OK you truckers...
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Torn between posting here or in the CL Morons thread.
Oh yeah... Amy is a real winner
I suppose she really just wants to get away from the kids... worth giving up the welfare checks for that...
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Tough choice. It's worthy of either one.
What more do you need? But then again, if they don't want her...
Is that when your delivery is refused and you have to bring it back?
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
I did not read the article just going off the excerpts you list here. This happens all the time with lease purchase payments. It will not stop because you will always have losers that are down on their luck looking for a way to dig out without doing any digging. What it boils down to is people taking advantage of others and the system. These companies lease a person a truck at a profit over what they paid for it. The truck is rough and put away wet from the last lease driver and if you manage to keep it alive well into the lease before it blows up all that money is gone. The driver is a independent contractor so the companies owes them nothing, like unemployment, Cobra med insurance, vacation, etc.. Most that get talked into these deals have trouble budgeting their money in the first place, so no surprise when they can't budget the truck and their money.I dunno about the Teamsters angle fully but I get the gist of your comment nonetheless. Promises made and not kept -- lotta stuff like that in other industries has happened and others percolating ..
So then this USA today thing is about the worst thing I have ever seen -- in America -- in 2017 no less. Seems like its localized to California port drivers (who do go all over the country)? If so, could be why I havent heard of it .. and I keep up with stuff too. Geez.
Article Excerpts:
- Trucking companies force drivers to work against their will – up to 20 hours a day – by threatening to take their trucks and keep the money they paid toward buying them.
- Bosses create a culture of fear by firing drivers, suspending them without pay or reassigning them the lowest-paying routes.
- To keep drivers working, managers at a few companies have physically barred them from going home.
- Employers charge not just for truck leases but for a host of other expenses, including hundreds of dollars a month for insurance and diesel fuel.
- Drivers at many companies say they had no choice but to break federal safety laws that limit truckers to 11 hours on the road each day. Drivers at Pacific 9 Transportation testified that their managers dispatched truckers up to 20 hours a day, then wouldn’t pay them until drivers falsified inspection reports that track hours.
- Many drivers thought they were paying into their truck like a mortgage. Instead, when they lost their job, they discovered they also lost their truck, along with everything they’d paid toward it.
On the basis of two sides to EVERY story .. love to hear what Amazon, Costco, WalMart, et al. have got to say about this.
- Retailers could refuse to allow companies with labor violations to truck their goods. Instead they’ve let shipping and logistics contractors hire the lowest bidder, while lobbying on behalf of trucking companies in Sacramento and Washington D.C.
All that being said I am on a lease purchase with the trailer I bought, however, it was brand new. I am not looking around thinking the grass is greener over at some other company. Hauling steel there is a fixed number of locations that deal with 20,000 to 50,000# coils so we are all basically hauling the same crap for the same money, the difference is pennies on the rate between carriers.
I will get far enough in and my credit is good enough that I can turn around and buy it outright if I want to leave. My trailer is worth more than I owe so I'm right side up already.
It's a sad reality that people will be taken advantage of and there is always someone that will do it. I always call them indentured servants which is basically what they are.
I value my time off too much to be pushed that hard. I tell my dispatcher
or
then
and I go home.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
[QUOTE="70bigblockdodge, post: 494970, member: 1739"... the difference is pennies on the rate between carriers...[/QUOTE]
I hope you're the one with more pennies.
I hope you're the one with more pennies.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Dave, I think you can answer this question in as much as my fat butt hasn't stunk up a seat in 10 years now.
The major road through BFCounty is a busy truck route with a traffic light every 100 ft. so I see a lot of stop n go. I also see a huge majority of the $0.28/mi. fleets using automatics now. I notice that these auto equipped trucks are excruciatingly slow when accelerating from a dead stop. And it's not because of weight.
Are these new auto equipped trucks programmed like this? Other vehicles are already hitting the brakes for the next stop light and these trucks are just pulling thru the intersection. Barely. WTF??? By the way, these muthafgiggan asswipes are usually in the outside lane.
The major road through BFCounty is a busy truck route with a traffic light every 100 ft. so I see a lot of stop n go. I also see a huge majority of the $0.28/mi. fleets using automatics now. I notice that these auto equipped trucks are excruciatingly slow when accelerating from a dead stop. And it's not because of weight.
Are these new auto equipped trucks programmed like this? Other vehicles are already hitting the brakes for the next stop light and these trucks are just pulling thru the intersection. Barely. WTF??? By the way, these muthafgiggan asswipes are usually in the outside lane.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
HowTF.....?
D Cluley
Active Member
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
Oops.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
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I hope you're the one with more pennies.[/QUOTE]
Some yes some no.
Some days your the pigeon some days your the statute, and every once in a while your get to be the eagle.
I hope you're the one with more pennies.[/QUOTE]
Some yes some no.
Some days your the pigeon some days your the statute, and every once in a while your get to be the eagle.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
Just like the progressive shift they had about 10 years ago. The truck only goes to 1500 on the low side of the trans, now it just shifts for youDave, I think you can answer this question in as much as my fat butt hasn't stunk up a seat in 10 years now.
The major road through BFCounty is a busy truck route with a traffic light every 100 ft. so I see a lot of stop n go. I also see a huge majority of the $0.28/mi. fleets using automatics now. I notice that these auto equipped trucks are excruciatingly slow when accelerating from a dead stop. And it's not because of weight.
Are these new auto equipped trucks programmed like this? Other vehicles are already hitting the brakes for the next stop light and these trucks are just pulling thru the intersection. Barely. WTF??? By the way, these muthafgiggan asswipes are usually in the outside lane.
Glad I made it beyond having to ever use ah clutch again(FOR STOPPING AND STARTING). Left leg iz still bigger then the right and I walk kinda funny. Lotta good memoriez and ah few bad, Jer
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I understand that. What I'm thinking is, are these new trucks with automatics, while seeking the 10mpg holy grail, purposely throttled back (power-wise) by the computer during acceleration.
Wow... Someone that refuses a pee test is using something that they don't want you to know about. Pretty simple stuff... Drive a truck, expect to be tested.
Throwing it out first thing in asking for a job shows that the problem isn't over or you're too stupid to know it was wrong. The only time she would get a job would be if she was hired by someone as dumb as her.
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
A new event at the truck rodeo?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
And there lay the problem. The warehouse was one mile away.
barnfind
Old Man with a Hat
WTF-HTF?
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
That's skill.
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