For more information- Truckers Movement for Justice/Tamexun/Sitrabics....FB pages are under each organization's name. Email @solidarity0501@gmail.com facebook.com/TruckersMovementforJustice
FMCSA and DOT have a lot of explaining to do. Enough is enough. No more abuse. It is time to put an end to their government sponsored/privileged corruption. Long live our truck drivers.
Count me in! I’m about to lose my house, my family, my life because I’m so depressed because I shouldn’t have to go 5000 miles a week just to support my family and be comfortable
@@TheWandererOTR I beg to differ with you, collective bargaining is a negotiation. The motorcarrier act of 1980 has specific rules in it that have been broken. Therefore a lawsuit is the best way to go. They’re supposed to pay freight bills within seven days therefore, there will be no need for factoring. You have a right to see the freight bill that’s in black-and-white. The purpose of it was to have free enterprise so everyone could bid on a load there for companies like JB Hunt can’t go in and make a contract with the shipper. You’d be advised to get a copy of that and read it yourself or have your lawyer read it and also read the constitution because she getting screwed six ways to Sunday.
People never come together. That's why they been getting away with the bs. Most people are yes men. If one acts up they get rid of him. Truckers will never unite
My name is David Heredia and I left my job in Houston, Texas. I was working at the Gulf Wings company. I stopped my truck and it has been in my house for two years.
I did the same. My truck is paid for and I'm not going to beat the crap out of my equipment to make breadcrumbs. More people need to follow for us truck drivers to get our power back. We run the country! Let's have some dignity!
For the sake of all truckers I hope this becomes a nationwide movement. Lets remind those who are weak and afraid to make a move that everything worthwhile takes making sacrifices, that is why WE were able to celebrate the 4th of July because of the brave who sacrificed it ALL. I hope truckers unite and bring the country to a stand still soon!! #gotruckers #truckersunite
Those guys who have more than 1 truck , lease drivers and lease purchase drivers are the one who will never stand up . They rather live a life of mice .
@@unperuanoenlascarreterasde9964 pay increases to match inflation are stagnated by these individuals that will eventually feel the pain. They infect every trade not just trucking
Was in a union once, I was the only one to vote NO against the new contract... I lost all respect for everyone. Truckers complain constantly but do nothing about it to change anything.
That's a lot of people in general brother! You would think with the internet today, it would be very easy to organize but everyone would rather complain. It's like paying taxes, if everyone stopped paying until our government started spending our tax money wisely and quit stealing it, what are they going to do, arrest everyone in the Country?
I am working on becoming an advocate for truckers! I was wrongfully terminated , retaliated against, paychecks messed with, been called a liar about my brakes and airlines and air leaks!
@@bigzachfulwe let the corporations squeeze our heads on survive mode just to pays bills it’s difficult to miss one day work because we let them the control 100% our business
ya’ll speaking Truth Boss! I’m about to lose my family, my house, my life! I shouldn’t have to drive 5000 miles a week just to support my family and be comfortable my depression from driving now VS. How it used to be is horrible
I am 80 years old and have owned trucks for 60 years. I have seen good times and I have seen shitty times. I have driven millions of miles myself. I still have an unrestricted CDL, but I don't drive much myself. Getting drivers to unite is like trying to herd cats. Freight rates were crazy high 3 years ago. Lotsa people went out and paid way too much for trucks. Now we have too many trucks completing for less freight. Until the industry gets weeded out, we are going to have shitty rates. It sounds cruel, but this how economics works. I probably won't own trucks much longer because of my age. Neither of my kids have any interest in the business. And I am glad they have no interest. It has always been a tough business. All of my good drivers are about retirement age. Young people just don't want to drive any more.
Then you have guys on the internet telling everybody how to get their cdl and own and operate their own trucking business, saturating the Country with too many drivers! Guys like that idiot Barely Trucking trucker Justruckin idiot on YT putting out videos of how to start trucking and their own business! They dumbed down the trucks to auto transmissions so they could get any idiot to drive and now look at all of the accidents that are happening today!
@kennethcrenwelge4971 what trucks do you have ? What shape are they in? How much you want for them ? Price for each unit? And are they pre emissions 07 or older as I will not buy anything made after 07 up to and including gliders due to them using crappy blocks on the rebuilt motors as the glider market got so popular they started using blocks that previously they would not have used. Anyway been in it 36 yrs now and plan on hopefully making it another 10 to 15 but then I'll be done unless my grandsons want to do it at which time I'll teach them what I know. Anyways thanks hand for being a representative in our industry for as long as you have. My grandfather taught me he was in it 55 yrs.
There are a lot of drivers from other countries that received grants for their CDL school grants to start up a freight business and fuel grant every month. If our country relies on truckers why give it away to immigrants with no sense of pride in country??? Unless it was a tactic to corrupt our industry? USPS pays brokers and pays for freight even when the truck is completely empty from Georgia to Los Angeles. Who is paying for that other than the tax payers. The drivers got paid 25 cpm but the carrier got over 5k for an empty load and broker got paid by USPS in other words the tax payers. Brother things are upside down.
