The system is broken. I will explain. Minimum wage was increased for the illegal immigrant. Who will make 10x more than in their home country doing the same job. Their rates increased when minumum wage increased for Americans. Now. These jobs include. Farm hands. Meat production and ag production companies. The prices on food went up. Because they are paying them more. There are 15,000 illegal immigrants cutting across the border per day. What is the adverts be whispered to them. Stolen identity for seasonal pay. Which primarily means they fly back and forth from their homeland. They pay the ticket. Federal agencies do not care. I have seen it with my own eyes. Now, with the elections. They are using their stolen identities to register to vote. If they dont win. Their backup plan is the DEI pilots. They need them to fly them back and forth without any problems. They are covering their angles to deal with Trump. Treasonous pricks.
I've been a trucker for over 18 years now. In transportation over 30. I have my own authority and I've never worked so hard in my life to be this broke. If I give up my truck I will never work in the industry again. That's how angry I am about what is being allowed to happen. Fuck corporate greed and all of the corrupt politicians from both parties. They all have sold us out. Time to move off grid, grow your own food and fuck being a pawn in their game.
my parents did offgrid they are retired. but i dont admire their decision. like still commercial farming is more efficient than if everyone grows their own food is my opinion. as far as trucking. im doing teaming fedex ground my living expenses is 5k a month in california, my income is under 5k so im losing money working a very unhealthy and unsafe job that is also depriving me of a life at home. to me ive never been this unhappy before. in 2014 i worked hard after 1 year work hard i had 25k saved and back then 25k went alot further my living expenses must of been around 1.5k a month. so living large in 2016 around those times was awesome.
Off grid life sucks so hard.i did it for 3 years. You face life and death several times a year, you will struggle to find any comfort. You work just to survive.
Exactly! It's unnerving to see illegal immigrants driving while holding phones 📱 up to windshield "TRANSLATING ENGLISH ROAD SIGNS" police do nothing about it due to the hassle of having to get a translator to give them a ticket...
The reason this freight recession has lasted so long is because of all the PPP loans that kept so many OOs in business when they would have quit otherwise. Now they're finally getting off the road. Most of them just jumped into trucking during Covid when rates were hot and weren't truckers to begin with.
Indeed it did. It propped up truckers who were getting out the industry. And also created thousands of new companies that otherwise wouldn’t have been created.
I'm averaging around 4500 miles a week as a solo owner op and I'm completely burnt out and ready to retire from this nightmare. 34 years out here and time to be done.
Greedy ,lying cheating 75 mph in the left lane driver.wheres all the live load and unloading time?where's all the time lost in traffic. Let's see this guy run same miles a week in the North East. I,ll bet this guy smokes and lives on fast food and energy drinks. Put him in a 65 mph truck and see him bragging about these miles. No single driver runs that many miles week after week, obviously has no quality home time and his health will eventually crash.
I was an owner operator. I hated people telling me what they going to pay me. So I sold my company and bought Latin Bliss in Hammond Indiana. I put my own price and no one tell me how much they going to pay me. That is the way a business need to be run. Owning a truck and u have no way to get paid what u want. Alot of time they made me have a loss. In my restaurant I don't have a loss. Big difference.
When it was good, I saved and didn't go crazy. Now I can say No, I won't run your starvation rates. Spending more time with my family has been the best.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying. I spent 28 of the last 30 months on the road and saved as much as possible bc you could see this coming, everyone kept saying it’s getting better but nah… I’ve been home since June and I’ve spent a lot less money than I would have on the road.
Democrats always said that…and here are the new illegals driving trucks in US or Canada or even MX comes handy. And more…18-21 age are coming in too….they even encourage this youngsters to become truckers….instead of making a real trade job z
I myself am a OTR truck driver been doing it for 9 years and just the other day my wife's car actually got repoed me and my wife have been struggling so bad to just literally pay for anything and everything and it's sad because at the end of the day I feel like a complete failure when I say that every single paycheck has to go towards the rent for a two-bedroom apartment that is close to $2,000 I'm the only one that's working right now. It's literally a struggle
@@Keekay91 I greatly appreciate the kindness and me and my family are going to continue to push through this. It's just a rough patch but looking back on it. When I first got my CDL back in 2013 I thought I was going to be thriving me and my family but the economy is just bad and I know things will get better. Blessings and good health to you and again thank you for the words of kindness
I feel for you man. I started working at Stevens Transport a few years ago after getting my CDL at the tail end of 2020. I worked up against my 70 almost every week, and only made $32,000 in 2021 as my first full year as a truck driver. Then in 2022 with inflation on the rise I still only made around $40,000. I got fed up and quit, and then started working with a regional company and made around $65k last year, working less hours and being home every weekend. I spent most of this year unable to work due to an injury and all the money I saved up from last year is almost gone. Most of these OTR companies just treat their drivers like absolute garbage. I would like to have a family myself, but in this economy, no one can reasonably afford to take care one them unless you made more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. Our economy is in the gutter, no one can afford a house, no one can afford food without using credit spending, people are getting pay cuts and layoffs left and right, and those in power want you to be good little tax slaves. You have my sympathy for trying to have a family in this cruel world.
