Karin just had a baby (yay) so she won't be here to chat about the video. BUT I thought I'd use this opportunity to survey our lovely, smart audience to ask for story pitches! What should we cover? What do you want to see more of?

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

trains

@alexs1640

Жыл бұрын

Based on the credit scene, I would love to know why temperate states like CA and FL don't require air conditioning. My AC in Tampa broke down in the middle of summer and my landlord was not coming to fix it for almost a week. So I spoke to a lawyer and was shocked to learn landlords in Florida don't have to maintain air conditioning for their tenants. But they are required to maintain heating for some reason 🤔

@maddominican879

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations to her

@cheddar

Жыл бұрын

@@alexs1640 Oh that's fascinating. Should AC be required by law?...

@cheddar

Жыл бұрын

@@siyacer WHAT ABOUT THEM?

No such thing trucker shortage, there's a shortage of people willing to work for so little.

@krashanb5767

Жыл бұрын

No worries, they are hiring more women now.

@makatron

Жыл бұрын

@@krashanb5767 beat of luck to them.

@patriciacampbell2821

Жыл бұрын

best of luck to them

@makatron

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciacampbell2821 lmao yeah damn autocorrect

@johnkeller5163

Жыл бұрын

The reality is that there are plenty of trucking opportunities that pay quite well because suppliers are in very bad need for deliveries. If indeed a buyer tries to bid low for trucking, go to the plenty of other rides that pay far better. With real incentive, drivers can make easily well over 100 grand after expenses when choosing better contracts and employers.

I've been long haul trucking since 2006. You did a great job explaining the basic problems with the industry. Thanks for shining a light on trucking. Most truckers are respectful hard working people.

@dougi1967

Жыл бұрын

I think I saw one of your rigs in the hi-desert cali, cash is king was on the door.

@jossa942

Жыл бұрын

cash Is King!!!!!!!! He gets it i wish you would represent us in congress.

@superoffended6737

Жыл бұрын

@@dougi1967 No I've seen that truck too, it's not him. Cash wouldn't set foot in Cali 🤑🤑🤑 He sticks to the east.

@RB-cz5jn

Жыл бұрын

So cash would you work for $32 an hr?

@jossa942

Жыл бұрын

@@RB-cz5jn damn 32 aint enough if you do the math. You need like 80 too 90 an hour bruh for now a days

It seems this is happening to soooo many industries right now. I've been doing job interviews lately and if I hear the phrase "Nobody wants to work anymore" I politely correct them and say something like "Actually most people WANT to work to earn a living. What they don't want is to work well over 40 hours a week and still not be able to afford rent". That phrase and mandatory overtime are the two biggest red flags I look out for when job hunting.

@1320pass

9 ай бұрын

Precisely and well put.

@blairdanies8387

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. That's why I retired. They all want everything for nothing. Sorry doesn't work for me anymore. I still get offers to work 6-7 days a week for shit wages and shit benefits. Skilled Trades begging for people. Good luck.

Great video, I was a trucker and really didn't know much on growing my earnings then i was working. Truckers grappling with the difficulty of meeting essential expenses often encounter this situation due to inadequate savings during their working years. The decisions taken in readiness for retirement carry extensive consequences, as demonstrated within my own family dynamics. Differing investment approaches yielded disparate results. Guided by a financial advisor, I'm currently retired and still earn monthly from our investments.

@veronica.baker1

9 ай бұрын

Growing money is not the same as keeping it there is a reason why investments aren't well taught in schools, the examples you gave are well stationed, the market crisis gave me my first millions, people shy away from hard times, I embrace them.

@Kim.beneteau

9 ай бұрын

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@hunter-bourke21

9 ай бұрын

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@rebecca_burns14

9 ай бұрын

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9 ай бұрын

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100% agree! Pay ALL hours in truck, in dock, waiting for load, etc etc and amazingly no shortage of truckers and no more weeks or months away from home. Pay the moment truckers leaves their house to when they return!

@j.p.obregon1415

Жыл бұрын

Name one job that pays the moment the employee leaves his/her house........ That's absurd by any standard

@Pasta_Pirate

Жыл бұрын

That's nitpicking a bit obviously but also if you are leaving home to go to your first collection (not a depot or something to start the day) then that's very similar to other transport jobs. e.g. if you work with uber and accept a pickup while at home you would be getting paid from that very moment you leave home.

@Boby9333

Жыл бұрын

@@j.p.obregon1415 ROFL, unionized truck drivers who works for big company like UPS or FedEx do get paid for waiting at a dock and guess what? Those same company that pays for the driver waiting will make sure to shit on any of their customer who make their drivers wait longer than necessary. Do warehouse employee get paid when waiting for a truck? Yes, why should driver not get paid when they wait at a dock?

@j.p.obregon1415

Жыл бұрын

@@Boby9333 Of course they should get paid for waiting at the dock. I was referring to his comment about how truckers should get paid the moment they leave their houses.

@vordevan258

Жыл бұрын

@@j.p.obregon1415 field techs, tow truck drivers, on call medical personnel, on call utility personnel, I’m sure there are others. I agree tho, paying a driver from door to door wouldn’t benefit anyone. Drivers are some of the worst humans around and milk absolutely everything they can. I worked as a mobile mechanic for years and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had drivers sabotage their trucks to get out of working

It does seem to be a pretty simple solution. Pay the drivers for wait times. The businesses will get them loaded and unloaded faster, making the system more efficient. Thank you for laying it out for us, Cheddar! 🙂

@dknowles60

Жыл бұрын

no they wount its been tryed

@logicplague2077

Жыл бұрын

How does paying for the wait times have anything to do with the businesses getting them loaded/unloaded faster? Seems like that profit thing from South Park with a ? in the middle.

@donreid6399

Жыл бұрын

@@logicplague2077 Right now Logic, when a trucker arrives at a business ready to load or unload and are forced to wait for hours, there's no economic incentive for the business to call in a crew on overtime (or have sufficient numbers of folks working on the loading dock) to load or unload the truck in a timely manner. It's the trucker who has to pay for the wait time. If the trucking company (or the company receiving the delivery) had to pay the driver for his or her time waiting, there would be a significant incentive to get that truck unloaded faster.

@stevedavenport1202

Жыл бұрын

@@logicplague2077 If regulations mandate that the shipper pay the truckers for waiting, then the shippers will be jncentivized to be more efficient.

@tip0019

Жыл бұрын

@@logicplague2077 Logic in the name makes for the dumbest people 🍺

Great story. I became a truck driver after getting out of the military. I drove for others for three years and as an owner operator for 23 years. When I first started driving truck in 1992 I thought I had the world by the tail. I was working for a private company making $10 an hour and time and a half for any time over 40. I was telling my uncle who was a retired teamster how great it was and he laughed at me. He said he was making $16 an hour and full retirement and free medical for him and his family in 1972. Now drivers are making less per hour than a mcdonalds employee.

@James-bo1ox

10 ай бұрын

Also things cost along more in 1992 than in 1972.

