KickStarter6
Veteran Expediter
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.
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