@@richardspillers6282 yep. My partner was freaking out cause it was driving towards us to pick up the trailer next to us. He thought someone left it on neutral. 😂
I see a lot of driver's struggling with this economy. Ppl can only buckle down so much before they break. I'm a lease owner operator but I am making it work. I don't have a lot of bills for my place. I've made some cut backs out here on the road. I have one meal in a truck stop. If I get hungry later on , I will eat something out of my truck. It's a rough ride, but my wife and I are making it. Hold your heads up Driver's, its going to be a long drive . If I happen to see a driver that is hungry, I will definitely try to help out with a meal.
Lol in many cases the foreign driver can speak and write better English then Americans who think they speak English Often than not foreign drivers have had a longer schooling in driving then American 6 week school. Most European drivers speak four or five languages because they drive all over Europe and have to speak the languages of said countries they go to. As for education America stands at the 49 place world wide so don’t say you speak English you speak a mix mass of English and dialects
technology has provided the means for worldwide price fixing, there is no market. all these big companies can afford their own fleet if they wanted to, but instead they use Carriers. carries only exist to carry all the liabilities at the lowest cost.
GREAT VIDEO! Very wise words spoken! I have followed you for a long time and know how hard you worked to get where you are today! I am happy for your success! Too many people got into trucking during covid. They bought overpriced trucks and equipment and now can't pay for them with rates being so low!! They are getting out. There are just too many drivers and not enough loads!! Even the Megas have slowed hiring! There is just no end on sight!!!! (unless we unionize and strike for a week!)
will, you won't believe how many migrants are here on work visas trying to make much money as possible before Trump comes in and deport them. Exact words from migrants for India and Pakistan area. Even told me they trafficking people to drive . It's wild out here
In addition to the truckers losing their jobs I think it's just as important to eliminate the mass exodus of new foreign workers establishing jobs here in the USA.... This should have been addressed three or four years ago.. it wasn't. And now this is what we have.. it's more important to take care of the American workers than it is to be employment charitable to less fortunate people from other countries in my opinion..
Thanks! You are good at what you are doing! It shows in your content that you care and want to bring viewers important information. The industry needs sincere voices like yours!😊
@@338bigguns that’s the problem a big percentage of people that have accidents are non citizens who don’t care about our laws and regulations and drive like idiots and don’t care
@@kaztrack1775 i love working. Zero debt, 3 vehicles, $3,000 in tool collection. $900 guitar, Priceless library ( most I spent on a book is like 20 bucks). Knarly weight sets at home.. fridge full of beer and food. By the way 2nd job was hotshot courier for a manufacturer that needed anodized airplane parts shuttled ASAP. Easiest money until Covid shutdowns.
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I’ve been in the business for 42 years now I’m a owner operator and I’ll tell you if we are not in a recession then we are knocking on the door between the low freight and high prices it’s been a hard struggle for us to keep going and one of the biggest problems is truck manufacturers over pricing equipment compared to the load rates I’ll keep on keeping on but just don’t know how much more we can take
Many say thing'll get better when capacity goes down as we lose our jobs. But that's only true if demand stays the same, and it probably won't. The coming recession will be pretty severe, and demand for shipments will drop off dramatically. I'm going to try to get into something that's recession-proof. Here's hoping for the best for all our brothers and sisters out there.
The reset is beginning… they can no longer hold back the broken dam. Everyone keep pushing forward and let the chips fall where they may and pivot when the time comes, if needed. Stay strong America!🇺🇸 💪
Hangin there it's going to get worse! I'm really surprised it not more than 30000! Can't expect it to get better with the rates In the toilet fuel through the roof not to mention insurance rates and that's just the start.
Thank you and your family for your contribution to the trucking industry. It's rough right now but next time I come across one of your items in a truck stop I'm gonna buy one because your videos have been helpful. Thanks for your honesty also.
Truckers losing jobs like me when I was at Yellow, then most companies don't hire ANYONE unless they have 1-3 years of experience. It's not a good industry for people that aren't willing to do Regional/OTR for a year and they don't tell anyone this who's getting their CDL that almost nobody will hire them without a year of experience. I think the government should step in and force companies to take fresh graduates and be required to train them for a month or so and give these companies tax breaks for doing so especially with insurance, or insurance benefits for doing this. They keep saying there's a massive trucker shortage but it's their own damn fault for gatekeeping all the new truckers out of jobs.
There are still way too many truckers out there because too many truckers bought their own trucks during the freight boom a few years ago, and are willing to take any freight to not lose their investments in their trucks.
This is the truest statement about entrepreneurial ship that Alex is telling you. People think just because you own your own stuff you're a millionaire. Absolutely untrue anyone thinking about owning their own company listen to what Alex is telling you it is 1,000 % the truth!!
Alex in my opinion you almost have to team in today's markets. My Wife and I drive as a O/O team and I couldn't imagine doing what I do for half the pay.
If all the flip floppers would quit, or stop hauling freight for $22 and a half eaten sandwich, that would improve the rates more than 50% in itself...
