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The best work/life balance job I found in trucking is delivering propane. Home every day, Hourly pay, raises every year, safety bonuses, and 5 weeks of vacation over the summer. Yes, backing a tight driveway and pulling a hose 150 feet up a hill definitely is work, but hey there are ups and downs at every driving job. At least I'm not dealing with bad shippers, layovers, and massive idiots and lot lizards at truck stops. Also, I get paid for every hour worked. If you have your CDL and aren't afraid of a little work, I'd check it out.
Last company dropped my intermodal yards pay from $23 to $15 an hour cause they needed to fix the books, not temporary either. $8 pay cut for stupidity, told them u expect people to drive for the same amount as a McDonald's worker?
Some companies just aren't good, they either have no loads or bad dispatchers. So you're making them money but you're sitting around begging for loads, it's not always lazy drivers.
When I worked for CTL which was a sister company to coastal transport, Commercial Carrier Corporation, and Midwest Coast Transport. All under Comcar umbrella. With them I hauled chemicals for the Mosaic fertilizer plants in Hillsborough, and Polk counties. I hauled molten sulfur, ammonium nitrate, urea, calcium nitrate. Other stuff as well. My company had told that we’d have to take 5% pay cut not once but twice. Because they told us mosaic cut the pay that they were paying CTL. Years after that happened CTL lost the contract for mosaic and the drivers found out that mosaic was giving CTL pay raises and paying detention times and CTL didn’t pas that along to the drivers.
I started in 2018 with the same company I work for now. The pay has done nothing but go up. Overall for one of the mega carriers, my wife and I are happy. Cant wait for the slower winter season to be over for us! Last year was a record pay year for me and we started this division in March.
Company dropped the pay 8 cents per mile during the course of one year is the reason I quit and I took a year off and I’m glad I did after 25 years Otr
@@ronshupe9905 yes I am with ya my friend. They will cuss you out in there language in front of you so I cussed them out in German one day they quit doing that
Everybody has their own unique situation and unfortunately some people just like to complain. We all, regardless of what kind of work you do know someone who does nothing but complain. They could win the 1.5 billion dollar lottery jackpot and they would complain because they only got 972 million dollars after the taxes. I have been with the same company for 27 years. I remember the year they did not give a bonus check and gave everyone raises. One man was so angry he quit. Yes, he got a 6% raise and he quit, A bonus pays one time and it is gone. A raise pays now and continues to pay forever.
Here is my pay raise. I had to drive a 2014 x 450hp Binder Maxxfarce 13 tupperware container, hated this pile of junk. Thankfully, it broke down and they give me a 98 KW 900, repower'd w/a550 cat n 18spd. What a relief to be inside of a real truck cab with big toggle switches and a flat split window, and i finished out my trucking days running that rig. I considered that a really good pay raise. Enjoyed every second of driving that truck.
i been doing at this for 4 years , my next job will be something outside of trucking meanining i have no desire to learn a new job new company new people new system etc, just find something u like that pays good and stay
I made a decision a few years ago. I’m happier staying at 1 company. I decided not to paper chase. There’s more to trucking than money. When you come into trucking they tell you it’s all about the money. You’ll talk to other drivers and as I’ve realized, all of them are 1 upping. You tell a driver what you get paid they will immediately say that’s crap and they make more. The reality is they probably don’t. The real deal in trucking is sanity. Stability. And yes miles are going to fluctuate. Yes companies will leave you screwed sometimes. But as soon as you realize that’s all of them. You will know the grass isn’t greener somewhere else. I’ve been much happier just staying put through thick and thin. Knowing well the next company is just going to do that shit too. The longer you’re with a company the better they treat you. Your a body in the seat for a year or 2. But after that you’re a respected driver they will see that your opinion and life matters. Just don’t get caught up in the switching companies every year.
I was going to stick with Schneider until I got something local going but then after I dropped a trailer at a center which was just my 3rd accident with them I went to Western express but didn't like flatbed then the other companies I worked for it was either let us run you or get let go and now I'm with this one that's not down my neck about everything little safety policy and neither do they run me like a dog, they keep me moving and I make decent money. I don't money is just to help us pay Bills and stuff, I don't care about making thousands. That's greed.
