republican
5.00 a mile is unheard of. I think 2.50 I very good
@@michiganstadwym? It's the Republican fault
5.00 a mile let’s say you drive 3000 miles a week, 😂that’s $15,000 a week. I don’t mind that that’s $60,000 a month 😀😀😀.
In Canada East Indians took over trucking and brought wages down. My dad left truck driving after 40 years when he was getting forced to take covid shot
Oh please. That was his choice. A piece of wood has 11:32 better decision making skills. The horror of it all. I'm not going to partner up with another dtiver without them having latest COVID shots, flu shots etc.
@@timothyfoley3000you’re wrong. He did not have a choice. The choice was get the untested vaccine or lose your job. That is not a choice. The plandemic was an absolute joke. And people like you that feel for the narrative are the reason it went on for so long. Do your research.
Can’t put the truck in the shop because I have to keep running to keep up smh
I left the industry after 5 years. It wasn’t the pay. It was the lifestyle for me. I felt like life was passing me by. Also the loneliness on the road got to me. Always being around strangers. You couldn’t pay me $200K a year to be a trucker. Now I barely drive. lol I’m in my best shape ever & always home with family. I don’t miss it. I’m actually angry at myself for becoming a trucker in the first place. Now I have to start all over again in a different career. I’m a cop now. 🙄🤦♂️
I'm in CDL school right now as I recieved a scholarship from the state. I'm already wondering if this is the right move since I was looking to only do it for 5-6 years as a means to maybe afford a home one day, but I started considering basically what you just described. I don't know if I want to start a new career in my mid 30's.
@@HannibalOrMaybeJustRex For what? Your truck is your home. Your actual house it’s more like a vacation home & where you receive physical mail. Also if you buy a house. You’ll be force to be on the road trucking to continue paying for it. So you’ll never be home!!! You won’t be able to leave the industry. Only get into trucking if you want to get paid to see the country & work alone. But long term. You’re wasting your life away. Good luck.
@@GuestUA-camUser Well I suppose I meant to get a good downpayment for a home, at which point that's when I'd also find something else. But, as I'm typing this I'm realizing how ridiculous that is. Just a young, single guy trying find his footing. Maybe I'll look into an electrician apprenticeship or something. I appreciate the insight as it is helpful.
As a company truck driver, we are horribly underpaid and overworked. With today’s cost of living the going rates for mileage pay is way underpaid.
We're terribly sorry to hear that
I quit yesterday. I am DONE! This job has become an absolute nightmare.
We're sorry to hear that :(
Spot on when you say the current system is driving the owner ops and small fleets out
Unfortunately
FREE Market ...as those God..mn effen Republicans are saying
The megas use the gov to do it. Its working as intended, and no trump nor republicans care about you..they work for the super wealthy.
To many turban heads and flip flops drives
100 correct I've been driving for 5 months and just looking at the turbine head guys kind of is annoying and they're not really respectful either
Your fault for not unionizing guys
We manage the industry mf
@@haboubia what join a Union controlled by crooks and commies.;AFLO/CIO..!! Really!
@@v1kaash619I met a lot of drivers from India getting abused by their own countrymen. For instance I'd pull a guy out of the ditch and he'd tell me the bill will be deducted from his pay which is illegal. I felt like I was taking food from his mouth, but it wasn't my name on the side of the tow truck and I don't set the rates.
Shop rates 200 an hour but the technician still gets F up the A
Ronen's intervention came at the very end. The situation was out of our hands at that point. We would not have known until it had actually occurred.
I'm not even a trucker, but I watched this entire video for some reason lol. Interesting stuff
Trucking is very interesting!
This industry has become a S show.
We're in deep waters
Last job was btc hauling doubles, pay started at 1600 a week, my last check after 8 weeks was.700 gross for 60 hrs. Crazy
Yikes
Great vid Ronen, you definitely nailed a bunch of stuff on the head. 22 years in this business and only a year and a half as an o/o and I have never seen this industry in such shambles as it is now. I live and breathe this industry, but sad to see it state now.