I've been driving for 15 years. Not a day goes by that I don't think about quitting. I like the company that I work for but the liability is ridiculous. You get treated like $hit on the road and this is made worse because of the recent social unrest. The police aren't patrolling the roads anymore so people realize they can get away with anything. Then when something happens the blood sucking layers are out to get money out of the driver/company. Honestly I'm disgusted with humanity. There is something about the way people treat each other from within their little metal box.

@AM0908

Жыл бұрын

I agree, 20 years for me. But this is a lazy mans job and i am a lazy person. Drive, change a trailer every couple days. Out 12 days home 3 17 to 2200 a week.... Id quit but as I said I am lazy and cant make this money for doing less. Hardest part is leaving home, once you are used to that is so easy its not even funny.

@smopuim

Жыл бұрын

I went to Las Vegas and L.A. all the way from Mexico (thru Dallas), so I traveled a lot of US highway miles on motorcycle, and what you said is correct, in those 15 days I saw at most 10 Highway patrol cars between Texas and Nevada, I started seeing them way more often in California but still not many. the US is becoming more like Mexico, we (in Mexico) used to have highway patrol officers (called policia federal de Caminos) all the way from the 70s to the 90s, the government quietly and slowly made them disappear and they were gone by 2005 and every time I travel to the US, I see the same happening for you guys. You got to change that, take Mexico as an example of what no police enforcement in highways means.

@anthnyl

Жыл бұрын

You have one of the most important jobs in the country. Thank you for your continued service. I push keys on a screen all day, good money but damn if it is meaningless work.

@SteveNoverini

10 ай бұрын

Welcome to a multicultural nation with low trust.

@Splenda2021

9 ай бұрын

Right on people are horrible

I worked oil and gas construction and we relied on brokered trucks. The best system we found was a hybrid system. 100 bucks if you are on time, standard tonnage while you worked and 200 bucks for completing a day. It incentivesed them do as much as they could but did compensate for down time on site.

@norfolkgarden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for appreciating and incentivizing the truckers! Sadly the current system puts them "working for tips". Glad you appreciated them being on time enough to make their lives a little better. Lol, thinking of the times I spent small amounts of money to keep a job moving forward. You do what you have to and works for everyone you work with.

@cmdr1911

Жыл бұрын

@@norfolkgarden When you make high demands of people you need to compensate them. To broker a truck for a day costs like 1300 bucks a day so it really comes out as a wash but does reward good truckers

@huesenpaul1394

Жыл бұрын

@@cmdr1911 did you work for a general contractor that got alot of oil and gas projects or work directly with a fracking or oil company ? was the compensation good aswell ?

@cmdr1911

Жыл бұрын

@@huesenpaul1394 I was a construction consultant. I built roads, pads and pipelines as a field engineer. They pay wasn't bad. The hourly rate worked out to be a little more than other civil work. The issue came with our region, there were only 8 months of solid work.

@huesenpaul1394

Жыл бұрын

@@cmdr1911 were you like Texas or one of the dakotas ? And that’s awesome. Asking cause Im a civil engineering student Los Angeles tryna work in oil and gas

About 4 years ago I was on my way to get CDLs. I filled out the information to go to school for a month to train. So something told me to get on KZread and see what other truckers had to say. I saw so many videos of saying they had driven like 2000+ miles a week and was gone for the whole weeks and they only was getting paid like $600-800 a week. That made me change my mind quickly because that's not enough money to be gone away from home and basically working around the clock. There were some seasoned Truckers who made pretty decent money but why do I have to work 5 or 10 years to start making decent money when I can stay home and work my 9:00 to 5:00 to make equivalent pay

@spicychad55

Жыл бұрын

The truckers that make good money like over 200k+ are owner operators but they usually have many years of driving under them, they're not fresh meat.

@Dee--Jay

Жыл бұрын

@@spicychad55 well it's still not worth it unless you are the owner and operator. Why would I take a job making under 50Kand be gone damn near all year. Ill work on a oil rig then

@samthecar

Жыл бұрын

$600-800 a week seems like absolute robbery, one can make that in food service with no overhead smh

@rgms573

Жыл бұрын

Go get some IT training and learn about routing and switching. You will work as many hours as a truck driver and make more money. There’s a lot online courses and materials to help you get some knowledge. I don’t regret my decision.

@dannydaw59

Жыл бұрын

Why are people accepting the job if it's that low pay if there's a trucker shortage?

I am one of the former CDL drivers that quit. I did the math based on my hours of work, and I was working an extra 30 days a year that I wouldn't be working if I had a 9-5 job. And I wasn't making enough to support myself.

You did an excellent job in explaining the situation in trucking. I still have my CDL, and don’t use it. I retired instead, now I’m 73, trucking was a rip-off after 1980’s. Plenty of experienced CDL drivers out there, but we never got paid for waiting on the shipper and the receiver while losing pay and the next load. One giant rip-off. God bless you producing an effective video.

@truckerray7533

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, & when the wheels weren't turning. . . .you weren't getting paid either

Today, the Transportation/Distribution industry is one of the most heavily-regulated industries, from regulations about driving to pricing. But it's been largely de-unionized.

@Justshill

Жыл бұрын

By people who have zero clue

@tedfisk1211

Жыл бұрын

about pricing, on the LTL side you are correct. on the TL side, you are not correct. most loads go through brokers who negotiate with the owner operator driver and then the broker throws a margin on top and bills the shipper. The end price is whatever the broker can get.

@quillmaurer6563

Жыл бұрын

Safety rules are strict, but the labor laws are lacking. And I have to imagine that under such lax labor laws the workers are pushed to bend or break the safety laws to make ends meet.

@Matt-fl8uy

Жыл бұрын

@@Justshill Republicans will brag about paying truckers less. Crush the union. So sad.

@davidw5266

Жыл бұрын

The legacy airlines and Class 1 railroads are still union

Deregulation & Over Regulation usually hurts people & businesses. It needs balance

@zoanth4

Жыл бұрын

Classical liberalism works great. Neo liberalism and it's arch nemesis socialism both suck for workers and wages

@YouTube_can_ESAD

Жыл бұрын

How about taxing billionaires into millionaires, that’s a start.

@braviansamuelpanderaja5723

Жыл бұрын

That I have been thinking of, a balance between corporate and government is needed.

@nomad640

Жыл бұрын

@@KZread_can_ESAD why ?

@nomad640

Жыл бұрын

@@KZread_can_ESAD If you own a house worth of 500k. Should the government taxes it to the point you must sell the house be a homeless and only have 5k left?

When I got into Trucking, I had no idea i would have to work 6 day weeks and see my family once a month. It seemed like i was barely scraping by and working 70 or more hours a week. I did the math and realized a 9 to 5 would suit me better. I wanted to make money but 3 months of hard work can be erased with one break down. Too much pressure for me. I got out.

I got a CDL, have not driven a truck in 4 years. My brother in law also has a CDL, he also was not driven a truck in 10 years. The crazy part, you have to pay like $150 for a physical every 2 years to drive a truck, and most ex-truckers like me still take it to keep their CDL's. Every trucker loves driving trucks, just not the life of long hours for pennies.

