https://www.facebook.com/Truckdriverwtfmoments?ref=stream
There's been a lot of truck driver talk here lately, so....
There's been a lot of truck driver talk here lately, so....
Truck Driver WTF on Facebook
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Looks like a lot of newly unemployed truck driver's.
You got that right.
I lost a load of steel in the middle of a busy Minneapolis intersection once. I didn't get fired.
I lost a load of steel in the middle of a busy Minneapolis intersection once. I didn't get fired.
mdh157
Senior Member
One of these idiots caused a 4 vehicle crash yesterday on I-81, 1 killed and 1 critical. Jacknifed when there was some light snow that amounted to a light coating. Truckers or not, people just refuse to let slippery roads slow them down. They ought to be charged with murder when they do this stuff.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I refuse to join facebook.
Can you post a pic or something?
The now unemployed $10.25/hr. guys will be replaced by the $7.85/hr. guys.
Free enterprise ya know....
Can you post a pic or something?
That's OK. They were the $10.25/hr. guys who replaced the $15/hr. guys who replaced the $20/hr. guys who replaced the $25/hr. guys.
The now unemployed $10.25/hr. guys will be replaced by the $7.85/hr. guys.
Free enterprise ya know....
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72Fury
Senior Member
Stan you would like the comments on fb. This is one of the captions.
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
My brother was an owner/op for over 25 years. It got so damn expensive running his own truck, even with running three dedicated contracts, that he sold out. He's now running fuel for an outfit along the Front Range, and he's never farther than 175 miles from home now. The pay is pretty good from who he works for. Fortunately, hauling fuel is not something that an inexperienced driver or a newbie is going to be doing, and the pay is at the upper end of the scale.
And I don't do that FB ****, either.
And I don't do that FB ****, either.
He saw the market changing so he made a decision to evolve & find his niche. That's what you're supposed to do.
I believe NAFTA started the big **** storm on American truckers...
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
You are dead-on right.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
It started in 1975 when Ted Kennedy finally rammed through a bill to deregulate the trucking industry to destroy specifically and only The Teamsters in retaliation for the Teamster's hatred of Bobby Kennedy. In all his years in the Senate, that was the only major piece of legislation he got passed. Strange, considering he was an extreme Liberal in support of the working man's cause. Supposedly. All bullshit.
After dergulation, anybody, anywhere, could jump in with a shitbox, a **** driver, and deliver anything from watermelons on up. The abollishment of the ICC screwed just about every average American in the long run. Want something delivered at a fair price to Fort Kent Maine? Forget about it. Sitting in traffic while they right an overturned semi? What's that costing you?
<waits for Ross...> :love5:
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I choose not to let ANY outside factors influence my odds for success. Examine the market/opportunities, find your niche, hang your shingle. Pretty simple. No excuses.
72Fury
Senior Member
As a kid I would pester my Dad to take me to the truck shows. I had a subscription to Heavy Duty Trucking as a kid back in the 70's 
. Many of the magazine covers had something about deregulation on the cover. The most disliked issues I received, no cool truck articles. I still have most of them tucked away (along with the 70's truck sales brochures - cool stuff now) with all of the models I built. Trucking, as with many careers, has changed greatly. None for the better. A job is so 20th century.
. Many of the magazine covers had something about deregulation on the cover. The most disliked issues I received, no cool truck articles. I still have most of them tucked away (along with the 70's truck sales brochures - cool stuff now) with all of the models I built. Trucking, as with many careers, has changed greatly. None for the better. A job is so 20th century.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Actually, in some ways, that makes you a wiser person than I.
You don't let the assholes phase you. You just work around them and move forward.
Me? I ***** and whine, and then make my own adjustments to move forward.
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I'm no wiser than you but times have changed & the idea of working for the man for years & being rewarded for your devotion, gone, over, done. Change or perish (or just retire ;) )
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Some day you'll hear my story from Day 1. You ain't gonna believe it.......
72Fury
Senior Member
Seattle enacts $15 min wage
http://news.yahoo.com/ballot-measure-enact-15-minimum-wage-near-seattle-020329963.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ballot-measure-enact-15-minimum-wage-near-seattle-020329963.html
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I'm looking forward to it.....you've lived an interesting life.
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