All my statements are wrong, My point well never be attained in this discussion, therefore I plead the fifth. Have a nice day!!1

 

I just figured it out.. he is arguing and yelling at himself, for paying himself low wages.

 

Tobytob, the majority of the workers in Transportation are underpaid and overworked. Once you start to grow your trucking company, you will under pay your employees also (they will make the same statements youve made). Have you cut out the middle man yet? No you havent because youre complaining about a broker making a $800 commission off of you. You accepted the rate. How much should he have made? How many direct customers are you servicing? The majority of the company drivers that I have known have little to no desire to make $50-$65K++ per year. I have had a small amount of company drivers to make $75K+ but they didnt do it running a bunch of miles. They did it by working in the trailer, but "steering wheel holders" dont want to get in the trailer and some want to be home every weekend. I understand your argument, but i have also been on the other side of your argument. It is what it is and we cant change it. You wont change it. When drivers and O/Os start fattening your pockets, you will be on the other side of this argument. You will see and it wont take long.

 

I see a lot of drivers complaining about how the market doesn't want to pay them their fair share. They blame the free market. I say turn it around and use what you can against the free market. The biggest factor in this is which carrier you choose to drive for. It's as simple as that. I'm not talking about jumping to a new carrier every few months because the grass is greener. Research needs to be done on any potential new carrier (or your own gig).

This free market excersize is simply the #1 way we can influence wages and our treatment. How do I know? It worked splendidly at our company. When fuel prices started to go up last year, our surcharge was way behind. Around 15% of our drivers(our company is mostly o/o) quit. All of a sudden our FSC is fixed, and even a small raise in January.

 

This topic is hilarious! Totybob, the sooner you'll realize, that "world" owns you nothing, the better you'll be.

 

I see what he is saying.

A buddy of mine just bought a brand new Case 590 backhoe. Paid 90,000 for it and when he rents it out he gets 700/day. A brand new tri/axle dump is 145,000 and when you rent it out your lucky to get 640/day. These are 8hr days. Plus a back hoe you dont have to pay no insurance on it and it isnt a high wear item like the dump trucks are. Tires last forever on a backhoe and in an 8hr day a backhoe might burn 15gal of fuel. It should be the other way around but it isnt.

 

Maybe he is just trying to vent his frustrations, & being out on the road with not many to listen to ya, other than other operators who may feel the same way, he vented here.