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KickStarter6

KickStarter6

Veteran Expediter
layoutshooter said:
I understand that. No matter how you look at it the pay is too low. WAY too low. Expediting is reaching a point, rapidly, where it is not longer worth the effort. It is getting more difficult with each passing day to make the kind of money I need to meet my needs.

The truck I own has to support itself, a home, two people, retirement savings, replacement vehicle, and sky rocketing health care costs. NO van can meet my needs, unless I get it for free. The cost of just about EVERYTHING is going up, except freight rates and they are going down. That is NOT the right way for things to work. In real numbers I am making less now than I was 8 years ago. To make even less, would make no sense.
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My issue is that 8 years I made $5.15 an hour working 16 hours a week or even a year ago I made only about 35% of what I make driving a van. My prospective is skewed
 
layoutshooter

layoutshooter

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
KickStarter6 said:
My issue is that 8 years I made $5.15 an hour working 16 hours a week or even a year ago I made only about 35% of what I make driving a van. My prospective is skewed
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I was 22 years old the last time I made $5.15 per hour and I am now 63. When I DID make $5.15 an hour that was VERY good money for the time. I can promise you one thing for sure, IF I were your age now I would NOT be driving a van, OR working for $5.15 per hour. NEITHER sound like a plan to me. My life is worth MUCH more than either of those two choices.
 
layoutshooter

layoutshooter

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
I had to order the cables for the hood. Paid an additional $18 to get them here tomorrow. WITH any luck, which I do seem to be short of, we can make it back in service on Wed at the latest.
 
Steady Eddie

Steady Eddie

Veteran Expediter
Owner/Operator
layoutshooter said:
I was 22 years old the last time I made $5.15 per hour and I am now 63. When I DID make $5.15 an hour that was VERY good money for the time. I can promise you one thing for sure, IF I were your age now I would NOT be driving a van, OR working for $5.15 per hour. NEITHER sound like a plan to me. My life is worth MUCH more than either of those two choices.
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And now you are making .75 per hour? lol
 
layoutshooter

layoutshooter

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Steady Eddie said:
And now you are making .75 per hour? lol
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Right now $.75 per hour would be GREAT! I am making NOTHING right now!

That is part of the problem with rates dropping, working more, or even the same amount of hours/miles, to make less money is NOT the best choice.
 
aquitted

aquitted

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Got into Marfa, Tx yesterday and the band got me a hotel room,very pleasant surprise.
Playing a arts center here in town.
The town is quite interesting as the bus and I were pulling in it was like passing thru a time warp and we are back in the early 60s.
Leaving around 23:00 after the show tonight. Last post I said show was wed. I was wrong it's tonight.
 
Murraycroexp

Murraycroexp

Veteran Expediter
Picked E-Town, KY about 08:00. Drop soon in Hondaville, OH.
Then booked on an different OH town, about 50 miles away, back to E-town for a different broker.
Slowed on this trip by a stop by the en-route house. ;)!!!!!
Still a couple of hours ahead of protect.
 
KickStarter6

KickStarter6

Veteran Expediter
Playing my Xbox. Hope I get a short load somewhere so I can get a room to watch the game tonight if not I guess I'll be kicking it in Huntsville
 
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