I Used To Make $100K As A Trucker. Now I Make Minimum Wage.

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More Perfect Union

More Perfect Union

Күн бұрын

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@SergioRomano-nj8eb
@SergioRomano-nj8eb 19 күн бұрын
I can't believe how difficult it is to survive on minimum wage these days. Inflation is outpacing any small raises, and no matter how hard you work, it feels like you’re running in place. How are we supposed to save for retirement like this?
@camela8445Mar
@camela8445Mar 19 күн бұрын
I’ve got a cousin working two jobs on minimum wage just to stay afloat, and he’s still barely getting by. Forget retirement; most folks are just trying to survive the month without falling into debt.
@Adam-dm8wg
@Adam-dm8wg 19 күн бұрын
Tell me about it. I lost years doing that too. Then, in 2020, I had a major wake-up call when my savings started shrinking in real terms. That’s when I turned to Joseph Nick Cahill. The guy’s a CFA, and he doesn’t sugarcoat anything. He showed me how to actually grow my money, even when times are tough.
@roseyfischer
@roseyfischer 19 күн бұрын
Wait, Joseph Nick Cahill? Does he only help wealthy people, or can someone like me with just a small amount saved get help too?
@Adam-dm8wg
@Adam-dm8wg 19 күн бұрын
That’s the thing-he works with everyone. Whether you’ve got a little saved or a lot, he’s all about building something sustainable. He gives free consultations, so there’s no risk in reaching out. He’s helped me turn my situation around and avoid stupid mistakes like sitting on cash or putting everything into one investment.
@EmiliaSmith-h8v
@EmiliaSmith-h8v 19 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for the suggestion! I really needed it. I looked him up on Google and explored his website; he has an impressive background in investments. I've sent him an email, and I hope to hear back from him soon
@Ed-uz6em
@Ed-uz6em Жыл бұрын
It’s high time workers start getting their lives and incomes back. It used to be that Americans were proud of the middle class, now it’s greed or nothing…workers be damned.
@mattrussell8309
@mattrussell8309 Жыл бұрын
The only way see that happening is if a massive labor movement forms and starts pushing for some sort market socialism and i really don't see that happening in America given the general population being illiterate in class politics and economics.
@TheManinBlack9054
@TheManinBlack9054 Жыл бұрын
Why not use trains to move things? I think its far better to create a good train infrastructure to move things better and faster.
@drusillawinters212
@drusillawinters212 Жыл бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054 That is true. However, it would not address the issue of pay. It would address some of the safety issues. My husband was a trucker. He retired last year. He says that trains should move the freight long distance and then truckers move it locally. Better for people, cost, and the environment.
@Zapata1994
@Zapata1994 Жыл бұрын
Woah there buddy you starting to sound like a communist.😅
@hhiippiittyy
@hhiippiittyy Жыл бұрын
I hate to be that guy, but when truckers were doing well I suspect 90%+ voted and leaned politically right, listened to Rush Limbaugh all day, thinking their taxes were too high, that unions sucked and that minimum wage earners just needed to work harder.
@CanadaNickciN
@CanadaNickciN Жыл бұрын
Watching a 71 year old man who worked his whole life and cannot afford a house is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
You should ask that 71 year old relic what the hell did he do during his first 62 years.
@MrMunoz-xp2ry
@MrMunoz-xp2ry Жыл бұрын
@@mossthatrules77lmao relax
@Aleks_Ovski416
@Aleks_Ovski416 Жыл бұрын
@@johnfrank6112 He worked. Did you not watch the video? Its about money no longer going to working people.
@Heyitsbrittany
@Heyitsbrittany Жыл бұрын
Cigarettes are an expensive habit.
@ramoncolonx12
@ramoncolonx12 Жыл бұрын
​@johnfrank6112 yeah how u make 100k for 30 years and still broke
@aurorathekitty7854
@aurorathekitty7854 Ай бұрын
When i first got my CDL i was happy making 50k a year i told my dad what i was making and my dad said back in the 70's i wouldn't take a trucking job for less than 75k a year. That's when i realized i was getting shafted. I don't drive anymore
@goatjamesizbrixmoneysauce4207
@goatjamesizbrixmoneysauce4207 19 күн бұрын
Hell yeah you got played. The fuck would you drive a truck for less than a stack a week
@godschild1404
@godschild1404 14 күн бұрын
You’re a prime example that if you let em do it to you, they’ll do it to you. Grow some nuts 🥜
@r4nge2hpk4
@r4nge2hpk4 6 күн бұрын
What do you do now?
@godschild1404
@godschild1404 6 күн бұрын
@ watch Chris Hansen apparently
@aurorathekitty7854
@aurorathekitty7854 6 күн бұрын
@@r4nge2hpk4 I ran into medical issues I have spinal stenosis and degenerated disk. I spent 3 years not working now I work part time as a machinist.
@dowgy177
@dowgy177 Жыл бұрын
Both of my roommates are truckers. People love to tell me stuff like "wow, it must be so great having the house to yourself all the time," but the truth is that i miss my friends, and when they come home after weeks or months of living in a box on wheels I can see the toll it takes on them. On top of that the drivers are constantly getting screwed on pay, time off, load scheduling, etc and yet the companies constantly complain about the lack of truckers. It's not a mystery. Trucking has to change.
@jer280
@jer280 Жыл бұрын
Those mother fuckers are rolling in money tho. If they're out of their starter company splitting bills 3 ways... Phew that's good money right there.
@bentonja668
@bentonja668 Жыл бұрын
Trucking is changing. Its about to get rid of ALL the drivers.
@cormaro13
@cormaro13 Жыл бұрын
The best advice u can give to them Is invest , so they aren't this guy working minimum wage jobs cause social security isn't there to help u lol
@angelgjr1999
@angelgjr1999 Жыл бұрын
@@bentonja668Lol good luck with that bud, the moment companies can no longer blame the driver for accidents, the moment they’ll quickly go bankrupt. All it will take is a few casualties for autonomous driving to go away.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
@@cormaro13 The best advice you can give them is stop being stupid and look around for a corporate driving job.
@obadiyahisrael6917
@obadiyahisrael6917 Жыл бұрын
She failed to mention DOT harassment and fines. Also failed to mention expense of living on the road and lack of parking.
@davidhutchinson5233
@davidhutchinson5233 Жыл бұрын
A part of it to be sure. But corrupt corporate greed and their lobbyists share a much greater share of the blame.
@theflowpowa42oshow
@theflowpowa42oshow Жыл бұрын
I think thats more of a personal problem.
@geezerguy6410
@geezerguy6410 Жыл бұрын
The one guy is in a straight truck driving without a cdl.
@russellwhite4086
@russellwhite4086 Жыл бұрын
That's right, and they are All a big deai to a driver. Non trucking people are clueless about how it works ( or doesn't).
@robertmoss6773
@robertmoss6773 Жыл бұрын
Yea i quit to because of punks and idiot cops with constant harassment when all i wanted was to do my job and be left alone . But they couldnt do that!!!
@jpdst29
@jpdst29 Жыл бұрын
I was a truck driver years ago. I hauled steel coils up and down the East Coast. I would work 11-14 hour days and make about $400 a week. I finally came to my senses and got out and went back to school to become an engineer. All those years driving, I feel like I lost them. I was never home. I didn’t have any friends. I never saw my family. I couldn’t pursue any relationships. It was hell.
@aig5429
@aig5429 Жыл бұрын
Years ago? 400 a week could be good or bad
@paulkersey2179
@paulkersey2179 Жыл бұрын
Good for you, best thing is to move on when you are not happy.
@jpdst29
@jpdst29 Жыл бұрын
@@aig5429 Early 2000’s. I think I averaged right around $6 an hour.
@dameon26
@dameon26 Жыл бұрын
I’m also thinking about going back to school, what engineering program did you take?
@jpdst29
@jpdst29 Жыл бұрын
@@dameon26 I went with civil engineering.
@johnnostrand2320
@johnnostrand2320 Ай бұрын
Growing up in the 80's, industry jobs offered great wages. Today, those same jobs offer the same wage or less. 40 years stagnant.
@agh0st733
@agh0st733 24 күн бұрын
The sad part is that the new generations are just told to pull themselves up from their bootstraps without having boots.
@yaqoubalshatti205
@yaqoubalshatti205 20 күн бұрын
@@agh0st733 because of old heads and their generational superiority complex and lack of empathy becuase it did not happen to them
@UNPRESIDENTIAL
@UNPRESIDENTIAL 19 күн бұрын
while they make record number profits. america will fall just like rome its inevitable, inflation isnt even real because nobody drops the prices anymore
@erinbyrnes5921
@erinbyrnes5921 7 ай бұрын
"Trucking is short 80,000 drivers". You mean trucking is short 80,000 slaves for these below minimum wage job offers.
@spektred
@spektred 6 ай бұрын
Yep. And trust me, they won't be missed. As soon as driverless trucks become mainstream the slaves will be laid off in droves. Driverless trucks don't need wages, and they don't get tired.
@therinwhitten
@therinwhitten 6 ай бұрын
The companies are SHOCKED that people don't want hurt their health to be paid slave wages to be controlled. You can tell just driving across the states right now. Truck drivers used to be drivers you looked up to when driving on the interstates. They drove safe, and were courteous. I guess at that time, they were paid well and were treated well. Now, I have seen truck drivers, under paid, under trained, drive a truck like a road raged dad, and that is with 160 tons behind them. It's sad. So sad.
@atlantic_love
@atlantic_love 5 ай бұрын
Those jobs are not offering "below minimum wage".
@brianhoppenrath8379
@brianhoppenrath8379 5 ай бұрын
You do know that they won’t be driverless, they will have to have someone in the seat to grab the wheel just in case
@joemendoza2292
@joemendoza2292 5 ай бұрын
​@@therinwhitten160 tons? You don't realize that would be 320,000 pounds. There's not a truck out there that can pull that much weight.
@octothorpian_nightmare
@octothorpian_nightmare Жыл бұрын
If you ever want a fun time, go into Google Maps and click around on businesses that have truck docks. A lot of truckers actually review the receiving office and it's amazing how long they have to wait around to unload. There's a grocery warehouse near me that backs up so badly, the trucks are literally parked in the middle lane of the road leading in, which causes some pretty wild traffic issues with people trying to get around the snarl. (that particular warehouse is an OSHA horror, a man died last year when a badly maintained rollup dock door crushed him) You also find out about how the truckers actually have to pay "lumpers" to unload their trucks because the warehouse doesn't employ anyone directly. It's wild.
@MI-me3pt
@MI-me3pt Жыл бұрын
That’s what happens when you have people getting paid by the hour and not production. I had an employee of a warehouse tell me to go to my truck and go to sleep because he was only going to do one truck that day and he had eight hours to do it in. Lazy bastard.
@sarcasticguy4311
@sarcasticguy4311 Жыл бұрын
Wild? It's been going on for a hundred years. That's the business.
@biodiversityfanatic2454
@biodiversityfanatic2454 Жыл бұрын
​@@MI-me3ptwell maybe so but what financial incentive is in it for the warehouse worker? As much as a decent warehouse worker wants you to be taken care of they don't want to kill themselves for Pennies either. It's on the company to pay truckers on the wait and the warehouse worker to push them along as well
@bobbybushwhacker
@bobbybushwhacker Жыл бұрын
Those lumpers are insane
@patrickharrington9772
@patrickharrington9772 Жыл бұрын
Sysco foods is the worst! They treat delivery drivers terrible. Wait half a day to unload. Pay a lumper 350 400 dollars to get unloaded. At best you might have access to dirty port a pot outside if you need to use the restroom.
@carrollbridges6427
@carrollbridges6427 8 ай бұрын
I've been trucking for 34 years, and I still get paid good, but I found a company that works for me and treats me like I'm someone and not a number
@Spartanoffaith
@Spartanoffaith 7 ай бұрын
your number depreciates with every indian that comes in
@rogueroger0
@rogueroger0 7 ай бұрын
I'm trying to find that
@jeffb321
@jeffb321 7 ай бұрын
That's a big part of the problem. Drivers don't apply with other companies that would benefit them. There's a shortage of truckers in America. It's totally different than my industry of residential home construction, where there are NO jobs available for anyone due to 7% interest rates.
@corpingtons
@corpingtons 7 ай бұрын
You need your own business and get your own loads 😂
@corpingtons
@corpingtons 7 ай бұрын
@@jeffb321no because you need to start your own business it gives you more freedom and also more risk but it pays off
@Banjoman-p7t
@Banjoman-p7t Ай бұрын
Go to a shipper or a truck stop and look and listen. Most of the drivers don't speak English. The industry has been given an unending supply of slaves from open border policies. There is no driver shortage. Just a shortage of people who will be abused by exploitive companies so the policy makers needed to import new exploitable people.
@edhalferty
@edhalferty Ай бұрын
I unfollowed because they couldn't bother to address this obvious point. More Perfect Union my ass.
@EheTeNandayo867
@EheTeNandayo867 8 ай бұрын
Pays minimum wage “We have a worker shortage” Yeah I wonder why…
@KRYMauL
@KRYMauL 8 ай бұрын
The federal minimum wage is enough to live in the same conditions as the developing world. One would think the most prosperous country in the world would guarantee that everyone has a Cost of living on par with the top 1% of people in the developing world. By the way, the 1% of income earners earn $34,000/yr or $16/hr.