DRAYAGE is booming currently. This 2nd/3rd quarter is the biggest we ever had since the pandemic. Imma owner/operator and waited for about two years for this uptick. You gotta know the industry to make sound decisions. Hang in there fellas. If drayage is picking up then that’s a good sign for trucking and the economy. When trucking started to decline back in 2022 we were the 1st industry to feel it. When it picks up we will be the 1st to experience it. We bring in the raw goods and freight into America. Ships are coming in which means industries are ordering shit and it’s slight demand. Drayage is the 1st industry that touches all freight before America touches it. I’ll give it by next year the OTR Tuckers will feel it and will pick up. Just gotta sag it out and wait for it to be distributed and broke down. Supply & Demand, it won’t always be slow. Demand is picking up. That’s my 2 cents or my 2 miles. Inglewood Port Rat checking out. Wheels up and be safe yall.
Lost my trucking job in an unrelated situation. Yeah my company fired me without reason as I was out on medical note from a doctor. Oh they also made me work off duty in May before this too knowing if I didn't that I'd be stranded in Memphis for 3 days with no pay because they couldn't reschedule until after the weekend. Rapid Response out of Wentzville, MO messed with me trying to get me to quit after I hurt my back in January at work...Just putting their name out there because they are liars. Nothing they said in orientation was true.
@waterdragon2012 yes and no, big companies hire 100-200 people every other week, but never increase their fleets. that is because company drivers leave at the same number of 100-200 drivers nationally every week. so we don't hear nearly as much of the struggle from company drivers, especially when they are struggling the hardest to make it. they just show back up at their home yard and clean out the truck.
This is good and i hate to have to say this as well however there are a lot of ppl driving trucks that were forced to do it for health reasons or age, i for example was in a serious accident when i was 18 and had both knees surgically rebuilt among other things and was told the best i could hope for is to be able to walk again and i dont qualify for disability and i toughed it out and worked construction for 25 yrs in immense pain every day until i couldn't do it anymore and became a trucker but there are a lot of young ppl getting into trucking to avoid doing hard construction jobs and they need to go and leave the trucking jobs to ppl who have paid their dues.
30,000 on 3,600,000 is nothing. About 90,000 truck drivers a year retire. It means that 60,000 got replaced and 30,000 did not. No big deal and better for the industry as a whole.
broooo. listen the trucking game is trash i been on owener' operator 1 1/2 and is so bad i have made noooooooo money i really want out don't ever get a truck stay in a company driver is way better than been owner opp save ur life and don't go inn
That’s just sad to see everyone in this industry except the truckers are making anything. The loss of jobs is because they don’t want to pay decent rates.
Transport demand follows economic demand and as the population ages demand for goods falls. Old people have all their stuff and don't buy much and they buy even less when they are dead. A look at the demography of north america tells you that demand is gone and won't come back in the short or medium term.
The US birthrate is not at replacement rate, much like many developed and western countries. Immigration is an economic strategy, hence why governments are allowing so much of it.
I had a trucking business for 2 and a half years. Had up to 8 drivers, all equipment paid off. And my business still failed. I agree with Alex when he said it is a lonely life. My wife was so happy when I told her I was shutting down, she said you haven't been mentally with us for 2 and a half years. I couldn't sleep, I wasn't making money at the end. I still want to open a business but it won't be in trucking. As of right now I'm a fuel hauler and I'm so happy, but still I will start a business sometime in the future. Let this economy correct itself and then I'll do something.
@miochan6414 it was my own authority, it was a combination of things. But it was mostly my customers kept on dropping their rates until it was unsustainable. I did intermodal, but after my customers kept dropping their rates I tried going out on dry vans, but honestly was business model wasn't on that.
If there's 30k less drivers, you cold have fooled me. All my usual places to stop at night, Especially along I-40 are now full every night. Places like the Flying J at Winslow AZ and the Petro in Kingman are crazy packed any time of day with people trying to fuel up And this AFTER Love's has opened over 100 new truck stops in the last 5 years
Thers no shortage in drivers. I have 24yrs experience no accidents and multiple companies wont hire me because im behind on child support. Like hello i cant pay it if i dont have a job
I am barely making it.but we are going to wait and see what our election is going to be. If Kamala wins I will sell everything and so will many others 😢. Hammer down driver's speed safely 🎉😢
PRESIDENT DONALD 🇺🇸 TRUMP HAS ALREADY WON... for a third time, only question is whether Democratic Party is going to rig a Kamala incumbency... which will kickstart CW2 (civil war 2) 💀
That is for sure. I will be quitting a very good OTR job if Kamala wins, F paying higher taxes than we already are, I'll be damned if I'm gonna be even more of a tax slave to the govt. than I already am
It is either companies are shipping by rail, pandemic is over and less deliveries, and simply weakening economy and people ordering less stuff online...
People for 1000 years have been putting they're working their responsibilities first in their life so that they can provide for their families that's how life is man
Think about this. A proven fact on another channel. A migrant left their receipt at a store. An EBT receipt. Money left for food was $13,500. Cash was over $4,000. Money from our SS fund. The receipt was not fake. 100% real. My son for SSI only gets $700 a month. Think about that as you try to buy food. Thanks for all you do. If it wasn't for all of your hard work. We wouldn't have anything.