I been saying this for the past 4yrs. Basically ever since I worked for Schneider and I witness the weak yes men always putting up with the big companies bs and telling me to just put up with it. That's why I stopped caring for them and their significant problems. Companies and jobs go miles because these weak yes me stay giving inches and look at me like I'm crazy.
I wish we had at least 1000 truckers with his energy and his strong beliefs. I believe genuinely on what he stated . IF WE DONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT , CORPORATIONS WILL TAKE IT OVER AND WE ARE DONE !!!! I believe I’m doing my part . I refused to haul cheap loads . I’ve been running an average of 3 k miles per month , working just enough to pay my bills and to stay alive . Come on truckers , don’t be stupid and greedy !!! Stop driving !!!!!! They need us more than we need them !!!!!!!!!
I'm doing the same thing just run enough to pay my insurance which keeps going up for no reason and to have somewhere for my family to live thank God my equipment is paid for and been low maintenance for a while that truck and trailer has really hung in there with me I'm thankful for that been driving 20 years alot has changed wish we could stick together but for some reason everyone isn't on the same page SAD
A majority of truck drivers are not real Americans anymore. They are all foreign immigrants who will happily take the low paying loads. The biggest issue is the low pay loads are actually high pay to them compared to the countries they came from. IMMIGRANTS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY LITTLE BY LITTLE.
I'm independent company..I haul refer freight we have the same problems I say let's do this. We need a spokesperson and a agenda of conditions to be met ..
Here's the thing... if you don't have a trade and are working at a grocery store, fast food, some low paying construction job, etc, you can go into trucking and get some freedom and make more money than you're used to making. There's alot of people out there like this that can come into the industry and drive an automatic truck and be rolling in one month. There is an endless supply of future drivers out there. I wish there was a solution to the problem with lower wages and shitty working conditions! Automatic transmissions coupled with desperate people looking for higher wages than they are used to is the future.
Bingo as long as the megas can keep turning out drivers at .45 cents a mile they will keep rates low. It’s not the brokers it’s the megas and endless drivers coming in and out of the industry. The easier the trucks are to drive the less demand a truck driver offers. It’s becoming a low skilled job. Especially if they start driving themselves and the driver just sits on his ass.
I roll Fatty's all the time and I know the exact amount of eye drops to put in urine to come back clean 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 , I actually have made money off a half dozen drivers giving them the recipe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 only works for moderate smokers not heavy smokers .
If you can afford to retire with today inflation,you must be very fortunate. It will be a challenge for many to retire and to afford a survival income….
This guy is a moron , he says it's war , why would you care just go get a class B local waste hauling position for $50k to $55k and live your life . Trucking is a horrible job why would you continue to fight for a prisoner on wheels home on weekends position . Let it go and get a life leave the freight game behind
Lol if you honestly think 1. That automated trucks will take over in our lifetime or our grandkids life time. 2. That if it ever does take over, that a bunch of pissed off drivers won't run that thing off the road or do something to put it out of service. Don't be so quick to accept defeat. Maybe get a backbone there bud
As long as there is over capacity of trucks to freight, this won't end. Brokers and shippers are calling the shots when there are 10 trucks available for one load. All those people who took free government money to buy more trucks or expand their business, never thought about the economy returning to normal. Now it's biting them in the ass.
I am with you in spirit. It is embarrassing that in this day and age that you have to use a porta potty. Not allowed to run the engine for heat and AC to stay comfortable which in turn means a drive is well rested and alert. Mutha Trucker please stay on this issue. Joe in Pennsylvania
That because in America immigrants take cheap loads. To them the money is still great when compared to their home countries. Face the cold hard facts, YOU ARE GETTING REPLACED BY CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR. Unionizing the entire industry is your only hope at this point.
Stop blaming foreign drivers. They struggle just like us. Even if they weren't in the equation we'd still be in this situation. Truckers are not united. I know that I'm not. I'm tired of these yes men being loyal to bad companies.
We're having the same problem in New Jersey delivering & picking up Butane in the Tri-state area. When I listened to the issues you guys are having doing the sand in texas I was shocked because I didn't know that there was another group of guys that's going through the same exact problems that we're going through here in NJ. The only way to make things better is to Join the fight! If we can get someone here on the ground floor in NJ to help get organized that would be great. Feel free to contact me at any time.
I left the industry two months ago as the sh...t stacked too high. 30 years over. I wish you luck...but the only it works is getting EVERYONE on board all at once. Not piecemeal.
We must change our ways of doing business!!! We Must agree on the amount of money that ALL of us must charge , it doesn’t matter where you live !!! -DETENTION -LAYOVER -TONU -LUMPER FEE -REJECTED PRODUCTS -CANCELLED LOADS -FIRST COME FIRST SERVE ( we must never accept it ) how in the hell we normalized the abuse and exploitation???? How ? When ??? We are essential for this economy . We are special people , we are willing to sacrifice everything to do Our job !!! Why we are selling ourselves short ??!!!!
