> If you feel that we aren't go sign on
>>with JB Hunt for .92 a mile for an 18 wheeler.
>
> In other words: "If you don't like it, there's the door?"
>Thank you Bruno, for reminding me of how much I enjoy not
>being married anymore! If I don't like it, I will speak up,
>with logic and civillity, and I will listen to those who can
>disagree with the same courtesy.
I have often wondered why this question is not discussed more on these posts. Thanks Cheri, again for bringing up the subject. "Logic and civility" don't get much respect here. As long as it is as easy to get into this business as it has been up to now, we will always be fighting for equitable "settlements" for professional efforts. If we can find a way to make the business of expediting more professional, it should follow that "reason, logic and civility" should prevail, if not entirely at least at those elements of the industry that want to protect their investments.
I continually see drivers leaving Chicago with overloaded conversion vans and employing "illegal immigrant brother's-in-law" as drivers. What does this mean for me? Knowing my costs are higher and my standards of "professionalism" are also helps the refusal of cheap loads and rediculous and unsafe trips that are offered. But as long as the industry allows these elements easy entry, we will be plagued with below cost offers and high refusal rates. My own disappointment has to do with being terminated for high refusal rates. I can't accept a load that I cannot meet the time element safely and lower my wages at the same time. Two carriers ago, I left voluntarily because I was not offered good paying trips in favor of a known "pot-head" with two DUI's (with controlled substances on board) in the last year! I never looked back and don't burn bridges, but when I asked management about "pay-off's" going to dispatchers they slammed the phone down on me!
Your question for another thread should be "how can we raise the professionalism of this industry?"
