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What is the longest you've ever stay with a company and why did you eventually quit (or get fired)?

Posted by MinisterHoja@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 154 comments

Just curious...

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3batsinahousecoat@reddit

Well, I've been at my current job 7-1/2 years, but prior to this the longest I've stayed was 3. And I left that job because my boss was so bad that, he started February of that year and I left at the end of July... but 7 PEOPLE OTHER THAN ME quit because of this man.
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throwed-off@reddit

11 years at my current employer. I thought I'd end up retiring from here, but ever since they bought sleeper trucks they can't seem to get me home daily anymore despite this being a local job. So I'm about to go to a daycab company that pays a little better.
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pstbltit85@reddit

12 years then changed jobs for better pay. 11 years but fired for making a race related comment. 12 years then retired.
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Salty_Rule_8400@reddit

What was the comment? 🤣🤣
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Conscious_Grass_853@reddit

You know it had to be bad if it was reported. I’ve had drivers use the n word in front of me like it’s nothing. I was like “woah dude” in my head because why would you even chance saying that to a driver who just started. I don’t say anything that can be misconstrued. I don’t even flirt with the cute os&d clerk.🤣
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rednecksisterhumper@reddit

He told me I'm so white my family tree looks like a stick.
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BoobySlap_0506@reddit

Best comeback is to say "better looking like a wreath, like yours"
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BeenThruIt@reddit

He said Dirty Dale wasn't the the best driver ever.
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emptybowloffood@reddit

Fireable offense anywhere.
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Lost-Astronaut-8280@reddit

This is actually a felony in every US state
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justaguynumber35765@reddit

The first amendment enters the chat
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Raezzordaze@reddit

RRRRRAAAAGGGGGEEEE
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ramanw150@reddit

The intimidator you mean
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jshkohler@reddit

Anyone that says that should be shot on sight
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Independent-Fun8926@reddit

He said that “Billy Jean is [dolphin noises] and can [elephant noises]. She’s a [more dolphin noises].” What a potty mouth!
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Beekatiebee@reddit

I’ve only been driving 5 years, but I’ve been doing McD’s foodservice with Martin Brower for 2.5 years now. Will probably retire at this gig lmao. Easy shit and good people.
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TheCenci@reddit

You like MB? You work nights? I've worked for a reyes company before and didn't hate it. When I see the Mcd's guys they're just dropping pallets in stores.
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Beekatiebee@reddit

Yah it’s a great gig. Pallet vs cart is DC dependent, mine is also just pallets. I work a 4-12 schedule, generally noon to midnight. Full union benefits at mine, I hit $100k on the dot last year.
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aliveonlyinfantasies@reddit

Wait wait wait, can you hook me up? lol
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Beekatiebee@reddit

Lmao if you live in Oregon probably yeah I could
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THExPILLOx@reddit

Martin bower. Depending on the location that name either sends shivers down my spine, or means I'll have a short and easy day lol
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Montreal4life@reddit

I'm trying to get into Martin Brower near me that pay and bennies are awesome but they're asking for "up to 5 years experience" almost there but not quite... it's not the dream driving a hooded stick shift truck doing flatbed but the pay will make me sleep easy lol
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Waisted-Desert@reddit

12 years, moved to an area they didn't have enough freight in to get me home regularly. 5 years, left for a local driving job. 4 years, laid off when covid killed live entertainment. 4 years, still here.
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Ok_Bug_6470@reddit

You were a stripper for 4 years?
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Waisted-Desert@reddit

I couldn't afford to be a stripper, no one is paying to see this body.
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Capn_T_Driver@reddit

I started with Werner in 2019 and drove for them as a company guy until the end of 2020, when I bought my first truck. I stayed on with them through April 2021 as an owner-op before going to another smaller carrier that paid percentage rather than per mile, stayed with them for 13 months before I moved to another carrier that paid a bit better percentage, stayed with them for about 11 months before I set out on my own authority, which I’ve had for the last 19 months.
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Plastic_Tourist9820@reddit