Thanks for watching!
I've been trucking for 11 yrs my Ðad was a driver also. I appreciate your videos and honesty. I want to buy my own truck but right now doesn't seem to the right time. Thanks for your videos!
Thanks for watching!
Everybody is making money off us,and we aren’t making nothing,it’s insane
Bingo.. we are an ATM for them
The value of a truck mechanic is also down and very unappreciated. Thanks 👍
Truck mechanics are hard to find. Parts changers aren't.
@@Tyroneshoelaces242*parts cannon operators
I advise all small fleet owners to invest in diesel software and maintenance your own equipment because the shops are robbing drivers especially when you don’t have a scanner tool to atleast know your own equipment
No kidding! Labor rates are over $200 an hour!
I can tell you how they doing it they hire drivers from Mexico making $.34 per mile with the excuse that we have a driver shortage I spoke to a driver and he told me he supposed to pick up a load in Mexico delivering the US pick up in the US deliver in Mexico, but a lot of times they pick up a load the US and deliver in the US and that’s illegal but they are doing it for $.34 a mile that’s how they can make payments to brand new trucks
That is happening for years and that’s why major companies are getting transfer Mexican plates to hire Mexican drivers 😂 for example swift
the last time I drove a truck was in 2016, I had my own truck and leased it to a bigger company and the loads I got paid $1.25 a mile, and in six months I had to let the truck go back and file bankruptcy, E logs doesn't help, and I told my wife van drivers should get $2.50 minimum, $2.75 for refer, and a minimum of $3.25 a mile for flatbed, flat bed is a lot mor work than the others, so they should make the higher money, and I done all of them
Woah!
$7 a mile ......SEVEN that is what you need Today to make a healthy income/profit
brokers should be charging a subscription not scooping up the profit margin.
Negotiate better.
@@ericrudni9809no degen, brokers need to be removed from the equation altogether. They take massive cuts for providing nothing.
How do I make it? I'm a cockroach trucker. I've been with the same insurance guy for 17 years (no claims, no tickets) I pay the same now as I did 17 years ago, I drive a 1989 cabover at 56 mph, I have a propane APU, I never haul over 20k lbs (my tires age out before they wear out). I haven't even put a brake shoe on in 10 years, or a clutch in 1.6 million miles. I don't go more than 500 miles from home (Florida). I average (after all expenses) $1.23 per mile-all miles including DH and my DH is 50% of my miles. My MPG is 10.8. I average 350 miles per day when I'm on the road, I stay home a lot 2 weeks out 1 week at home. Even I am having a hard time, I can't imagine a guy with a truck/trailer payment, I don't even have a mortgage, I own my home and property.
10.8 is impressive! We average 8.5, granted we load a lot heavier than 20K
What engine you have for 10 mpg?
What engine you have for 10 mpg?
@@paulm6755he only drives 56mph, so that saves on fuel
@@paulm6755First gen electronic M-11 56mph 1325 rpm all day every day.
Chiming in with a positive perspective: started in 2007-2010 doing OTR, left for 10 years to chase a different dream, and got back into it during Covid 2020 when I was laid off indefinitely from my job, didn't trust CERB, and the industry was desperate for drivers.
I finally managed to get my foot in the door of the construction sector, and got valuable industry exposure to very diverse equipment; even lead to time on cranes and heavy equipment after proving myself. I make $36/hr (company driver, private fleet, non-union), am home every night, work Monday to Friday, and love trucking more than I ever have!
Where does cerb work out of?
CERB was the COVID Emergency Relief Benefit.
No doubt, while this video is meant to address the wrongs, there's a lot of upsides to trucking that we've shared in previous videos
One of the problems is that carriers that want to play above board and have integrity get beat out of the industry by carriers that under pay drivers and don't spend the money to keep their equipment up. Pay less wages and don't repair the trucks and they last longer than quality operations.
Sounds like commie talk to me. Jk. You're right.
