Just when you thought it couldn't get worse

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pm_me_ur_demotape@reddit

Why do they advertise fuel card like a benefit?

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Ornery_Ads@reddit

Some companies get discounted fuel across the board and allow you to use the company fuel card in your personal vehicle to get that same discount for yourself.
It just seems ridiculous to me.

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

Seems like “The Company Store” to mean. Can I get a cantaloupe and some boots there too? 🤣

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W1D0WM4K3R@reddit

🎶Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store🎶

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Chingasupinchemadre@reddit

With a benefit “fuel card” at that pay, I better be able to use it for my personal shit!

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

And his shit, and her shit and their shit too! 🤣

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I would guess it’s because it’s letting you know they give you a fuel card to fuel up at normal stations. I saw a job once that would’ve required you to swing by their terminals to fuel up because they didn’t give you a fuel card, seems like it would’ve been crazy annoying.

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EatLard@reddit

“Hey, at least you don’t have to spend your entire paycheck on fuel and then wait on payroll to process your expense report to actually get paid. Come work for us.”

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Rare_Indication_3811@reddit

came here just to say that

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geardownson@reddit

Right? Omg! I don't have to pay for the fuel while delivering your cargo at 15 bucks an hour!? Sign me up!

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Tru3insanity@reddit

What do you wanna bet its 1099 too?

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Battlejesus@reddit

Right? Like is it standard to make company drivers pay for fuel? Or is this the whole reason fleet accounts exist?

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SunriseTrades@reddit

Just like it's jobs offering to pay 40 a hour on indeed anomalies exist on both end. If you dont like what you see, move on.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Show me $40/hr trucking job on indeed in dallas. I'll quit my job right now.

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Wheres_Jay@reddit

That won't get you far at all in the metroplex.

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NotGoing2EndWell@reddit

I just posted on their Facebook post of the job:

"Pay is $15 to $18 per hoiur, which they are cleverly omitting from this post! YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY AT WALMART OR MCDONALDS AND WILL GET BENEFITS AT THOSE PLACES."

I'm not a trucker, but I'm fucking pissed! Truckers need to be making good money for their work.

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

Be mad all ya want, when you a rookie just back’in it in is a win. As my good friend once said “Don’t get cocky kid! We ain’t out of this yet!” H. Solo Star Wars.

New drivers don’t make all that much. 2 reasons. 1 they New. 2 they gonna break shit. Just wait n see. 🤣 costs a lot to insure a new driver. Damm things are big and long!

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Neat-Big8950@reddit

It's only going to get worse as the OPs title suggests. That's why this is a dying industry. It's why this industry loves illegal immigrants because they can extort them under the threat of deportation and force them to work for this. Or maybe find someone on welfare trying to meet their EBT work requirements.

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second_chances_26@reddit

Thank you for this

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Massive_Bullfrog8663@reddit

Where's Jimmy Hoffa when you need him...

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B-buckleboots@reddit

Teamsters are still around and its definitely worth it. Everyone should be in the union.

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Hopeful-Weakness5119@reddit

Bullshit teamsters sold you out dude teamsters are trump bitches

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B-buckleboots@reddit

Idk about all that nonsense. I'd bet money my paycheck with the union looks better than yours though. And how about a pension? Do you get one? Because i do..

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Caveman23r@reddit

While I agree the union is bitches, they are definitely democrats because only dems would try to block something that would benefit everyone and not just themselves

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theboywthagreenscarf@reddit

Yea like republicans don’t do this with their tax cuts. Tax cuts for the poor for the four next years! Tax cuts for the rich never ending! And the suckers fall for it every time. Now that I’m 1099 and part of a s corp, trumps tax laws actually help me. But it feels fucked up knowing that majority of people don’t benefit. If anything it hurts them because eventually they’ll be picking up the slack on the lost tax revenue. If you make less than a half a mil a year and you’re a republican, you’re a stooge.

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RedlineM5@reddit

Don't bother with the facts. They all think they will be billionaires alongside Trump soon at the next diddler party once the policies help them.

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EatLard@reddit

I heard he was under Giants Stadium.

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Rogerdodgerbilly@reddit

Get paid $18 an hour and I get to pay union dues too weeee

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MR_6OUIJA6BOARD6@reddit

Under Giants stadium, duh.