15 year driver this has to be big company stuff… just to much overhead. I been busy but this is concerning, I work for a small sized company with 100 trucks some owner operators . No terminals no fancy stuff. You just drive and get paid good money.
The truck driver jobs lost rates will start coming back up??? I disagree. I Canadain PORTAL is wide open. The UNITED STATES, is being flooded by drivers from all over. The ones that arrived at my former work place of the last 6 years, come as owner operators . Given grants by who Canada? The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT? And are paid dirt cheap. I as a company driver. Miles way down. I tell you THE CANADIAN PORTAL IS WIDE OPEN RIGHT NOW. This is planned. Good luck with the rates ever going up.
It’s really hard work to be an entrepreneur in most businesses. Usually, you have to do it the Dave Ramsey way, work a lot of hours that other people don’t want to, you have no family life & you live on beans & rice & rice & beans until the stuff is paid for, it’s not a get rich quick scheme and Alex is correct. You do pay the price away from the family even if you’re with the family.
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The system is broken.
I will explain. Minimum wage was increased for the illegal immigrant. Who will make 10x more than in their home country doing the same job. Their rates increased when minumum wage increased for Americans.
Now. These jobs include. Farm hands. Meat production and ag production companies.
The prices on food went up. Because they are paying them more. There are 15,000 illegal immigrants cutting across the border per day.
What is the adverts be whispered to them. Stolen identity for seasonal pay. Which primarily means they fly back and forth from their homeland. They pay the ticket. Federal agencies do not care. I have seen it with my own eyes.
Now, with the elections. They are using their stolen identities to register to vote. If they dont win. Their backup plan is the DEI pilots. They need them to fly them back and forth without any problems. They are covering their angles to deal with Trump. Treasonous pricks.
I've been a trucker for over 18 years now. In transportation over 30. I have my own authority and I've never worked so hard in my life to be this broke. If I give up my truck I will never work in the industry again. That's how angry I am about what is being allowed to happen. Fuck corporate greed and all of the corrupt politicians from both parties. They all have sold us out. Time to move off grid, grow your own food and fuck being a pawn in their game.
my parents did offgrid they are retired. but i dont admire their decision. like still commercial farming is more efficient than if everyone grows their own food is my opinion.
as far as trucking. im doing teaming fedex ground my living expenses is 5k a month in california, my income is under 5k so im losing money working a very unhealthy and unsafe job that is also depriving me of a life at home.
to me ive never been this unhappy before. in 2014 i worked hard after 1 year work hard i had 25k saved and back then 25k went alot further my living expenses must of been around 1.5k a month. so living large in 2016 around those times was awesome.
I totally understand how u feel. I'm selling my house and living more affordable in texas
I get the sentiment but history tells us they will eventually come for you no matter where you are
Off grid life sucks so hard.i did it for 3 years. You face life and death several times a year, you will struggle to find any comfort. You work just to survive.
It's nice to see someone from an older generation actually understanding for a change
How many thousand people who crossed the border through Mexico start driving trucks after 2-3 months
Democrats….. smh democrats.
With no license. Had one going through a weight station. So slow didn't know what to do. Had the line backed up to thr highway with trucks
One is too many.
Exactly! It's unnerving to see illegal immigrants driving while holding phones 📱 up to windshield "TRANSLATING ENGLISH ROAD SIGNS" police do nothing about it due to the hassle of having to get a translator to give them a ticket...
With out being able to read the signs. Having made a DMV employee rich by paying them for the license not the State.
The reason this freight recession has lasted so long is because of all the PPP loans that kept so many OOs in business when they would have quit otherwise. Now they're finally getting off the road. Most of them just jumped into trucking during Covid when rates were hot and weren't truckers to begin with.
Indeed it did. It propped up truckers who were getting out the industry. And also created thousands of new companies that otherwise wouldn’t have been created.
ITS A LIFE STYLE BEEN DOING IT FOR A LONG TIME. I WATCH THESE WANT TO BES. JUMP IN NOW THEY LEAVING GO FIGURE.
Preach...
The regional safety guy for my company keeps telling owner ops-it's going to pick up "next month". Poor bastard is probably the first to be let go.
😂
He's a Company man😂
He won’t be there tomorrow hahahahaha😂😂😂
I'm averaging around 4500 miles a week as a solo owner op and I'm completely burnt out and ready to retire from this nightmare. 34 years out here and time to be done.
How do you do 4,500 ?
Greedy ,lying cheating 75 mph in the left lane driver.wheres all the live load and unloading time?where's all the time lost in traffic. Let's see this guy run same miles a week in the North East. I,ll bet this guy smokes and lives on fast food and energy drinks. Put him in a 65 mph truck and see him bragging about these miles. No single driver runs that many miles week after week, obviously has no quality home time and his health will eventually crash.
I was an owner operator. I hated people telling me what they going to pay me. So I sold my company and bought Latin Bliss in Hammond Indiana. I put my own price and no one tell me how much they going to pay me. That is the way a business need to be run. Owning a truck and u have no way to get paid what u want. Alot of time they made me have a loss. In my restaurant I don't have a loss. Big difference.
