Re: Is anyone happy at their job?

Hi,

I like my job too. I drive a 2000 Pete 378. I make two trips a week to Cal
that pay $350. each so I gross about $700 a week. In my area that is
really good money. But with me, it isn't all about the money. I am good
friends with the dispatcher and he gives me the best runs and I feel special
about that.

JS


"tscottme" <blahblah@blah,net> wrote in message
news:Gs-dnUNcPM47dzreRVn-pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for starting a trucking thread!
>
> Sure, I like my job. I'm #6 of 40 in seniority. I have my choice of new
> trucks, easy runs, hours of work, 2-4 weeks vacation each year, paid
> holidays, drive when the normal people are at home, am home daily with
> weekends off. Everything is drop and hook. I go weeks without so much as
> a
> phone call to/from the boss. I'm paid by the hour, have good benefits,
> and
> my boss is taking away business from sorry companies and charging them for
> the honor. The boss is even making money with the airplane business we
> bought years back. My company CEO has a midas touch and turns down cheap
> freight. Nearly every customer we have lost to undercutting rates has
> come
> right back to us. The big and cheap companies have had some of our
> business
> and often they give it back or their contract is pulled within a month,
> and
> we step in.
>
> My big customer is among the most profitable in their industry and while
> the
> schmucks in Detroit are laying off 30,000 union thugs this customer is
> expanding and making profits. This customer is smart enough to avoid
> hiring
> such trouble-makers and they provide good pay and benefits rather than
> unsustainable wages with impossible promises of future benefits, if they
> happen to stay in business. This big customer also doesn't have to pay
> customers to buy their product. Their product is well-regarded by
> customers
> and the industry press.
>
> It beats working.
>
> --
> Scott
>
> "The Democrats want a society based on a socialist/communist philosophy of
> equality of outcome and expect the U.S. military to follow those same
> beliefs. No winners. No losers. Being a loser may instill feelings of
> inadequacy. All are equal. Except Americans. Americans are to carry the
> mark
> of Cain. And be a scapegoat for any and every society's failure."
> -- Wolf Terner
> "Wavking" <gwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Z9CdnePcL8_P7zreRVn-pQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I am. I like my company and my job. There seems to be a lot of opinion of
>> where not to work. Lots of recommendations as to who to stay away from
>> but
>> little advice as to where to go.
>>
>> So where do you all work anyway?
>>
>> I work for USF Glen Moore. I'll be here 3 years at the end of January. I
> got
>> a new truck in September; just got its first PM a couple weeks ago. I
>> live
>> very close to the terminal so getting home is no problem. The only
> question
>> they have is how often I want to be home--weekly or daily.
>>
>> My boss recently came up with a run to get me home daily without
> sacrificing
>> miles. I've been running from ES3 in York to C&S in Newburgh, NY and then
>> usually pick up at P&G in Tunkhannock on the way back. Comes to 527 miles
> a
>> day. I'm getting 41 cpm and that's going up to 42 in Feb (on my
>> anniversary). Top solo pay is 43.
>>
>> Almost all drop and hook.
>> Home almost every night.
>> New truck.
>> Run during the day--no overnights.
>> No pressure to run passed hours of service. I let the laws work in my
> favor.
>>
>> Sure the job has its pressures and gets to be a pain. But all I have to
>> do
>> is listen to the guys on the radio complain about their crappy jobs and I
>> realize I have it pretty sweet.
>>
>> More drivel like this at www.sharingtheroad.net
>>
>>
>
>


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