What does “own authority” mean and by percentages what do you mean? How’s that pay structure look?
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bassnote1@reddit

Whatever is left after paying ALL the bills on the truck/load is his paycheck. Which, if he's smart, he's banking most of it for those loads that have a negative paycheck after delivery. He's also chasing people who don't pay promptly. Stupid high risk for mediocre reward. I know O/O's who make really good money every year, but more who are nickel and diming their way up and down the highway.
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Plastic_Tourist9820@reddit

Crazy, never would have thought there would be that much night and day.
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bassnote1@reddit

Sorry for not answering all your question, only answered the O/O part. Pay by percentage means you get paid a percentage of what the load paid the company. So, if a company is paying 50% of the load, and the load paid them $1000, then your pay from that load is $500.
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Plastic_Tourist9820@reddit

Weird. Had no idea this was a thing. Thank you.
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Princetrix@reddit

Basically he owns the company and truck. He finds his own loads and is in charge of everything. More stress/risk but in my opinion it opens up a lot of options.
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Rottenpigz180@reddit

I want to do this but man the overhead scares the shit out of me
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Proper-Teacher2268@reddit

First five years will break you. The next five you might have learned something and make a little money. It’s a better Life/Career Being a Driver for a smaller family company. Trucks are pretty much the worst investment ever unless you are willing to sacrifice everything to sit in your own seat
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DenseCommunication82@reddit

I respectfully disagree about smaller family companies being a better career move. My wife and I drove for a couple small family owned companies. Nice people but the pay and benefits kinda sucked. Now we drive for XPO. We run for 3.5 days and then home 3.5 days. We each gross 2k per week. The benefits are great too! Well, the prescription plan sucks but the rest is good. Lol
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Old-Wolf-1024@reddit

It should
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North-Profit-1211@reddit

Damn hoss
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Riyeko@reddit

2015 to 2019 Freymiller. I got into a relationship with another driver wjo had pissed off thr dispatch lead. He wouldn't make a load on time due to being loaded late. Anyway, they slowly reduced our miles to the point where I was making $30 a week. Yes I still have the paystubs for that. We left because even after trying o talk to the higher ups about miles, they brushed me off or didn't have time. Constantly shoved us aside for "more pressing issues". I left. Less than a thousand miles a week and 3 or 4 days sitting not even making layover or detention even though I asked, I couldn't do it.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

Y'all still together?
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Riyeko@reddit

Yes
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

Perfect
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kona_kenanu@reddit

Currently? FedEx freight three years but might leave to Abf, we’ll see
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nastyzoot@reddit

5 years twice, lol. Everywhere I go gets sold. First one to the evil Pumpkin and next one was the end of UPS Freight. With a mulitgenerational family company now. Hopefully for good.
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Metaltom1970@reddit

I had 10 years at UPS freight when they sold it, quit shortly after and at Crete for the rest of my career, hopefully less than 5 years more.
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051OldMoney@reddit

How u get into ups freight?
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riottshields@reddit

There is no longer a freight division at UPS. They sold it to TForce in 2021. Feeder driver (linehaul essentially) is an option but you have to start inside loading and unloading and work your way up to that via package car driver first. I have a friend who just got accepted into a local feeder spot and he’s been with the company 13 years, 9 of those were in a package car as a regular full time driver. Outside hire is technically a possibility, but it’s extremely rare.
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KilljoyTheTrucker@reddit

Tforce spun an assload of it off too. It's changed hands a couple times. TA dedicated is the current bag holder. They ran the Advance Auto accounts that are all getting shut down out west. I bounced last year when they wanted to cut my float pay 60% after firing my manager for refusing to move out east lol
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051OldMoney@reddit

Damn bro, thanks for the info. I thought UPS Freight was the feeder division.
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nastyzoot@reddit

I would highly suggest not working for TForce.
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nastyzoot@reddit