@Hay-x7p
@Hay-x7p 8 ай бұрын
No one owes you anything. Go figure it out like every other successful rich A-hole did 🙄
@aroix2667
@aroix2667 8 ай бұрын
Why do you think their are allowing all of these migrants to come since most of them are illegal you can get away with paying less than the minimum wage + solving the worker shortage
@nealorr5086
@nealorr5086 8 ай бұрын
Owner operators set their own rates. The average over the road trucker driver ears $114K per year as of April 2024. This communist and this truck driver are lying to you. Quit reading Manga. You don't have the brain cells to spare.
@nealorr5086
@nealorr5086 8 ай бұрын
@@KRYMauL States, Cities and Countines may all set their own minimum wage as many have done. There's no point in a federal minimum wage as costs of living varies wildly depending on where you live. Minimum wage jobs are for high schoolers and people with severe mental limitations. The average Wal-Mart hourly worker makes $17.50/ hour.
@barkeater9606
@barkeater9606 Жыл бұрын
It gets worse every year. My uncle was a truck driver from 1953 to 1992. He had a nice house, a hunting camp, a nice gun collection, two old Indian motorcycles, bought a new car every 6 years, had 4 kids and my aunt was a housewife. There is no way that you could do that today. It’s really sad and I feel for the young people. 🙏
@mitchhedberg4415
@mitchhedberg4415 Жыл бұрын
My cousin has rental properties now (with a ton of equity) and was a security guard his whole life. Long hours and saving is one way to get it done.
@cto_plushtubing
@cto_plushtubing Жыл бұрын
But is it not true for so many other professions, not just trucking? It is not the good old days anymore. They say it is the market that determines your pay, because that is what great capitalism is. Anything otherwise, you are a communist!
@mrnobody5381
@mrnobody5381 Жыл бұрын
@@mitchhedberg4415 How about we pay people better, take care of our people better. Our society, decades of relentless capitalism, has lead to everyone competing at a cut throat level. It divides us, as a people. Things are getting worse, much worse. The middle class has been destroyed in this country. People used to be able to have small business, profitable small business. Then the mega corps came, and they killed most of them just with there hyper competitive practices. (like copying your invention, and making it in china for cents on the dollar, flooding the markett with cheap look a likes. Cheap breaks, then people think your product is garbage) Something must be done about our corps. They have way to much power, they run our government. Whats good for them, is not good for the small families. Whats to be done? Better men then any of us have tried. The experiment failed. Now we spiral down into tyranny, whether its government or corporate. I don't see a future for my children. Its over. Whats coming, well, the french elites did not see it coming ether. I do not see a future for this country anymore.
@jikty891
@jikty891 Жыл бұрын
yes you can and immigrants are a great example of this. They come to USA and in 10 years make all of what you have listed.
@yogut28
@yogut28 Жыл бұрын
Maybe 60 years ago being a truck driver was good enough, today the relative level of skill needed to do that compared with many other jobs is much lower - hence the lower pay level.
@patrickcollins1855
@patrickcollins1855 Жыл бұрын
In 1998 an old trucker warned me not to become a trucker, because he said the trucking industry wasn't what it use to be. Thank you, sir. Update: People it was 30yrs ago. I'm talking about my personal experience. That old Trucker did me a solid. I went on to a greater career. Geez
@ChaotiX1
@ChaotiX1 Жыл бұрын
​@@ScottSeufertyou grossed? I wonser what your net was after all expenses and taxes 🫥
@1nvisible1
@1nvisible1 Жыл бұрын
*What about all those robot trucks I see. They've got to be so expensive they'll raise wages for all truckers, right?*
@michaelarmstrong3501
@michaelarmstrong3501 Жыл бұрын
Sir tell me you don’t make life decisions that easily
@ChaotiX1
@ChaotiX1 Жыл бұрын
@@ScottSeufert okay cool so after driving for decades and building up your owner op business you only managed to bring home 100k a year during your highest grossing years? If that doesnt tell you that 100k is a pipe dream for most drivers idk what will
@patrickcollins1855
@patrickcollins1855 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelarmstrong3501 He did me a great favor. My other option was best for me anyway.
@SeanTalkoff
@SeanTalkoff Ай бұрын
The continuously changing economic conditions in our society have made it necessary for people to find additional sources of income, thus I am looking at the stock market to fuel my retirement goal of $3m, my only concern is the recent market crash.
@DonaldStokes-p
@DonaldStokes-p Ай бұрын
Every crash/collapse brings with it an equivalent market chance if you are early informed and equipped, I've seen folks amass wealth amid economy crisis, and even pull it off easily in favorable conditions. That should be the least of your concern. Also explore the option of working with a CFA to reduce greatly your chances of loss.
@PASCALDAB
@PASCALDAB Ай бұрын
You're right, I and a few Neighbors in Bel Air Area work with an Investment Adviser who prefers we DCA across other prospective sectors instead of a lump sum purchase. As a result, my portfolio has recorded significant improvement even during the most unfavorable market season.
@Tonyrobs2
@Tonyrobs2 Ай бұрын
@@PASCALDAB I'm intrigued by this. I've searched for investment advisers online but it's kind of hard to get in touch with one. Okay if I ask you for a recommendation??
@PASCALDAB
@PASCALDAB Ай бұрын
My CFA ’’ Sharon Ann Meny, a renowned figure in her line of work. I recommend researching her credentials further. She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market..
@Tonyrobs2
@Tonyrobs2 Ай бұрын
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll send her an email, and I hope I'm able to reach her.
@dirtyjunkycars9182
@dirtyjunkycars9182 Жыл бұрын
As a diesel mechanic for 10+ yrs. I feel sorry for owner operators because a truck can cost more than a house yet they help feed the world. Everything came off a truck! God bless you truckers!❤ 🤜🤛
@blackdan0259
@blackdan0259 Жыл бұрын
yea, everything come off a truck because gov policies always lobby the development of high speed trains to the point this country is falling behind even to China. Look up what China accomplished without lobbying and just building both street and high speed train!
@davidlafleche1142
@davidlafleche1142 Жыл бұрын
@@blackdan0259 China is a Communist dictatorship and that's what Biden wants.
@nowadd0
@nowadd0 Жыл бұрын
Did they product or make the products?…So before and after they receive a load someone just as important or even more important handles and make the products…..restrictions come because of abuse and companies attempting to save money to be able to pay drivers..
@davidlafleche1142
@davidlafleche1142 Жыл бұрын
@@nowadd0 The solution is simple: lower the cost of living.
@angelgjr1999
@angelgjr1999 Жыл бұрын
@@blackdan0259Trains are unreliable. Trucks are much more flexible. America at this point is built around highways, not rail. We would literally have to redesign all of America for trucks to become unnecessary.
@patriciabandeko3842
@patriciabandeko3842 8 ай бұрын
I've been a trucker for 25yrs. I knew I couldn't afford a house, etc. so while living in my truck I squirreled away enough to pay cash for an older 23ft motorhome. My car is 22yrs old. I'm now saving up to put solar in my rv. I'm almost 67 and hope to retire soon. I won't be able to afford rv parks or fuel to travel much but I do have a few friends that will let me park on their rural property. Not what I had in mind for my golden years but much better than nothing. 😊
@dirkdiggler1877
@dirkdiggler1877 8 ай бұрын
You'll be much happier the way you're going about retirement. Learn everything you can about your motorhome, maintenance, repairs, proper storage (while parked long term) etc. Waaay better than being stuck somewhere with just enough to get by on. You'll have freedom.. 👍
@Leftiesarelosingit
@Leftiesarelosingit 8 ай бұрын
Wish u the best. Glad to see you are appreciating what you have
@Sedona_FD3S
@Sedona_FD3S 8 ай бұрын
You’re pretty much the CEO of truckers now
@Zenmartian
@Zenmartian 8 ай бұрын
I do the same. with help from RV facebook groups and youtube videos you can handle anything that comes at you!!
@taaj4403
@taaj4403 8 ай бұрын
Hey, that sounds pretty good. My friends uncle is a truckers and wants to retire but he has a huge mortgage so can't due to that and on top of that, about to file for a divorce and ultimately lose it all. He says although the divorce will likely leave him back at $0 and no home, he still has his trucking job and plans on sleeping in the truck and simply working to live. He finds that to be better than dealing with his physico wife. I found it admirable, but your story sounds much better. Also the ability to not have to worry about working until death is a beautiful thought. 😊
@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958
@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 Жыл бұрын
Most homeless people I have met in Florida actually have jobs. Their job does not pay enough to rent the crappiest apartment in the city where they work. Their employers paid off their congressman to do this to them. Apparently forming a union and striking is the only way to earn enough money to survive in capitalist America.
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
And I'm pretty sure homeless people in Florida can't vote, functionally. Go fuckin' figure. Florida is so obviously a bought out fascist state, it's horrifying.
@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr
@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Жыл бұрын
they should stop trying to live in a city then. there's still plenty of places to live outside of cities that aren't absurdly expensive. and whaddya know theres some jobs there too.
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Hey buddy... What happens when you're too poor to afford a car? Did you ever think of that? They have to walk to their job, then. And Florida isn't exactly known for its public transit into or within their cities. Entitled people ffs 🙄
@sky_rokit
@sky_rokit Жыл бұрын
@@monsieurdorgat6864 not to mention that people mass moving outside of cities will increase the cost of those areas as well. It’s just moving the goalpost. Some people need to use their brain.
@nil981
@nil981 Жыл бұрын
And you think the capitalist class will sit idly by and not violently retaliate? They will. Send in the militarized police, the national guard, and paid off right wing extremist militias to ruthlessly put down labor strikes when push comes to shove.
@AnneLowenthal-l5f
@AnneLowenthal-l5f Ай бұрын
Thank you for featuring Katherine Ann McGrath in one of your videos. I took your advice and contacted her for investment opportunities, and the results have been incredible. Started with slightly less than $40k, and now I’ve paid off my $529k loan in 6 months. Now totally debt free with 2 paid off rentals, having no debt for the last 12 months. Thank you Katherine Ann McGrath!
@noahheney
@noahheney Ай бұрын
Wow, congratulations on your impressive investment success! Please I'm new to this, how can I get her assistance? Please recommend while I do my research.
@LandbergPaysinger
@LandbergPaysinger Ай бұрын
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that i have as well come across Katherine Ann McGrath, she’s an exceptional person and great in her field of financial services. Highly recommended!
@AnneLowenthal-l5f
@AnneLowenthal-l5f Ай бұрын
Katherine Ann McGrath, Her performance is consistently impressive, and she’s a real name to know in the industry. Check her out online
@BrienenDreier
@BrienenDreier 11 күн бұрын
@@AnneLowenthal-l5f Just another similar commendation on her expertise, I saw the interview and immediately knew she's a professional as said.
@SanDzFit
@SanDzFit Жыл бұрын
Truck driving is easily one of the most under appreciated and under paid professions out there. Half of these companies still think drivers can get by on $800 a week…son it’s hardly a surprise the industry has a near 99% turnover rate. It’s difficult to find people willing to forfeit their family, friends, and hobbies to go out on the road for weeks at a time and get treated like a second class citizens.
@harthart7529
@harthart7529 Жыл бұрын
Anything less than $2,000 per week is a joke.
@davidgleeson2749
@davidgleeson2749 Жыл бұрын
Joe is bringing in millions of new workers that will be happy to take these jobs for pennies on the dollar with no benefits. He promised them all good jobs.
@stephengolden6080
@stephengolden6080 Жыл бұрын
​@@harthart7529Must feel good to be a bigshot!
@dillianwillamor5906
@dillianwillamor5906 Жыл бұрын
So true
@FirstPeterr
@FirstPeterr Жыл бұрын
If the drivers know this and still drive it is there fault.
@bdwinter72
@bdwinter72 Жыл бұрын
One of the worst lies in this country was that being an independent contractor trucker was a better option than being a union trucker
@blasphimus
@blasphimus Жыл бұрын
The worst lie was that capitalism works for everyone.
@somethingsomething404
@somethingsomething404 Жыл бұрын
Says 1 reply but I don’t see any. I wonder what Google doesn’t want me to see.
@Pensnmusic
@Pensnmusic Жыл бұрын
​@@somethingsomething404probably antisemitism Who do you think is deleting comments?
@butwhytharum
@butwhytharum Жыл бұрын
@@Pensnmusic or non union. corporations HATE unions they FORCE their profits to be shared
@Tonyx.yt.
@Tonyx.yt. Жыл бұрын
it was a better option... ... for the companies
@Riggsnic_co
@Riggsnic_co Жыл бұрын
Interest rate is currently at 4.75%(8th rate hike since March last year) Inflation at 7% and mortgage rates is at over 7.5% but yet minimum wage remains the same and my retirement portfolio has suffered tremendously these past years, so my question is how do senior citizens retire and live off such unstable economy. The long term game is obviously not for me at this point.
@kevinmarten
@kevinmarten Жыл бұрын
I can’t focus on the long run when I should be retiring in 3years, you see I’ve got good companies in my portfolio and a good amount invested, but my profit has been stalling, does it mean this recession/unstable market doesn’t provide any calculated risk opportunities to make profit?
@maga_zineng7810
@maga_zineng7810 Жыл бұрын
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue wetting profit especially in a down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts
@usieey
@usieey Жыл бұрын
I agree, my profit has been consistent no matter the market situation, I got into the market early 2019 and the constant downtrends and losses discouraged me so I sold off, got back in Dec 2020 this time with guidance from an investment adviser that was recommended by a popular economist on a subreddit, long story short, its been 2years now and I’ve gained over $850k following guidance from my investment adviser.