@David.Stryker

Жыл бұрын

I just stopped again. I can't say I ever liked it. I did it out of necessity to my family. I dont know if I'll take another DOT physical to keep my cdl. I still got some time but I can't see any reason to keep it anymore. I hate it it distroyed my body it strained my family bond. I can't do it anymore.

@mbjasondify

Жыл бұрын

@@David.Stryker I just decided to stop trucking after 7 years. I accomplished alot, 1 million miles, 49 states and 8 provinces In Canada.Mostly open deck, specialized and Oversize freight. The mental health aspect over time wears heavy. The lack of respect and mistreatment is unreal. Seeing the caliber of driver diminish into non english incapable, filthy specimens of destruction. The immense pressure from DOT regs, legal fallout from non preventable accidents, etc...wore heavy on me. Taking a couple of months off to transition into another kind of work now into 2023, for a healthier ME.

@truckerray7533

8 ай бұрын

Dam straight up on that!!!

I had a neighbor who was a long-haul trucker and he was only home a couple days a month. For that I think there should be a high wage, not just for the time away from home but also for the toll it takes on your health.

@eagle25311

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Home a couple days a month. Must be nice. I'm out for 7 weeks this time

@SimRacingVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Well there are some perks. It just doesn’t show up on your pay. In Canada, my log proves the days where I was not at home. When it came time to do my taxes for every day that I wasn’t at home I got something like $75 bucks per day. So at tax time there was a very nice return. But yes. Trucking isn’t a good job anymore.

@sandasturner9529

Жыл бұрын

Yes and I'm only home for a few days every two months or 9 weeks. And I am hemorrhaging internally as I speak. Don't know how much longer I have till I kick the bucket. Only 31 yrs. Of age.

@amels4620

Жыл бұрын

Not one person in the industry care. Oh, folks you interact with in this industry will HOW YOU DOING or GIVE YOU THAT GREASY SMILE but they do not really give two f'ks about the trucker.

@amandabhandhel1388

Жыл бұрын

A couple days A MONTH? I haven't been home in over 2. 😩

Trucker here, nearly a year in. I lucked out with a company that’s treated me very well, but I can confirm most of this. I also wish you talked about how crappy ELD’s are.

@montewiederhold3508

Жыл бұрын

ELD’s are a joke & do not make the highways safer prior to ‘17. Matter of fact crashes are higher than before. 14 hour clock needs doing away with. Keep 11 rule 10 hour rule.

@swaghauler8334

Жыл бұрын

@@montewiederhold3508 Your clock should start once you get up! No more of this BS where a company has a driver sit for 8 hours after waking up and THEN start their 14-hour clock/11-hour drive limit. That's what got the trucker who ran into Tracey Morgan in trouble. WALMART didn't dispatch him for like 10 hours after he woke up.

@bogususer2595

Жыл бұрын

@@swaghauler8334 you should start getting paid as soon as you show up to work. If they keep you waiting around doing nothing, that's their problem.

@aarontuplin

Жыл бұрын

Having driven before ELDs, they have helped increase our pay. But only because the companies started to see how much of THEIR time was getting lost to all the inefficiencies. I make more now than I did before ELDs and I'm not running multiple logs while sleeping for 3 hours a night to do it.

@jeffb957

Жыл бұрын

ELD's COULD be a great thing if they were used as a time clock for hourly pay. Give drivers hourly pay with overtime after 40, and all the opposition to them would melt away.

You did an excellent job explaining so much information in such a short time. Very informative, and highly appreciated

Just a little truck driving history. I started driving LTL locally at 22 years old, in Chicago in 67. I was a Teamster member, 705 IBT. We could only work 60 hours a week. 40 hours was $152.50 a week, union scale. I spent the day delivering freight to other truck lines that would take the freight to other parts of the country that we could not go. Some of this freight would be transferred to three different trucklines (It was called a Three line Haul) before it got delivered to the consignee. I spent a lot of time waiting in line so I could back into the dock to off load the freight. Some days I made 15 dliveries and some days I only made 3 deliveries in 12 hours. In the eighties truck lines started to charge detention when companies or truck lines kept us waiting more than 15 minutes to receive/ship their freight. We had a form they had to fill out. They time-stamped it when we arrived and when we were finished. I heard at the time companies went through the motions but never paid the detention time. We had volume loads. A volume load is a full trailer of freight going to one customer. It could be 10,000 Lbs or it could be 40,000 Lbs. In those days no freight was on skids. If the freight was on skids we had to off load the freight because the shipper wanted their skids back. Every peice of freight had to be off loaded by hand with no help from the shipper. We called it, finger printing the freight. Some days we would spend the whole day on one load. Other days we would have 40,000 pound load to deliver in the morning and after lunch pick up another 40,000 pounds before we went back to the terminal. All this freight was handled by hand with no help. Tractors had no air conditioning or power steering. Sometimes we had to take out a truck with no heat in the winter. Some trailers still had vacuum barkes when I first started driving. It was really fun trying to stop with a heavy load. The job sucked then as well. After a few years, every day I wanted to quit. I stayed because I had to feed my family. Health benefits were good. Pension benefits would be good if I stuck it out till 57 or waited till 65 to get full pension. I got out at 57. If you young guys think the job is hard today. Just think how hard it was for your father or grandfather back in the day.

I work for a municipality (and union too), because I get paid for all the hours I work, have good benefits, and my dept has updated equipment. The only way to get trucking back under control, is to PAY the drivers for their time.

Seen with my eyes,people should undersrand to actually make money as owner operator guys driving 14 15hours a day 6or 7days a week,barely get enough sleep, food situation sucks, cant shower sometimes 2 3 days, thats a brutal job that takes a heavy toll on your health! I fully respect all the people who do it regardless🙏👏👏

@ixan2137

23 күн бұрын

That’s the my big issue with trucking. Too many hours. I have cdl A and I’m ready to change trade.

You did a really good job showing what has been destroying a vital industry to everyone. I started in 2016 driving truck and it has been both the best and worst experiences in my life.

The waiting and not getting paid at delivery and pickup points is why my step-dad left the trucking industry. He saw that it was a scam to not get paid while you wait on others inefficiency and incompetence. He retired early and tried trucking for fun to travel and see the country. He quit and bought an RV instead. 🤷‍♂️

Wow, for once it wasn’t Regan!

@eddiefriend2546

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised myself! At least his heart was in the right place.

@alexs1640

Жыл бұрын

That was my first thought when I saw 1980. All bad roads lead to Reagan, except this one

@OneNewHope

Жыл бұрын

Probably would have been Reagan a year later if Carter didn't... Definitely his brand.

@davidho1258

Жыл бұрын

@@alexs1640 woodrow wilson

@IHateMyAccountName

Жыл бұрын

He did maintain the system and cut even more support and safety nets for all workers, truckers included.