When it was good, I saved and didn't go crazy. Now I can say No, I won't run your starvation rates. Spending more time with my family has been the best.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying. I spent 28 of the last 30 months on the road and saved as much as possible bc you could see this coming, everyone kept saying it’s getting better but nah… I’ve been home since June and I’ve spent a lot less money than I would have on the road.
I thought there was a driver shortage!😂😂😂😂
Naw bro. Driver overage 😂
Democrats always said that…and here are the new illegals driving trucks in US or Canada or even MX comes handy.
And more…18-21 age are coming in too….they even encourage this youngsters to become truckers….instead of making a real trade job z
Shortage of people willing to work all day for a bag of beans.
I myself am a OTR truck driver been doing it for 9 years and just the other day my wife's car actually got repoed me and my wife have been struggling so bad to just literally pay for anything and everything and it's sad because at the end of the day I feel like a complete failure when I say that every single paycheck has to go towards the rent for a two-bedroom apartment that is close to $2,000 I'm the only one that's working right now. It's literally a struggle
Wishing you health and I know better days will come
@@MuthaTrucker I greatly appreciate it same to you and your family
Hang in there driver. I've been there. Look at everything like an opportunity even if it feels like it's not.
@@Keekay91 I greatly appreciate the kindness and me and my family are going to continue to push through this. It's just a rough patch but looking back on it. When I first got my CDL back in 2013 I thought I was going to be thriving me and my family but the economy is just bad and I know things will get better. Blessings and good health to you and again thank you for the words of kindness
I feel for you man.
I started working at Stevens Transport a few years ago after getting my CDL at the tail end of 2020. I worked up against my 70 almost every week, and only made $32,000 in 2021 as my first full year as a truck driver. Then in 2022 with inflation on the rise I still only made around $40,000. I got fed up and quit, and then started working with a regional company and made around $65k last year, working less hours and being home every weekend. I spent most of this year unable to work due to an injury and all the money I saved up from last year is almost gone. Most of these OTR companies just treat their drivers like absolute garbage.
I would like to have a family myself, but in this economy, no one can reasonably afford to take care one them unless you made more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. Our economy is in the gutter, no one can afford a house, no one can afford food without using credit spending, people are getting pay cuts and layoffs left and right, and those in power want you to be good little tax slaves.
You have my sympathy for trying to have a family in this cruel world.
I went to pick up a load the other day in San Antonio, and they had self-driving yard dogs pulling trailers.
What?!?!
@@richardspillers6282 yep. My partner was freaking out cause it was driving towards us to pick up the trailer next to us. He thought someone left it on neutral. 😂
I see a lot of driver's struggling with this economy. Ppl can only buckle down so much before they break. I'm a lease owner operator but I am making it work. I don't have a lot of bills for my place. I've made some cut backs out here on the road. I have one meal in a truck stop. If I get hungry later on , I will eat something out of my truck. It's a rough ride, but my wife and I are making it. Hold your heads up Driver's, its going to be a long drive . If I happen to see a driver that is hungry, I will definitely try to help out with a meal.
The market is saturated with non Americans. They can barely speak English..I’m stopping saying anything else. Hang in there driver!
here in laredo they get paid $400 to $500 weekly BUT drive like maniacs and abuse equipment
Hindu's as well
Lol in many cases the foreign driver can speak and write better English then Americans who think they speak English
Often than not foreign drivers have had a longer schooling in driving then American 6 week school.
Most European drivers speak four or five languages because they drive all over Europe and have to speak the languages of said countries they go to.
As for education America stands at the 49 place world wide so don’t say you speak English you speak a mix mass of English and dialects
I suppose you,'re highly educated driver
Somalis and Africans....and much more..
technology has provided the means for worldwide price fixing, there is no market.
all these big companies can afford their own fleet if they wanted to, but instead they use Carriers.
carries only exist to carry all the liabilities at the lowest cost.
GREAT VIDEO! Very wise words spoken! I have followed you for a long time and know how hard you worked to get where you are today! I am happy for your success! Too many people got into trucking during covid. They bought overpriced trucks and equipment and now can't pay for them with rates being so low!! They are getting out. There are just too many drivers and not enough loads!! Even the Megas have slowed hiring! There is just no end on sight!!!! (unless we unionize and strike for a week!)
Appreciate the kind words
I've survived 21 years in the industry so far. This is just a bump in the road. It will pass eventually and everything will get better.
it will never ever be the same again my friend believe my words.
They been saying that for 2 years, also debt plays a big part.
Yeah i think it's time to get real my friend
Not likely, this time I think we will learn to do with less,..
Oh Really.😮
Rates will never recover. This is the new norm. Ready to park my truck and work for a company.
will, you won't believe how many migrants are here on work visas trying to make much money as possible before Trump comes in and deport them.
Exact words from migrants for India and Pakistan area. Even told me they trafficking people to drive . It's wild out here
You won't be able to feed a bird doing that.
In addition to the truckers losing their jobs I think it's just as important to eliminate the mass exodus of new foreign workers establishing jobs here in the USA.... This should have been addressed three or four years ago.. it wasn't. And now this is what we have.. it's more important to take care of the American workers than it is to be employment charitable to less fortunate people from other countries in my opinion..
Yup, the Ukrainians, Russians and Indians. They all need to go.