I ran their air freight for a shitty local firm for like three months. I liked the guys, and they liked me. Offered me a job, and I took it. UPS sucks to work for. So be careful what you wish for.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

They never say 😂
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051OldMoney@reddit

They never wanna see the others eat smh. I asked a UPS guy & he told me starting as a package handler because theres people that drive the fans & goes by seniority blah bla bla. I don’t got time to wait until a position opens
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Lost-Astronaut-8280@reddit

Worked as a ups package handler for a couple months, bottom of the barrel type of labor. You don’t want to do that, the seniority bullshit is true though but man you’re gonna get in that truck with more back problems than ever.
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051OldMoney@reddit

Yeah I know, I worked at FedEx Ground for almost 2 years by the first year I was already tired & got my cdl. Ik the pay is good with them but they get bombarded with stops & work. I’m not gonna go through that again
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North-Profit-1211@reddit

Apply jackass
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ben45750@reddit

Out of curiousity. How long did you stay with the first company that got bought out by the evil pumpkin? How much did it change? What was the last straw for you? Reason I ask is that our company got bought out by the same company. It’s been about 2 years. We’ve had some changes, mostly safety related. I’ve stayed because I have a good boss but it’s gets tough.
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nastyzoot@reddit

They really fucked us. Their plan all along was to gut us and move the freight to what was gonna be their new final mile division. Within 5 years the original company was gone, all property sold, and Schneider was out of the business entirely. We did furniture. We got completely fucked.
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Hornet-Standard@reddit

17 years then got fired for not taking the cheap loads. they wanted to get me to haul a new contract at 400$ less a day for essentially the same amount of work. There not so subtle way of giving me a pay cut.
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MrPotato4217@reddit

I did 5 years with arrow before the chained the doors and left us all on the side of the road. I also did 5 with lightning transport then the owners brother shot my brother because drugs.
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joepancakez@reddit

Didn't see that coming
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SirConstant1119@reddit

Damn dude, that sucks. I ran with a container hauler for 6 months when I found out they were a bunch of coke and hooked fiends. Coke, hookers and business don't mix for sure.
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Silver-Body1114@reddit

>Coke, hookers and business don't mix for sure. This guy's never lived in Miami.
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RoadStocks@reddit

Or japan
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SirConstant1119@reddit

Hahaha I guess I'm missing out
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AccomplishedLimit3@reddit

Coke, Hookers, Business LLC.
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Librado65@reddit

The last sentence some straight up comedy shit 🤣 dude said it so nonchalantly
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Baconated-Coffee@reddit

United States Army. I stayed for as long as I did mostly because of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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good2knowu@reddit

37 years for Buster Brown. “Yes sir, can I have some more shit please sir.” Retired and wintering in FL.
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RealBigDicTator@reddit

Been driving for almost 13, longest stint was 5 years with Swift. I quit because I was moving across the country and wanted to do something else for a bit when I got there. I've worked for two other companies in the oil fields of West Texas, and would have loved to keep working there, but there always seemed to be a downturn in the industry. I lived in Las Vegas and would fly back and forth once every 4-5 weeks and take a week off. When it got slow, I could no longer justify doing that, because I could just get a local job, make the same money, *and* be home every night. I've been doing local dump-truck/dump-trailer work for a friend of a friend the last two years and will stay with him as long as he'll have me.
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Alone_Tea7772@reddit

Almost a year and a half with my first company. Looking to jump into a different company this year for better pay and benefits.
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LongHaulinTruckwit@reddit

8 years with my current company
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bruce_ventura@reddit

29 years as a research scientist in aerospace and defense R&D. I retired to spend more time with my family.
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IBringTheHeat1@reddit

2.5 years with UPS now, just another 33 years to max out my pension and I’ll be outta here
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eaa61@reddit

30 years going to retire in the next couple of months.
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Joeybowman@reddit