During the 1950;s my father, who died in 1966, was The expert in St Louis on Interstate Commerce Regulations; giving us a very conformable childhood. An owner of one of the trucking companies told me my dad was the only man in the city trusted by the owners, drivers, unions, government, and the mob.

@billjames4771

Жыл бұрын

having the mob's trust is NOT a virtue. As for your comfortable childhood, the mobster's families had that also. Please understand that I do not mean to disrespect your father, who love you and you loved him.

@davidllewis4075

Жыл бұрын

@@billjames4771 I believe the man's p oint was that my father was the only one in trucking industry at time whom everyone trusted. As he also said, "everyone knows your father is the only man in industry who can't be bought". Now 50+ years after his death still do not go a week without remembering something he said. As to childhoods, we all live in Plato's cave. The trick is going out into the world and be willing to learn the rest of the story. David

I've been on the fence on subscribing to Cheddar for about two years now. You've almost always have consistent quality and good delivery, but it's your thoroughness and getting to the heart of the story, often with unexpected results. And then today, such beautiful citations. Yup, that did it, you've won me over. ;-)

Well here at UPS feeders (semi truck drivers) we get paid 42/hr local/regional and for OTR team we get extra pay by the mileage plus hourly, not to mention premium Health insurance all paid for. I worked my way up from loading trailers to delivering packages to then be offered the feeder position eventually

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

That;s great and I wish you all well but didn't I read that UPS is going full speed ahead at replacing it's fleet with self driving trucks by 2030? Anyway enjoy it while you can and build you a savings account.

@GeneralChangOfDanang

Жыл бұрын

@@muffs55mercury61 I'll believe it when I see it.

I can’t wait to retire. 37 years in Trucking and I won’t ever miss driving again.

@lunarblackstar1

Жыл бұрын

You earned a relaxing time for now on. Thank you for all that hard work. Most people will take you guys for granted, y'all are the literal backbone of this society..

Right on, right on, right on. I was an OTR trucker once. Non-Union as that was the only option at the time. As mentioned in this video, you are only paid by the mile. You are not paid for sitting in traffic, which can be very time consuming. You are not paid for unloading, or loading. You are not paid if your truck breaks down or you get a flat tire. There are times you get to a delivery/pickup destination, and they can't load/unload you before closing time at the factory, so you are then stuck there till morning, unpaid. You have to eat every meal out at a truck stop, which is far more expensive than cooking at home. You receive no allowance for meals. When you are resting, you are essentially the security guard for your load, unpaid. You live out of your truck and to sleep, you need to run the engine to power the AC in the summer, and the HEAT in the winter, but in many areas, local laws prevent you from running your engine while sleeping. They want their goods trucked, but do not give a damn about the drivers comfort. CONTRAST this to a UNION driver. I knew a fellow who drove 30 years for Roadway then YRC. Stuck in traffic? PAID hourly. Truck broke down? Paid hourly till it's fixed. OTR is delivery terminal to terminal, then you get a paid for motel room for the night. Local drivers then take the loads on to the local businesses in that area. He made very good money and had great benefits including one month paid vacation every year. Sadly, he worked beyond retirement age, to age 70, in order to get the max SS and retirement benefits, and 7 months later, died of a heart attack. As for me, I last drove in '07 but held onto my CDL till just this year. I'd kept it just in case I needed to go back to trucking, but this year finally realized I was never going to go back to driving.

@rustyshackleford6637

Жыл бұрын

What did you end up doing after trucking?

@dkeith45

Жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackleford6637 The same trade I'd been working at before trucking, construction. I'd been a roofer, framer, siding, window, door installer etc. OTR trucking sure was an adventure though. I actually recommend it for at least a year to any young person who has a chance to try it. You'll see most of the lower 48 states, something you'll unlikely be able to do ever again.

@rustyshackleford6637

Жыл бұрын

@@dkeith45 im 29 now and been trucking since 21, except for the two years I took off at 24/25 and put together an associate's degree for engineering

A great presentation, at a pace easy to follow, without me having to replay it multiple times. 👍

This is amazing! I feel like an idiot...I've been driving truck since 2005 and try to be fairly knowledgeable about it all, but had no idea about the 1935 and 1980 bits. That's MASSIVE! I started with SWIFT, for 26cpm (cents per mile). If you're going through Kansas or Texas, you're making pretty easy money. If you're on the East Coast, fffffff....not so much. And that bit about being paid for waiting? Yeah, that's why nearly everyone cooks the books and runs fatigued, b/c if you don't, you're away for 2-3wks for shit money. And here's the thing about being a truck driver--in every accident, the PROFESSIONAL DRIVER is automatically blamed. Sure, you can eventually prove that the AMATEUR is at fault, but it is guilty until proven innocent. And the amount of regulations you have to learn and KNOW, I mean, it is almost a Lawyer's worth of knowledge and we get paid for none of it...unless you ride it out for years and get into heavy-haul or some other specialty. I live in New Zealand now, and here ALL trucking is by the hour, not the mile (or load), so there is virtually zero incentive to cheat the logbook. With modern GPS and other monitoring, the old excuse of "if we pay by the hour, everyone will go slow" just doesn't fly anymore.

@williamrae9954

Жыл бұрын

You must be desperate...NZ...the locals all flee to Aus for a decent wage? I work there to avoid the European winters,would never sign up full time,5mths on piss poor wages is enough!

awesome video, thank you for explaining this, I worked with a couple " retired" truckers and I never asked why they left and assumed it was the hours. i like what the professor said too, because there isn't a "worker shortage" either. people are fed up working 40 hours for 14 dollars and needing to work an additional 25 hours just to get by. i know from experience.

In 1979. I graduated High School. My parents were blue collar, so I decided not to go to college ,rather enter the trades. The hottest trades were in trucking at the time. I was torn between being a driver and a mechanic. The large trucking firms in the Northeast were all union. You essentially ran routes, worked 40, and got a good wage. The OTR life sucked then ,but half as bad as it is now. I went to the shops and became a mechanic. Within 6 years, I seen trucking shrink to half . What your vid does not mention that to circumvent the "bath tub" issue, many trucking companies had reciprocation agreements. As such they swapped loads at each others terminals which cut the "rights" issue and got product to its destination with a bit of terminal time. Both trucking companies got paid, the drivers still kept their hours and the dwell at terminal exchange was minimal. The ICC act in 1980 changed all of that and held open the door for Independent truckers to take loads in major trucking(Union) territories. This was a boom for the Indies then, but look at the Industry now. Seeing no future in trucking, I left after 8 years.

@ronblack7870

Жыл бұрын

but the customer paid more for trucking.

@Bash70

Жыл бұрын

@@ronblack7870 Customers still ended up paying the same, most of the savings went to executive bonuses, stock buybacks, and lobbying

Wow, great video. I can see that you did your due diligence when researching trucking. I always wanted to be a truck driver so I got my CDL in 2020 at the age of 63 and started doing a lot of research about truck driving jobs. I was still employed so I took my time doing my research. I got a job driving trucks in July of 2021. It’s teaming and drop and hook so I don’t have to be concerned about where I’m going to park or waiting to be loaded or unloaded which eliminates a lot of the negatives. I do have to wait for a load sometimes when running unassigned and that sucks even if they do pay me a few $$$ for the down time. Anyway, I found out that there are a lot of negatives in this field especially when working for some of the mega carriers which is what a lot of drivers do until they get enough experience to work for a company that treats them better and pays better. Truck driving is a hobby for me but I don’t know that I want to do it full time.