Couldn't agree more. Same company 5 years now. I picked my own dispatcher. No more inward facing camera. No longer babysitting me. They keep me southwest in the winter. I could earn more elsewhere, but I'm sure I'd have to give up all the perks I've earned at my current job.
My last company paid ok but i was running my butt off. The reasons I left was lack of communication, almost trying to force me to run recaps and thefts from truckers while at the terminal.
I worked for 10 Roads they kept re- bidding and went from 51 hrs a week to 40 with no D/H pay and detention time start after 5hrs. I had to bounce out.
This may apply to some but not all. Leaving R+L carriers because they decided to cut our departments pay by up to 30%. We were working our butts off putting in 12-14hrs regularly. Was bringing home $1400-$1700 weekly. Took our pay and pretend they would correct it by Dec 2024. Never did so I’m leaving. Funny thing is our P&D division is hourly and all those guys do is sit under a tree and nap.
From what I've seen with salaried drivers is they work according to the demands of the customer. Changing this type of work to productivity pay will result in a pay cut if the customer's workload decreases. This means your guaranteed $300/day salary can be cut to $200/day or less if work is slow.
All the companies are competing to see how cheap drivers will work. I've never seen pay get lower and lower until trucking. I work for free half the time mostly due to shippers and recievers.
I work at mileage pay company offered percentage pay 3 yrs ago and my pay checks have gone from 1800 take hone not gross to 400 to 800 dollars take home now and they want drivers to unload and reload flatbed every day and drive 300 to 500 miles everyday to make the 2500 miles a week quota they think should happen lmao I just drive legal speed limit and say let's talk to dot if they don't like it
so many professional drivers retiring, trucking is in the toilet and the amatures drive in the middle lane getting passed on both sides... miles with their turn signals on if they use them at all, most can't speak english so a c.b. wont do any good, glad to be retiring at the end of this month
If a company has hired lazy drivers and decides to cut my pay while I'm a solid driver I'm out. Had a companies try that and I left them with their lazy drivers. I work hard i don't need to boost the numbers so someone's friends can keep a job.
I am an hourly driver, and try to get off the clock as quick as possible, I have a year until retirement and I'm trying to work as few hours as possible.
@@ThatBoneheadTruckersGuy Yeah I quit my job as well. I mean I retired after 30 years as a Teamster Union truck driver. I asked you a question recently on TTR about Trainer James and the Little Guy channel. Please respond when you have time.
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The best work/life balance job I found in trucking is delivering propane. Home every day, Hourly pay, raises every year, safety bonuses, and 5 weeks of vacation over the summer. Yes, backing a tight driveway and pulling a hose 150 feet up a hill definitely is work, but hey there are ups and downs at every driving job. At least I'm not dealing with bad shippers, layovers, and massive idiots and lot lizards at truck stops. Also, I get paid for every hour worked. If you have your CDL and aren't afraid of a little work, I'd check it out.
Yup I do they same thing down here in Louisiana definitely worth getting into but a lot of people are scared to lol
In Oregon I would say it’s hauling fuel in general and delivering food to restaurants and grocery stores.
Last company dropped my intermodal yards pay from $23 to $15 an hour cause they needed to fix the books, not temporary either. $8 pay cut for stupidity, told them u expect people to drive for the same amount as a McDonald's worker?
Why did you pay for a cdl to make $23 an hour to begin with… wake up
Yea that's crazy no matter what state your in, even class B drivers make more than that...and they should.
And At that Point a person may as well apply for a regular job it’s a dam shame 🤦🏾
Truckers are the most abused workers in the country
That's when I would start looking for something else. The minimum pay for a Class A holder is at least 30 to 35 an hour
Some companies just aren't good, they either have no loads or bad dispatchers. So you're making them money but you're sitting around begging for loads, it's not always lazy drivers.
After almost forty years and 5,000,000 miles,I wouldn't recommend trucking as a career for any young person that has another good option.