Worked for 9 nears with a small Furniture carrier but we were one of the biggest names in that niche. JB Hunt bought us out and I stuck it out for a year before leaving.
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RobF86@reddit

I started with UPS part time nearly 20 years ago when I was 17 or 18. Still with them now.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

You went from picker to driver?
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RobF86@reddit

Started part time as package handler, then full time non CDL delivery driver, then tractor trailers
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CBTwitch@reddit

13 years with Prime so far. We planning on leaving around September for a local gig.
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legendarygarlicfarm@reddit

Driving for 5 years. Currently at my company for the last 3 years. Probably the last company ill ever work for. It's too easy and they pay me too much money.
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odinskriver39@reddit

Retired at age 65 after 38 years at one of the biggest LTLs. Declined other job offers and am glad I did. Saw many competitors go out of business. That was luck. Skill was staying safe and adapting to a changing work environment. Had the opportunity to do other jobs besides drive and seniority paid off. Advice to young drivers is to not let stress make you make bad decisions. Staying safe and doing the documentation properly will serve you much better than taking risks with the rules, customers or traffic to try to impress a dispatcher.
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SaltyCat8388@reddit

Pay. It’s always pay…
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roytwo@reddit

I was at my last driving job 19 years until I retired, three of our divers had been there longer than I was. A regional manufacturer of construction related supplies, I delivered them to Big Box hardware stores and job sites. 60 hrs a week, 2 to 300 miles a day, as part of our 10 truck fleet. Good pay, overtime pay and benefits, weekends off. Last year there made $109,000. My advice, get a job driving for a company that is delivering their own goods, not a trucking company. I have had two of each type over almost 40 years, and the trucking companies were the worst to work for
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Racer187@reddit

Started with a family run company in ‘82 that was bought out in ‘90 where I stayed until the parent company closed our depot in 2015, so 33 years for essentially the same company.
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sandgroper81@reddit

Currently at 6 years with family owned company getting larger all the time . I ain't goin' nowhere best job ever
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Racer187@reddit

Yeah, I felt the same way, but I also understood that taking the offer was the best plan for all involved. My boss stayed on as a consultant for an extended transitional period so it basically felt the same as it was before the buyout.
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SirConstant1119@reddit

Wow, hellova ride big dog!
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Racer187@reddit

Thanks, but unfortunately I was still too young to retire, so I had to start at the fuggin bottom at another company. After 7 years of dealing with a ridiculous level of upper management incompetence, I was able to hang up the keys and retire. That was 2 years ago and I couldn't be happier.
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redbaja@reddit

20 years with CPC Logistics assigned to Walgreens. Fingerprinting loads for them from 25 to 45 and I was ready for a change.
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bassnote1@reddit

I'll have 30 years in April with my current company and plan to retire February next year unless I get fired or win the lottery first. 
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youngdiamonds15@reddit

Started with knight doing dollar tree account for 2.5 years. Got fired for getting a warning for speeding. Now driving local for the coal mines for 6 months. Definitely miss those 2k checks every week.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

2k a week? I think you just sold me on Knight
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youngdiamonds15@reddit

You definitely work for that 2k. It's all touch freight. Only reason I stayed so long was because I had a great work schedule and delivery route/region. If it wasn't for that I was going to quit the first month.
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bentstrider83@reddit

Still with Indian River Transport since 2015. But definitely looking at leaving to a more daycab centric place with straight 12 hour shifts. Early 40s and feel it's better late than never to get my health steered back in the right direction. That and I want to start taking college courses again and also focus on hobbies I used to do quite regularly before the pandemic cooked all of our local work.
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Runawaytrucker@reddit

6 years, 5 months, 28 days. I quit because of the lack of respect from the new terminal manager and quite frankly It was hard to continue to come to the same terminal everyday after the workplace fatality I witnessed.
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Doppleganger1064@reddit