@kevinmarten
@kevinmarten Жыл бұрын
I’ve been down a ton, I’m only holding on so I can recoup, I really need help, who is this investment-adviser that guides you?
@usieey
@usieey Жыл бұрын
All of this happened in less than a year after ‘Catherine Morrison Evans’ told me what to do. I started with less than $100,000, and now I'm about 17,000 short of having a quarter million dollars.
@stevenbrite4056
@stevenbrite4056 24 күн бұрын
I work as a Chaplain at TA center, these truckers need a lot of prayer. It is a stressful job and prayer is needed for them to be able to do their job.
@GeoTrioMusic
@GeoTrioMusic Жыл бұрын
At this point anyone who comments 'get a better job' or 'some people don't want to work' is either cruel, a bot, a CEO, or just completely unaware.
@Praisethesunson
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
If we have the people who bring us all our consumer good not live in poverty, how will our corporate overlords afford their 5th yacht?!?!!?
@josealfonsocontretas5724
@josealfonsocontretas5724 Жыл бұрын
You forgot the "skill gap" that CEOs keep mentioning whenever they talk about bringing back skilled labor.
@cephalonbob15
@cephalonbob15 Жыл бұрын
dont forget brainwashed, the billionaires dont spend billions on media company for noting. They always expect larger returns on investment.
@blasphimus
@blasphimus Жыл бұрын
There's a lot of bootlickers that would prefer Bezos and Musk get richer if someone rather than someone else live well. Hollywood writers for some of the biggest shows are currently getting paid near or below minimum wage. The writer for Succession couldn't afford to get his used prius fixed. Meanwhile the execs are worth billions. It's either side with the billionaires or the working class. If you aren't poor, the billionaires just haven't figured out how to steal your money yet.
@eragon78
@eragon78 Жыл бұрын
@@Praisethesunson Clearly CEOs are just working 300x harder to justify their wages. Maybe if this guy was pulling 3000 hr/day shifts he wouldnt be poor lol. All that sleep he does is just being lazy.
@AustinSean-
@AustinSean- 5 ай бұрын
The problem we have is because Most people always taught that " you only need a good job to become rich " . These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.
@LucyAkira371
@LucyAkira371 5 ай бұрын
Money invested is far better than money saved , when you invest it gives you the opportunity to increase your financial worth.
@HaroldDylan-
@HaroldDylan- 5 ай бұрын
It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
@AliceJudy062
@AliceJudy062 5 ай бұрын
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies.
@ThomasHenry144
@ThomasHenry144 5 ай бұрын
Many individuals report success in investing in stocks, forex, and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin), yet I continue to struggle. Can somebody help me out or advise me on what to do?
@PatriciaMary11
@PatriciaMary11 5 ай бұрын
Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others. As an investor, you should've known that by now that nothing beats experience and that's final. Personally I had to reach out to a stock expert for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to $35k, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again.
@vojtechmajzlik4714
@vojtechmajzlik4714 Жыл бұрын
This is happening to all normal jobs, even in EU. 30y ago a man could work in a factory and have a family with house. Now normal people doing normal jobs cant afford 1 room flat. And all rich people will tell you,get a better job, but who will clean the streets,paint your house,cut the grass etc? I asked politicians many times who decides what minimum wage is and how people should live on that and nobody can answer that. All data show that middle class is getting lower and lower so now we have majority of people in lower class and small group of rich people and you can see it every day everywhere, look at restaurants where we have to tip the servise because boss pays the minimum wage to everyone so HE can have a new bugatti version. Or when a boss gets a contract on reconstruction and he pays the minimum wage,buys cheapest materials and gets maximum profit. And rich people will tell you to work harder and invest there and there and buy houses etc but from what if you get paid minimum wage since school? They will also tell you that everybody can be rich which is ultimate biggest lie and scam because if everybody is rich who will do the work? Look at Detroit etc. where big companies moved factories to China to make maximum profit and still act like an American firm,what a joke we live in right now,its sick.
@lonewolftrucker3955
@lonewolftrucker3955 Жыл бұрын
Yr absolutely right
@BleedForTheWorld
@BleedForTheWorld Жыл бұрын
First thing I'll tell you is that there's no such thing as middle class. It's all working class, "lower" and "middle" class. Very basically, if you work for what you have, if you produce with your hands or skills, you are working class. Second biggest lie ever told is that the mega rich work for what they have and that's simply a myth.
@thelostcosmonaut5555
@thelostcosmonaut5555 Жыл бұрын
I work in an emergency department as an EMT and can barely afford my 325 Sq ft studio apartment in the US.
@adoxartist1258
@adoxartist1258 Жыл бұрын
My youngest was offered - but didn't take - a job as a server at a national chain restaurant here in the US paying $2.75 an hour. That's not even enough to cover the cost of getting to work, much less pay your car note. The customer is expected to pay the worker's entire salary by way of tips. Massive, massive scam.
@Dimbliss.
@Dimbliss. Жыл бұрын
@@BleedForTheWorld People who usually say things along the lines of "there is no middle class" generally don't have any understanding of the term. Today the term is for people who don't need to work paycheck to paycheck but still need that job to pay for their living expenses. E.g. they can take time off for a vacation and not have to worry about making ends meet, but with the loss of a job they would.
@WilliamLynch-sd2wd
@WilliamLynch-sd2wd 2 ай бұрын
Facts matter ! Thank you for your support of our team of drivers
@himonightbreeze
@himonightbreeze Жыл бұрын
My mom's been a trucker for nearly 25 years. She's sacrificed a lot, mostly time with her kids. It's an injustice she barely gets by.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
With all due respect because she has worked to make a life for you and the others but she is working for the wrong company.
@07Flash11MRC
@07Flash11MRC Жыл бұрын
@@johnfrank6112 "but she is working for the wrong company": Then where is she supposed to work?
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
@@07Flash11MRC The LTLK companies like Saia, Old Dominion, Kroger, HEB, etc all local companies that pay well and get you home. She's earned it.
@gunsforevery1
@gunsforevery1 Жыл бұрын
@@07Flash11MRC a different company.
@himonightbreeze
@himonightbreeze Жыл бұрын
She's tried that, but they either didn't pay enough to provide for us because they either offer the same rates as long-haul companies with fewer miles or offer fixed rates, or they pay too much for her to still qualify for WIC or EBT, but not enough to NOT need them, or they don't have the right benefits. Their trucks are also unreliable because they tend to be older models compared to what long-haul companies provide or what she's had as an owner/operator. They also don't give her options for what she hauls, so she can't utilize her hazmat certification, because hauling hazardous stuff pays more. They have stricter deadlines so she can't drive as safe as she wants. PLUS, the bigger companies typically pay a bonus for training new drivers (she's trained probably a dozen drivers over the years), something a company like Kroger would not offer.
@mirzatajic89
@mirzatajic89 Жыл бұрын
My father was an owner operator for nearly 10 years. He could be on the road for 3 weeks and back home for 1, sometimes he was gone longer and sometimes he'd stay home longer. It was a sacrifice but he didn't know another way to earn the kind of money he made trucking. I've got respect for anyone doing this kind of work because of him. RIP dad.
@theemirofjaffa2266
@theemirofjaffa2266 Жыл бұрын
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@cmcdnc9561
@cmcdnc9561 Жыл бұрын
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@prashanthb6521
@prashanthb6521 Жыл бұрын
Fathers sacrifice a lot. Irresponsible and feminized sons squander the progress made by father.
@tillburr6799
@tillburr6799 Жыл бұрын
@@prashanthb6521 sons now are the same as sons then for all intents and purposes
@AB-fq4mr
@AB-fq4mr Жыл бұрын
El fatiha za tvog oca.
@shabadoob
@shabadoob Жыл бұрын
Postal Worker Strike + Rail Road + Trucker all at once would bring US to the knees. Power to the people and workers. Bring Unions back!
@michael029138
@michael029138 Жыл бұрын
Scary thought.
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
@@michael029138 based thought. People can wait on their motherfucking Amazon knick-knacks until the workers get fair pay.
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, that would be so amazing. Problem is that the government would shut it all down and force the workers to submit at the cop's gunpoint.
@wesleybrehm9386
@wesleybrehm9386 Жыл бұрын
@@monsieurdorgat6864 Biden already did this when the railroad workers tried to strike in 2022. Rail workers; too important to let strike, not important enough to pay fairly.
@dabsandsticks
@dabsandsticks Жыл бұрын
​@@monsieurdorgat6864amen.
@Mralanc
@Mralanc 28 күн бұрын
I used to make 85k a year as a Amazon influencer. Then they closed my account. Now I work at Target.
@GOATDispatcher
@GOATDispatcher 22 күн бұрын
Am dispatcher i can help you to get good loads . Cheap commision only 2%.
@Sizzlingtrucker
@Sizzlingtrucker Жыл бұрын
I’m one of those homeless truckers. It just don’t make sense to pay over $1000 for a home and only be there 4 days a month.
@pradeepkumarkoot5622
@pradeepkumarkoot5622 9 ай бұрын
But after the retirement, you have to stay in a home, So let it be a village, let it be a small house, but have one house for you,
@dpactootle2522
@dpactootle2522 9 ай бұрын
There is not a law in life that says "YOU HAVE TO OWN A GODDAMN HOUSE". If you don't need it or cannot afford it you don't have it. When you die you cannot take it with you anyway, so cool off.
@Donkeyearsa
@Donkeyearsa 9 ай бұрын
I was one of them homeless truckers my self for well over a decade. I got tired of living to work and wanted to work to live. From my early 30s to my mid 40s I had no life I lived to drive a truck OTR. One day I just said F this and quit in DFW as that was where I was at the time and crashed on someones couch and started to look for local work. It took me a few years but I got a local job that pays an OK wage but with outright awesome benefits for a trucker. I have a 401K, company pays 95+% of my health insurance premium, I have worked up to having 26 paid days off, and work 7 days out of every two weeks working 12 hour shifts. I can burn two days off and be away from work for an entire 7 day week, and best of all no union telling me that I have to hand over half of my pay check just for the union just to screw me over.
@dylansmith6078
@dylansmith6078 8 ай бұрын
Get a home and rent it out to cover your mortgage till you retire into a debt free home.
@chickboi3
@chickboi3 8 ай бұрын
Why would you want to be gone all the time anyways.
@OEBlackman
@OEBlackman Жыл бұрын
Another sad reminder that everyone needs to wake up and realize that change needs to be fought for. My heart goes out to those truckers and I hope that they can unionize or something. Please try to find local politicians to support that are pro union, and in this case, pro trucker.
@Freakazoid12345
@Freakazoid12345 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't he buy a house when he made $100k a year? Why doesn't he look at doing other work? I've been actively discriminated against for being white in America when I went to college and nobody gave me hand outs. They just murdered my family. When I was in the military or recently looking at jobs I got discriminated against for being a German immigrant. Nobody cares. Move on.
@TheManinBlack9054
@TheManinBlack9054 Жыл бұрын
Why not use trains to move things? I think its far better to create a good train infrastructure to move things better and faster.
@stldweller
@stldweller Жыл бұрын
You mean they should not vote for Democrats?
@jan_phd
@jan_phd Жыл бұрын
That's absurd, anyone can afford to have a home... but they have to be making about $2K a month, to pay for EVERYTHING. So that's $500. a week. People, lie.
@johnassal5838
@johnassal5838 Жыл бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054 And the railroads would already do that except like most monopolies that currently dominate most sectors actually doing the business that their company is allegedly in has the least to do with how they make their money. Most of them are doing the bare minimum to trigger bonuses and keep the shareholders happy with share price inflating stock buybacks often funded by unsustainable cuts in pay, staffing or safety that only their workers and society at large end up paying for until the inevitable screw up lands them another big government bailout that _doesn't_ specifically exclude those funds being applied to executive bonuses or yet more share price inflating stock buy backs exactly like '08 and since.
@jhaeros
@jhaeros 8 ай бұрын
This is absolutely true. I knew an owner/operator of 15 years exactly like the old guy and even though on paper he was making $150k a year, in reality he was barely scraping by. Had to sell his truck and go into painting to make ends meet. The cost of fuel, insurance, maintenance, have all skyrocketed while their pay has barely risen. Sad sad world we live in
@grandtheftbitcoin
@grandtheftbitcoin 7 ай бұрын
Become a company driver then
@Eternalsfan
@Eternalsfan 6 ай бұрын
@@grandtheftbitcoinI’m a company driver and I’m at the mercy of these evil people. My pay has fallen 20k+. If we tried to unionize, Ross corporate will be the locusts that they are and move on to another company. There are no alternative companies that pay more out there. Not even otr jobs. This is a huge problem for many. Corporate greed is the problem here.
@dougdownunder5622
@dougdownunder5622 5 ай бұрын
@@jhaeros Gross and net very basic business concepts.
@aacd34
@aacd34 5 ай бұрын
​@cheeseheadwizard most company jobs pay pennies on the dollar or wait to micro manage every little thing you do. Free of the road is completely gone and they basically want to starve you. Trucking sucks period
@Eternalsfan
@Eternalsfan 5 ай бұрын
@@aacd34 Not to forget the damn camera that watches you now…
@RKNGL
@RKNGL Ай бұрын
Overtime exception should not exist. It is abused in so many industries it is just corporate socialism, subsidising companies with your labour.
@dennisrichardville4988
@dennisrichardville4988 Жыл бұрын
I was in the trucking industry for 30 years and got out I've seen nothing but a steady decline in industry in this country in the last 30 years
@defeatSpace
@defeatSpace Жыл бұрын
Be responsible with your money, union idiots.