When I worked for CTL which was a sister company to coastal transport, Commercial Carrier Corporation, and Midwest Coast Transport. All under Comcar umbrella. With them I hauled chemicals for the Mosaic fertilizer plants in Hillsborough, and Polk counties. I hauled molten sulfur, ammonium nitrate, urea, calcium nitrate. Other stuff as well. My company had told that we’d have to take 5% pay cut not once but twice. Because they told us mosaic cut the pay that they were paying CTL. Years after that happened CTL lost the contract for mosaic and the drivers found out that mosaic was giving CTL pay raises and paying detention times and CTL didn’t pas that along to the drivers.
I started in 2018 with the same company I work for now. The pay has done nothing but go up. Overall for one of the mega carriers, my wife and I are happy. Cant wait for the slower winter season to be over for us! Last year was a record pay year for me and we started this division in March.
I always love the percentage of the load it seems to pay a lot more than anything else.
I've noticed I'm making a HELL of alot more under them electronic logs, than I did without them💁♂️
Electronic logs increase my annual income by -45k 🎉I like being told when I can work and no overtime
Shhh, don’t tell them about them Russian logs🤣
@@45k-u7d dude don't get me started on them 🤦😆
Bull Shit!
@garrywhitaker1665 well I know I most certainly am. But then again I don't work for a company where we do much sitting💁♂️
Company dropped the pay 8 cents per mile during the course of one year is the reason I quit and I took a year off and I’m glad I did after 25 years Otr
just quit market express gave me a junk unit and i dipped
I work for a Russian company and it's always something new every week
I work for a Polish company, everything seems to be going backwards
@@ronshupe9905 yes I am with ya my friend. They will cuss you out in there language in front of you so I cussed them out in German one day they quit doing that
Everybody has their own unique situation and unfortunately some people just like to complain. We all, regardless of what kind of work you do know someone who does nothing but complain. They could win the 1.5 billion dollar lottery jackpot and they would complain because they only got 972 million dollars after the taxes. I have been with the same company for 27 years. I remember the year they did not give a bonus check and gave everyone raises. One man was so angry he quit. Yes, he got a 6% raise and he quit, A bonus pays one time and it is gone. A raise pays now and continues to pay forever.
Hey Ike, hope you are well, I'm a little ocd, Please fix your blinds, thank you
HAHA!!!! I noticed that too, but I didn't want to re-film the video....they are fixed now...
@@ThatBoneheadTruckersGuy Thank you driver, shiny side up, greasy side down, roll easy 10-8, 10-10 on the side listening in
Here is my pay raise. I had to drive a 2014 x 450hp Binder Maxxfarce 13 tupperware container, hated this pile of junk. Thankfully, it broke down and they give me a 98 KW 900, repower'd w/a550 cat n 18spd. What a relief to be inside of a real truck cab with big toggle switches and a flat split window, and i finished out my trucking days running that rig. I considered that a really good pay raise. Enjoyed every second of driving that truck.
i been doing at this for 4 years , my next job will be something outside of trucking meanining i have no desire to learn a new job new company new people new system etc, just find something u like that pays good and stay
I made a decision a few years ago. I’m happier staying at 1 company. I decided not to paper chase. There’s more to trucking than money. When you come into trucking they tell you it’s all about the money. You’ll talk to other drivers and as I’ve realized, all of them are 1 upping. You tell a driver what you get paid they will immediately say that’s crap and they make more. The reality is they probably don’t. The real deal in trucking is sanity. Stability. And yes miles are going to fluctuate. Yes companies will leave you screwed sometimes. But as soon as you realize that’s all of them. You will know the grass isn’t greener somewhere else. I’ve been much happier just staying put through thick and thin. Knowing well the next company is just going to do that shit too. The longer you’re with a company the better they treat you. Your a body in the seat for a year or 2. But after that you’re a respected driver they will see that your opinion and life matters. Just don’t get caught up in the switching companies every year.
I was going to stick with Schneider until I got something local going but then after I dropped a trailer at a center which was just my 3rd accident with them I went to Western express but didn't like flatbed then the other companies I worked for it was either let us run you or get let go and now I'm with this one that's not down my neck about everything little safety policy and neither do they run me like a dog, they keep me moving and I make decent money. I don't money is just to help us pay Bills and stuff, I don't care about making thousands. That's greed.
Couldn't agree more. Same company 5 years now. I picked my own dispatcher. No more inward facing camera. No longer babysitting me. They keep me southwest in the winter. I could earn more elsewhere, but I'm sure I'd have to give up all the perks I've earned at my current job.
