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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 11:47 AM
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If you could get a job with a company like UPS, drive around 10 hours and be home daily, wear company clothes, never get your hands dirty, make $75,000 a year with benefits and retirement package like Congress...do it. If you are going to work for a company that trains drivers for a full three weeks, hires illegal, non-English speaking immigrants, pay nothing and sometimes force you to be a warehouseman unloading their trucks (i.e., Swift, B.J. Hunt, Werner, PAM, and most of the others), do yourself a favor and get on welfare. I would suggest YellowRoadway for a good job, but they are not expected to make it through the end of the month. Obama will buy them and put the less fortunate in the driver's seats eventually, so forget that idea also. The LESS you do in America the higher your reward monetarily.
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 1:34 PM
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> I t all depends on who you work for and what your
> hauling ,anymore there are no real truck drivers left
> . Besides if driving was still such a great thing
> then people would be jumping in trucks by the
> thousands ,right now all you see is ads in the paper
> by the hundreds begging for drivers .It's so bad we
> are having to import drivers from mexico .You can bad
> mouth all you want but convicts have it better than
> truck drivers do ,companys will crap on a person so
> fast it's not even funny
Wow convicts having it better than truck drivers ......ok ... well heres my take . I am 53 years old and have been involved in trucking since I was 14 years old so I think 39 years experience is a fair sampling of trucking all be it in Canada . In the last 24 years I have put away my gear jamming boots and donned office attire and mamaged somewhere in the vicinity of 500- 600 different drivers and not one of them that ever took a dispatch or a pay cheque from me came close to being treated like a convict exept perhaps the ones that behaved like one ......... I have the good fortune to have developed friendships with truckers, warehouseman , clerks , dispatcahers , and CEO's from dozens of trucking companies and I dont see the world you describe , nope not even close . And I have seen it get better for tHe drivers with some pretty dang nice hardware to play with compared to the the old Transtar halfshacks I got dispatched to. ......
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From:
Inuvik
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 3:15 PM
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Dave I totally agree. We all have choices to make, take low paying jobs with low expectations OR make a career out of it. To be the best means working with the best. It's a tougher path with bigger rewards. Working in the north is different from working down south, not a better "breed", just a different one.
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Midland, TX.
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(34 of 39)
Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 4:36 PM
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Two of my mist favorite people in Canada, how you guys doing? The boss let everyone off today at noon, looks like all the trucks will be in by noon Friday. ( backsliders) She ( C.G. thinks everyone needs time off, as we are gearing up for a busy week...next week. Have a good weekend.
Dave
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 7:52 PM
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feds 67 and kcehcytilaer ...you could not have said it better.
but no matter what yah say there are still gonna be those that say they can do it better and that we are all wimps...i say bring em on.........
Some flatlander thats never run an 16% grade for 3 + miles with 100,000 plus on...fer sure ...no brakes no brains..
oh and then have him stare at a set of triples...uhhhhhh.what do these do...
Gotta love the arm chair quarterbacks...they really need to get a life, and quit trying to live thru those that do this for a living 24/7 365 a yr
see how well the old family survives...when dad or mom aint home for weeks on end......my marriage is going on 24 yrs,, been lucky,,and have worked for some awsome employers (WINK )
you folks got to remember IF YOU BOUGHT IT A TRUCKER BROUGHT IT
yes I am proud to say thats what I do for a living..and I do it with pride!!!!!!
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From:
Spfld ILL
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(36 of 39)
Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 2, 2009 9:21 PM
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> > I t all depends on who you work for and what
> your
> > hauling ,anymore there are no real truck drivers
> left
> > . Besides if driving was still such a great
> thing
> > then people would be jumping in trucks by the
> > thousands ,right now all you see is ads in the
> paper
> > by the hundreds begging for drivers .It's so bad
> we
> > are having to import drivers from mexico .You
> can bad
> > mouth all you want but convicts have it better
> than
> > truck drivers do ,companys will crap on a
> person so
> > fast it's not even funny
>
> Wow convicts having it better than truck drivers
> ......ok ... well heres my take . I am 53 years old
> and have been involved in trucking since I was 14
> years old so I think 39 years experience is a fair
> sampling of trucking all be it in Canada . In the
> last 24 years I have put away my gear jamming boots
> and donned office attire and mamaged somewhere in the
> vicinity of 500- 600 different drivers and not one of
> them that ever took a dispatch or a pay cheque from
> me came close to being treated like a convict exept
> perhaps the ones that behaved like one ......... I
> have the good fortune to have developed friendships
> with truckers, warehouseman , clerks , dispatcahers ,
> and CEO's from dozens of trucking companies and I
> dont see the world you describe , nope not even close
> . And I have seen it get better for tHe drivers with
> some pretty dang nice hardware to play with compared
> to the the old Transtar halfshacks I got dispatched
> to. ......
Yes true convicts have it better than truck drivers ,and I quoted good old JB Hunt when he was testifying before congress in the 90's trying to get the hours of service and other laws and uniform speed limits nationwide to improve life for drivers like he really cared I belive . .But driving for a living has become a joke since the liberials and the goverment think they know how to operate trucks .trucking has become like farming in america after somebody shows up in the office and says I am from the goverment how can I help .But you being from Canada I can see your point of veiw since you guys whine and cry when an American truck hauls a load back out and you accuse us of taking work from the canadians .
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 3, 2009 5:25 AM
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.But you being from Canada I can see your point
> of veiw since you guys whine and cry when an American
> truck hauls a load back out and you accuse us of
> taking work from the canadians
No-Brainer , you really dont know much about trucking period . the word "' CABOTAGE" was first applied when you guys south of the 49th started the whining to protect the trucking of the USA. As a matter of fact the ability to have one of the southern trucks unload in one Canadian city and then reload at another Canadian city to get back south was granted by our DOT and it wasnt reciprocated on your end and our trucks had to deadhead home . The whining as you call it was originated there not here . Canadian trucking actually had to purchase existing US carriers and use that division to try and compete to get loaded miles instead of non revenue deadheading .
No-Brainer you sure find it easy to make yourself look as stupid as I think you really are , bravo Dave
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From:
Yellowknife, NT Canada
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 3, 2009 7:46 AM
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..... and a HAPPY 4th of July weekend to you and all our friends south of 49 ..
> Two of my mist favorite people in Canada, how you
> guys doing? The boss let everyone off today at noon,
> looks like all the trucks will be in by noon Friday.
> ( backsliders) She ( C.G. thinks everyone needs time
> off, as we are gearing up for a busy week...next
> week. Have a good weekend.
> Dave
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Re: Who else thinks this show is boring?
Jul 3, 2009 8:25 AM
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Yes indeed ,
Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July celebration 
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