I love wandering all over the USA that's why I drive an 18 wheeler.
Wanderers are well suited to this industry
When people accept cheap freight, usually foreign companies hiring illegals and work visa drivers that don't have an american CDL, that hurts us all. And hearing about rapid growth, that's one reason my company I was always bragging about went under, instead of 25 good drivers in 25 semis, he buys 25 more power units... and hires bad drivers. How do you screw up a truck with less than 50k Miles? My semi survived a rollover and it didn't have those issues these drivers were reporting.
Exact same scenario with mine
yep , well that is what you americans want ..so here you are
Truckers deserve much respect and appreciation (no I'm not in that business). They should be well paid and their rights protected. Who's going to bring our groceries and products to the store if we don't have truckers?
The trucking industry has been sick for the last 30 yrs... No one is proud of pride having clean nice rigs, stop on the shoulder to give help, exchange info on CB radio. Truck stops are dumped in the open sky . Rate never changed but everything went up. The worst of all is the lack of confidence in customers. Shippers are bitches for the cheapest,, not the best.
What's the prescription doc?
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News more than one action is needed to solve this. Automatic transmission brought a lot of steering holder. No one cares about their fellow drivers anymore. I think the good old days of trucking are gone. Customers are looking for the cheapest and not the best. The cheapest fleet will remain but 0/0 will instincts. You get what you ask for after all. A lot needs to change to bring the good driver back behind the wheel.
your content is brilliant and of value, in particular to the new entrants..
The Freightliner shop here in the Seattle market. Is charging $220/hr for shop rates.
k , ..and so what ...? The problem is not the shop rates the problem is YOU .....by voting for a so called FREE market ....Back to The Seventies ..REGULATION ...and the Hell with brokers
okay ...and so what ?
@@michiganstad I am a towing and recovery operator. I was just making a observation. So there is no reason to come and attack me.
@@jamesweddington4557they are fking thiefs 200h for a mechanic is a fking joke.. they are not doctors for god shakes .. what kind of fuckery is that? Piss me off they other day i got my break jake changed and it took the mechanic 1 and a half hour he ask me 200 bucks and told me yoi see how much i worked? 😮😮😮i was gonna say dude you didn't do shit you just changed 1 thing in the steering wheel .. they think we are stupid
@@jamesweddington4557he sensitive, don't listen to him. He was yapping this in several threads now.
Thankyou for your always insightful posts...this one you knocked out of the park!
I appreciate that!
Nation wide truck driver shut down is a necessity at this point to improve things for deivers....sadly we can't see eye to eye.
I agree. You first LoL
I am driving for .50 CPM no overnight, breakdown, no drop hook no, dock pay. Only pay is if I am moving. I get 2500 to 3000 miles per week. No accidents 100% on time and quarterly avrage is 9.11 mpg
Lol I just started as owner operator and I'm failing on my 3rd load😂.
Yikes... what's happening out there man?
and what is about LOL ?????
@michiganstad it means he getting it hard in his behind like a man
Always great content Ronen! I look forward to your new videos! 👍👍
Rates absolutely stink. The only ones making any money are the ones that never see or touch a truck. Our wonderful government keeps making more and more regulations and everyone is taking from your pocket. And as long as they continue to let totally unqualified people drive it’s never going to be a good business to be involved in
Deregulation is the problem. Trucking was always a tough go been in the industry for over 40 years. Deregulation was the worst thing for the industry any one can by a truck now with no understanding of the industry charge less than the going rate and steel the freight from you by charging less The people that are trying to run a good honest business can’t get a decent rate for decent service. The guy that stole your business goes broke, but the rates don’t go up because there’s somebody else ready to come in and do the same thing.
You know nothing about trucking with that comment. Trucking is not regulated enough? With all the DOT regulations? Are you kidding me? Trucking is the most regulated industry in America. Brokers on the other hand and shippers and receivers are completely unregulated.