Getting worried this disgrace of a party is gonna have us starving in food lines ,I pray people in this country wake tf up
Well with just Yellow going out of business that's 30k jobs right there
Thanks! You are good at what you are doing! It shows in your content that you care and want to bring viewers important information. The industry needs sincere voices like yours!😊
Appreciate you!!!!
😂😂 the rates are not coming back. If anything they will continue to decline
^FACT! even if Trump gets back in... 2025 is still going to be horrible... the bankruptcies will continue. 2026 however, 💰 🤑 💸 CHA-CHING!
Mine is parked screw cheap freight. But truckin goes in cycles always will.
Mine too.
Freightwaves numbers are WAY OFF!!! We've lost close to OR more than 10% in the last year!!
Waiting for 50' reefer for $500 so I can convert it to an RV. Can't afford rent AND food these days, gonna have to pick one.
Pick rent
FJB
It’s easy to say FJB but let’s not forget he’s just a puppet. The entire establishment is against us
We were circling the drain way before the ice cream man got in office.
it's not just Biden and democrats. The republicans, including trump, have sold all of the working class out. Don't fall for the trap of picking sides.
No because we aren’t making enough for repairs alone
truthful said
If it keeps going like this there will be zero truckers
I think that’s the point sounds harsh but this is a market correction. Reality is people want cheaper everything.
@@lv7603correcting it to what?
There will be. Just not American born drivers. Just immigrants who will work for anything. Unfortunately
Punjabi drivers are taking over
@@jairov6745 they can’t even take control of their trucks muchless take over trucking
I will make it till the end! Ive been in this game since 1998 and I'm here to stay! Let's get it! 😊
Let's goo!!!
Appreciate the honesty partner!
Stop hiring non citizen drivers
To late for this.
@@338bigguns that’s the problem a big percentage of people that have accidents are non citizens who don’t care about our laws and regulations and drive like idiots and don’t care
It's Democrat hell In America
Neither democrats or Republicans have anything to do with it 🙄
@@GenXFarmer77 bull fooking shit....you got wool in eyes
@@GenXFarmer77 how to say you are an idiot without saying you are an idiot.
@charlesmetherd9136 that's easy you blame something on politicians that have nothing to do with like you did.
@@GenXFarmer77 there's an old saying "no use beating a dead horse". I applaud your persistence to prove my point. 🤣🤣
Thank you, brother, for not giving up on the drivers. You could have sold us down the road for millions. But you didnt throw us away.
Never!!!! I love the industry, Money is a 🔧. Gotta be able to look in the mirror at the end of the day
They always said 50 thousand truck drivers short I don’t see how
Bidenomics 🤯🤯🤯
Under trump I had 2 driving jobs
@@stoundingresultsethier you suck at money, or you just love working
@@kaztrack1775 i love working. Zero debt, 3 vehicles, $3,000 in tool collection. $900 guitar, Priceless library ( most I spent on a book is like 20 bucks). Knarly weight sets at home.. fridge full of beer and food. By the way 2nd job was hotshot courier for a manufacturer that needed anodized airplane parts shuttled ASAP. Easiest money until Covid shutdowns.
Can Joe Biden even count the fingers on his hand? ✋️ I seriously doubt it! 👴 JOE: "le-le-lets see here... One... and umm, uhh, th-th-the Thing! ok, Three! C'MON MAN! and the umm, th-th-the blonde hairs on my legs 🦵and the kids touch them... LOOK! IF YA-YA-YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO VOTE FOR ME OR TRUMP... YOU AIN'T BLACK! 😠"
I’ve been in the business for 42 years now I’m a owner operator and I’ll tell you if we are not in a recession then we are knocking on the door between the low freight and high prices it’s been a hard struggle for us to keep going and one of the biggest problems is truck manufacturers over pricing equipment compared to the load rates I’ll keep on keeping on but just don’t know how much more we can take
That's the Golden Rule to Success what a man is born to be
Truckers have to learn to budget and save. Adjust your lifestyle to the money you make.
Best and Realest Video you ever Made
Your spittin Facts!!
I tell evry1 if it was that easy evry1 would be doing it!!
Purpose! You are helping truckers navigate their lives in this difficult economy. Your a source of truth in an age of bs!
Many say thing'll get better when capacity goes down as we lose our jobs. But that's only true if demand stays the same, and it probably won't. The coming recession will be pretty severe, and demand for shipments will drop off dramatically. I'm going to try to get into something that's recession-proof.
Here's hoping for the best for all our brothers and sisters out there.
You have to put yourself 1st always! If she's right for you, she'll understand and have your back.
The reset is beginning… they can no longer hold back the broken dam. Everyone keep pushing forward and let the chips fall where they may and pivot when the time comes, if needed. Stay strong America!🇺🇸 💪
Hangin there it's going to get worse! I'm really surprised it not more than 30000! Can't expect it to get better with the rates In the toilet fuel through the roof not to mention insurance rates and that's just the start.
Thank you and your family for your contribution to the trucking industry. It's rough right now but next time I come across one of your items in a truck stop I'm gonna buy one because your videos have been helpful. Thanks for your honesty also.
