Anybody else's old company have such wild drama?

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adventure_dog@reddit

they'll also give you an extra $100 to stay out Thanksgiving and christmas weeks.

which is meaningless af anywhere as you'll be sitting most the week anyway without pay

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UhOhAllWillyNilly@reddit

How funny. Us OTR guys think you local drivers are the real suckers seeing the same old scenery day after day. And dealing with all that traffic.

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You forgot some of them only get 10 hours off and are expected back in the truck. Also drives 30+ minutes to work and home hardly enough time to eat, shit, shower, and get some sleep. Meanwhile, I take 1 step, and I'm home.

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NPC1990@reddit

I don’t deal with any traffic with my current local gig and you deal with traffic OTR lol

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WontSwerve@reddit

My life has more value than seeing different scenery from whatever piss soaked truck stop you end up stuck in for the night.

There's always ONE OTR guy who think being able to set cruise and hold a wheel straight for 99% of his day takes skill.

Usually they don't make it past training with me in the city.

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UhOhAllWillyNilly@reddit

Some of us never stay in truck stops. And you must be a really “good” trainer if none of your students pass training.

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WontSwerve@reddit

They're not students. They're new hires. The OTR guys coming to try local struggle to keep to 8 mins per stop and back up even though day cabs are smaller and more nimble.

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UhOhAllWillyNilly@reddit

Oh dang, I’m sorry you’ve been stuck with new guys who just can’t seem to get with the program. It’s true, LTL is a different beast from OTR (I did LTL when I first started but hated the Bay Area and wanted the heck out haha). Very odd how your trainees can’t back a daycab because everyone knows they’re easier than sleepers, I wonder if they might be exaggerating their experience or something. Us reefer guys often do multiple picks/drops (typically ~5+5). How about if we agree that different aspects of trucking appeal to different people? Some prefer local & some like the open road.

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WontSwerve@reddit

I was kinda being an ass and speaking in general terms.

The attitude they have with "Buddy, I do 600 miles a day" they all seem to have. Like they've seen it all, when really they've just seen a ton of highways.

Generally they struggle getting into the tight spots, blindsiding, backing in off the road.... etc. I have had two guys who I just couldn't let finish the day.

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adventure_dog@reddit

yep and those guys end up bitter and miserable realizing they should have just gone home

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Independent-Fun8926@reddit

I drove for a company that paid an extra $1000 for staying out for Christmas and New Year’s. Had to do both. First time I did it, I state in Maine for three days over Christmas waiting on the Walmart DC to unload and release my trailer. Great times.

Second time was better, I actually ran.

Wouldn’t do it again. Just isn’t worth it. OTR as a general is so fucked how we have to stay out 4, 6, even 8 weeks just to get a week home. All for measly K70, 80K. Insulting. There’s a fee companies that do 3 on, 1 week off, which should be a standard

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xDoomKitty@reddit

If a company is doing bad, it's usually a combination of everyone being at fault. Blaming things only on one group is a terrible mindset to have because you overlook the responsibility of others that may be at fault, including the owner.

This is a team game. We all do well, or none of us do. I hope my company never gets so big that people stop caring about serving the customer and supporting each other.

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robexib@reddit

Naw. More than often not issues towards the top create issues that the bottom can't reasonably deal with, and it causes the whole thing to collapse. Do not place blame on the drivers when desk jockeys micromanage the org into a grave.

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M0O53@reddit

Yeah, my former company, a steel hauler in Southern Ontario has an owner known for temper tantrums, yelling, and screaming and drinking and such issues, tried to yell and scream at me after putting in my two weeks and fired me on the spot, government made him pay me a bunch of extra money for it, he didn't learn his lesson and now it's happening again with someone else except this time he was stupid enough to message them a threat (just providing people with evidence.....) so harassment is getting added to the whole thing. It's going to make my ordeal look like chump change more than likely. The company has been on the decline for a little bit since he took over from his dad as owner, all little things are falling between the cracks even though the trucks are decent, pay is average, and dispatch isnt forced. Just every other single thing from the shop to the amount of equipment on trailers to basically anything being done properly at all...... (Not to mention he pays his owner operators percentage and never lets them see the original rates)

As much as I always praise small family owned companies as places for newer drivers to look, this particular one is a good example of what to watch out for especially with regime changes in ownership.

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santanzchild@reddit

My last job was at panel 2 when I left. Sure 3 amd 4 will follow in a year or so.

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12InchPickle@reddit

This is 100% an old employee of mine. They’ve since gone out of business. Before they called it quit tho. They went from shit talking and always blaming us. To begging us to take loads or not reject loads cause of faulty equipment. Then came the “I’ll give you more money”. Which never actually happened lol. As we all knew the state of the company.