9yr 10mo with last company, time to move, environment at first was just ball busting, then just got too hostile. That was December 2017. Moved to my current company and after 6mos I went out and bought my own truck and leased on to them. 7yrs still going.
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Lolivares93@reddit

4 years this year leased onto the same place that I’ve come and gone from for the last almost 8 years lol.
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FlappyJ1979@reddit

10 years. Left to buy my own truck and went out on my own. After 12 years as O/O sold it and went back to company driver for the past 2 years
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

Why'd you give up O/O
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heathenfloydsson@reddit

This is going to sound silly, but my record for longest held job is 2 years straight. Well, from 16-20 I worked at one restaurant. But from 21 to 27, I could never hold anything longer than 9-12 months, some as little as not even 2 weeks. (Amazon warehouse work ain't no joke. Depressing as fuck. Tried twice.) Sometimes it was out of my hands, sometimes I just wasn't a good fit. Sometimes I made bad choices. Just couldnt figure out what I wanted to, or was any good at. But eventually, I landed with my first regional OTR job w Lily Transportation, and stuck with it for 2 years. Thought I had a future there. However, our office was a newer one, and so when our contract was bought out due to foreclosure of our main client, our entire office got laid off, managers and dispatch included. Couple drivers were lucky to live in an area where they could get picked up by another office, but I was not one of them. Sucks too, 6 figure income, home often. Amazing management. I was a lucky man for those 2 years. Doubt I'll ever find the perfect combination of cash and culture like that again. Shit was promising, and life changing. Very sudden too. In 2 weeks I went from having the best job of my life to being on the street. My high performance and top safety scores meant nothing in the end. Just the convenience of location.
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Notols@reddit

3 years at Roehl where I got my CDL. When I left the max pay after 10 years with the company was 52 cents. I was making 42. At the time you could make 50 straight out of school about anywhere else. Went to a smaller reefer company. Lasted about 9 months. Best money I ever made but got tired of running to NYC every weekend. Little over 2 years for a friend that had a truck leased into CRST. Got tired of whenever his truck went down for repairs or something he'd take the truck I had and just left me sitting at home. Now almost a year with a tanker company. Plan on leaving in a few months when we move to a different state and I find something local.
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dhuc24@reddit

22 years and still here 5 more years to retirement
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SexMachine666@reddit

2 years is the longest I've lasted anywhere. First one I left because they hired a new terminal manager who thought yelling at me to do something illegal was going to work on me. It didn't. I got paid. Second one was really great but I moved to Florida and they wouldn't run me. Third was a really good company but I thought I'd try my hand at owning my own truck and did that for a couple years until insurance became too unreasonable and my girl broke up with me and I was a mess for awhile. Last one was decent until they wanted me to do illegal shit and didn't want to take no for an answer so I brought the truck back home. I won't mess up my license for anyone, lol.
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hesslake@reddit

Started in 81 still here
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A_Dash_of_Time@reddit

6 years. The first 2 years were great. Everything felt like smooth sailing. Even when there were problems. Year 3 and 4 was when the son took over and started dripping his toes into making changes. Some were natural changes like adding or dropping accounts. Some were internal changes that just made daily life more tedious. Year 5 and 6 straight sucked. Every day felt like they were trying to squeeze ever more blood from a stone. Changes were made that made working there more complicated, more corporate-like. Good people left or got fired. Relatives with little experience came in and took over important roles, blah blah. So many bad new ideas on how to run the company and maximize profit, at the cost of moral fortitude. All while dealing with Covid. In the end, I started loudly complaining about things like not knowing when I'd be home until 2 hours beforehand (local/semi-regional company), how drivers were being treated more like peons than important parts of a well-oiled machine, etc. The bossman called me into the office on a Friday and asked me to come back Monday with basically a report on how I could improve myself and be a better part of the team...because it certainly wasn't leadership causing all the problems. I went home knowing I wasn't coming back to that nightmare.
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Silver-Fish1849@reddit