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cheesecake-gnome@reddit

Under Giant Stadium

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EatLard@reddit

Hell, FedEx and UPS will provide health insurance for chucking boxes for ~$21/hr. And you don’t even have to interact with the general public.

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NightAesthetic@reddit

I'm an Amazon driver and i get paid $22 this is crazy

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maddpsyintyst@reddit

I see desperate folks looking for desperate folks, and I would nopety-nope right out of that shit.

I definitely make a lot more than that doing deliveries for an electrical supplier, with no current CDL. I'm also home every night, with no option for my employer to make it otherwise. I also live in an area in which wages are low relative to the rest of the country. I also also don't own the truck(s) that I drive, so I don't pay for their maintenance. Best of all, I drive for an ESOP, and if you know, you know.

I'm not bragging. I'm just saying, hold out for the good ones while you can.

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bears_Chivas@reddit

This is the reason why they cried "driver shortage"

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nortyflatz@reddit

What's #2 fuel running in Tex/Ok now?

It's $7.75 (or more) here.

Can't wait until Winter with home heating oil at this price.

There's gonna be a lot of cold people this Winter...

On the plus side, 8 dollar fuel will put a stop to those a-holes that "roll coal." Actually, they're "rolling diesel" but that doesn't rhyme.

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DaSaw@reddit

What are local rents like?

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

$1,400/month for a 1 bed room in an alright area.

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

Got a 3 bed 2 bath with million dollar Mountain View’s here for that cost.

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Delicious-Bet-2694@reddit

Whats the for? Pizza delivery

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

This role involves delivering sod/grass on flatbed trucks throughout the DFW area.

We're looking for someone dependable, hardworking, and not afraid to get their hands dirty - this is a hands-on position that includes loading, unloading, and securing materials in all weather conditions.

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

“Pack Sand & Kick Rocks! Y’all lost your ever loving minds, $15.00 an hr? You crazy.” Is how I’d reply.

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Unique_Arm435@reddit

That's a no from me, dawg!

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vault151@reddit

I’m pretty sure pizza delivery guys make more than this.

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Itsalmostover71@reddit

When there’s a low means there will be a high, just depends on your POA aka Plan Of Attack. Gotta have a plan, can’t just be out here floating along, get picked off that way.

Aint no shame in earning a paycheck, just stings by how little it is. I’ve been poor most of my life n doing well now, still broke, money just goes to different hands is all.

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second_chances_26@reddit

For anyone that lives in Texas I’m sorry but your state is straight up trash for advertising work that pay dog sh!t …. I live in overpriced California, they may not pay the best but they pay nonetheless, and the lower end local guys are making 30-35 to start. Hazmat guys are making 38-45 to start depending on cargo. Texas is shit.

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ahowls@reddit

I see 18 hr cdl jobs everywhere in my area.. mostly containers. Absolute joke

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second_chances_26@reddit

For $18 an hour I wouldn’t even walk near a truck

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Gouge61496@reddit

$18hr is in no way worth the risks drivers take 😂 its so ridiculously low Im kinda offended

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second_chances_26@reddit

This is true about Texas. They don’t pay shit out there for class A guys. The most I saw was like $24 an hour for a hazmat endorsement job

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JustinTime4242@reddit

My first LTL job 13 years ago started at $19 an hour

Wtf has happened to this industry

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NoHomoAmphibian@reddit

People will take the jobs. Too many people willing to take them. Low barrier to entry.

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synocrat@reddit

Not just this industry, rich people pick who you get to vote for, then they do what the rich fucks want. Federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 in 2009. CEOs make like 600 times what a median salary in the company gets like they're some magical genius. Healthcare is a for profit business coupled with for profit insurance. The top tax tier rate used to be over 90%.

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DennisReynoldsGG@reddit

And when nobody takes it the “trucker shortage” will be blamed by trucking companies.

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raddrobb67@reddit

I just looked this up. In the Dallas area crew members at McDonald's start at 13.86 an hour. I'd rather work there.

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spartanantler@reddit

Essentially what I’m making in the Air Force as a Jet Mechanic right now lol

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Come back to me when you get a job at Lockheed Martin

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spartanantler@reddit

Lol I’ve had my fill of aircraft

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NFLTG_71@reddit

Oh, in Memphis, this is almost at the top of the tier for trucking jobs.