Not a truck driver but am a retired aircraft mechanic/ machinist. I have been watching some U-tube videos that truckers made & the BS they have to go through loading & unloading is unbelievable. Making a delivery & being told to go to door (xyz), drive around to the unloading dock to find that there are no numbers on any of the doors. Making a delivery to a warehouse & being told to drive several miles to a truck stop & sign in with someone sitting in a pick up in the parking lot then drive back to unload. What the hell is the deal with that. Being told to go to a factory dock to pick up a load then have to wait in your truck for 8 to 10 hours because the factory doesn't have anyone to drive the fork truck. My own experience with shipping by truck: I sold a vintage engine to a guy on the west coast, he paid for the shipping & set up the pick up for me at a local trucking company. I locate the address which was only a few miles down the road, load the crated engine in my little 4 x 8 trailer & proceeded to the trucking company. There was a 10 or 12 ft fence around the area where the trucks were and a large sign that said "Go to front office for delivery". I look around, there are no signs of any kind giving directions so I go into the front door to the place. No desk, no one near the door so I wander on in. Inside were women working at computer stations and a couple of men moving things around. No one was paying attention to me so I went to one of the women pecking away at a keyboard & ask who I see about dropping off a load. Oh you need to go to the front office. I explain that I am at the front of the office building so therefore I am in the front office. I had it explained that the front office was at the rear of the building by the loading dock. Silly me, I assumed that the front office would be somewhere other than at the rear of the offices. Then I had to go out & yell at a little box so that someone would open the gate. I drag my little trailer into the area where the trucks are and wait. No one. And I wait. I go back inside & ask where the office is. It's by the loading dock is the only instruction that I got. So I wander around looking for some sign that there is some sort of office for the loading docks. The only thing I could find was a sign that said "Break room". I wander in and ask who I should see about getting a crate shipped. The guy pointed me to a small office with no sign or number on it and finally got someone to unload the crate. I sure hope that they don't mind being treated like a bunch of drooling half witted neanderthals because that is what I did, and if they didn't like it then tough shitsky y'all. Well that was a long story but I had to tell it so that I could tell this one. In one of those U-tube videos a truck driver had to make a delivery & experienced a similar situation and while he was wandering around in the office looking for directions he muttered to himself that he hoped that he didn't get arrested for trespassing, something that I assume has happened. You truckers better get organized or this crap will only get worse. Businesses are the enemy not your friend.

I never intended to stay in trucking but wanted a CDL. Working for a medium sized carrier (Roehl Transport) was twice the nightmare I expected, and I did my research, and knew it would be a shit job.

@MrCHOCBROTHA

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I worked for them too for over a year! That company was a nightmare!

@StefanBacon

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCHOCBROTHA Glad to hear you're out. What are you doing now? I found an operator gig turning compost where I only drive on the road occasionally for deliveries.

@royanderson1429

Жыл бұрын

Me too, went to rail Trucking went to work for them, after 3 months in the seat not one penny in pay. I got the hell out of there. How do you work for a company for 3 months and not get one dime. Yeah Trucking make big money sure

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I never heard good things about Roehl. One guy told me he kept getting hit for charge backs over every little thing under the sun. Lucky he had a good lawyer and took them to court and got most of his $$$ back.

In 92 the feds took over licensing for truckers, which gave us the CDL. At that time my wages had slowly decreased by 30% but, I had a bit of hope left, that things would turn around. Over the next 4 years the government and corporations had beat my industry down so hard, that I left the trade. It is no longer a trade that I could recommend.

Been there, done that. I ran airfreight from Jax- Atl. After 2 yrs I quit. Haven't done any Class A work since 2005. Did get a Class B about 5 yrs ago and stay in state. DOT has taken most of the fun outta trucking.

I drove long haul for four years, as soon as I quit, I couldn’t believe I put myself through that shit. I’ll return when it’s 1$ a mile.....

If you want consistency stay local or run line haul. Running over the road is definitely no joke, I’ve had my cdl for 8 years and just started running over the road for two months. It’s a free for all out here, mostly foreign people. Heard many great stories and trucking was fun even in the 80s. She is correct.

As a former Teamster this broke my heart. Driving truck is blood money again.

@craigcricket7932

Жыл бұрын

Once a Teamster, always a Teamster. I'm a, 29 years active service, Retired Teamster.

@kensmechanicalaffair

Жыл бұрын

I'm a young man in trucking and I've met some valiant men I would go to war with, lose 30 to 40yrs of their life just to be let go before they retire, or being treated like they don't have any value. I actually tear up when I think about it, someone has got to pay for this shit. This is not a joke to me, or a lighthearted topic..

@LogisticsWorldz

Жыл бұрын

It is becoming ever so more blood money. SO many factors go into this nowadays.

Been trucking for 20 years. 7 years with my own company with 4 trucks. It's the biggest curse of my life. Trying to organize the business in a way to get out. But can't find proper help for anything. I can't stand having to hold the hands of every employee I have.

When I hear videos like this I'm so thankful I work for a teamster megacarrier. It's the best job I've ever had in my life.

I wish government leaders would talk to people before making these types of laws

@firstLast-sn3me

Жыл бұрын

Seems to me that a democracy is where you elect a representative to represent your views when creating laws. I don't see a reason why, on the day you vote for a new representative, You also vote to confirm (or not) all the laws they have implemented, in your name, in the past election term.

@mikeklinger1712

Жыл бұрын

A politician is no longer for the ppl! It's the new get rich scheme!

It's always been the same for nurses; there's never been a shortage of nurses, just a shortage of money; no one wanted to pay us wages worth working for. Then when Covid hit, all of a sudden the wages went way up.... for a while.

@starguy9

Жыл бұрын

And they changed the definition of vaccine then fired you if you refused to get it.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Where I live they keep refusing to raise doctor and nurse pay in line with inflation, then act baffled about a “nursing shortage” and “doctor shortage”. A bunch of my pals quit nursing and those who’ve stayed in have done so mostly out of their conscience rather than the pay. An entire industry can’t run on goodwill like that!

@williamrae9954

Жыл бұрын

Still to meet a poor nurse....one who is sensible with money(no huge mortgage or a car that's on tick)....like teachers,well paid for what they do,give them trucker's hours,you'd soon hear about it!

@thelight3112

Жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L There is a shortage of doctors, but that's because of the sadistic requirements to become one. Many bright people who would probably make great doctors choose other careers because they don't want 80+ hour weeks and 10 years of school.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

@@thelight3112 exactly, so the pay should scale better! The NHS paid doctors very well relative to cost of living twenty years ago, now it doesn’t, so people don’t see the point to put in the time.