Did like almost 5 years with a very good company Had a year left till truck was paid off Dad the owner of the company stepped down and retired partly due to giving a kidney to someone Dumbass arrogant son took over ran the company into the ground,it was a small to midsized company. Dad was highly respected, kid blew it all bragged about firing 50 drivers in a week because he thought they weren't making him enough money Got into an argument with him over something he caused he threatened us,we left The maintenance company asked us what wad going on because drivers a lot of them were leaving right and left There are still around, just much smaller and might be struggling
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ConfectionOk201@reddit

20 years with a small local company. I only left because the two contracts I was handling ended, and they basically stopped +rucking except for stuff for their ranch. I still help them once in a while. I still have a key to the shop, in fact. They are like family, honestly.
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Old-Wolf-1024@reddit

Current outfit…..9 years and counting…….prior to that I drove a propane truck for 6 years. Got fired for not kissing supervisors ass
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Stunning-Egg-9469@reddit

2 years at my first company. Straight trucking office furniture. 8 years at my next, lumberyard. 13 years this year, with my current employer. Mix of local, regional and OTR. Don't plan to leave this company any time soon.
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No-Cardiologist-8146@reddit

One year. The best time to look for a better job is when you don't need one. Started at $25/hr three years ago, now making $32. Been with this outfit for nine months but I'm already applying for a new one that's $35. The only way to get a pay raise in this business is going to a new company as you gain experience. I always give two weeks notice though.
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No-Temperature389@reddit

Husband is with the same company for 23 years now
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Defiant_Network_3069@reddit

12 years. Enjoyed the job and customers. Left because the manager stopped caring about his job (he was 72) New employees didn't care about the job and service dropped. Final straw was they cut the pay drastically because of the manager and new employees not pulling their weight. Now at my current job I make more than double and no stress. Plus the bonuses are awesome.
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StarVarious6139@reddit

Where are you at now
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Perrin_Aybara_PL@reddit

I've been at my current one 5 years and don't see myself going anywhere else anytime soon.
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AccomplishedLimit3@reddit

15 moving mobile homes, 15 at Celadon, both until they shut down for good. it’s not looking great over here either.
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WSLowmax@reddit

My shortest was 2 weeks.
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sledge07@reddit

6 years. Leased on with a fellow locally and ended up taking over his whole operation. We ran 7 trucks and 2 dumps and hauled reefer year round. We closed down in 2022 due to insurance costs rising (two wrecks, neither at fault but minimum insurance of others) and I sold out. Took a local gig doing heavy haul for a forestry company and made it 18 months before I had to have ankle replacement surgery. Now I teach trucking at the local tech college. Coming up on my year next month. Been driving since 2012.
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Pam_P00vey@reddit

Nearly 2yrs, until I learned they were committing wahe theft. I thought they were decent ppl and had been ok working for them for 10yrs or longer, if fate had made it so
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RADAR3015@reddit

Non-driving, 14 years. Housing collapse and recession of 2008 claimed my job. Driving, 13 years. Got out 2 and a half months before the company went bankrupt. Started a new cycle with a much better run company that has less than 30 drivers.
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Gonzotrucker1@reddit

I worked for Walgreens private fleet for 12 years. I left because I got sick of working holidays.
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CharonsCousin@reddit

I didn't know Walgreens has their own private fleet!
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Gonzotrucker1@reddit

It’s ran by Cpc logistics.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

Bet it was pretty good pay though huh?
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Gonzotrucker1@reddit

The pay was okay not great. This was 11 years ago $26.00 an hour plus overtime after 8 hours.
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RowbowCop138@reddit

I'm at 7 yrs and 1 months right now
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DoctorZebra@reddit

Five years with Prime, Inc and left to haul fuel and be home every day. Next longest was 4.5 years hauling fuel for Mapco (RIP to their truck fleet) and left because I moved to Colorado.
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DivaCupVampire@reddit

