Why Trucking Is the Biggest Scam in America #hustle #bluecollar #cdllife #grind #underpaid #truck

Your mindset is wrong. If you want a 9-5 go get one. OTR is a lifestyle. If youre just surviving and not thriving, youre doing ut wrong.

Been at it 37yrs its not for everyone

It’s NOT “survival”, it’s a choice. And I’ve seen from two different angles. First, I coached gymnastics and one of the fathers was an over the road truck driver. So, I saw that angle with him for five years. Then, I worked another five years as a freight broker. So, I saw it that way. And, our office was immediately next to a Sam’s Club, and we would invite over drivers that were making deliveries to that Sam’s Club. So, I personally interacted with those drivers and their trucks.

Resprct to truckers everywhere

This is the most unselfish job out there. Nothing but praise/respect for truckers

Get a different job

I want to thank all the American Truck drivers you the best. God Bless

Thon don't go OTR. I'm regional, home every night, off weekends and holidays, only work 3-4 days a week, and made $110k last year. There's good money out there if you're willing to do more than bump docks.

Is your choice . There's other jobs .

Facts and their families hurt from the lack of attention, and then many still say TRUCKER'S are stupid, uneducated, and nasty, and that may be true for some, not Really speaking from a woman been married for 38 years. O'yell, don't forget the cheating and lying.But forgiveness is EVERYTHING

Facts

And to get treated like crap by your receivers. No Thanks!

They don't get paid enough as far as I am concerned.

Waaaaaaaaa. Instead of crying about it on social media, how about look for a career that’s better for you? Think!

Oh and don’t forget! Real truck drivers don’t wear flip flops! 🩴
Merica!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It’s better than sitting in a warehouse waiting for your lifeless supervisor to degrade you

I wouldn't say trucking is a SCAM: HOWEVER, it has been used TO scam potential drivers by recruiters and others who paint UNREALISTIC expectations in the minds of the gullible.

You don't work 70 anymore. So get over yourself

Who’s doing 70 hours?

There’s people that do this job because they have no other option. Then there’s the rare portion of us who love what we do such as myself and my mom.

It’s a lifestyle.

And they keep finding ways to cut our pay to invest in self driving trucks but dispatchers and off will be the first to go with AI

You're the scam

Oh good god STFU already. Shit ain’t hard. If it was hard 400 lbs guys on meth couldn’t do it. A monkey with a helmet can drive a truck

70 hours is the most you can havekn the clock, but you worka lot more securing loads and checking in and out. Doing maintance and fixing stuff.

Need to be paid by the on duty/driving hours, at a minimum of $25, with like 200-500 a week for being away from home.

ROLL ON, WITHOUT YOU GUYS PEOPLE WOULDN'T GET SUPPLIES THEY NEED SO AGAIN THANK YOU!!!

A hard life not all can do it...lifers grind it out...others come in and grind it out until they dont😮

I’m pretty sure they have hour limits. So ima assume the “98” hours is them being a passenger

Psalms 27:1-2 (KJV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

It’s worse now because of stricter laws and regulations

Nah, its a choice..then find a 9 to 5 job. Stop whining and grow some balls

I’m a driver in Canada. Trucking has its advantages but also has a lot of disadvantages that some don’t realize that come with the job.

Long haulers-
You work all day in a truck, and then you you eat, sleep, shower and poop in public places.
Not your own.
You eat alone
You sleep alone
You drive alone
You don’t get paid to spend 24 hours in a truck yet you stay in there all week or weeks long.

70? I wish. 110 or so

11 hour day on road max or 14 if local

Its a scam because they re allowing foreign folks who cant even read English signs to drive these to save money andntheres morenwrecks than ever

You act like its hard to eat in a vehicle.

Did over the road for 5 years straight, bought myself a home for me and my family and got the hell out. Don’t miss that terrible lifestyle one bit. Wouldn’t advise trucking to anyone

Is not a scam.

OTR and about finished. 2 years. Toughest damn job i have ever done. Love the trade hate the industry

You can thank the open boarder scam for last 4 years on driving the rest of Americas wages down.

Stop crying

Yup exactly, as a truck driver of 25 years this is a fact,,companies don't care about the driver only the money, especially when it comes to repairs, no repairs =more money for the bosses

It's what you make of it, that's what counts.

This is why I promised my wife to stick with home daily jobs when I got my CDL. No point in making good money if we're not living.

A trucker should write a novel. Call it "MY Struggle"

You need to set your own boundary. The trucking companies will take anything you let them have.

All truckers should join the Teamsters.

I want to thank you all for keeping America with stocked shelves. We do love and appreciate you. Stay safe and God bless you all. 🙏 ❤