I retired in 2017 which was a few years earlier than I wanted to but by then many companies were putting driver facing cameras in trucks so they could see and hear everything you do. That was the last straw as I don't need supervision like a grade school kid might. I wouldn't mind un-retiring and maybe drive a van or small local deliver box truck (just part time) but if it has on board cameras then forget it.

Nice video, thanks for getting straight to the point! Very colorful 🙂

I worked as a logistics coordinator for a warehouse 2 years ago and let me tell you it was one of the worst jobs I ever had. I had to deal with truckers constantly showing up late or bailing on orders and even when they did arrive our warehouse would sometimes take hours to get them loaded with the truckers in the end leaving without the load because of the stupid wait time. After that the REAL nightmare began since I would get emails at all hours of the day and weekends telling me the truck broke down or worse they arrived without me scheduling/drivers missing appointments sometimes by just 30 minutes so they had to wait hours if not DAYS for the issue to be resolved since some of these "lovely" companies ran by appointments and refused to unload a driver even if the warehouse was open and i had to call/email to see if I could get the issue fixed which only occasionally worked. I got paid well but when people complain about burnout I strongly agree with them when it came to my job.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

Refusing to slot them in because of strict appointments even when they’re open and available is crazy!

@residentevil4life

Жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L tell me about!! This was around the “supply shortage” before that even became a thing in the media and I had to constantly deliver to this one place in Colorado from NJ where the staff was nasty af and in the end they would reject the drivers for being late even though they had been waiting in a stupid long line for hours and their stupid security team would even sometimes mess up and direct them to the wrong place. The most I ever kept a driver waiting was like 4 days.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

@@residentevil4life a great example of the liberties they’re taking, now that driver time is uncosted for warehouses :/

@bensmith4563

Жыл бұрын

Appointments for trucking is stupid so many variables to screw everything up

@swaghauler8334

Жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L That's absolutely NORMAL in the NE US.

I worked for 3 years doing hot shots hauling cars. Quit when the electronic log book stuff started and I couldn't get away with working 14 hour days anymore. Went from being able to make $300 a day to having to split it up and only making $150 a day

@dknowles60

Жыл бұрын

e logs turn good safe drivers in to bad unsafe drivers

@neilkurzman4907

Жыл бұрын

@@dknowles60 No, it did the exact opposite. The solution isn’t working 24 hours a day. The solution is getting paid to work a safe number of hours. Driving tired isn’t driving safe.

@mikeholland1031

Жыл бұрын

You can legally work 14hrs a day so wtf are you going on about?

Thank you for the update

That Professor is absolutely correct. I've told every company I've worked for that we need to be paid for the time it takes to do things they ask for and the time we spend waiting at plants and customers. Every single one of them that wasn't in the oilfield laughed and told me to go find another job if I didn't like it. Oilfield gigs already paid by the hour or the load. When you spend 168 hours a week at work and you realize you only get paid for about 60 of it which are the hours you're turning highway speeds, you realize that you're a slave to a paycheck and a promise that will never ever ever be fulfilled. That's when you start planning an exit strategy if your bills allow it.

Some of these trucker issues sound like whats been going on with trains lately. I'd like to see you do a video on trains too

As a trucker, this part at 3:15, you should. More of the general public needs to know the ins and outs of what our industry has gone through and why things are how they are now.

@jckgoldness

Жыл бұрын

That's what I said, why is this a rushed 8 minute video. This should have been a 1 hour long investigative news story. At least there's some light being shined on the situation in trucking.

@billjames4771

Жыл бұрын

if trucking is so bad then quit. Why would someone work such a lousy job??? Go out and get a better job! In 5-10 years most trucks will most likely be self-driving anyway, so beat the rush. quit now and get a better job!!

@darthhauler9947

Жыл бұрын

@@billjames4771 For some of us, it's the only life we know that can provide for our families. I was raised in this lifestyle, started just as soon as I was legal to do so, and been doing it ever since. I quit once back in 2011 to try something else but I choose this. I now have a job and a route that's pretty easy, 45-50 hour work week and $800 take home pay plus medical and home every night but that's not easy to get in this industry. Ten years ago I wasn't making this much and gone months at a time. Truck driving sucks but then again everything sucks anymore. I like how everyone says self driving trucks will run the roads but them roads aren't that easy to drive. First off, you got animals that cross the road that'll mess your day up. Two, weather conditions will make those cameras their bitch when it rains real hard or snow flies. Three, no state takes perfect care of their roads and that's a shame in and of itself. Four, you four wheelers and your crazy driving will be the biggest reason it will never work. The default method of safety in those systems is BRAKE! You can't do that with some loads because it will cause load shift, especially on curves and when cars cut so close in front and cut us off just because they weren't paying attention and are about to miss their exit or because they get some sort of thrill out of it. My lane holder device freaks out when ya'll do that and it has caused my load to get tore up because it freaked out and hit the brakes when they didn't need to be jammed on like that. I could go on and on about road safety, but the only way it will ever work is to kick cars off the interstates and preserve them to trucks, both manned and unmanned. Car drivers can go to hell for all I care.

@neilkurzman4907

Жыл бұрын

@@billjames4771 Did You not hear the part where he said there’s 1 million people with CDL’s that don’t use them because they quit? Capitalism is a very blunt instrument. At some point in time you’ll have so many people that the industry has chewed up and spit out that either you will not have deliveries, or you’re going to have to pay ridiculous salaries to convince somebody to drive, which is why Walmart pays good salaries. Because they already reached that point.

@billjames4771

Жыл бұрын

@@neilkurzman4907 Neil...if drivers are needed. the companies will pay them whatever it takes to get them, or go out of business. Just like you said Walmart did. Capitalism is what has given the capitalist world its high standards of living. Many occupations have labor shortages. I am an mechanical engineer and we have no trouble getting jobs as many are needed. New engineering schools at accredited universities are being opened and existing ones expanded. The free market will always respond and correct any short term issues. As for drivers who no longer care to be drivers, for whatever reason, there are other jobs out there. And changing careers can be exiting and profitable I am told. i know a few folks who have done so and are happy.

One of the better cheddar videos I’ve seen in awhile. I learned a lot - thanks!

Really liked this format!

Started trucking 6 months ago under the idea of what trucking used to be I knew reality wasn’t going to be that sweet and it isn’t but for all the problems we have it’s a job I love

@JohnSmith-qs5fg

Жыл бұрын

If you had started 10yrs earlier, you'd more than likely despise the job/industry by now, providing you stayed in it. Anymore OTR trucking is suitable only for ppl who plan to remain single forever and basically live in the truck. No rent, car/insurance, utility's, etc. But, the cost is to your physical and mental health. #LifeChoices

This isn't just trucking... this is all industries now.

Much thanks to all the drivers for performing a vital service. Great respect.

