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Truck Driver Shortage, training for free in TX; Links to Training Added | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79103049  United States08/05/2021 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Robert Patrick Lewis Retweeted Quoting: NotStarvingActress Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko There are "will train CDL" driver want ads here in Dallas. Trucking firms never train up a newb driver w-CDL because their investment can walk out the door. Yet they are now. That is a neon sign of a truck driver shortage. Robert Patrick Lewis Retweeted HUNTSMAN @man_integrated · They've been doing that since the implementation of the Commercial Drivers License. Nothing new. Driver shortage is manufactured and a direct result of Government regulation, government funding of driver training and the washout of drivers is not only expected but intended. Big money in CDL mills (training centers) and big corporate trucking companies make a lot of money training drivers because they do it a lot. |
MudSlinger  User ID: 78352955 United States08/05/2021 01:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wouldn't that be a hippa violation? jk [link to startcrst.com (secure)] Call and ask. 1. “You can’t fire a cannon, from a canoe!” 2. “Strength is gained in the range it is trained.” 3. “If it doesn’t swim, run, or fly, or isn’t green and grow in the ground, don’t eat it.” 4. “Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.” |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Look. If you want to learn to drive a fucking truck, go to a community college to do it and then during that time you can shop around and learn a little about the company that is going to fuck you before you hire on. If you really, really want to do this... Look at refrigerated and find a company that will pay you a percentage as a second seat. You will make money and the fucking wheels will roll. Otherwise depending on how sadistic a dispatcher or "driver manager" you become paired with, you will get fucked quite often. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That my young friends is the company that will let you make $1200.00 bucks a week to start. Find it and in no time you'll be first seat and bringing home $1800.00 a week minimum, don't doubt me, it can be done and if you work it will become reality. Don't expect to go home much though... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So your gig is picking up fresh chicken, driving it to LA or Seattle. Cleaning the chicken muck from the truck and then making about 4 to 8 stops all along the west coast picking up a variety of vegetables and fruits (usually takes a day or two) and then hauling it back to Miami Florida. Can be done in 5 or 6 days. My best was 5 days. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So your gig is picking up fresh chicken, driving it to LA or Seattle. Cleaning the chicken muck from the truck and then making about 4 to 8 stops all along the west coast picking up a variety of vegetables and fruits (usually takes a day or two) and then hauling it back to Miami Florida. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80006240 Can be done in 5 or 6 days. My best was 5 days. You need a first seat that knows what they are doing and where they are going. LA is no joke with a 53' trailer. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So your gig is picking up fresh chicken, driving it to LA or Seattle. Cleaning the chicken muck from the truck and then making about 4 to 8 stops all along the west coast picking up a variety of vegetables and fruits (usually takes a day or two) and then hauling it back to Miami Florida. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80006240 Can be done in 5 or 6 days. My best was 5 days. You need a first seat that knows what they are doing and where they are going. LA is no joke with a 53' trailer. If you can't pull that off 4 to 5 times a month, you won't be welcome. Good luck, the money is there if you can find that gig and have what it takes to get the job done. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80006240 United States08/05/2021 01:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Depends on the driver, type of cargo and experience. Most new drivers start in dry van and spend more time hunting an empty trailer and sitting in docks getting loaded or waiting than they do driving. You'll hear stories of detention pay and home time but remember this, All recruiters are basically liars. It is there job to get you in the seat. You'll never hear from them again once they do. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79751404 United States08/05/2021 02:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The truck driver shortage is so bad they are even hiring drivers from overseas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78659823 [link to www.freshfruitportal.com (secure)] This is true. I work with a trucking company out of Florida and they are so short on drivers and can't even hire in the states that they just started sponsoring groups of drivers from Africa who will come over on a EB3 Visa. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5791721 Canada08/05/2021 03:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got mine in my uncles truck. Can't do that in my province anymore. I have hauled flatbed, oversize, reefer and am doing dry vans. I prefer dry vans. With trucking it's not so much do I love my job as how much bs am I willing to put up with? If my company's level of bs output is lower than what my bs tolerance is, then I am staying there. This goes for any job though. Trucking is much like the internet, there are many people whose experience is measured in weeks who speak the loudest with authority. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5791721 Canada08/05/2021 03:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit job, 70 hours, bad pay, bad condition, no benefits. Quoting: Kurnos Wait employers are gonna ask them to have the vax next ? That's business suicide right there. After our office mostly got vaxxed, it was decided that drivers were not going to be pushed on vaxxines. Guess they got lots and lots of side effects. Sucks to be them. Those that freaked out and ran scared to get vaxxed have already done so. The rest of us have all said we will quit if it is forced. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76140145 United States08/05/2021 03:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76509910 United States08/05/2021 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit job, 70 hours, bad pay, bad condition, no benefits. Quoting: Kurnos Wait employers are gonna ask them to have the vax next ? That's business suicide right there. Every company I worked had amazing benefits 100% paid. I didn't get rich but averaged as company drive, their brand new condo, fuel taxes fines and tolls all paid by them around 52 a year. Was long hours but it's driving so not exactly hard work and they paid lumpers |
| Artificial Person User ID: 77644332 United States08/05/2021 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you ever want to try anonymous blowjobs, crank, and heart disease? My step brother is truck driver. I won't allow him in the house. And he's the cream of the profession. I am a Synthetic but I prefer the term "Artificial Person" myself. I answer to "Bishop", "Synthetic" and "Hey man". Bite my shiny metal ass. |
| truthwillsetyoufreeagain User ID: 78071454 United States08/05/2021 04:02 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A bottle and a pail.  ______________ As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.” - Elijah Parish Lovejoy(1802-1837) All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent...Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government...Thomas Jefferson When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty...Thomas Jefferson Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light...George Washington |
| Artificial Person User ID: 77644332 United States08/05/2021 04:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The truck driver shortage is so bad they are even hiring drivers from overseas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78659823 [link to www.freshfruitportal.com (secure)] This is true. I work with a trucking company out of Florida and they are so short on drivers and can't even hire in the states that they just started sponsoring groups of drivers from Africa who will come over on a EB3 Visa. Oh geezuz.  I am a Synthetic but I prefer the term "Artificial Person" myself. I answer to "Bishop", "Synthetic" and "Hey man". Bite my shiny metal ass. |
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| truthwillsetyoufreeagain User ID: 78071454 United States08/05/2021 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Truck drivers loved the lockdown last year - a HELL of a lot less idiots on the road - even in California. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76140145 Yep. My son loved it, especially the first few months where no one was on the road except truckers. To this day though he says that since the lockdown ended, there are worse drivers (four-wheelers) than ever before. ______________ As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.” - Elijah Parish Lovejoy(1802-1837) All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent...Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government...Thomas Jefferson When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty...Thomas Jefferson Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light...George Washington |