@dangda-ww7de
@dangda-ww7de Жыл бұрын
I drove for a year and knew it was a scam, so i quit, im not going to work for mim wages.
@onewizzard
@onewizzard Жыл бұрын
thank you for quitting now let the slaves drive for the rich....muahahaha
@SpruceMoose-iv8un
@SpruceMoose-iv8un Жыл бұрын
The problem is company's issue work visas or hire migrant workers willing to work for cheap to keep wages low.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
@@dangda-ww7de You drove for the wrong people.
@KissyKaede
@KissyKaede 8 ай бұрын
This is actually pathetic. Not the man, but society. Our society is absolutely pathetic.
@MrDucksBill
@MrDucksBill 8 ай бұрын
We let women vote now. What did people expect.
@KissyKaede
@KissyKaede 8 ай бұрын
@@MrDucksBill True
@colingraham1585
@colingraham1585 8 ай бұрын
We also let Caleb vote.
@managerialelitetoaster3456
@managerialelitetoaster3456 8 ай бұрын
If you work your entire life and have no savings it's not because of society or the economy. There are shitloads of people who worked the same job as this guy did and are comfortably retired. He's probably just mismanaged his money.
@gustavgnoettgen
@gustavgnoettgen 8 ай бұрын
​@@managerialelitetoaster3456 Probably not.
@tv450578415
@tv450578415 Жыл бұрын
I have been a truck driver and owner operator since 2010. It breaks my heart to see Bill working very hard at his 71 years birthday and showing the real life that we have as truck drivers. I am thinking seriously about leaving the industry. We have to deal with many things to make our job correctly. We have to follow rules that don't go according to reality of our job. ELD doesn't care if you're tired. You need to go. As time goes by, our bodies don't behave the same way they did 15 years ago. ELD doesn't care about our age. I am 52 years old and I have been driving since 2010. My eyes are tired. ELDs are very strict, and we have to drive when ELD allows us. Even though we are a very regulated industry, shippers and receivers imposed fines $$ if we arrive late to our appointments. I agree with Billy. The only way to be heard by the people who rule the American government is by getting organized in the best way possible. Everyone who wants to be a truck driver or owner operator needs to be organized. The government doesn't understand our necessities as an important industry. ELDs had created an urgency in the drivers mind. (trying to beat the clock) That is the reason you will see truck drivers driving at the highest speed limit even though the weather conditions and the road conditions are not recommended. It is not only ELDs. We have many issues in our industry, but ELDs came to add another headache. Billy, I am with you 100%
@Blazeww
@Blazeww Жыл бұрын
They are ruining the warehouses to. So many at mine are so close to putting in thier 2 week notices as one floor leads work goes undone while he wastes time and the company wants cross training on several different things he fails to do as he does the least and complains about everyone else who gets their job done. Management so worried about safety yet leaves Damaged flammables exposed with packing tape holding the hole closed as the Lead doesn't even use his haz whopper common sense to not follow the companies unsafe new policy of calling a recovery crew that hasn't shown in over two weeks now. Such a toxic work environment and by design as they do all that's in the news and media that harms mental health and creates more stress as they preach about caring and making my sure we are fit the work.
@Jay-vr8it
@Jay-vr8it Жыл бұрын
I did trucking for 6 months and quit cause the company kept making me do sketchy shit and I even got a few tickets at the scale house that I had to pay from my own money
@SB-zy7wy
@SB-zy7wy Жыл бұрын
@@Blazeww sounds like you are describing a FEDEX Freight Dock…I used to be a Freight Handler / (forklift operator).
@lowm3
@lowm3 Жыл бұрын
@@Jay-vr8itwhat company
@NewYoutuber1111
@NewYoutuber1111 Жыл бұрын
I’m was just thinking about going to truck driver training for coke cola after watching this hell with them we drive and touch freight 12/13 hours a day fck that I’m tired of hard labor jobs and I have nothing to show but stress
@jesuschristislord77733
@jesuschristislord77733 Ай бұрын
After 20 years, I'm quitting. It's an absolutely evil industry.
@GOATDispatcher
@GOATDispatcher 22 күн бұрын
Am dispatcher i can help you to get good loads . Cheap commision only 2%.
@jesuschristislord77733
@jesuschristislord77733 21 күн бұрын
@GOATDispatcher I'm out.
@bvkronenberg6786
@bvkronenberg6786 17 күн бұрын
So true!
@granitecolorado
@granitecolorado Жыл бұрын
I have been an owner operator for almost 3 decades and most people don't know how brutal being a trucker really is. I used to be a Canadian and Alaska hauler and we were required to drive 5000 miles a week solo. My entire career has been like that and like 25% of the work I've done, I've never been paid for. During covid I went hungry every day and washed myself in rivers because the restrooms were closed. I have been robbed and beaten, I've almost froze to death from hypothermia. I have been shot at from road rage and I can't even remember all of the times I've been hurt by horrible people. And most trucker's get treated this way, so people can eat. America is built on taking advantage of innocent people
@benjaminlear1619
@benjaminlear1619 Жыл бұрын
My friend... That's not America. That's Humanity. Any time an advantage is presented it will be taken regardless of cost to others.
@granitecolorado
@granitecolorado Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminlear1619 Not for much longer.
@deanmohamed7575
@deanmohamed7575 Жыл бұрын
this is sad
@truthseeker7183
@truthseeker7183 Жыл бұрын
Bro that's brutal😢
@johnanon658
@johnanon658 Жыл бұрын
Always was op
@cainarnold1
@cainarnold1 Жыл бұрын
I got my truck driver's license I drove for 2 months I went back to being mechanic it was so ridiculous I don't know how anyone can do it. They are being robbed blind I have so much respect for truckers everybody needs to have respect for them for how hard they work being away from their families
@johnsutherland7561
@johnsutherland7561 Жыл бұрын
Being a mechanic has a higher skill level thus better $'s
@Mannysosa223
@Mannysosa223 Жыл бұрын
Trucking is an entry level skill it’s for people that want the extra money to get to the next step. I currently am a security gaurd making 16 an hour trucking will work wonders for me especially since I’m single and young. my job doesn’t really offer any overtime so trucking works for some but not for everyone I’m trying to get into mechanical trade after I save money trucking.
@gilsonrogeriolimaoliveira2807
@gilsonrogeriolimaoliveira2807 Жыл бұрын
Mechanic also isn't a good job anymore. Cars need little maintenance, and warranty jobs is almost like working for free.
@_LVC
@_LVC Жыл бұрын
Really 2 whole months 😃you need years of experience to get a specialized trucking job like heavy haul or tankers or haz mat or many others, do you expect to be at the top of the pay scale at any job after 2 months, trucker shortage because this generation is soft and quit after 2 months ,when you can prove your skills you can write your own ticket in trucking, ask me how I know
@benj3911
@benj3911 Жыл бұрын
@@gilsonrogeriolimaoliveira2807 is actually the opposite. Most people would repair a used car rather than buy a new car with the current interest rates.
@maximvanmelckebeke7925
@maximvanmelckebeke7925 Ай бұрын
if he made 100K a year for 30 years and now is broke, he did something really wrong.
@kevinpolsik9183
@kevinpolsik9183 Ай бұрын
Willing to bet that it was a Divorce.
@ohmyme13
@ohmyme13 Ай бұрын
It may be converted to current price.
@JARRETT7121
@JARRETT7121 Ай бұрын
He made 100,000 as an owner operator that means you pay out of that hundred thousand your fuel your truck payment your parts and what's leftovers is yours and that ain't much in the 60s and in the mid-70s it was still good then they had deregulation and it went downhill ever since
@elenas4878
@elenas4878 8 ай бұрын
That's why I left the industry in 2019, after 20 years of trucking! Now I'm making the same money with less stress and being home every evening!
@LKYme
@LKYme 7 ай бұрын
What do you do now?
@concernedcanadian8460
@concernedcanadian8460 7 ай бұрын
Go were you're valued. Good rule for life!
@604cuinkillah
@604cuinkillah Жыл бұрын
I am a homeless owner operator. I've made less than $100,000 in eleven years. I've spent close to a million dollars in repairs, fuel, insurance. Don't EVER buy your own truck
@ByrdmanTrucker
@ByrdmanTrucker Жыл бұрын
Why not go company & live in the truck for a few years stack your money??? Dupre logistics the company I drive for made 109k last year take home
@604cuinkillah
@604cuinkillah Жыл бұрын
@byrdman10112 I've never heard a good story from anyone about being a company driver. Unless it was loyal hazmat tanker. OTR company is usually 40k max
@handleyobusiness
@handleyobusiness Жыл бұрын
Lol… if you can’t succeed in trucking then that’s your own fault. I was born in one of the poorest counties in the USA and sitting on more than 6 figs in the bank, thanks to my cdl.
@604cuinkillah
@604cuinkillah Жыл бұрын
@handleyobusiness lmfao, only a freight broker makes money in trucking. You should have 7 figures in the bank if you have a cdl😆😆You'll never beat the broker, and you'll never compete with the big companies. I've been on my own 13 axles, I've pulled my own reefers, and I've owned multiple trucks. And hot shots. If you did make it, you're 1 in 100,000. 60,000 trucking companies go out of business every year, so odds are your full of shit
@unknowndriver6652
@unknowndriver6652 Жыл бұрын
​@@handleyobusinessthe last 2 years if ypu owned a truck and you didn't bank 150k net you were lazy or spent it in hookers
@leighfoulkes7297
@leighfoulkes7297 Жыл бұрын
I like how if you get paid slightly above minimum wage, no college degree, they work you to death and act like they are paying you 1 million dollars a year. Pretty annoying to see the offices workers leaving at 5 and you staying till 8 (especially when your body is at its limit).
@defeatSpace
@defeatSpace Жыл бұрын
Be responsible with your money, union idiots.
@justicedemocrat9357
@justicedemocrat9357 Жыл бұрын
This is how unions got taken apart by the corporations instead of sticking up for your fellow office workers you look at them with jealousy it wasn't too long ago that truckers were working the same hours as office workers and earning more money.
@Epyon1201
@Epyon1201 Жыл бұрын
Direct your hate and annoyance at the people stealing your wage and livelihood, the office workers arent doing any better
@Dysiode
@Dysiode Жыл бұрын
As someone a white collar worker working from home I fully recognize the privilege I hold and how lucky I am to have ended up where I'm at. I hope we see a full blown resurgence of unions
@robertrichardsonjr.6705
@robertrichardsonjr.6705 Жыл бұрын
I agree, I just got out of the industry after 24yrs. Had my clutch knee replaced and went home in pain.
@JeffLemmon-kh4nm
@JeffLemmon-kh4nm 2 ай бұрын
Great report! Thank you!
@jr.jorgesandoval9427
@jr.jorgesandoval9427 8 ай бұрын
My old man used to make $270,000 a year… I’m not open to say how easy it was. But if you made connections with private companies you can reel in with the tough hauls that others are afraid of doing & make a good business. It all died when inflation hit everyone, basically 9/11.
@Trucking4Jesus
@Trucking4Jesus 8 ай бұрын
im a millenial and a local truck driver, I made $93,000 last year and I'm also a country boy, I live rurally, my total monthly expenses for the way I live is $1900/month, I am far from struggling but I work my mf ass off. FJB-DT 2024! MAGA
@Lobos222
@Lobos222 8 ай бұрын
@@Trucking4Jesus If you think MAGA will aid you? You are in for a surprise.
@Trucking4Jesus
@Trucking4Jesus 8 ай бұрын
@@Lobos222 trump will help me economically speaking a hell of a lot more then Biden, it's clear as a day what the democrats are about which is funding wars and fking the country, I'll put my trust in maga then current day Dems, bud.
@RK-cj4oc
@RK-cj4oc 8 ай бұрын
​@@Lobos222 Lad. Neither side will help.Biden is no better than Trump.
@chaddrusso8850
@chaddrusso8850 8 ай бұрын
@@Lobos222yeah as a union rail worker Biden shafted us, RFK Jr is by far my choice for president
@picklepoppers8223
@picklepoppers8223 Жыл бұрын
71 years old and that man still got what it takes. The "scars" on his face represent all the years of his hard work and dedication to service. These great men today are suffering and this is so shameful. My respect to you Billy.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
If he's worked so hard for decades, why is he not kicking back and living off his social security?
@tv450578415
@tv450578415 Жыл бұрын
I have been a truck driver and owner operator since 2010. It breaks my heart to see Bill working very hard at his 71 years birthday and showing the real life that we have as truck drivers. I am thinking seriously about leaving the industry. We have to deal with many things to make our job correctly. We have to follow rules that don't go according to reality of our job. ELD doesn't care if you're tired. You need to go. As time goes by, our bodies don't behave the same way they did 15 years ago. ELD doesn't care about our age. I am 52 years old and I have been driving since 2010. My eyes are tired. ELDs are very strict, and we have to drive when ELD allows us. Even though we are a very regulated industry, shippers and receivers imposed fines $$ if we arrive late to our appointments. I agree with Billy. The only way to be heard by the people who rule the American government is by getting organized in the best way possible. Everyone who wants to be a truck driver or owner operator needs to be organized. The government doesn't understand our necessities as an important industry. ELDs had created an urgency in the drivers mind. (trying to beat the clock) That is the reason you will see truck drivers driving at the highest speed limit even though the weather conditions and the road conditions are not recommended. It is not only ELDs. We have many issues in our industry, but ELDs came to add another headache. Billy, I am with you 100%
@tv450578415
@tv450578415 Жыл бұрын
So people don't like to be asking for easy money. They want to work and make a living on their own.