Started with a cheap ass outfit back in 2009 making .28 cpm, asked for a raise 4 years later and was offered a penny, fuck that and went with a mom and pop in 2013, they were then bought out by a much larger mom and pop, they were recently sold to a mega, I’m still there for now.
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Lost-Astronaut-8280@reddit

1st company going on about 5 months, the pay is my only complaint, so far, the governed trucks don’t bother me.
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semibored4515@reddit

23 years and counting.
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driverman42@reddit

52 year career-retired now. I drove for 2 different O/Os in 2 different states for 12 years each. Both of them are good guys, good businessmen, good families, good runs, great equipment. I had 14 different driving jobs in my career, and these 2 were definitely in the top 5.
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Horus_Whistler@reddit

With Knight since two Mays ago. First job. I like em
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mdstratts@reddit

I’ve been with my current company almost 5 years and I will retire from there when it’s time. They have been good to me.
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MinisterHoja@reddit (OP)

Good shit
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oasuke@reddit

2 years longest I've been at a company. the pay was consistent, the work was easy and it was local. ever since I left them for better pay, every company has been shit. I'm going to keep job hopping until I get something that sticks
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emptybowloffood@reddit

8 years at a great company, long haul otr. Left to take a day job so I can be home and enjoy life a little before it's too late. 32 years otr was long enough for me, no regrets but loving my new life 100%.
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CharonsCousin@reddit

That's awesome that you loved otr and now you're loving home life. Thanks for sharing!
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Barquebe@reddit

15 years local. Quite because the company got bought out by a larger and much worse company with bad management and unsafe policies. And also because the main business we contracted to basically relied on us to give up our days off anytime they had a production issue, which happened with shocking frequency. The final straw was over a Christmas/New years week, the plant froze over and all the bosses and managers were home and not returning calls, we worked shifts around the clock for a week to keep their clients supplied.
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CakewalkNOLA@reddit

6 years at SEFL. Pissed off the Regional Vice President after I was promoted to regional safety. Took him and HR 5 months, but they found a technicality to fire me with.
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Independent-Fun8926@reddit

18 months, left b/c of burn out. Reefer was rough, the schedule did a number on my sleep and mental state Always hopeful to find a company where I can stay at until I retire the keys and trucker hat. Maybe someday!
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Caveman23r@reddit

9 years then the account ended and didn't have anything for me so switch to a paid by hour local job and still getting used to it
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RepresentativeNo6665@reddit

8 years, and I'm semi-retired due to medical issues right now. At least I still have a job. My sleep apnea, diabetes, and autism got to me. So I'm on short-term disability for now, but I will be going back to work, and to mechanic school, very soon.
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AE74Fj73@reddit

2 months xD, first job and the company went bankrupt this was in december
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Tobias---Funke@reddit

15 years about to leave because they have gone bust!!
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Wizofsorts@reddit

35 years. Still there.
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Wide-Engineering-396@reddit

10 years 3 different times
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justmenevada@reddit

Ten years. Wanted different experiences
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MysteriousMaximum488@reddit

5 1/2 years with Cardinal Logistics and then Ryder bought them.
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Kkalemauser@reddit

12 years. Local company. Had a dispatcher that gave me shitty loads for a week. I said, “ I can go down the street and make more money.” “He said, try me.” So I quit. I found a better job and I had weekends off. Still working nights.
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SuguoDerp@reddit

1 and a half years, first job but quitting bc the pay here is abysmal and miss my home.
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just_me1969@reddit

29 years so far.
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throwra_sd2ba40858@reddit

Never been with a company longer than 2 years. Got my experience doing whatever and then learn something new. I started with a new company last year though, I’ll probably be with these guys til I retire.
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Tat2dtrukr@reddit

7.5 years the first time and currently at two years with the same company(took a few years off during covid)
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steveteeg1@reddit

21 years and counting
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FossMan21@reddit

Probably about 18 months as an LTL p and d driver for a smaller family owned company. Left for more money and better benefits.
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