True that. Your catching on !The reason companies want trainees is so they can get them to think the way they want them to.
True that. Your catching on !The reason companies want trainees is so they can get them to think the way they want them to.
OMG ! There’s hope for you yet . I’m getting choked up.Pay raise, higher 401K match, and lower healthcare cost. That's what needs to happen. Stop just the screaming for a pay raise. Look at the whole package.
So how about a 2% pay raise, 2% higher 401K match and lower healthcare cost by 1%
Your catching on .OK we will give you a 10% raise, but we will then raise you healthcare premium 8.5%
Hey can't bitch you got you 10%
You do know there is a different between a Professional Driver and a steering wheel holder? We hire very few Professional driver but many we hire a sh1t load of steering wheel holders.
See what happens when you don't pay attention!Holy cow, after all these years driving I could have turned "Professional" just by letting go of the steering wheel? Who knew?
I’m hoping that some are deemed “not worthy” since we are now over staffed.Well some drivers need to get a pay decrease
I found out that the government subsidies the in house school of truck drivers. I don’t know if your company is like that, but at my company I was told that.in fact the up front cost of hiring a trainee now cost you more then just hiring a veteran driver. Company are now paying you hourly for school and on the road training is paid at an hourly rate plus OT after 8. So hiring a veteran driver will cost less.
The reason companies want trainees is so they can get them to think the way they want them to.
That would explain the enthusiasm towards training people off the street compared to the attitudes that were there years ago: Most LTLs we're considered the top jobs in trucking and were hard to get on with requiring YEARS of experience.I found out that the government subsidies the in house school of truck drivers. I don’t know if your company is like that, but at my company I was told that.
Maybe to some degree but I think it’s more based on the lack of qualified candidates more than anything . Anyone with experience is either employed or knows better. It’s easier to attract people who have no experience in trucking at all so they don’t know what their getting into.I found out that the government subsidies the in house school of truck drivers. I don’t know if your company is like that, but at my company I was told that.
We aren’tI’m hoping that some are deemed “not worthy” since we are now over staffed.
We all have family , friends and loved ones - would you recommend that they go into trucking? Here!?!?Maybe to some degree but I think it’s more based on the lack of qualified candidates more than anything . Anyone with experience is either employed or knows better. It’s easier to attract people who have no experience in trucking at all so they don’t know what their getting into.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, as a matter of fact I have talked some people out of it on my peddle run....We all have family , friends and loved ones - would you recommend that they go into trucking? Here!?!?
Not these days . Too many other ways to earn a living that allow you to spend more time with your loved ones. Money here is only “ok” if you work mega hours . This industry has not kept up with the times . It’s a dinosaur that eats it own.We all have family , friends and loved ones - would you recommend that they go into trucking? Here!?!?
Well lets take a look at the dinosaur:It’s a dinosaur that eats it own.
It’s a dinosaur that eats it own.
I would not recommend any job or career to anyone. It's a choice they have to live with. I will tell them the Pros and cons of trucking and that's it. The biggest thing I tell them isWe all have family , friends and loved ones - would you recommend that they go into trucking? Here!?!?
You are not, by any chance related to 1984SW’s are you?part #2
We (the company) didn't stop there. We bought the cheapest and junkiest equipment we could get our hands on. We even gave them only 7 speed trans with no engine brakes. As told to me by a former CCX employee, "CCX driver weren't smart enough to know how to use engine brakes". For years we made sure the trucks had no A/C, radios and the cheapest seats money could buy even though other LTLs were upgrading there fleets with A/C, radios and seats. We did though splurge on a nice fan that sat on the dash but made sure the A/C in the office worked at max. Then sometime in mid 2000s A/C came standard in the trucks, though we never let them put a truck O/S for a non working A/C system. With all that money we saved on equipment we though it would be best spent it on a NASCAR race truck and the Con-Way 200 race in 2006. Then it hit 2008/09 the economy crashed and the bills were piling up and freight was down. We had to buy more exp trucks that had radios, engine brakes, and creature comforts for the drivers. We need to cut costed so we did. We layoff employees, took away there pension, company paid healthcare, and decreased they hourly rate. Told you not having union and contract would benefit us someday. We saved so much we even sponsor the #16 NASCAR in 2009. We did offer a 401K plan in place of the pension though we did hold the company portion for 3 month before giving it to the employee. Thank for letting us earn interest on money we own you. With cost going up and being in NASCAR sooooo expensive we looked at other ways to cut cost. We decreased the bonus program and sent our old trucks out to refab. Cheaper then buying new.
Over the years we schmoozed then with cookouts, breakfast meetings, and other events, all a tax write-off of course. Making sure they didn't need a union or a contract. Even into 2014 we were still holding new hire meetings and making sure we showed then anti-union video.
So the dinosaur you talking about are the ones that been here prior to 2008.
chomp chomp.
I have been thinking the same thing with my barn.I’m hoping that some are deemed “not worthy” since we are now over staffed.