I'm a trucker, a fairly new one. I just started driving in 2020 during the pandemic, and I always hear stories about the good ol days. I would love to see something more in depth on the subject ❤️

@strve6121

Жыл бұрын

You couldn't handle it

@gearjammergamer8560

Жыл бұрын

20+ year driver here. I made more money in 2005 than i do now. ELD's ruined money making in over the road. Back then i was running around 4000 paid miles a week every week. Many years i put 200k on a truck. Who the fuck wants to hang around in a truck stop. If I'm on the road the wheels need to be turning. Sure we got less sleep but who cares it wasn't any less safe than it is now with so many new drivers. I wouldn't even think about running over the road now for the money. I run a day cab now and sleep in my own bed every night. When ELD's came out I took a 30% pay cut so I went to day cab work.

@briznasty

Жыл бұрын

You must be feeling it now. I dispatch so i know how rough it is currently.

Got my class A a couple years back. Then I learned all the nuances. Well I decided I wasn’t going to put in 70 hours at a job where 20 hours I’m standing still and posting big $0’s for hourly pay yet I’m still on the clock. I think for most truckers their real pay is closer to $15 per hour. And the CDL school was packed w people. No shortage.

@willieverusethis

Жыл бұрын

It sounds just like the "teacher shortage".

@dkeith45

Жыл бұрын

It's a tough life. They don't prepare you for the reality of it. I got into it in '93 with Schneider. They paid for truck driving school. Class had twenty guys. After a week, 18 were left. Then Schneider gave more lessons at their Green Bay HQ for another week and we were down to 16. THen a month OTR with a trainer. I bumped into my trainer three months later and he informed me I was the only one of that class of 16 still driving for Schneider. They had a 100% turnover rate. After a year, I had to quit to care for a family member who'd gone through a rough surgery and wanted to take a leave of absence, but Schneider had no such option. What followed was a series of local driving jobs, some good, some bad, but all paid little. I finally quit driving for good in '07.

Don't forget Alfred Kahn, head of the Civil Aviation Board. He championed airline deregulation which then spread to trucking and passenger rail service.

Great job! Thanks

as a retired driver there is no driver shortage per say, there is however a shortage of very good companies to work for. the good companies for the most just aren't there . and drivers well there is no shortage of drivers per say however there aren't that many really good drivers either, cut to the chase , it's a sweat shop industry , long hours , great personal sacrifice on behalf of companies that just don't care regardless of the hype and the nice ads.

She failed to mention that over the years it has become accepted that drivers are never paid for the first two or three hrs at a stop.. and lots of times a carrier will not even pay for detention beyond those hrs either. You don't know how much it can suck unless you sit in a dock for 12+ hrs waiting to load/unload. That's happened to me a few times. Usually when it gets that bad they will compensate me, but not always.. and you have to get detention times written down and copies of time-stamped gate passes if possible. It's a real hassle. I've operated my own truck for several yrs and IMO, it's much better than being a company driver. If you wanna make it in this biz the real money is made in specialized cargo (over-dimensional, permitted loads), leasing, contract haulage, freight brokerage, multi-drop LTL (less than truckload), etc.. anything but standard dry van freight.

Well explained. TY

Got my CDL, hazmat, etc. Worked for a large company. Walked away in less than a month. My REAL per hr rate was less than minimum wage and I didn't know what sleep was anymore. Just "exhaustion naps".

@richardscathouse

Жыл бұрын

I went out feet first as all the injuries caught up with me and I was unable to work.

I would love to see a similar video about flight attendants!

I love how the 'theories' are always "if I screw this group of poor people, the economy will be better for everyone"-always in abstracts--"the economy" and "everyone". But the moment you come out with a 'theory' that rich people have to pay a bit bit more, then it's heresy. You will break "the economy". "The economy" can't handle IT.

@Ausf

Жыл бұрын

The reason being poor people have no choice. At scale, it's very easy to take taxes out of their wages before they get them. Try overtaxing a large entity, and they have the money to take their business somewhere else.

@dr.victorvs

Жыл бұрын

@@Ausf That's the theory, but in practice that doesn't really happen. Most people would not take their business outside of their countries. And the plenty of evidence that there is about that is the fact that raising taxes has been done many times and you just don't see a significant amount of movement. Some people move, it's true, and you could even say that a lot of people move; maybe, like, two hundred companies move! But this "a lot" is like 0.0001% of the companies, which contribute 0.00001% to the economy--and this last fact is true because companies that have really got a grasp on the public, and are therefore big, have the most to lose by moving. The risk of moving a company significantly outweights any tax growth; like, by 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩. Having a business is not just "hey, I can make food; let me open a restaurant". You have to know that there are people willing to pay for your food in that area; people that have the money to pay, that have the means to go to your restaurant at the time they eat, and that like your food, and all that in comparison to all the other options that they have. So, you can't just go like "if I can cook here, I can cook anywhere". And then there's all the logistics and firing all the workers who don't want to move countries and having to move countries yourself and being away from your extended family; it's just not worth it, especially when you consider that the additional profit you're making is not really going to change your life in any meaningful way; you can already buy pretty much whatever you want whenever you want-except for luxury items that are nowhere near life changing, of course. So, are you going to go through all this trouble just because you want to have a fifth Porsche? I think not-but most importantly, regardless of what I think, that is what the data show, but conservatives often ignore that (which goes into my comment about 'think tank' being companies that conservatives bankroll to give them the analysis they want, because the analysis that actual impartial researchers in universities put out does not agree with conservative policies).

@Robbedem

Жыл бұрын

@@dr.victorvs Since the USA has pretty low taxes, increasing them a bit won't cause companies or rich people to move, because most decent places to move to have even higher taxes. The only way to get lower taxes is to move to places that you probably don't want to move to or require other costs (like higher security costs or extra costs for constant electricity or clean water) that negate the benefit of lower taxes.

@olympicfireball

Жыл бұрын

@@dr.victorvs you data is missing a lot of context. At most a dozen people at any given were paying the highest income tax rates when we had drastically higher top end taxes. So those taxes really had no logical effect. So there was no incentive by that means to move. It was basically a feel good bill.

@olympicfireball

Жыл бұрын

@@Robbedem they did when minimum wage was cranked. That is why we lost a ton of production to China in 60s to 80s. With the combination of taxes and minimum wages proposed currently they are likely to go to India this time.

I'm going to trucking school on October 17th. I'm excited to become a trucker. Always wanted to drive around America and camp out in a rv or truck.

@Eyes_Open_Limit_Reached

Жыл бұрын

That bullshit will get old after a month.

Residential electrician turned trucker in 2022. Grossed 128k, spent 70k in diesel, spent, 15k in repairs, spent 5k in food and quipment. Paid 13k in taxes. That comes out to $25k take home pay. Or 2100 a month. Thats not liveable. Quit and went back to electrical work.

The same Carter era deregulations caused a similar downward spiral in working conditions and pay for the railroad and airline industries.