@telcobilly
@telcobilly Жыл бұрын
I was in trucking for a dozen years after 25 years of tech and 3 years in the oilfield. I liked it and made it work for me. I made a plan to retire oversees 10 years prior to getting out. I saved and spent nothing while trucking. Fortunately for me I broke my collarbone at work so I got a 1 year sabbatical on workman's comp with my family. I'm now in the Philippines debt free with no housing cost beyond normal living expenses. That being said, trucking has become very exploitative and restrictive as this video illustrated. Truckers must unite to force change like the farmers did in the Netherlands or it's going to keep getting worse. Nobody else cares about truckers beyond other truckers.
@spharion7988
@spharion7988 8 ай бұрын
So you wasted 20+ years before hitting the jackpot at the oil fields. I haul water to and from oil fields. I do a lot of money and in another 4 years I'll move to a cheap paradise like you did.
@telcobilly
@telcobilly 8 ай бұрын
@@spharion7988 I don't think I "wasted" 20 years before going to the oilfield. I was in tech for 25 years which provided a good life for my family. I didn't truck in the oilfield either. I was in directional services. Trucking was my last career before retirement. I'm glad I didn't do it for more that I did. It's a hard, isolating life. Money isn't everything. Living the one life we are given to the fullest is priceless.
@bobdebouwer7835
@bobdebouwer7835 8 ай бұрын
Truckers in the Netherlands get 18,60 an hour lol.
@Starfish2145
@Starfish2145 18 күн бұрын
This reminds me of younger flight attendants. Many of them cannot even afford rent and are living in their cars. They are not paid until the plane is moving, which is absolutely ridiculous.
@Sternodox
@Sternodox Жыл бұрын
My Dad was a trucker in the 50s and 60s. Four kids, two cars, 5 bedroom house, ski boat, camper, vacation every year, and my Mom was a housewife. Impossible scenario now for most. Why?
@gaijinbroken6571
@gaijinbroken6571 Жыл бұрын
Hello, It is obvious that you do not understand economics Do not reply to this comment until you can make a cohesive argument on why they "make less" Sincerely, shitnugget
@jay-lm4we
@jay-lm4we Жыл бұрын
Maybe he was smuggling drugs in his truck 🤷‍♂️
@Ivan-jt2te
@Ivan-jt2te Жыл бұрын
Because of USSR example. Rich people in US were afraid of revolution, so they shared profit with workers. Now they dont afraid anything.
@michlo3393
@michlo3393 Жыл бұрын
Better regulations and strong unions. But, we all want to be a bunch of free-range libertarians in this country so we gut unions and de-regulate. And somehow everyone is mad at the end result? We had a system that worked pretty well back in those days and we've spent the last 60 years tearing it all down.
@Falcon2609
@Falcon2609 Жыл бұрын
​@@michlo3393Wrong
@channeling764
@channeling764 Жыл бұрын
I watched my boyfriend getting a speeding ticket due to rushing to get to another location because his previous client took forever to load. The system sets the truckers to fail under stuff that’s not under their control.
@sarcasticguy4311
@sarcasticguy4311 Жыл бұрын
Tell your boyfriend to use the phone more to talk to the company and/or clients and slow down. He doesn't need to speed because shippers or receivers can't do their jobs properly.
@amandahuginkiss4098
@amandahuginkiss4098 Жыл бұрын
Tell your soy boy he needs to take responsibility for his OWN actions. And what he doesn't need is you fighting his battles for him.
@whyme3772
@whyme3772 7 ай бұрын
@@amandahuginkiss4098You’re either a troll or a total moron 😂
@justicedemocrat9357
@justicedemocrat9357 5 ай бұрын
Don't break the law speeding is very dangerous.
@channeling764
@channeling764 5 ай бұрын
@@amandahuginkiss4098 he ain’t no soy boy that man is 6’4 and jacked. You can only wish!
@Justlurkin_lol
@Justlurkin_lol Жыл бұрын
I’d love to see them strike, I hope they get workers protections, overtime, a livable wage and for them to know when they will be home.
@middleagebrotips3454
@middleagebrotips3454 Жыл бұрын
I don't think they can organize in this way if they are all owner operators
@wesleybrehm9386
@wesleybrehm9386 Жыл бұрын
If they try and strike while Biden is president, he'll just override their strike like he did with the railroad workers.
@FalconsEye58094
@FalconsEye58094 Жыл бұрын
if they go on strike, that will cause an economic earthquake
@Nota-Skaven
@Nota-Skaven Жыл бұрын
​@@FalconsEye58094yeah that's the point
@matthewsanchez7953
@matthewsanchez7953 Жыл бұрын
@@FalconsEye58094 Good. An economic earthquake might be enough of a threat to force the predator class to give up a few more crumbs.
@PaulAllPro
@PaulAllPro 3 күн бұрын
Appreciate the subtitles
@davewme
@davewme Жыл бұрын
All absolutely true!! I am Canadian.. used to live in a truck doing long haul. Now, I haul aggregate local. Paid $34/hr for all hours worked. No log book, and in 14 years of that.. own a house and two nice vehicles. Also take time away from work for hobbies. Because I can afford to. I will never go back to freight hauling, there is no money in it.
@FrankLadd
@FrankLadd Жыл бұрын
That sounds like a great rate. After hauling refrigerated my son just got offered $24/hr US to deliver building supplies. He'll be home every night and have paid holidays. Hope it works out as good as it sounds.
@ballpuncher45
@ballpuncher45 Жыл бұрын
In the US most places won't go above $25 an hour for local from what I've seen but most don't get that
@davewme
@davewme Жыл бұрын
@@FrankLadd the dollar is irrelevant, as you spend usd. And earn usd. I make cad and spend cad. Only difference is things are more expensive in cad. Your son will do well, running local. It is more difficult for companies to screw drivers over when you see them face to face every day. Lol. If things don’t fly for him with building supplies, might I suggest he check out aggregates. All the best to him :)
@mriphone1000
@mriphone1000 Жыл бұрын
I started at a mega carrier. Made absolutely nothing, below poverty level. My point being is thiers better options, I left.
@davewme
@davewme Жыл бұрын
@@ballpuncher45 yes, that is true…. Try out aggregate, or other specialized. Freight does not pay, at any point.
@paulipock6981
@paulipock6981 Жыл бұрын
I had a trainer who taught me flatbed in 2004. He said he made 50k the year before. He also told me he made 50k in 1978. That's equivalent to 200k in today's money. Flatbed drivers today make just a bit more than the same 50k. Pay has barely gone up at all in more than 40 years.
@nicknamenick9448
@nicknamenick9448 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@tacticaldorito3942
@tacticaldorito3942 Жыл бұрын
My old man made about 50k in 05. Nearly 70k in 15. He’s gone now, but I picked up the reins as a flat bedder, on route to 100k+ this year. If you’re not making at least 75k, it’s time to find a different company. There’s no shortage of jobs. This documentary is full of bad information.
@stuart6478
@stuart6478 Жыл бұрын
poor people don't want to pay taxes so the rich believe the world is theirs and by all means it is
@mikepalmer1971
@mikepalmer1971 Жыл бұрын
This is with every industry. Especially construction. This is not unique to trucking.
@SliverOfSilver1000oz
@SliverOfSilver1000oz Жыл бұрын
Well I'm a flatbedder and I've never made less then 90k/yr as a company driver and not have to do H/H or OD
@dragoonzen
@dragoonzen Жыл бұрын
This is America, we work to give the billionaires and ultra-millionaires the life they deserve 😅😂
@larry_ellison
@larry_ellison Жыл бұрын
You still work lol? Stop economic support for your own oppression
@Romogi
@Romogi Жыл бұрын
It really is. I lived overseas and returned because of improving my education. And I hate it here. So many people have a rise and grind attitude, but they don't get anything meaningful from it except a boring life.
@TechBearSeattle
@TechBearSeattle Жыл бұрын
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever until we get organized and work to change it.
@michael029138
@michael029138 Жыл бұрын
Sad but true.
@mickeyg7219
@mickeyg7219 Жыл бұрын
@@CyborgLady-j7n People that worshipped billionaires tend to be from a middle-class or upper-middle class background, because these people are more likely to view themselves as "one of them" or is "one in making." Working class people have more realistic views and dignity than that.
@kimallnaturelle
@kimallnaturelle Ай бұрын
My dad is a trucker now. Was a taxi driver throughout my whole childhood...then Uber/Lyft came and bust3d that market. I'm really praying his 2nd career doesn't screw him over.
@lhead7226
@lhead7226 Жыл бұрын
My husband is a driver and it's really hard to compete with foreign drivers that will work for next to nothing. It drives down the wages for all of the other drivers.
@CensorTube84
@CensorTube84 Жыл бұрын
My dad actually mentioned something about that recently
@UhYeahWhateverDude
@UhYeahWhateverDude Жыл бұрын
There is a whole lot of truth to that. Additionally, their horrible driving habits and disregard for the law makes the job more dangerous for everyone. Eventually I assume the insurance market will catch-up and make it unprofitable for carriers to hire these guys but until then, it's only going to get worse.
@miguelrobb5719
@miguelrobb5719 Жыл бұрын
@@UhYeahWhateverDudethat is part of the reason why I closed down my authority and about to sell my equipment. I constantly get treated like dog crap and I have to always compete against a foreign driver that is willing to drive for peanuts so they can send money back home in their country. I realized that this thing isn’t worth it. Anyways I’m getting into aviation. This is going to be a 3 year journey but It will beat this crap
@TheSimba86
@TheSimba86 Жыл бұрын
yep, my dad is a trucker also and he says he sees a lot of foreigner truck drivers that can't even speak english, or drive without hitting something
@radicaledward9486
@radicaledward9486 Жыл бұрын
@@UhYeahWhateverDude Something I've learned is that companies will pay extra to keep you poor and begging
@xmapa4677
@xmapa4677 Жыл бұрын
"If we give people raises, we have to charge more for goods/services." Reality: everyone makes way less money and every thing costs way more, also.
@germanmosca
@germanmosca Жыл бұрын
Managements and Investors had a massive increase on the money they make though.
@Mistro07
@Mistro07 Жыл бұрын
Don’t pay dividends to investors and they stop investing, if they stop investing many public companies go broke
@TomATrucking
@TomATrucking 10 ай бұрын
That’s what they want you to think and explain why minimum wage has been the same for decades but the price of living goes up regardless please stop making this statement
@keithbellair9508
@keithbellair9508 10 ай бұрын
Except those on welfare.. they still get it all free… and people wonder why there is inflation
@marksmith1784
@marksmith1784 8 ай бұрын
As long as the C suite can give themselves raises everything is ok.
@cgonzo901
@cgonzo901 8 ай бұрын
My father has been a trucker for 30+ years now. He's been telling stories of how amazing being a trucker was in the 90's-2010's. Now regulations have been changed to ruin the drivers' ability to make and control how much income they wanna make annually. Because of electronic monitoring bs, he went from $120,000/year to $70,000. He calls me often to chat while he's pulled over on the road telling me that he's reached his max drive time and now FORCED to stop just 5 miles away from his delivery. He was speeding to make up lost time and still couldn't make it. His company, as well as, the receiver would call and complain about not making the delivery. His response " I did my best. I legally need to wait 10 hours to get moving again.". Them: But you are 5 miles away". Dad: "Well... Legally I have to stay, so you're gonna have to wait.".
@KRYMauL
@KRYMauL 8 ай бұрын
The regulations are better for last-mile drivers because no one wants to be on the road past midnight delivering Amazon crap and wine.
@mj-mr5yu
@mj-mr5yu 8 ай бұрын
I thought this crap was just in Europe, sorry to hear it's in the US also, I'm in Ireland, and truck drivers are getting scarcer by the week over here. Some older drivers here simply ignore it and carry on, get the job done so to speak, I'm one of them.
@KRYMauL
@KRYMauL 8 ай бұрын
@@mj-mr5yu It’s to reduce exhaustion on road, but it doesn’t take into account that most get paid per mile not per hour. I could imagine them doing it like the airline industry.
@mj-mr5yu
@mj-mr5yu 8 ай бұрын
@@KRYMauL I agree with reducing exhaustion giving drivers breaks and that, but in Ireland here, unless you drive from malin head to mizen head and back again your simply not going to be tired enough to fall asleep unless you got a poor night's sleep prior to starting work. It's different in the US where you could have someone drive across several states for something like 20 hours and doze off behind the wheel, or elsewhere like continental Europe. But we just don't have the miles here. I typically work 9 to 5 or 6 and bring the truck home., occasionally I'll work some overtime, but I'm expected to take a 45 minute stop after 6, which I don't do. I've been 5 mins from home and had the thing overhead flashing at me, out of hours, but I'm not going to stop wherether it's 5 mins or 50 mins, I'm going home. This is where we are getting caught. We know ourselves if we are fit to drive or not, but the authorities think they know better. A recent case here was where two individuals who had been drinking for several hours in a bar, decided to jump in the car and go tearing down the road, where they crashed spectacularly rolling the car multiple times in front of an incoming articulated lorry. The lorry left the road to avoid the car and didn't hit it. The two drunk drivers were killed instantly. Anyhow, the truck driver was due to take a break, but as he was nearly at his destination he kept going and had planned to take his break there. The authorities once they found this out from his digital tachograph card decided somehow it was his fault, and filled his head full of shit, whereby sometime after he killed himself. I could go on for ages but it out of control here.