Appreciate you so much
Truckers losing jobs like me when I was at Yellow, then most companies don't hire ANYONE unless they have 1-3 years of experience.
It's not a good industry for people that aren't willing to do Regional/OTR for a year and they don't tell anyone this who's getting their CDL that almost nobody will hire them without a year of experience.
I think the government should step in and force companies to take fresh graduates and be required to train them for a month or so and give these companies tax breaks for doing so especially with insurance, or insurance benefits for doing this.
They keep saying there's a massive trucker shortage but it's their own damn fault for gatekeeping all the new truckers out of jobs.
Thanks for your stedfast news updates as always MT. God bless yall
The TRUTH shall set you free.
Good job. Keep it 💯
There are still way too many truckers out there because too many truckers bought their own trucks during the freight boom a few years ago, and are willing to take any freight to not lose their investments in their trucks.
Trucking is over
ALL travel as we know it is coming to an end, but the people won't believe this until it is here. We are coming to the end of an era.
You hit it right on the nail Alex!👍
I say we all just park are trucks but people love money more then life
This is the truest statement about entrepreneurial ship that Alex is telling you. People think just because you own your own stuff you're a millionaire. Absolutely untrue anyone thinking about owning their own company listen to what Alex is telling you it is 1,000 % the truth!!
Alex in my opinion you almost have to team in today's markets.
My Wife and I drive as a O/O team and I couldn't imagine doing what I do for half the pay.
If all the flip floppers would quit, or stop hauling freight for $22 and a half eaten sandwich, that would improve the rates more than 50% in itself...
Truth
I need to get with you to expose some scam companies
Bro you be eating at Dennys now that's livin large my man.
You already know
Waffle House is a splurge for me these days. Tough times.
Totally understand, I and my wife are in expediting. we run one cargo van. It is a 2012 gmc savanna and we made this past week, about 400.00.
Hopefully some people saved some of the money that was made in the pandemic. I always put extra money away when times are good.
Hey @muthatrucker I'm not a one piece fan but I'm jelly of your shirt
🔥 shirt bro
Hahaha
We are experiencing a slow collapse of the US economy.
Kamala will fix it 😂
@@stanfen both wings help the same bird fly. The propaganda is effective, it keeps the people divided.
@@nanettelucas 💯
Fjb@@nanettelucas
I just understand why people in the world don’t comprehend this?
Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself 😢
Hopefully it goes well with you ❤
DRAYAGE is booming currently. This 2nd/3rd quarter is the biggest we ever had since the pandemic. Imma owner/operator and waited for about two years for this uptick. You gotta know the industry to make sound decisions. Hang in there fellas. If drayage is picking up then that’s a good sign for trucking and the economy. When trucking started to decline back in 2022 we were the 1st industry to feel it. When it picks up we will be the 1st to experience it. We bring in the raw goods and freight into America. Ships are coming in which means industries are ordering shit and it’s slight demand. Drayage is the 1st industry that touches all freight before America touches it. I’ll give it by next year the OTR Tuckers will feel it and will pick up. Just gotta sag it out and wait for it to be distributed and broke down. Supply & Demand, it won’t always be slow. Demand is picking up. That’s my 2 cents or my 2 miles. Inglewood Port Rat checking out. Wheels up and be safe yall.
Lost my trucking job in an unrelated situation. Yeah my company fired me without reason as I was out on medical note from a doctor. Oh they also made me work off duty in May before this too knowing if I didn't that I'd be stranded in Memphis for 3 days with no pay because they couldn't reschedule until after the weekend. Rapid Response out of Wentzville, MO messed with me trying to get me to quit after I hurt my back in January at work...Just putting their name out there because they are liars. Nothing they said in orientation was true.
Shut down for 2 day thing's will change
High prices High cost low freight prices
Bidenomics 💩
Thanks!
It looks to me like it’s the owner-ops that are struggling, not so much the company drivers. Is this assessment correct?
@waterdragon2012 yes and no, big companies hire 100-200 people every other week, but never increase their fleets.
that is because company drivers leave at the same number of 100-200 drivers nationally every week.
so we don't hear nearly as much of the struggle from company drivers, especially when they are struggling the hardest to make it. they just show back up at their home yard and clean out the truck.
Thought i was the only one who felt this way inside everything you said is all facts
Love the One Piece shirt! Best show ever
Yesss
This is good and i hate to have to say this as well however there are a lot of ppl driving trucks that were forced to do it for health reasons or age, i for example was in a serious accident when i was 18 and had both knees surgically rebuilt among other things and was told the best i could hope for is to be able to walk again and i dont qualify for disability and i toughed it out and worked construction for 25 yrs in immense pain every day until i couldn't do it anymore and became a trucker but there are a lot of young ppl getting into trucking to avoid doing hard construction jobs and they need to go and leave the trucking jobs to ppl who have paid their dues.
30,000 on 3,600,000 is nothing. About 90,000 truck drivers a year retire. It means that 60,000 got replaced and 30,000 did not. No big deal and better for the industry as a whole.
broooo. listen the trucking game is trash
i been on owener' operator 1 1/2 and is so bad i have made noooooooo money
i really want out
don't ever get a truck
stay in a company driver
is way better than
been owner opp
save ur life and don't go inn
I make a little less running a dedicated route. Guaranteed miles and pay every week. Still take home $1400 a week
I invested 10k down for a new 2025 Cascadia. I think I fukked up bad. Should've followed my first mind and started an onlyfans playhouse
That’s just sad to see everyone in this industry except the truckers are making anything. The loss of jobs is because they don’t want to pay decent rates.