The pay systems in the industry are a major part of the issue. I found a flat day rate that guarantees a very good pay for any day worked over 6 hours (waiting at a warehouse or driving). This is a lucky, and rare situation however. The main pay scale is CPM (Cents Per Mile) and is the system that I’d assume you’re referring to. It’s antiquated to say the least, and shorts drivers for wait times, break downs, traffic, fueling, inspections, and also is often paid out incorrectly as the “exact” miles from one point to another is hard to determine. While many jobs have a system in place to attempt to fill these gaps it’s normally a half hearted attempt with meager pay given for these instances, if any at all. The industry needs to swing toward an hourly, daily or guaranteed annual salary system to properly compensate drivers, and to better provide secure footing for drives financially. One often overlooked aspect is the wide variations in pay from week to week. If I get 50 cents pet mile (low pay but just for an example) and am given loads this week totaling 3000 miles, I receive $1500 in pay. If the following week I only am given loads totaling 2000 miles, I only receive $1000. Let’s say the following week I have a breakdown on Tuesday and only get 400 miles plus breakdown pay of $100 a day, I will receive $800. Take these pay stubs to a bank and show attempt to get a loan, mortgage, or other line of credit. It’s a massive struggle because it’s near to impossible to safely and accurately calculate a weekly income, especially based on the current standard of CPM pay.

I’m one of those millions of drivers with a CDL that hasn’t driven PRO in decades. I Moved on into another industry after 6yrs of 48&Canada. Truly loved the job, hated the BS. I would consider going back to driving now that I’m retired, but after looking at new regs, driving restrictions, all the idle restrictions, crappy APU’s that drivers have to rely on for comfort, I think I’ll stay home. Stay safe drivers, 🙏🏻 to you! 👍🏻🇺🇸

@miketrusky476

10 ай бұрын

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Awesome video!!! As a truck driver, you gave me so much insight on how the industry has changed!!!

@richardscathouse

9 ай бұрын

Lol. I was there 😢 when the teameters became just another bosses union. Under Hoffa Jr 🤬

@richardscathouse

9 ай бұрын

We were so much better off with the Mafia. The Families kept their word, unlike the politicians and college boys. 😢😢😢😢

Do a 10 part series please

Carter was around like 40 years ago though. It made sense to do that 40 years ago. Things need to be updated, for today’s environment. that’s why we have new people in office…

@TheWedabest

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Sadly a lot of people stay in power for decades! Biden, McConnell, Pelosi the list of dinosaurs goes.

It's always interesting to hear opinions of what trucking is all about from people who don't drive professionally

Very good break down. Thank you.

That's interesting I get paid $33 an hour to haul fuel, and I had left a grocery trucking job that paid me $24. I ended up reducing the amount of time I work from 5 to 4 days a week, and stopped working more than 12 hours a day. (i work 8-10hrs) I feel very safe, awake, and alert when I drive and Life is relatively stress-free.

@christopherbosak6315

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Just because you are an exception to the rule doesn’t mean anything

@iNick90

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@@christopherbosak6315 that was suppose to be a response to the "livable wage" that truck drivers got back in the day. If you make $32 an hour today as a trucker im saying you're likely living good unless you overloaded your plate with loans and bills

My dad is a teamster car hauler and makes around $30 an hour and brings home around 100,000 dollars a year with everything being said . He’s been there 23 years. Still some good trucking jobs out there just not as many

@dknowles60

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only 5% will get them good jobs

@patriciacampbell2821

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I hauled thoroughbreds nationwide for Bob Hubbard horse transportation. 15 horses on a van. getting stomped, bit and kicked went with the job. if someone gave us the 'run around' good luck finding someone to haul your thoroughbreds

@robertlee7606

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How many hours does he really work, or has to be gone from home.

@NotAJosh

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@@robertlee7606 he’s home twice during the week and every weekend. Also gets 4 or 5 weeks off each year can’t remember the exact number

@Perich29

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You make more driving for a small company that does flatbed, car hauler, milk tanker, and gas tanker.

I started trucking in 04’. One day I crossed the border 3 effing times. Not making money if the wheels aren’t turning. Trucking is junk and not worth it.

What a great synopsis. Thank you

I quit driving after a terrible experience with Raymour & Flannigan furniture. Was supposed to be drop and hook mileage and stop pay but it started to be wait in the tandem lot for a trailer from Syracuse (4 hrs away) or pick up a trailer in Suffern and wait for a trailer from Syracuse to come and wait for the warehouse to load some of that load onto my trailer and if the night crew left of have to either load it myself to get out on the road or wait for the morning crew. This was all after the kids took over the company. I used to love flat bedding though. Never a long wait and always a quick unload.

As soon as the first question finished, I asked myself, "When was it deregulated?" Yeah, I was surprised Jimmy Carter fell for that CEO-favourite solution instead of Ronald Reagan, but I don't think anyone who has seen the last 40+ years of deregulation is really surprised at the outcome.

@PAYTONLB999

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there are far more regulations in trucking now than before

Back when I worked in manufacturing we’d hit issues finishing a run, the truck would show up at 10am… we would hold him to 5pm! Always felt bad for those guys! How is that fair??

Great explanation. I got out of it in 2008 after 16 years to start a new career working 40ish hours per week instead of 100+. Trucking needs an overhaul.

The only thing I would add is parking there is less than half the needed amount of parking available. This combined with hours of service rules often leaves drivers without any place to legally park meaning that have to choose between violating hos and potentially losing there license or parking illegally and getting a parking ticket. Shouldn't be hard to figure out what most will choose

Great video. You should do one on another blue collar transportation job, based on the Railway Labor Act, with more people leaving the industry, wages stagnating, etc: airline pilots. Very similar story, right down to the idea that there isn’t a shortage of pilots, just many won’t work for airlines.

little note in "not getting paid if the factory isn't ready": if the factory isn't ready and the driver sits for more than (typically) 2 hours, they recieve detention. Each brokerage is different but it's typically 100+ an hour for sitting. Your PhD source is full of it.

Excellent video and historical perspective. 👍

Very well laid-out explanation.

I'm not saying anything you discussed is untrue. I would just like to mention that most jobs today do not pay as well as 1968 inflation corrected. Essentially the buying power of a median worker was at its peak in America around 1968.

Thank you great show

congratulations Karin! Great video!

Trucking is in the top 10 most dangerous jobs, usually 5-6 depending who made the list.

If there were ever a industry that needed the union it is the trucking industry!!!!

@Dubya9W9

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No Thanks!

I got my CDL in 2014. It didn't take long to figure out that trucking was not a good job. Then I got a 4000 dollar fine for some brake infraction that I had already informed the management about, but they said it is ok and they would deal with it latter. That was the last straw for me. I can't make a company fix its equipment. If I refuse to drive the truck, I lose my job. So I threw out my bottle of Malox, and walked away.

I'm a retired Teamster. Non union drivers complain about low pay and everything under the sun. When I told them they should consider being Teamsters they complained even more. The OOIDA was trying to get drivers to not haul cheap freight, that didn't work either. Owner operators taking loads that didn't even pay for the fuel is insanity. "Maybe I can get a better load when I get where this one is going" and pretty soon that just becomes the rate. Shippers only care the load got there somehow.

@richardscathouse

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Rush Limbaugh and Ronnie Raygun did a fine job indoctrination on the rejection of unions.