@@SMD-i3v let me educate you I have been at this for 50 years this October so yes I am old. In the early 80 we hade deregulation. Before that you hade to have operating athoraty you could not be a trucking company with out it. We spent a lot of money getting athoraty and you only ran were you athoraty let you.
Then when that want away any buddy with a down payment could buy a truck and is now a trucking company. We were getting better rates in 1985 in some traffic lanes than you can get today.
It called more better faster for less.
I sold my last truck in 2005 don’t tell me what I don’t know.
@@chriswoodward5368 you still need a mc authority to operate and the insurance, ifta, and other government fees that come with maintaining it costs a fortune. The only other way is to be an owner op under someone else’s authority. So what do you mean?
@@SMD-i3v you are clearly to young to understand. IFTA is just tax reporting you always need insurance dot number. In the the old days you needed athoraty to pick in Maine and deliver in Texas if your athoraty was for Kentucky only you could only go to Kentucky. If you didn’t have athoraty you went no where and hauld nothing.
You need to understand wear this industry came from to know we’re it is going.
It you are from a time before bingo cards. That is before 1980
@@SMD-i3v the stupidty ......Geeze ...
I have a Western star with a cat in it, and people say, man if you just gotta economy truck.
Then you talk to in the next week. They say, oh, I'm gonna repair shop. Computer shuts down. I'd derrating but me and my cat. The me and my Caterpillar keep on Trucking
It's all about maintenance. I've got a 2017 International Prostar Cummins ISX 15 10 speed 725,000 miles. Never had issues. However oil gets changed every 10,000 miles. All fluids changed once a year. Def fluid filter is replaced twice a year. It's all maintenance.
@@Stavros1977 yes. BUT..............................................
As an Experienced driver and instructor I agree with you 💯!!!
But the solution is super easy! We all need yo unite and protest till changes will take in place for us since we have the power. Look what the pilots in air canada did and they got %30 increase in pay
I used to work in an office, only started trucking when I was 50. You say you wish you had picked a different career but I found working in a corporate office to be hellish. I'm just a company driver but at top of the pay range and do okay. It beats being a cubicle jockey going to diversity training meetings and other corporate BS, for me anyway.
It's a rewarding industry no doubt, just one with many many challenges
Trucking sucks because there are too many regulations today compared to 20 years ago. ELDs and HOS haven’t really made it safer for everyone.
Trucking sucks because there are two many trucks.. supply and demand is a simplistic concept..
i haul milk locally. we have HOS exemption and NO ELD since i run locally and stay within the 150 mile radius of my starting point..... still it's not unheard of for me to run 300+ miles in a day. i do farm pickup, so allot of the time is spent loading trailers and pumping milk on. a job that requires an ELD, for me is a NO GO. i dont need the gov telling me when i can, and cannot work.
More drivers need to quit, and more companies need to fail for a correction to occur.
I started trucking 15 years ago and yes I started at Werner were a vet driver told me they make 20-30 dollers per load at Werner. I noticed they were delivering volume to stay in business.
More old farts need to retire
Actually I just called a Freightliner this week and labor was $225 an hour
😧 What if it's a simple fix, $225 is so much 😟
I Gave My license back
Sorry to hear that
I’m a Kiwi and drove 22wheelers in Australia for a few years for company called TNT, and enjoyed it, log books, what are they , I was only 21yo with rocks in my head , and it was great back in 1982 ,now I’m 64yo , but it seems like a dark cloud is over the whole industry, the atmosphere has lost its Mojo, too many laws, regulations , insurance, over the top health and safety, price slashing and fuel cost, your right in what you say , an old driver told me, “anyone can drive a truck, but can they handle a truck”, cheers……NZ.
Trucking in the 80s almost sounds like a different world compared to what trucking is like now
I wish that you did talk about the brokers.