That's B.S.! I thought there was a Driver Shortage!!! 🙃🤔🤫
🤣😂🤣
Love the video
It can go so many ways
Up
Down
Sideways
😂
When will you be in Cali?
Transport demand follows economic demand and as the population ages demand for goods falls. Old people have all their stuff and don't buy much and they buy even less when they are dead. A look at the demography of north america tells you that demand is gone and won't come back in the short or medium term.
The US birthrate is not at replacement rate, much like many developed and western countries. Immigration is an economic strategy, hence why governments are allowing so much of it.
Makes sense
I had a trucking business for 2 and a half years. Had up to 8 drivers, all equipment paid off. And my business still failed. I agree with Alex when he said it is a lonely life. My wife was so happy when I told her I was shutting down, she said you haven't been mentally with us for 2 and a half years. I couldn't sleep, I wasn't making money at the end. I still want to open a business but it won't be in trucking. As of right now I'm a fuel hauler and I'm so happy, but still I will start a business sometime in the future. Let this economy correct itself and then I'll do something.
Were you leased onto a company, or did you have your own authority? Was it the rates, fuel, maintenance, insurance?
@miochan6414 it was my own authority, it was a combination of things. But it was mostly my customers kept on dropping their rates until it was unsustainable. I did intermodal, but after my customers kept dropping their rates I tried going out on dry vans, but honestly was business model wasn't on that.
If there's 30k less drivers, you cold have fooled me.
All my usual places to stop at night, Especially along I-40 are now full every night.
Places like the Flying J at Winslow AZ and the Petro in Kingman are crazy packed any time of day with people trying to fuel up
And this AFTER Love's has opened over 100 new truck stops in the last 5 years
Thers no shortage in drivers. I have 24yrs experience no accidents and multiple companies wont hire me because im behind on child support. Like hello i cant pay it if i dont have a job
I dealt with that myself buying a truck, hang in there my friend somebody will eventually realize you have to work.
I sold out I can go broke slower with out Trucks.
I am barely making it.but we are going to wait and see what our election is going to be. If Kamala wins I will sell everything and so will many others 😢. Hammer down driver's speed safely 🎉😢
PRESIDENT DONALD 🇺🇸 TRUMP HAS ALREADY WON... for a third time, only question is whether Democratic Party is going to rig a Kamala incumbency... which will kickstart CW2 (civil war 2) 💀
That is for sure. I will be quitting a very good OTR job if Kamala wins, F paying higher taxes than we already are, I'll be damned if I'm gonna be even more of a tax slave to the govt. than I already am
It is either companies are shipping by rail, pandemic is over and less deliveries, and simply weakening economy and people ordering less stuff online...
Alex!!!! Im happy to see the 300ZX AGAIN!!! lol
😅😅
People for 1000 years have been putting they're working their responsibilities first in their life so that they can provide for their families that's how life is man
Family 1st.
Thanks Joe!
Very good video
That’s why I am signed on with a great company Crete Carrier bring home most weeks 2,700 clear !
Think about this. A proven fact on another channel. A migrant left their receipt at a store. An EBT receipt. Money left for food was $13,500. Cash was over $4,000. Money from our SS fund. The receipt was not fake. 100% real. My son for SSI only gets $700 a month. Think about that as you try to buy food. Thanks for all you do. If it wasn't for all of your hard work. We wouldn't have anything.
What a lier you are there is NO way $13,000 would have been given in EBT and shame on you for even applying for EBT $700??? What! What a looser
Biden s crap and don't vote for Harris either
Nice shirt dude!
Thanks!
Maybe we can finding a place to park
Just means 30k new H1 visa drivers from India, Pakistan, and the Ukraine, or Africa. These companies pay .20-.25 cpm run 75-85mph and run team.
15 year driver this has to be big company stuff… just to much overhead. I been busy but this is concerning, I work for a small sized company with 100 trucks some owner operators . No terminals no fancy stuff. You just drive and get paid good money.
The truck driver jobs lost rates will start coming back up??? I disagree. I Canadain PORTAL is wide open. The UNITED STATES, is being flooded by drivers from all over. The ones that arrived at my former work place of the last 6 years, come as owner operators . Given grants by who Canada? The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT? And are paid dirt cheap. I as a company driver. Miles way down. I tell you THE CANADIAN PORTAL IS WIDE OPEN RIGHT NOW. This is planned. Good luck with the rates ever going up.
It’s really hard work to be an entrepreneur in most businesses. Usually, you have to do it the Dave Ramsey way, work a lot of hours that other people don’t want to, you have no family life & you live on beans & rice & rice & beans until the stuff is paid for, it’s not a get rich quick scheme and Alex is correct. You do pay the price away from the family even if you’re with the family.
Truth...what does it profit a man to gain "the world ", but loose his soul? Can't get no satisfaction. Shame and fortune