@KRYMauL
@KRYMauL 8 ай бұрын
@@mj-mr5yu Oh that’s dumb in the US it doesn’t go into affect until 10 hours, and even then you can just a 1 hour lunch.
@CliveBirse
@CliveBirse Ай бұрын
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
@Grace.milburn
@Grace.milburn Ай бұрын
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
@ThomasChai05
@ThomasChai05 Ай бұрын
Certain Ai companies are rumoured to be overvalued and might cause a market correction, I’d suggest you go with a managed portfolio, but even those don’t perform so well, so it’s best you reach out to a proper fiduciary to guide you, that’s what works for my spouse and I.
@mikegarvey17
@mikegarvey17 Ай бұрын
@@ThomasChai05this is all new to me, where do I find a fiduciary, can you recommend any?
@ThomasChai05
@ThomasChai05 Ай бұрын
Izella Annette Anderson, is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
@mariaguerrero08
@mariaguerrero08 Ай бұрын
She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran a Google search for her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.
@Madmun357
@Madmun357 Жыл бұрын
The most needed workers in this country are also the lowest paid. That spells trouble.
@gridlock489
@gridlock489 Жыл бұрын
The whole "waiting for a load" aspect of the work being unpaid is so absolutely bonkers. In the quest for annual percentage increase in revenue, our supply chains have been whittled down to nothing more than a house of cards... We saw what a major disruption looks like in 2020, but all corporations think of is "How do we get back to 2019" instead of "let's do this differently so 2020 doesn't happen again." Really feels like insanity
@MegaLokopo
@MegaLokopo Жыл бұрын
The only way to prevent 2020 from happening again is to prevent the government from banning people from working. No matter how much people are paid, they aren't going to work when the government bans them under threat of jail.
@TheSonyExperience
@TheSonyExperience Жыл бұрын
So you will add even higher costs to the end product then we already have? I manage a lot of carriers and they got extremely greedy during Covid. You don’t get to cry would when you made millions of dollars more and squandered it after the rates came down. Owner ops were the same way. There is always a cycle. Shippers market than drivers market. We just came out of a drivers market. Now we are back to a shippers market. The carriers who have been around for decades already prepared for this. A lot of non truckers and truckers who thought they could get rich bought or leased equipment that is now more expensive to move then to keep sitting. It’s not just coronation equal bad.
@gridlock489
@gridlock489 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSonyExperienceYou take for granted that prices SHOULD be low forever, and also assume that value is not being siphoned by megacorps who reach record profits every year for a half-century. That’s not everyone’s goal… some of us would trade cheap flat screen TVs for an equitable economy Someone is making a lot of money while people can’t afford the cheap garbage they transport out produce. Business cycles aren’t some natural fact of nature, they are reckonings of an unsustainable system. Go ahead and tell me I’m the naive one though, tell me how doing anything differently from the demands of rich people could never ever work
@TheSonyExperience
@TheSonyExperience Жыл бұрын
@@gridlock489 I’m not sure what your argument is. It would be great as a shipper to have low rates forever and less variability in my transportation budget. We can agree on that. The only argument would be about how the market should work in your opinion opposed to the reality? Also you mentioned cheap garbage that is shipped. How about the produce? How about medical equipment? Do you know why rates can’t stay the same? There aren’t enough carriers for all of the demand hence the driver shortage. If there was enough carrier capacity, there would be no benefit to being a carrier. There would be very low margins. Your argument is fundamentally about capitalism at this point. Prices are set by what folks are willing to pay in any market. Unless the government dictates it. The issue with that is the government could set it low, but they can’t force carriers into the market. So all you would do is constrain capacity leading to shortages in every possible way. Then the shippers would just move to their own fleets and pay drivers hourly. That’s a great way to cap prices. Then you just don’t pay as much.
@Greenitthe
@Greenitthe Жыл бұрын
@@TheSonyExperience You're missing the point - if we can only afford certain things by exploiting drivers, we can't actually afford those things. If 'cheap garbage' costs twice as much because of realistic shipping prices, whether those are set via collective bargaining or regulation, then the consumer will simply have to choose to consume less. If high volume/weight low-cost goods like produce need to be subsidized to ensure everyone still has access to healthy food, that should be the responsibility of the government, not the drivers. Not sure what you are talking about regarding margin... Workers don't care about margin, they care about reasonable pay and work-life balance.
@captaindishman9126
@captaindishman9126 Жыл бұрын
My dad was a trucker for 40 years. 2 years before retirement he catches a heart condition. The company had to let him go because they saw him as a liability. He is now 70 and working for a retailer instead of enjoying his retirement. I've seen several elderly people still working because life rips away what they built up for decades. It is disgusting. It is a shame to know that the same will happen to me. Doesn't matter how much money you make. It will just get taken from you and you will have to slave while your body is failing. YOU WILL DIE AT A JOB YOU DIDN'T WANT! ENJOY!!
@timbrooks8690
@timbrooks8690 Жыл бұрын
So he failed to save for retirement......
@jaimecruz5367
@jaimecruz5367 Жыл бұрын
Be smart save up and retired in a country where you can live on your pension . Like Filipinas 🇵🇭
@captaindishman9126
@captaindishman9126 Жыл бұрын
@@timbrooks8690 because getting caught up in the system to get assistance drains what you have. I'm sorry you didn't have several traumatic experiences so you could understand what reality does to people.
@timbrooks8690
@timbrooks8690 Жыл бұрын
@@captaindishman9126 I had lots of bad experiences I just wasn't a retard with my money.
@bobshagit-io8lq
@bobshagit-io8lq Жыл бұрын
they will work us to our death, you are right the royal families in charge need to be overthrown
@cappybenton
@cappybenton 2 күн бұрын
This was great. I’ve seen on the news many many times how there’s not enough truckers. This video pretty much explains why.
@jiminglima-fh6tg
@jiminglima-fh6tg 6 ай бұрын
Truckers deserve excellent pay, excellent benefits, and excellent working conditions. They are unsung heroes. Because without truckers this country comes to a GRINDING HALT. They perform an absolutely vital service.
@asdfbeau
@asdfbeau 4 ай бұрын
That's why we import so many people, who can get their license, to lower the cost/wages!
@zhenshuang
@zhenshuang Ай бұрын
For what? For low-skilled work that can be done by any Indian that can't read and barely speaks? So, a McDonalds worker should have been awarded with a space shuttle and a perconal assistant, and foor massage, folowwing by your logic.
@zhenshuang
@zhenshuang Ай бұрын
@@asdfbeau Because you feed so many people who have no imtention to work and the only thing they're doing is crime. Pay them enought so they don't riot. But you blame imported mexicans who make your goods cheaper. Jeez, why hamburgers are so dumb.
@dmichael100
@dmichael100 15 күн бұрын
I drove for 18 years, so I'm one of them- but, I always thought the "hero" thing was a little much- even when I was one of the supposed "heroes". We all delivered goods BECAUSE WE WERE PAID TO DO IT. Truckers aren't performing public service out of the goodness of our hearts. So, yes, the country would be hurt if truckers all quit- but that could be said about a lot of professions. If truckers weren't paid, they wouldn't deliver any goods whether the country needed them or not. Now, whether or not the pay needs to be higher is a separate issue- but not because we were heroes- we just liked working alone where no one told us what to do.
@jiminglima-fh6tg
@jiminglima-fh6tg 15 күн бұрын
You have valid points there.​@@dmichael100
@robertrichardsonjr.6705
@robertrichardsonjr.6705 Жыл бұрын
I was a trucker for 24 years and was pushed out due to finding out about a heart disease. It was a love hate relationship. Once you become a trucker and stop , it’s hard to get it out of your blood.
@giovannigiorgio8962
@giovannigiorgio8962 Жыл бұрын
It's not about "getting trucking out of your blood" People are habitual, whatever you do consistently gets wired into your brain.
@last-i2x
@last-i2x Жыл бұрын
I agree! Best thing to do is get on disability and drive around the country with a small camper
@masmith1960
@masmith1960 Жыл бұрын
I loved Trucking and would go back if I could. Medical issues too.
@last-i2x
@last-i2x Жыл бұрын
@@masmith1960 I have a heart defibrillator implant i can't drive so I'm waiting my SSDI then I going to Asia to live
@masmith1960
@masmith1960 Жыл бұрын
I understand. Been a trucker and a police officer. To old to work the pd. Have like you med issues for dot. Been turned down on ssdi. For me it’s like so many of us trucking is in my blood. Should have never become a cop. Liked helping people and the job was okay but it was never like trucking for me.
@randystone4903
@randystone4903 Жыл бұрын
I was a long haul trucker for a couple of years and quickly burned out. The company I worked for back then expected 700 miles per driving shift which took me up to 17 hours. If truckers can average 50 miles per hour during their shift with just bathroom breaks that's pretty good. I came to the same conclusion about low pay, I was responsible for the truck 24/7 and was making less than minimum wage for the hours I put in. I quit to work 6 days a week for $10 an hour at a farmers market. I was happy to be home every night and see my friends again.
@dd-uj8jx
@dd-uj8jx 10 ай бұрын
Wa
@javiersepulvedahidalgo3255
@javiersepulvedahidalgo3255 10 ай бұрын
Mechanics are next. Car manufacturers are not willing to share the information to fix your electric vehicles, like tesla
@AlsanPine
@AlsanPine Жыл бұрын
he is absolutely right at the end... if they were unionized, they would be able to demand their rights. this is what you get when you do not heed warnings some of us have been giving for over 50yrs. it all went south with the advent of the neo-liberal chicago school of economics corporate takeover of our country. and most of us watched it happen and could not be bothered to support workers. this is what you get when you have a welfare state for the rich.
@microcolonel
@microcolonel Жыл бұрын
There is no stable way to unionize trucking in the U.S. The barrier to owning the equipment is very low, and the supply of people capable of learning to drive truck is essentially infinite, it just isn't rocket science. Tractors and trailers are relatively standardized, and you can hire essentially anyone to complete a job in the case of a strike. The conditions simply don't exist; and even if they did exist, I could tell you why the union would not produce the effects you're looking for in the medium to long term. Union propaganda preys on the desperate, but is ultimately still just propaganda.
@AlsanPine
@AlsanPine Жыл бұрын
@@microcolonel and yet... there is a driver shortage. because while entry may not be hard, staying is. the more people know what is going on, the worst it will get. i do agree that there needs to be a huge reversal of the extreme independent contractor implementations in many areas like this. now that we have been beating unions up for over 50yrs, some of which they deserved, people are seeing that they are necessary and the majority of people are turning away from the hyper-capitalist corporate welfare system we have created for the rich. in time this fascist right wing extreme swing will turn to moderation again. only if we would teach history so generation after generation, we would not repeat our mistakes.
@AlsanPine
@AlsanPine Жыл бұрын
​@@microcolonel and oh... unions are not perfect but they are not all just propaganda either. your last sentence is pure propaganda. i suggest you study the history and understand that while individuals at times will always abuse power and no organization is ever perfect, unions benefited workers tremendously. do we need to learn from our mistakes and make them better? yes... but that is true with everything. your logic is to throw out the baby with the bath water. instead of emotional response, we must act rationally and logically to improve processes and balance benefits and needs.
@microcolonel
@microcolonel Жыл бұрын
@@AlsanPine there is no driver shortage. More or less material moves depending on the supply and demand. Supply is also highly elastic with otr, because for straight highway miles it just doesn't take that long to train somebody. The word "shortage" is used right now because customers are choosing not to bother moving their freight, abandoning or scaling down deliveries because of the price of moving goods; it's not something you would do if supply is growing (which was the norm for a long time), which is why it seems weird to them. Spending on haulage will be less spontaneous as it makes up a greater proportion of the cost of doing business, but that doesn't make a shortage. P.S. corporate welfare isn't "hyper capitalist", it's literally the opposite.
@AlsanPine
@AlsanPine Жыл бұрын
@@microcolonel i know of several businesses around here (NW) that have had a hell of a time finding drivers. they are not huge businesses... local and regional ones but they are decent companies with decent wages. as more and more drivers have a hard time to manage, the problem will deepen. you can abuse people so long... eventually they will rise and kick your butt. your info is probably correct for trucking companies or large corporations, i don't know, but for companies hiring their own truck drivers to get their products around regionally, it is hard. one of the companies i deal with was short drivers for over a year and finally filled one position just a couple of months ago. as for corporate welfare and hyper capitalist being opposites... you need to look at what capitalism actually is not the propaganda taught from chicago school of economics. the fact that we have had both of these things for decades proves the fallacy of this dogma. i know a few things about this as i spent too much of my life using one of my degrees to make very rich people a lot richer until i just had to stop.
@Lyudtaru
@Lyudtaru 7 ай бұрын
Amazing presentation. As someone who drive trucks for more then three years, this video is accurate. Trucking is one of the hardest jobs you can do,. One of the most underpaid jobs. You will work long long long hours, you will never sleep 8 hours, ans you will never be "safe". Trucking is hell because youre working for a minimum wage. Something needs to change.
