What's the worst job you've had in this career?

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DANO8503@reddit

Central PA company called metropolitan now known as met express.

30 days out 4 days home… and had the nerve to try and push me when it got close to home time… in Florida

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AgapeAnus@reddit

Well for starters those jackoffs are the reason we have to use eld's instead of paper so that there is enough reason to hate them.

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DingleberryOrchard@reddit

No wonder that asshole at the Dallas Home Depot DC was so angry.

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userGamer556@reddit

I just left Werner after two years. Everyone is on a power trip and so full of bs.

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RackingUpTheMiles@reddit

I've literally never heard anything good about Werner. I've heard good and bad about every company except them.

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I'm still at the job but thankfully going to a better company soon. Had to deal with bedbugs while in school that they paid for which honestly should've been enough to make me quit and should've been a warning for the rest of my time here. It's been a fucking shitshow. Place is run by clowns. Sad part is it's a mega and they should know better.

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threeglude@reddit

Let me guess, welfare express?

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AgapeAnus@reddit

Surprisingly no.

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threeglude@reddit

Then where? Why Gate keep a shitty company? Put em on blast so the those lurking here, about to get their CDL can avoid them!

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AgapeAnus@reddit

As shitty as they have been they still gave me a chance when others wouldn't and I'm not going to just flagrantly and unprofessionally shit on them in a public forum especially while I'm still working there. I've got another job lined up with a different carrier that is by all accounts much much better and once I'm settled in there I'll do a fair and honest review of my first company.

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threeglude@reddit

Odd, you're so concerned about privacy, yet have a public profile, especially with your abnormal interests.

Bed bugs are a big fucking deal. No noob should have to put up with that, regardless of how shitty the company is. You're working for a mega and I guarantee they haven't a clue who you are, less your private interests are widely known within the company.

I had two DWIs on my record, 1 freshly at the mark where insurance could entertain the idea of insuring me. Not even then did I try getting on with a mega. Learned my lesson working white collar jobs for fortune 500 companies. The lower you are on the totem pole, the shittier the pay. So I absolutely refused to try looking at a single mega. Despite my party days, I still landed a 70-80/yr gig well over 10 years ago.

Point is, stop trying to defend a shitty company. That's victim mentality!

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AgapeAnus@reddit

They watch social media like a hawk and have fired people for shitting on them even pseudo anonymously. I'm not risking it until their truck is at a terminal with none of my shit in it and the keys are in the cupholder with the doors locked.

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Accomplished-Wish355@reddit

Dude this is a real douche move not to name them. It could help a fellow potential trucker avoid all of that. The hurdles newcomers have to get over are tough enough as it is.

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AgapeAnus@reddit

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Accomplished-Wish355@reddit

Fair point,but people from all walks of life get into trucking so yea for those who have no other options it could be good but for those who do they can avoid it. It’s a win win naming the company for both parties.

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Gonzotrucker1@reddit

Messer cryogenic tankers.

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ineedAF45@reddit

Why ? Was it bad

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commandough@reddit

I'm lucky enough to say it was probably still Melton. My time with the Chicago Eastern Europeans ended poorly but the pay was good. This current company is what convinced me that Flatbedding is stupid. But that's because it's a good company

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Kkalemauser@reddit

Pneumatic tanker hauling cement/flyash.

The pay sucked ass, the hours were all over the place. It’s loud, dusty, and customers would treat you like shit.

I didn’t know when/if I would work, or where I would end up at the end of the day.

I was in a day cab. The boss would put me in the worst hotels, if he kept me out of town.

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Mikey_BC@reddit

Doing LTL pickups on a Friday afternoon in Montreal, did it twice and vowed never again.

