re: I had no idea, trucking baws have it really hard.

Real life insurance cost i dealt with this year

We have 2 21ft flat bed trucks with 10,000lb max capacity... 4hr round trip max haul, 3 days a week

Zero incidents or tickets, 360 degree cameras, AI drivers tools, and GPS speed limited

$44,000/year for both trucks combined

Cost of the trucks when purchased (used with full maintenance records) 2 years ago, $42,000

So, in theory, these trucks can be totaled and the insurance company will still make $2,000

The market is nuts

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the bottom half of society have fricking terrible jobs.

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It's probably more like the bottom 65%

For those of you screaming about the slavery bit, read this: There are three different types of truckers - company drivers, owner operators, and lease purchase. Lease purchase is what this guys is talking about, the starter companies hook people into these terrible contracts in exchange for training and a job

Lease purchase trucking is a scam, plain and simple. There's no such thing as a driver friendly lease, its all designed to rip you off. One of the best things that my trainer at KLLM did for me was to preach daily not to fall for this trap. Companies push this nonsense on their drivers so they're not liable for anything and get nothing but profit from the drivers work. Near the end of the lease the companies try to bankrupt the driver in order to repo the truck from the driver and sell it as a used truck. Again, nothing but profit because the driver was paying the notes the entire time.

The problem with this industry is all the scumbag companies hold the keys to the industry as they're the ones providing "free" training to entice the poor into their scams. There are community colleges and specialty schools like DDA and Coastal, but they too push their graduates to these scammy companies like KLLM, Prime, Werner, etc in order to go get their experience all because those companies pay the schools to get their recruiting brochures in front of the people who don't know any better.

I lucked out - I went to work for KLLM but didn't sign a lease purchase contract because of my trainer. I've been a company driver my entire career, but I've seen what those contracts can do to the average joe trying to get ahead in life. KLLM tried bankrupting me as a company driver before I quit - they weren't giving me any work to do once I left the house hoping that I'd get desperate for money to sign their contract. I instead went to work for a different company that didn't offer such scams. It really is one of the worst things about trucking right now and no politicians want to do anything about it because $$$$.

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Slaves? That's funny every trucker chooses their profession.

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What is the name of your program?

AFAF

What is AFAF you are welcome to give me an email I’ll give you any info you want.

Are you hauling for hire?
Crossing state lines?
Hot shot?
Just a DOT or MC number?

That is high for trucking especially for size of trucks and clean loss history.

New venture truckers typically are less than that in an intermediate radius.

I was shocked seeing this very same thing in a moving company. I was already paying my full quoted price (which was ridiculous) and had the driver on the Part B end of the move tell me he ALONE was offloading the entire truck unless I paid $350 per laborer.

The laborers on the Part A part of the trip were 2 illegals from Guatemala and I was told they had sticky fingers- watch my purse.

The driver slept a few hours in his cab at the front of my home because he could not afford nor needed the amount of gas required for a spot to park at the truck world stop.

I felt bad for him and gave him pizza and waters. Imagine moving a 3 bdr home by yourself. I had already paid $6000 and did not plan the extra money needed for "labor" nor was I paying it. I presumed the price came with labor.

If I said the moving company, it would shock many. My driver name redacted from VA, had a wife and kids. He told me most drivers on the road have no idea how to drive through the mountains, and all the shifting grades--they are poorly trained.

I also thought every semi I saw on the road was a great driver, paid very well, and spoke on a CB, listened to country music and eased on down the road with ease...

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There are no professional truck drivers anymore. They are gone. All we have now are foreigners that have gone thru minimal driver training and can’t read English.
My dad, 74, was a professional truck driver. Worked for a few different companies and then was owner operator for many years. I grew up around truck drivers and the ones on the road these days aren’t.

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TRUTH! right here.

SEE my last post. I also had a moving company have so many family's stuff on the truck they only drove on Sunday to not have to get weighed. Before it is packed to the hilt the laborers pick the best mattress to sleep while driver in in the AC'ed cab slept with a bed.

All mattresses are wrapped for a fee so they can sleep w/o bed bugs

I also moved overseas, and they will crack your crate and use cushions to sit, take apart games, for dice to play.

IF IN USA use PODS!

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look like the same demographic of baws I have seen driving trucks my whole life.

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They’re not. We have completely sold out our truck drivers and our trucking industry at large.