Comment history for UpMayo

UpMayo  (anonymous) says...

Go figure, truck drivers make more money than any other job out there. Our company pays drivers over a grand a week and all they do is complain they don't make any money. I work 50 hours a week for a lot less. Drivers call at all hours of the day and night, weekends, holidays and even when I am out of the country. For what? Directions to where they are going,(who's driving that truck)money to eat while they're on the road, (what did you do with the money you made, ask your wife for the money) to tell me they are running out of fuel and what should they do. You're driving a truck dumbass this is not rocket science. Things in this industry haven't changed in a hundred years. It snows, it rains, it's foggy, your always late anyway. For the money you make be on time for goodness sake. Drivers are the same all over the country, we bend over backwards to help them, give them jobs, nice trucks with lot's of power and comfort and they leave it in a truck stop somewhere for us to send a tow truck after to retrieve. They jump from one company to the next and burn bridges, but there are so many companies begging for drivers they don't care and hire them anyway.
Guess what? you guys are driving trucks. You're not flying planes. Why should you be so spoiled? I have been kicking around this industry from the bottom up. I was a driver, warehouse manager, sales manager, dispatcher, and safety director(currently) I make less than they do, but I get to go home every night. That is the trade off here guys. Go out on the road if you want to make an honest living. My truck had no air, no radio, no sleeper, no air bags, no phone and no tracking device. If I called my dispatcher and asked for directions he would have had me bring the truck back and fire me (God forbid I run out of fuel or needed money to eat)
SUCK IT UP NANCIES. TAKE YOUR LUMPS AND QUIT YOUR CRYING. Maybe if the teamsters wouldn't have done so much damage to the industry we wouldn't be in this situation. They ruined it themselves and now they want more. (Guess what your company is going to close too someday.)
God help us. I can't wait to hit the lottery or move to Youngstown and sell drugs, since everyone there seems to think the steel mills are coming back, I may as well wait for it too and live off the state.