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Montreal4life@reddit

Yooo Im LTL in Montreal wudup!!! Hahaha mostly switchover to “linehaul” now, easy peasey. you dont like driving here? I definitely improved my backing up but tbf i learned how to drive here

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nosjitbro@reddit

Martin Brower Ct

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ComprehensiveDark814@reddit

When a mega brings in OTR drivers to help with Walmarts. You don't stick around long enough to learn the route. Imagine going to 100 different Walmarts in one month and then never going back. And the next time you do Walmarts 8-12 months later it's in a different state, servicing a different major metropolitan area. Another 100 Walmarts you've never been to before. And the next time it's another 100 you've never seen before etc...

You end up in a lot of hairy situations. It's all suburb driving and a lot of curb jumping. A lot of them have 5 bad ways in and only one good way in. It's more work for less pay and it's just a miserable situation all around.

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Auquaholic@reddit

Reefer on the spot market working for myself. Reefer is awful and then guessing where to deadhead to (for free) so that you could get a good load. Brokers want you close by the load in most cases.

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Famous-Eggplant8451@reddit

OTR and JB Hunt. JB is great for picking your hours and treatment of drivers but pay like OTR and screw you the same way and that's for local work smh.

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TaperingRanger9@reddit (OP)

I work for them and I make about 90k local. It depends on the account

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Famous-Eggplant8451@reddit

I guess so, their activity pay is ridiculous imo and running me around for empties fir 2 hours while they are stacking every empty they can find in the yards. Maybe just bad timing for me but if they were just hourly pay like most local jobs JB would be the go to

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Affectionate-Tax-119@reddit

I'm not going to name names but I had this line haul up to MI a few years ago. Absolutely miserable they paid for the driving but there was also four hours of strapping and tarping every single fucking day. Still I stuck it out because they knew it was miserable, 10k bonus if you managed to stay a full year. They fired me on day 364. I guess they got too used to people who only worked that route for two or three months.

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justhereforthefunnyZ@reddit

Pepsi

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Crazzie_c@reddit

I’ve been driving for a little over 8 months now. First job I landed out of school (August ‘25) was in Kenosha, Wi. Arrow Specialized Carriers (aka Arrow Transportation Group) first it was going smoothly. Was doing intermodal work with them throughout Chicago/Wisconsin for the first 3 months. Once January ‘26 hit I transitioned to semi-regional work bc they took away intermodal completely as drivers didn’t want to do it. All of a sudden they started stealing money from us drivers. Mind you we were either 1099 or W-4 if you chose too. I was working about 84 hours weekly. Checks were coming out to around $1200-1400 (1099). I just figured something wasn’t adding up with the amount of work I was doing and talking to other drivers who were suspicious and they agreed they also never disclosed rates of the loads. I ended up calling them out on the pay and their excuse was “wear and tear on the vehicles and drivers damaging them” but their trucks were pieces of shit from the gate. All had bad/bald tires almost to the point wires were showing. Most if not all trucks had some type of dash lights on. Mechanics were basically just fixing them up enough to keep them working for a few weeks or so. Trailers were all garbage also. Finally, in my last 3-4 months I switched to their construction side of work and working with their pneumatic tanks and delivering cement products. Construction is their bread and butter, so I was happy bc I thought i was going to be making a lot “better money”. Well I ended up just starting way earlier (1-3am) and receiving about the same pay but a few checks being around 15-1700. On top of the pay, they didn’t care one bit about their drivers, the hardest working ones they slaved the hardest. Didn’t care about our hours, would actually tell us we can’t deny work even if it meant going over our drive time. If you did stand by your hours of service they would simply just not give you any work for a few days saying “work is slow”. Basically if you did stand up to their bs they just wouldn’t schedule u in for work most of the time.

Fast forward to May 1st I just started flatbed OTR and i’ve been driving with this new company going on 3 weeks now. Pay is great, still 1099 but i do get 32% of the gross. Trucks are in great shape, i have all brand new tires from steers all the way to last axle on my trailer. Mind you, my trailer is brand new, i actually went to go and pick it up with the truck they assigned me the day before i left out. So I’m finally happy where i’m at. Looking forward to the future😎

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HighwayStar71@reddit

As if mileage pay wasn't crooked enough but they have a two-tiered wage for drive and on-duty time doing local work? The CEO should be imprisoned.