My last company paid ok but i was running my butt off. The reasons I left was lack of communication, almost trying to force me to run recaps and thefts from truckers while at the terminal.
I worked at a company which changed so much and the older guys could not follow the pace so they ended up with a very poor salary.
I worked for 10 Roads they kept re- bidding and went from 51 hrs a week to 40 with no D/H pay and detention time start after 5hrs. I had to bounce out.
This may apply to some but not all. Leaving R+L carriers because they decided to cut our departments pay by up to 30%. We were working our butts off putting in 12-14hrs regularly. Was bringing home $1400-$1700 weekly. Took our pay and pretend they would correct it by Dec 2024. Never did so I’m leaving. Funny thing is our P&D division is hourly and all those guys do is sit under a tree and nap.
From what I've seen with salaried drivers is they work according to the demands of the customer. Changing this type of work to productivity pay will result in a pay cut if the customer's workload decreases. This means your guaranteed $300/day salary can be cut to $200/day or less if work is slow.
I left a company in 08. They cut the pay across the board by 10 percent. Only thing that changed was our pay. Workload and scheduling didn’t change.
They never changed pay on me freight just slowed down
I worked 70 hours for 600 dollars just 2 months and i quit AAA freight inc was the company .
I was on a dedicated run with one of the mega carriers and they cut our pay after about 6 months after starting the account
Yes please fix them blindes its also really bothering me
My fellow OCD!!! 😂
I started driving in 1975 for 2.15/hr....and worked 60 per hours per week.
Fixing trucks is no picnic a lot of the time either.
All the companies are competing to see how cheap drivers will work. I've never seen pay get lower and lower until trucking. I work for free half the time mostly due to shippers and recievers.
If you on salary and you are not doing your work you will get let go because they can track the truck
1:01 If Iam a lazy driver, I need fixed income. Miles are for mules. 😂
I work at mileage pay company offered percentage pay 3 yrs ago and my pay checks have gone from 1800 take hone not gross to 400 to 800 dollars take home now and they want drivers to unload and reload flatbed every day and drive 300 to 500 miles everyday to make the 2500 miles a week quota they think should happen lmao I just drive legal speed limit and say let's talk to dot if they don't like it
I got lucky the company I went with? They paid you $500 for orientation. Gave you your own room and paid for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Thats pretty standard except for mom and pop outfits.
so many professional drivers retiring, trucking is in the toilet and the amatures drive in the middle lane getting passed on both sides... miles with their turn signals on if they use them at all, most can't speak english so a c.b. wont do any good, glad to be retiring at the end of this month
I left got tired of trucking company scamming the backbone of the whole company The poor drivers
If a company has hired lazy drivers and decides to cut my pay while I'm a solid driver I'm out.
Had a companies try that and I left them with their lazy drivers.
I work hard i don't need to boost the numbers so someone's friends can keep a job.
The reason is because they make less money. Why would you leave if you got a raise.
Less money cuz sitting on your hands doesn't pay....
Hey Ike , good message sir 👋
Then they ups sleep teams or feeder well over 160 k a year from what few feeder drivers told me
I don't know how many time I see these UA-cam truckers saying they quit then they're right back
Amigo can You say no bueno for caca more often i laugh so hard
I am an hourly driver, and try to get off the clock as quick as possible, I have a year until retirement and I'm trying to work as few hours as possible.
Everybody is hired to be fired.
You are a good guy Bonehead truckers.
I can't stand hourly drivers. If you want to milk the clock, get off the highway and take the street. No reason to drive 50mph on the inner lane.
Miss me with that “company man” bullshit.
I’m leaving mine cause the pay ain’t changed 😂
And yet you quit that job too. How many jobs you had? Phony
Everyone quits a job eventually. But what job are you referring too, “human being”.
@@ThatBoneheadTruckersGuy Yeah I quit my job as well. I mean I retired after 30 years as a Teamster Union truck driver. I asked you a question recently on TTR about Trainer James and the Little Guy channel. Please respond when you have time.
Oh sorry. I was on there last week for a little bit. I’ll try to remember to get back on there.
As long as you do not quit.
Of course you kiss the company’s ass.