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Re: Trucker jobs go unfilled, leading to delayed deliveries

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Oh, I understand that truck driving is definitely not the best of jobs, ribit ... but, it is a significant segment of employers who are really looking to hire in a time of great unemployment. However, as the article says, potential employees without experience are looking at an investment of time and money to get the proper training to do the job.

As you already know all too well, there's no easy way out ... everybody simply has to take one step at a time. I tell my boys that life ain't easy ... you have to work hard and put up with a lot of crap you'd rather not do, but get over it and get on with it.




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Re: Trucker jobs go unfilled, leading to delayed deliveries
By: ribit
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Tue, 26 Jun 12 7:35 AM
Msg. 62431 of 65535

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"It's getting harder to get drivers," says Mike Card, president of Combined Transport of Central Point, Ore., and incoming chairman of the American Trucking Associations. "I could hire 50 guys right now." He now employs 393 drivers.

If you are a driver for one of the big truck companies, they don't want to pay you when you are stuck in traffic. If you are scheduled to be somewhere at 8am and you are ontime and the folks there don't get ya unloaded til 8pm they don't want to pay you for that either. If yer dead heading back they don't want to pay ya for that. It's not uncommon for a driver to work 70 hours in a week and not get paid but for about 35.


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