That could be a session by itself
I'm in the same boat. I own a small 4-truck fleet. As much as I LOVE trucking, I also HATE trucking (especially the rip-off artist mechanics). Where I live, there's $230/hour shop rates at the dealers and they still often upcharge and over bill hours. It's insane. FMCSA should step in and begin regulating shop rates and shipping rates because trucking is the prime example of what happens when oversight doesn't exist. I'm typically for less government intervention, but trucking has been sliding down hill ever since deregulation. It's time to bring back regulated shipping rates
❤ U RONEN. You're the real deal. I appreciate your intelligence, honesty, and time. Yeah, trucking sucks. But, you are a gem.
Thanks for watching!
I really appreciate your honesty and perspective. I've done company or lease this last 9 yrs. Now even finding a good job is difficult.
Walmart?
when I thought about becoming a truck driver it was 23 ents a mile. at 2500 miles a week that was 750 a week. after taxes bring home maybe 550 I said no way I will bust my rear for that. and stayed where I was. still would not do it today.
That's fair
Add to it as a driver, you’re almost always treated like crap. Be it by dispatchers, brokers, shippers/receivers, truck stops, other drivers and every day folk. Unless someone personally knows a driver, was one or grew up with one in the family, were kinda viewed as uneducated, fat and lazy. When it should be underpaid, overworked, and constantly stressed by outside sources. Yet we don’t fit into society the same as others. We might have got into driving for the money, but despite all the drama we stay because in some way we love what we do. It’s hard to get the freedom of being alone in a truck anywhere else. And it’s hard to be at home after being in one so long
Don’t leave out the damage that sitting does to your health!
True I know someone that went to credit card debt cause low rates were killing him slowly, and he said I wouldn’t recommend for new cdl become owner operators
Other industries are having the same problem when it comes to electrician and plumbers because the housing market is in a downturn and they can’t find work. It’s really bad and it’s just.
That's true!
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News True. I'm a carpenter contractor and this August was the worst ever. I worked at dozens of high-end homes before like employee and later as a sub. I have photos at architectural digest and again this year is bad. It is bad since 2022.
The drivers of carriers/fleets from: Russia, China, Mexico mostly, are grabbing up loads that English speaking drivers won't. I'm in trick repair industry. Get sick of calling translator service.They drive from 11pm to 7am on routes in the middle of nowhere. Second frustration; they expect repair places to be open 24/7 and 75% of them are not open. Nor are parts dealers either. Third frustration; their dispatchers or drivers call and CAN SPEAK English to cry and cuss us out. WTF??? Only reason I tolerate it is because I'm too old and disabled or I'd get out it. Employees don't last long its that much out of control with those NON ENGLIS Speaking drivers destroy tractors and trailers so frequently and companies bare the financial burdens.
Awesome video, I appreciate hearing the truth.
Thanks for watching!
Everything is up except for the cost of shipping the middle man needs to go already brokers are dinosaurs. I've seen a Kenworth shop rate at 220 a hour.
You think real estate business isn’t garbage, think again, do you know how many estate agents there, and what is the demand for them? Think again. Not true about 3 in trucking and you fail. I had my MC for 1 year and I’m going just fine. Cut your expenses, hire right drivers, watch your business hourly, stay on top of everything. Tell me what’s easy now in this country. Nothing.
Exactly. I own 2 trucks and 2 reefer trailers. Both myself and my driver came from Sysco foods. I'm on top of my business like a hawk. We haul ice cream out of SoCal ( good pay) and end up with garbage coming back from the east coast. Gotta hang in there.
#1 reason to people trying to take all your money . Cops , insurance , permits , taxes , shops , tow co
These fees can be killer!
We have so many foreigners in the US they pull our freight for Pennie’s which is s**t
Maybe the US needs to place a minimum freight rate in place to ensure that everyone is hauling for more than pennies
one big problem is during the covid boom insurance companies, mechanics, dealerships they all saw the rate increase so they followed suit by increasing there prices. But now that rates are down again they refuse to adjust its insasne that a regular body shop is charging 130-160 and hour just for regular work.