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Chingasupinchemadre@reddit

With that “fuel card” benefit I better be able to use it for my personal pick up, and personal shit

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robexib@reddit

It's always the employers who pay the least who scream the hardest about no one wanting to work anymore. The obscenely low pay says enough to avoid the bastard.

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wiebols@reddit

In buffalo ny - first student (school bus company) is offering 31$ a hour!!!

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DaSaw@reddit

Which is probably way too much for New York, particularly considering it's maybe 25 hr/week, broken up into two segments, with the stipulation that "this is your primary job". Not a bad gig if you're semi-retired or a secondary income earner, but not something to live on.

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John9250@reddit

You’d think in a city area it’d pay more. I saw one down in San Antonio a few years ago advertising $29 an hour and “the easiest trucking job” because they said you’d just be bumping docks all day. But I don’t live in San Antonio lol. I live in Texarkana and that’s about average for local positions here

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TruckinTuba@reddit

I make $20/hr more than that and its low....

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Always_Shifting_4459@reddit

To hell with that 🤣 got a flyer other day when I stopped at Chick-fil-A in Ardmore OK. Hiring 17.50-20/hr and be home every night with Sundays off too

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11hammer@reddit

Apply, interview, and when they offer 18$ say “oh I thought that was a type-o. No.” And counter it with at least double.

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xEyelessOnex@reddit

That is an insult. Down here, there were giving $16 an hour for that.

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Massive_Bullfrog8663@reddit

Here in San Jose, kids make $20/hr at freaking McDonald's...

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EatLard@reddit

They make about the same at some fast food jobs in South Dakota, which goes a lot farther.

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stakaj@reddit

With pay that low, they're intentionally looking immigrants to underpay. No American would accept that.

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Derrik359@reddit

Everything’s bigger in Texas, except paycheck, those are some of the smallest around..

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itstimetochewass@reddit

We're the land of the $12-$14/ hr jobs.

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Shyjuan@reddit

i mean with how Texans brag about how the cost of living is significantly cheaper than most of the nation I'd say this wage is livable 🤷‍♂️

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Classic-Box-3919@reddit

That wage is trash basically anywhere nowadays. Low cost of living doesnt seem to exist anymore unless maybe ur in a below 10k population town in the middle of nowhere

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Glad_Inspection_2702@reddit

Facts

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Dallas is one of the most expensive cities to live in, this shit is trash. As for most local job offers.. they're in the $25/hr range.

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Unhappy-River6306@reddit

They say having a fuel card is one of the perks, makes you wonder if they made their drivers pay for fuel previously

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fire_lord_flowzai@reddit

I’m not even a trucker and this pisses me off…

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PathofEnlightment@reddit

Either a joke or they're for real thinking they're that smart that an idiot will actually apply

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Interesting-Slip-669@reddit

I’ve been driving forever (65yo) This is a very bad sign for us and not just this one thing. It’s not an outlier. It’s feels like it’s caving in.

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FlatbedtruckingCA@reddit

Good opportunity to troll and waste their time with applications till they are flooded with people who ghost them..

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manning55@reddit

You can wash dishes for more, thats crazy a truck driver can get paid so little

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ShoddySpace5680@reddit

This is hopefully for entry level like 6 months of experience and bounce

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Minimum 2 years of CDL driving experience (insurance requirement)

Experience with flatbed trucks

Ability to operate a forklift (or willing to learn quickly)

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Interesting-Spend965@reddit

I wouldn’t get out of bed for anything under $30+ these days with the cost of living. They can go fuck themselves

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FWD_to_twin_turbo@reddit

About par for TX, i'm convinced it's one of the worst states to be a truck driver in both pay and driving environment.

Could pay me $18 to drive around Lewisville in my personal vehicle much less a semi.

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Alarming_Star_6549@reddit

I moved to Texas and few years ago doing the same job but with a different company, I thought the company would pay similar to what I was making back east in NC. The money ended up being shit, promised one thing got another. I looked for other opportunities but the pay was crap all over the state. I moved back to NC. Much happier and I'm not melting year round.

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