@tonyb4252
@tonyb4252 4 ай бұрын
Preach
@justaguy-69
@justaguy-69 Жыл бұрын
i retired from trucking in 2017 and not a minute too soon! i saw it go from a great job to being nothing more than a human transmission . most truckers do it for the freedom and couldn't imagine sitting in an office everyday their whole lives or in a factory with someone looking over their shoulder all day,but now you are one of the most under surveillance people in the world, on camera,computer watching every gear shifted every time you touch the brakes every turn you make every move your truck makes the temperature of your engine the rpms, exactly pinpointed by gps on a map down to the yard and how many minutes you sat there or if you nudged forward 6 inches or 20 feet. and if your truck is running or shut off , and if you follow orders and drive exactly as youre told exactly when youre told the exact route youre told and stop when and where youre told you really are just a human link between the accelerator and clutch and the gps map on your dash and the orders coming thru the dashtop computer, basically a "transmission" a robot all day...and night. so much for taking a different route down the country road parallel to the highway to see the scenery or small town america or eating at your favorite mom and pop truckstops while passing thru to say HI to your favorite waitress and give her a tip, learning the quiet scenic shortcuts over the CB from other guys... those days are gone. If you do drive down any of those roads today - all across america you will see all the boarded up closed down eateries and truckstops and deserted ruins of all the businesses that used to make a living off of, and feed their families off of, the truckers friendly visits of the good ol' days. ☮
@Trollmaster08
@Trollmaster08 Жыл бұрын
I felt that and im a 7 yr vet. I still go down back rd. I started right when everything begin to change I remember when companies were still running off logs. It was all for safety. The data is in and there’s nothing safe about trucks running out of “time” and parking in entrance ramps of having no where to park at truck stop. And now even at Walmart they booting trucks now and starting price to get it off is 250$ it’s sad. But I love driving.
@justaguy-69
@justaguy-69 Жыл бұрын
@@Trollmaster08 I hear ya, but it'll never be like the good ol days.
@mikeymarvintv6042
@mikeymarvintv6042 Жыл бұрын
This is so true .
@mattmattmatt131313
@mattmattmatt131313 Жыл бұрын
It is sad how a career known to attract people who greatly desire freedom above all, now gets regulated more than almost any other job out there. It's perverse really.
@AvenueD417
@AvenueD417 Жыл бұрын
The office cubicle workers are now getting the preferential treatment,
@vikramsharma5618
@vikramsharma5618 Ай бұрын
Dude needed a financial advisor.
@theymockedjesusalso
@theymockedjesusalso Ай бұрын
Fools like you don't think I love it. 😅
@kittylove2975
@kittylove2975 Жыл бұрын
My husband and I realized in the 80's that being an owner operator was profitless. My husband sub hauled for construction company. With 20% fee for renting the trailer, 5% for finders fee, truck insurance, fuel expenses, tires, miscellaneous repairs, PUC dues, quarterly Federal and state taxes...etc,etc...as well as trying to maintain healthcare insurance for our family of four, which during the Reagan administration we could no longer write the health insurance off on the business end of the taxes. That was an additional major hardship. Recognizing that trying to run a business as an owner operator was relentlessly fruitless and leaving the industry what's the best decision we had made. That was approximately 30 years ago. Good luck to you. 🍀🍀🍀🍀
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
Crazy thing is that truckers often have REALLY conservative views. I'm gonna guess it's because they're brainwashed by conservative radio broadcasts all day - long treks through places where that's all there is. The fact that lots of truckers exalt Reagan's legacy is dumbfounding to me.
@middleagebrotips3454
@middleagebrotips3454 Жыл бұрын
Big haul Uber basically
@middleagebrotips3454
@middleagebrotips3454 Жыл бұрын
​@@monsieurdorgat6864anti abortion pro military conservative maybe?
@middleagebrotips3454
@middleagebrotips3454 Жыл бұрын
​@@monsieurdorgat6864it helps the image when Reagan was a union leader.
@kittylove2975
@kittylove2975 Жыл бұрын
@@monsieurdorgat6864 : Absolutely‼️
@hicksvilleshick
@hicksvilleshick Жыл бұрын
I decided to get out when I found myself pulling oversized mobile homes for 12.00 an hour. I went in, in 05, was out by 12. I know guys the teamsters screwed out of their pensions. Not a driver shortage, it's a pay shortage. No one wants to pay to ship anything, and then you've got the fed adding to it with fines and permits and such.
@Sedona_FD3S
@Sedona_FD3S 8 ай бұрын
But what if the tree
@lunchbox6576
@lunchbox6576 Жыл бұрын
When trucking was deregulated by President Carter and the teamsters called for a strike the owner operators went out of their way to not support the teamsters. It hurt the teamsters barging power. This seed was planted 40 years ago. They are now reaping what they sowed. Should have supported the teamsters back in the late 70's.
@sarcasticguy4311
@sarcasticguy4311 Жыл бұрын
Teamsters are thugs.
@bobbybushwhacker
@bobbybushwhacker Жыл бұрын
The independents wanted to work and the teamsters wanted to coast, that's how they got us. If union workers would put out and work Instead of just coasting with their better pay because the know they can't get fired. Then companies would be more willing to pay better wages with unions.
@bobbybushwhacker
@bobbybushwhacker Жыл бұрын
​@sarcasticguy4311 they want the good pay and job security and then too just sit back and take it easy and not work hard. Imagine if Union workers worked hard and companies paid good.... that would be a thriving America
@drh3b
@drh3b Жыл бұрын
@@bobbybushwhacker Huh. UPS is Union, and somehow makes BILLIONS in profits every year, so try again.
@sarcasticguy4311
@sarcasticguy4311 Жыл бұрын
@@bobbybushwhacker That I can agree with but unions encourage laziness, irresponsibility and friction. Anyone in High School that ever uttered the phrase, "These are the best days of our lives." likely thinks unions are a good idea.
@Sacramento-mv8nr
@Sacramento-mv8nr Ай бұрын
Here's a good example of working HARD, instead of working smart.
@Gaming_Antics
@Gaming_Antics 8 ай бұрын
Jobs are paying less every year for new hires and everything is going up in prices. The lower middle class workers are decreasing in numbers, they are being covert to lower class pay workers living in poverty.
@III-zy5jf
@III-zy5jf 8 ай бұрын
I make $50K and I do everything from dumb tasks to programming, engineering, elective work, automating; including working three-four hours free everyday. It's hard to find work without connections. Then there are employees at my plant who do nothing.
@dbased1915
@dbased1915 8 ай бұрын
Then the rich that own enough assets literally get richer passively just by owning homes, stocks, crypto. I know people on both sides of this and it's pretty bizarre and has amplified since 2020. I think the fancy term is Gini coefficient
@dbased1915
@dbased1915 8 ай бұрын
@@III-zy5jf the adage of "not what you know by who you know" is very real especially in certian fields
@ABEL-cd2sp
@ABEL-cd2sp 8 ай бұрын
​@@dbased1915 yep in every wealthy household that's the basis for education at times, connections tend to be what makes you money and many times in places you wouldn't expect it to happen.
@weepingangel6805
@weepingangel6805 7 ай бұрын
When Covid first came around all of the analysts said there would be a K shaped recovery. And now we act surprised that that’s exactly what’s played out. Soon slums will be the norm in America. Hooverville 2.0
@immortanjoe9362
@immortanjoe9362 Жыл бұрын
In my younger years I did OTR hazmat and some local driving in Chicago. I will NEVER do that again. The pay is next to nothing, the dangers are too high to justify the hours, and the companies didn't give a damn about you. I don't blame the younger generation for ignoring this vital industry. I hope they all steer clear from it, so it'll change for the better. As long as this industry has people to take advantage of, they will.
@ethanspaziani1070
@ethanspaziani1070 Жыл бұрын
​@@ScottSeufert it needs to change industries NEED TO CHANGE we are all suffering under there greed ....
@immortanjoe9362
@immortanjoe9362 Жыл бұрын
​@@ScottSeufert That's my exact point. Truckers think they're being paid well for the hours and hazards they endure, when in reality they are not. Federal DOT regulations are a joke compared to the rest of the private sector. I routinely pulled 70 hours in 5 days with a 24 hour reset without getting paid a single hour of OT. Now when I do that, I get time and a half after my 8 hours each day. I face hazards at my job as well, but they are strictly controlled and MUCH safer. OTR I would face inclement weather regularly and the only "help" you would get would be a kick in the ass from your dispatcher. I would be routinely forced to climb heights with no fall protection, haul dangerous hazmat materials, and deal with the hazards on the road with zero regard for my safety. The trucking industry will continue to take advantage of you while you allow it. Find better work, you owe it to yourself.
@immortanjoe9362
@immortanjoe9362 Жыл бұрын
@@ScottSeufert The final straw came when I was delivering to a mine in Pennsylvania. I top loaded a container on their premises, and when I went to check the depth of the material in the container, I was hit with a blast of chlorine from the escaping gasses from the hatch. It knocked me unconcious for a solid second, and I came to while I was falling backwards and was able to grab the ladder before plummeting 3 stories off the top of the container. I checked the MSDS, and there wasn't a single mention of an oxygen displacing gas. My guess it was a residual in the tank that was building up and hadn't been cleaned before I was loading. The company I worked with did nothing about it. They even tried to send me out there the next month. They don't care as long as they get paid.
@paulsoare7878
@paulsoare7878 Жыл бұрын
Yo!! I started out with a shotgun outfit in elk Grove lolol, had to leave after they put me in a position to rig the logbook to be legal (shortly after hearing about another driver with no haz they put up to accept and take the placards off!!!) The biggest issue I had and never got over is just how Jerry rigged the laws rules and regs are against drivers!! Everything is geared to shift/deflect blame on drivers instead of putting the responsibility on shippers, companies etc
@Vandicoup
@Vandicoup Жыл бұрын
Exactly, amen. This goes for all other industries as well, whether tech, service, retail and so on. As long as they still have people to take advantage of, nothing will change. It's time to show all these multi billion dollar, faceless corporations what REAL hurt is! They need to feel the pain of severe and significant labor shortages and have it affect all their locations and services for the first time ever. Remind them who in fact keeps the lights ON and the doors OPEN!!
@Barefootstallion
@Barefootstallion Жыл бұрын
I've been doing it for 23 years. Back when I first got started, I was able to keep a nice apartment and still have a really nice chunk of disposable income. But today? I have to budget my money just like a worker at McDonald's - a traditionally minimum wage job - did back those 23 years ago. And I work just as hard as I did back then, drive as many miles and put in just as many hours. It is totally sad. People just see the products they want on their store shelves. They put very little thought to how it all got there. We are ignored. Our plights are ignored. Moreover, we're very often treated like hated obstacles on the highway, by those same people who depend on us. And in the mean time, shippers are constantly doing their best to work out how they can pay us less and less and less all the time. It's a truly sad state of affairs.
@Perich29
@Perich29 10 ай бұрын
Today, people at McDonalds, are making more money than us truckers.
@deborahszymanski5474
@deborahszymanski5474 14 күн бұрын
Thank you for providing for us... working to the bone. Prayers for you to get yourself a home someday soon. 🙏🏻 🏡
@EmpireStateExpress01
@EmpireStateExpress01 Жыл бұрын
Great documentary! As a former truck driver, we need more truck parking besides along with more pay and hometime.
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
You chose to be a truck driver. You accept the conditions or you get out. It was your choice.
@tadeob_
@tadeob_ Жыл бұрын
​@@johnfrank6112you shouldn't assume anyone's circumstances
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
@@tadeob_ I don't have to assume anything, I looking and listening to the old relic.
@SliverOfSilver1000oz
@SliverOfSilver1000oz Жыл бұрын
I agree 100% with @johnfrank... you want more hometime?? Go local/regional or get out of the truck. I'm tired of hearing "we want more money and more hometime!!"
@tadeob_
@tadeob_ Жыл бұрын
@@SliverOfSilver1000oz this will lead to an incredible trucker shortage even worse than it is
@Krullmatic
@Krullmatic Жыл бұрын
My dad was a trucker for 50 years before he passed away. He was one of the hardest working men I ever knew. He was a long haul trucker, so there was no home every night for him. He would come home for a weekend out of the month, or if he was passing close to our city. When I got old enough, in my teens, I would go with him a lot. I've seen a lot of the country. He taught me how to drive, but I never wanted to do it, because I always wanted a family, and didn't want to stay gone all the time. I guess I could've gotten a short haul job, but they don't pay like long haul does. I've thought about it again since my wife passed away and my daughter is grown, but now watching this, I'm wondering if it would be worth it, with all the hard work and sacrifice you have to put into it.
@jjjsmith2497
@jjjsmith2497 Жыл бұрын
Im sorry to hear about your wife.
@interestingtimes182
@interestingtimes182 Жыл бұрын
Go have some conversations with truckers at truck stop. Get first hand info. You can always try it out a year and go from there.
@beepsarieaniIwee
@beepsarieaniIwee Жыл бұрын
Not with Biden as President
@kirilgotzkov2654
@kirilgotzkov2654 Жыл бұрын
Not with it.
@MrMann-gt1eh
@MrMann-gt1eh Жыл бұрын
As a married man with 3 girls, I just put myself in your shoes for a second. If I was you, I’d definitely do it. The time alone to think could be therapeutic.
@AnthonyAdrianAcker
@AnthonyAdrianAcker Жыл бұрын
American citizens must unite, unbiased as workers, and take this country back from the politicians and the rich! It's not about left or right. It's about us vs them.
@bluegamer4210
@bluegamer4210 Жыл бұрын
us vs them sounds a lot like the left and the right
@3of12
@3of12 Жыл бұрын
You're shitting on the rich as if they're a big monolith. Industry must be a partnership, not a war on Investors and successful business owners.
@alexrileyfoxhound5453
@alexrileyfoxhound5453 Жыл бұрын
One of my theories is Repubs & Dems have to feel confident not voting for incumbents. Or we need to rally behind an independent.