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XiangJiang@reddit

I accepted a dedicated lane that sold me on being home weekends. That turned out to be home Saturday night and work very early Monday morning which means I only had the earlier half of Sunday to enjoy since I would have to sleep for Monday’s early 3 am pick ups at times. So basically just a 34 hour reset but technically I was home weekends. I’m super skeptical now of “home weekends” ads.

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driverman42@reddit

When I was young and dumb (late 20s) I hired on with an O/O who ran meat from the Midwest to the West coast and produce back. He had a decent truck, and the run sounded good (to a youngster) and I went for it. I was supposed to run solo, and that was a lie at first. I was supposed to run out on Friday night and be back Wednesday night and he'd deliver the load and so I could have some home time. Lolol. Didn't happen, either.

The plus was that the run itself was great, and I seen country that I had never seen, and eventually I did get to run solo and I took my family with on a few runs.

But, I burned out in about 7 months and walked away. I had about 6 years driving at that time and I went on to drive another 46 years after. That was the only "bad ride" I had.

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KindaDeadPoetSociety@reddit

Regional flatbed steel hauling job up in Georgia. I did more illegal shit at that job in four months than I ever did in four years prior to that. Was promised no tarping and then had to tarp with the most chewed up tarps I've ever had. Parked at midnight multiple times after working a full 14 and my boss would call me at six in the morning demanding to know why I wasnt at a job site. Zero respect for the work or me as a person. Hauling oversize and over long loads without a permit through states with daytime restrictions under threat of losing my job.

It has left a permanent bad taste in my mouth about trucking. My last month at that job was largely me getting called by brokers and telling them that they need to blacklist this company, and then filing DOT complaints. Every single thing you could possibly do wrong with running a flatbed company i was subject to.

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MrButak@reddit

Name and shame brother.

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KindaDeadPoetSociety@reddit

Thought I did lol.

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MrButak@reddit

See it in the edit - thanks!

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Spear994@reddit

Shortest I had a job in the industry was three days. It was for a company that serviced freight trains for CSX. They'd get a call from the train guys, then come either in a fuel truck or a service truck and do things like suck the shit out of their toilets.

The job itself was pretty simple. 12 hour shifts 4 days a week. Most of that time was sitting in a trailer doing fuck all until you got a call. The issues were, the job itself was born when the rail decided to cut union jobs, so the remaining union guys treated you like shit. On top of that, they tried teaching me how to do everything, all at once, and expected me to get it down first try. Plus the higher up management didn't seem to give a flying fuck about me once I accepted the job. I got a start date and time. No location. Had to Google it. No contacts or anything at the location. Just showed up, said I'm the new guy, and hoped they got the word and that I was at the right place.

The entire thing just gave me really bad vibes. After day three I told them no thanks and moved on.

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Unfair_Analysis_3734@reddit

Lol I just started with Schneider, yea the pay is ass but I’m thankful they are giving me my first experience. Most my loads are pretty good but I have gotten some bad ones. But hopefully this will be my worst job in the industry.

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MPV8614@reddit

AN Webber out of Kankakee, IL. A Complete joke of a company.

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MrButak@reddit

LTL Reefer. Never again.

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Pitiful-MobileGamer@reddit

Commercial and industrial laundry pick up and delivery.

Deliveries no problem, clean laundry, clean mats, just a lot of scanning barcodes.

Picking up however, tons and tons of soiled dirty smelly urine soaked feces soaked clothing. Bust open that trailer on a hot day and try to not dump your lunch, while you pallet jack out upto 26 laundry basins.

I lasted a few months, but as soon as the summer came around my nose and my pores were just leaking. And that smell was pervasive, I would get over my coveralls, have a full shower, and my wife could still smell it on me.

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