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ever heard from the FREE market ??? By the way their rates are not the Problem instead the/Your low Freight rates are
everything that involves transient lifestyle sucks. aviation is very close to that... imagine being on standby in a shitty hotel in thailand for 4 days unable to do anything because you have to be at the gate in 30 minutes if needed, around the clock. and nothing happens. and then you get sent to another airport. its not trucking itself, its the lifestyle of the job. people underappreciate the quality of a fixed clock sleep in your own house daily life.. trucking deals with questionable people too more than other industries simply because its mostly 0 care low pay 0 education industry. you have drivers with ged (or not), security sitting in a booth dribbling spit, some angry strung out methhead loader pissed at you for not wanting to wait 8 hours past your appointment to be loaded up, downright infuriating truck stop staff etc etc. it all combines into one huge pile of shit and you have to shovel it. hey that sounds very much like life itself. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I got my real estate license and tried it in my 20's (20 years ago). It's glorified used car sales. Its one of the few licenses/careers you can get being an ex convict. Honest genuine people do not survive...because for some reason they are the ones clients don't trust. I work blue collar now and much happier.
God job again. Criminals don't like to hear the truth...the truth makes them squirm. It has to be done though. Greed is one of the worst crimes...we're all feeling the effects of it more and more. They need to be stopped.
We're doing our best to resolve that
The industry needs more trucking companies to fail. When the riff raff is removed. We'll see a boon again. The truth hurts. Good riddance to the over saturation.
I wouldn't want to wish for the downfall of other companies for the upliftment of our own. Maybe there just needs to be a minimum rate per mile set across the board and have all these brokers, manufacturers, etc, adhere to that or face legal ramifications. Then drivers, whether company or otherwise, can stop making cents per mile and all be given hourly wages
The big problem was the US president. He destroyed the whole country. I hope next year will start slowly to be better not only in the trucking but in all businesses.
Which one? There's a couple of He's among the US presidents
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News The last one.
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-NewsIs not only he, its the U.S. Government. They destroy every asset of human civilization by putting all these legislation rules and regulations without representation. Bringing foreigners that don't even speak English to this society. And its not gonna get better anytime soon.
As long as enough of you are willing to haul freight for such a low rate there is no incentive to shippers to offer you more.
You are not wrong
My sister been driving for years she is smart 3 homes and now she is worried...not about the rental homes but about what's next ..and for me I say bring it on ..we still have our 2nd ammendment
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Ronan for the great video.
100% spot on 👏👏👏.
We are in this together.
I am not sure if you have a video about the Mexican driver destroying the rate on south and MidWest .
Can you provide any additional details or articles on this? It sounds interesting
Real estate is rough right now too.
Yikes
Good Video! You tell the truth!
We try our best to!
Not enough is being discussed about how SBA loans have affected the market.
We'll take a deeper assessment of this!
SBA loans are getting ppl bankrupt. High rates, can't get rid of it easy, market pressure, crazy stuff... they would end up on the streets. Don't take SBA.
Some trucking companies own the shop as a different business name. They also own their own insurance company.
Love Rones energy & charisma! Excellent content
Not only trucking, 90% of the business are in this situation
We've been hearing that real estate is also facing challenges such as ours
I'm truck mechanic with 15 year of experience and I think it is time to quite,this industry is sucks 😞
The mechanic side of things aren't going so well either?
I got out in 2015. Didn’t take me long to realize. Still got my Class A though, just deactivated.
How's life on the other side?
I started at age 24 trucking as an owner operator , never went over the road just doing regional, i have managed to live a good life while saving some money. 2.05 a mile is not enough for a company trying to make a quick buck. For an owner operator like me that is not scared to get his hands dirty 2.05 is plenty. I am Just riding the wave now until steering wheel holders lose their trucks.
The gov. Did this. New drivers,from everywhere= more trucks,lower wages, rates etc.
Thanks for sharing!
Landstar and Bennett double brokering. I’m leased to Bennett and we are fighting them internally. That’s just 2. Imagine every carrier doing it. Keeps rates to the truck down also. They are bidding against each other internally also