@MickeyMishra
@MickeyMishra Жыл бұрын
But what about women? The people in washington told me the future is female. Why has that not worked out in lowering wages? They only seem to work in the office? Very odd!
@BubbyBold
@BubbyBold Жыл бұрын
It absolutely is about left vs right. The left, (the actual left, not democrats which are still conservative by every global metric) are the only ones fighting for your right to live and feed your family. The right will take everything you have just to please a handful of companies.
@ThatGuy-xg5hj
@ThatGuy-xg5hj Жыл бұрын
Blame corporations and their corrupt politicians.
@Jasiel.95
@Jasiel.95 Жыл бұрын
@@Devdevbruhshhhhh. Nah nvm don’t shut up. Speak up tbh 😊
@frankvonfrauner
@frankvonfrauner Жыл бұрын
And socialists think the answer is more government power
@danyo6317
@danyo6317 Жыл бұрын
@@Devdevbruheasy there bud. They are watching Shabbat shalom 😅
@shellz831
@shellz831 Жыл бұрын
Blame HIM. he wasted his money. 100k for years, he was well paid
@JB-yb4wn
@JB-yb4wn Жыл бұрын
@@shellz831 Well maybe he spent it all on cigarettes.
@cobracommander9138
@cobracommander9138 12 күн бұрын
She didn’t mention the constant harassment by police that enjoy messing with their livelihood and many times are on a power trip.
@GrantSR
@GrantSR Жыл бұрын
I think both technical writing and IT have been substantially enshitified. You used to be able to make a lot of money as a basic network manager. Now, you can't even make a living wage. Technical writers still make $25 - $30 / hr, but all of the job listings are for only 3-6 month contracts. So you never know how much you will be able to work each year.
@ScaryJanitor
@ScaryJanitor Жыл бұрын
And even 25-30$ an hour isn't what it used to be. Even if you worked 40 hours a week it's still way less than 100k a year
@Praisethesunson
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
Job security is only for union workers and owners.
@Tech10x10
@Tech10x10 Жыл бұрын
I can't speak for technical writing, but I believe the move from in-house IT support to MPSs have killed a large part of net/admin. You used to see many small and medium businesses had 'the IT guy'. He knew the whole network inside and out, understood all the little quirks in the software, knew which users couldn't be trusted to operate a mouse, and managed to somehow tame all the printers. Maybe there was a team, but often it was just a guy. Now anytime a user has a problem, they spend 2 hours on the phone with tier 1 support, who has almost no training and spends half of the time splitting focus between the issue at-hand and their CRM/ticketing software. Everything is about billable hours, nobody fully understands the automation tools they are using, there is a ratio of client end-users to support staff of many thousands-to-one, and the software is supported by a similar call-center nightmare. It's all a mess and a waste of everybody's time and money. I worked in a relatively small MSP. Tier 1 is never given enough training and is likely required to juggle multiple calls at one time while also documenting everything - so it's no wonder they are so rarely helpful in actually solving problems.
@adoxartist1258
@adoxartist1258 Жыл бұрын
Hubster is an IT guy. He's been saying for almost 25 years that there needs to be an IT union. It has only gotten worse.
@GrantSR
@GrantSR Жыл бұрын
@@adoxartist1258 Yup! I've been saying that too.
@Sashaplaysmusic87
@Sashaplaysmusic87 Жыл бұрын
Yep! I ended up selling my stuff after 8 years of otr trucking. It used to be great with it’s ups and downs but this DOWN just keeps getting worse. I sacrificed years of my life living in the rig and ended up with nothing, selling my rig for Pennies… and Elogs made it worse for safety too! Drivers speed more than ever now to make up for the lost time.
@flimsyfishyyt
@flimsyfishyyt Жыл бұрын
There's a lot of shady shit that happens in trucking. Companies pushing people to lease a truck from them so they can give them the lower rate freight to make it so that drivers end up having to pay to work, fly by night companies that take advantage of immigrants by assigning them as independent contractors while saying they don't own the truck for tax evasion purposes, lumpers... List goes on.
@defeatSpace
@defeatSpace Жыл бұрын
Be responsible with your money, union idiots...
@Dawg7227
@Dawg7227 Жыл бұрын
Immigration drove our wages down. I’m in the industry. There’s very few Americans doing this job now.
@NasirKhan-hy3rs
@NasirKhan-hy3rs Ай бұрын
They got George Washington driving a truck.😅😅
@TechBearSeattle
@TechBearSeattle Жыл бұрын
My brother and sister-in-law work for a dispatch company that hires owner-operators on ad hoc contracts. I have forwarded this video to them.
@Freakazoid12345
@Freakazoid12345 Жыл бұрын
Let us know what they say.
@richardspillers6282
@richardspillers6282 Жыл бұрын
They already know, they just either dont care or they have to block it out as there's nothing they can do anyway.
@Freakazoid12345
@Freakazoid12345 Жыл бұрын
@@richardspillers6282 exactly.
@ReflectedMiles
@ReflectedMiles Жыл бұрын
@@richardspillers6282 They already know, for sure. Assuming they do typical dispatch like is done in my area, they will know that the video is a lot of hyperbole as a pro-union / mob-boss-underwriting campaign. Jimmy Hoffa would have loved it, until he didn't. A company solo driver in my state averages $1,200/week. I don't know any minimum-wage jobs around me where someone is making that, or more, unless they have huge amounts of paid overtime. People who go into owner/operator and don't understand the economics, that's a bad idea, but that's also a choice.
@el_chavez
@el_chavez Жыл бұрын
They used to make at least twice that amount in the 80s. So you must be one of these companies that don’t want to pay drivers, that sets a 6 am drop off and don’t get to it till 10 am and then another 2-4 hours waiting on paperwork.
@Emboltic
@Emboltic Жыл бұрын
Truckers are the reason why stores have what we need, if the pay isnt there its only gonna get harder to get the stuff we need.
@tancreddehauteville764
@tancreddehauteville764 Жыл бұрын
The pay is too much!! This is one reason why groceries in the US are so high compared to Europe. $100k is big money.
@shaikthegangsta
@shaikthegangsta Жыл бұрын
Don't worry there will be a new startup backed by hedge funds which will gobble up these operations and put these guys on minimum wage.
@shellz831
@shellz831 Жыл бұрын
No sh!+ Sherlock! This guy is a L0$er. Being paid 100k for year, now that he his near to his grave he is complaining
@orlandomoreno5326
@orlandomoreno5326 Жыл бұрын
​​@@tancreddehauteville764You never worked a real job trucking is made for tough men that are tough and when I mean tough I mean they drive their a$$ off and You havent experienced it and it shows. But hours and hours hammering down driving at night, never everyone can do it. This aint no rich mans job and unless you get your own equipment such as truck and trailer and company. Your working for the big corporations that will MILK you and pay you minimum wage to drive....... So no, truckers don't make " TOO MUCH " .........
@alarikwood3330
@alarikwood3330 Жыл бұрын
Yup. The general public hates truck drivers, and are constantly advocating for more strict trucker laws, as the general public drives like a holes around us. More regulations = more everyone pays at the pump/register. Would be nice of the general public advocated for higher wages for truckers, instead of trying to get is off the highways. Where do they think their food will come from once truckers are gone?......an AI robot? Lol
@antalgyori6744
@antalgyori6744 Жыл бұрын
People, not only truckers, should be paid fairly for the work they do.
@defeatSpace
@defeatSpace Жыл бұрын
Be responsible with your money, union idiots.
@heyitsbroski
@heyitsbroski Жыл бұрын
Well to be honest, a burger flipper or dishwasher can't get paid a "living wage" because 1) those jobs require basic skills and 2) those jobs are designed for young kids that still live at home with their parents.
@ryanb7186
@ryanb7186 Жыл бұрын
@@heyitsbroski "Unskilled labor" is a lie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amGqhYKnhN6YmqM
@zapcodeknock4503
@zapcodeknock4503 Жыл бұрын
Yep gone are the days of working 15 an hour or less
@johnfrank6112
@johnfrank6112 Жыл бұрын
How much do you think that old beaten down relic is worth?
@allanya74
@allanya74 14 күн бұрын
This was a great eye opening video. So sad and troubling that this is happening to the trucking industry. 😢
@ShawnC.W-King
@ShawnC.W-King Жыл бұрын
If a trucker cant even affird a home, where tf is the hope for me? 😞
@monsieurdorgat6864
@monsieurdorgat6864 Жыл бұрын
NGL the hope is looking pretty dim right now. I don't think I'll be ever able to afford a house, and I'll probably be lucky for whatever amount of time my partner and I will be able to rent a half-decent place. But if we continue to have to respect these billionaire's property rights at gunpoint, IDK where we'll be able to live.
@BleedForTheWorld
@BleedForTheWorld Жыл бұрын
@shadowban1777 it's not a conspiracy. Capitalism is not sustainable because infinite growth is simply not possible in a world with finite resources. This is why capitalism must be met with the transition to socialism.
@hopefulpellinore5490
@hopefulpellinore5490 Жыл бұрын
The only hope for many of us is that we can inherit some kind of dwelling. Good luck to you out there, seriously. I wish it weren't like this.
@redrustyhill2
@redrustyhill2 Жыл бұрын
​@@BleedForTheWorldfound the idiot troll
@SgtJoeSmith
@SgtJoeSmith Жыл бұрын
landscaping
@FusionTechCinema
@FusionTechCinema Жыл бұрын
As a truck driver this is something I’ve always complained about. I started driving and got my license when I was just 22 I’m now 27 I drive with my dad as a team. The average drivers usually make who work for well established companies is around 65-70,000 a year. After taxes that obviously goes way down. Add insurances to the mix that goes down to about 40-50k a year. Around 1,300-1600 a week. That may seem like a lot but you have to work 60-70 hours a week. As a team that many of those hours are off duty too. So in reality you’re working 70 maybe even upwards of 85-90 hours a week. I get paid a bit less because I get 1-2 days off every week when I reset hours in my hometown but if you really wanna make the most you have to work all week without any home time. Truck drivers really don’t get a lot of attention for how much you are paid. With younger people not wanting to be truck drivers. There’s gonna be a point where all the old drivers who are carrying the industry won’t be able to do this anymore. This really needs to be fixed to get younger people into the industry otherwise there might be a truck driver crash.
@frankvonfrauner
@frankvonfrauner Жыл бұрын
There will never be a crash because they'll always have people from poor countries to import to undercut our wages. They've been crying about a shortage for 20 years. When you have a shortage, rates are supposed to go up, but they've gone down. It's artificial. The overregulation has allowed the mega carriers to take over the entire industry. Even 15 years ago you could buy a truck for half of what they cost now and make the same rate per hour, or more, as today. The big companies took all the contracts, then they cry to the government that they can't find drivers and they get bailed out with mass immigration.
@JB-yb4wn
@JB-yb4wn Жыл бұрын
@@frankvonfrauner Frank, you know how stupid that sounds? Most people don't want to do the jobs that recent immigrants do, WTF JOBS ARE THEY TAKING?
@Moosetick2002
@Moosetick2002 Жыл бұрын
Before there is a crash, teh DOT will let Tesla or some other self driving company put trucks on the road. Once that happens, within 5 years 90% of trucks will be driven by computers. Big companies will be able to afford the price-tag and will let all those drivers go. Learn a new skill before its too late and you're competing with 3.5M displaced drivers.
@JB-yb4wn
@JB-yb4wn Жыл бұрын
@@Moosetick2002 Doing that already in the mining sector, those huge dump trucks are all being driven by AI less accidents and far, far, cheaper to run 24/7.
@screenmonkey
@screenmonkey Жыл бұрын
It ain't over regulation, they killed the truckers union, then convinced every one of a New truckers American dream, be a owner operator. This moved the onus from some shipping company to the individual trucker. Then over time as we destroyed pensions, and benefits we also reduced the warning power of truckers to a third of what is was in the 1970s. Then for another kick in the balls, they stuck the drivers who are only making a 3rd (real earnings) of what they use to, with the bill to keep those trucks moving.
@x_DEUS_VULT_x
@x_DEUS_VULT_x Жыл бұрын
I used to make a million dollars a year. Now I'm homeless.
@jimabitz8398
@jimabitz8398 8 ай бұрын
😅
@stonefox9124
@stonefox9124 8 ай бұрын
🤔 that means u made $250,000 a yr and u made the government $750,000 a yr
@SweetLivingByGrace
@SweetLivingByGrace 8 ай бұрын
Why? What did you do with your income (seed) when you had it?
@Hardspace1979
@Hardspace1979 8 ай бұрын
Should have saved it then.
@jimabitz8398
@jimabitz8398 8 ай бұрын
So was that my pillow guy. Stupidity bit him in the ass.
@calebleuciuc670
@calebleuciuc670 Ай бұрын
have a few friends in transport. they said the labor market got flooded by refugees and immigrants the last couple years and the rates just dropped through the floor
@kevinreid6223
@kevinreid6223 Ай бұрын
This comment 💯
@newroadmarketing
@newroadmarketing Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for making this video! Most consumers are totally unaware of this situation. My wife's Dad was a trucker his entire working life. Even when he received adequate pay, it wasn't enough for the grueling work environment he faced every day of the week. Every Senator and Representative should take a 2 day ride with a long haul, short haul or city truck driver to appreciate how difficult and dangerous this occupation can be for those drivers. There is No incentive for young people to pursue this as a career. It may be time for us to regulate the CEO compensation packages that offer multi-million dollar bonuses to individuals and create progressive salary and income incentives to those workers and laborers that actually do the work.
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