That’s why last year I quit Trucking! I hate how the industry getting peanut pay. I made the hardest decision to atleast save a little dignity for myself, the worst feeling I felt everytime I see my paycheck is the hardest part! I’m a ex Trucker who advocated the sleeper hours to get paid by hours. I hope this is the time for a overhaul. Keep safe my fellow Truckers out there. God Bless America and Canada Truckers
I'm from Baltimore and a sitting board member for TMJ drivers. We need to stand up they need us, and without us, the world stops. All across America, we are the tip of the spear truckers are your future and if you don't think so if we aren't there your shelves are bare
The way to change the tide is to keep this conversation going and get someone that is respected in front of legislators. Right now the large carriers have the ATA, legislators, and FMCSA in their corner. The smaller carriers that make up the majority just don’t have a unified voice that is loud enough to be heard over the large carriers.
Billy come to Ohio, WV and PA, the oilfield here is the same thing. I’ve sat for 3 days on a load without pay, food, water, just me and the food I had in my truck. To make it worse now all dispatchers treat us with attitude, force us to take loads threatening to blacklist us if we refuse. Forcing us to take a 11miles load deadheading 60miles.
Yawn , I have been saying for years if truckers really stood together and just stopped the world for a few days things would change in a hurry verses smaller groups pecking at it for years ... they say if you want change you have to be willing to make changes yourself , change your habit of just rubbing off the footprints from being walked on stand up and do something about.
Exactly…yesterday would have been perfect time to begin Global Computer Outage and Transportation Shutdown…let’s circle back around in 6 months 12 months and ask for an update with this movement will it be crickets and like you best said…yawn…let’s see! Respect!
Our paychecks have been at the bottom of the barrel for to many years The owner of my small trucking company has a heart of gold...Like he say there's only so much money to go around, things need to change for everyone in this industry....
We drivers endure the scam rates and the extortion from DOT scales and their pirates with the random freeway stops. They all want a buck of our backs looking at us like we have it. Mechanics, DMV, gas stations how can we forget good old chevron.
OTR gets the shaft big time. I'll never go back. Hauling equipment now, local, home every day, hourly pay with overtime, PTO and benefits, weekends off, holidays paid and actual benefits. Actually feel appreciated to be a truck driver. I would never go back to cents per mile.
Every truck driver should be paid the same US, Canada, Mexico..people always say there taking my job..no one can take your job if you are doing your job..I went to pick up a load in El Paso, I did do van much and load required 3 load locks, I had 2 and if I didn't get one more I couldn't pick it up...I ask other trucker and they were rude..I have a bad temper and went off..the only person that offer a load lock..was a Mexican truck driver....
Us west texas boys always try to warn outsiders that they will go out of business when they get to west texas and they tell that we are greedy, that we want all the loads for us 😂😂 Ya can have them all 😂😂😂
That pay should be reversed. 2500 for the truck. 900 for the broker. The higher pay should go to those in the arena doing the work owning and operating the equipment. Period.
@@scottowens8474 Thats exactly right, couldn't have said it better myself !! The dispatcher accidently slipped and told my friend what she was making on that hay load. MY friend didn't take the load becau se she threatened him saying she had a CONTRACT with that farmer !! Apparently she thinks we drivers are satisfied with 1/3 of that price of that load!! I live in FL and wrote an email to Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Webster and our Governor DeSantis too. I said , we are the guys that bring loads to the Consignee. We pay for the tires, Preventative Maint. and the Dispatcher onl y sits at a computer 8-6 !! What the hecks with that?????
@@deneenmorgan9119 One liquid fert ilizer manufacturer near my house said he's got a bunch of guys living in FL that will take their loads for $1.50 a mile because they only use their truck as their HOME !!
I bet you're writing this from your sleeper cab, all dirty and smelling like skunk, eating a whole large pizza, while your small mattress begging for mercy! There's a lot of difference from a worthless trucker and a professional commercial driver.
I’m Ready and willing to join in the movement truck drivers are scared they don’t wanna lose their trucks. They can’t afford to not go out and work because the banks are gonna come looking for trucks, but we do carry the economy on our backs and if we can join together all of us in unison and we can make a difference, one of the prime difference that we can make is getting paid correctly but every action has a reaction and if we are being paid correctly then prices will rise a lot more than they already are and that’s just one issue. I really hope that we can get some traction with this.
you guys are on the right track, united we stand, divided we fall, i wish you guys would consider joining forces with the taxi drivers of America against ride sharing, so many Families destroyed
They all connected! The brokers, shippers and receivers, the fuel companies, the load boards, the franchised truck stops, fmcsa, dot, etc! They all operate under the power structure and their ideology is "you will own nothing and be happy "!
38 yrs you can't get 10 drivers to agree on anything if you change the classification of truck driver from unskilled laborer to skilled labor nothing changes
Truckers were once considered american heroes, in my book you still are ! Keep doing a amazing job take back your respect its time stand one stand all!,,, Salute american heroes!,,,❤
Please let's stick together on this we cant take this abuse anymore our kids wont be able to make a way if we dont stand now. Im with you guys my truck has been parked for 2 years now together we're stronger.
Truck drivers need to stop taking cheap freight from brokers. Only take the good paying loads if you can. The loads are out there, you just have to look for them. When you snatch up the cheap freight it hurts everyone.
Thank you I like this man he talking with understanding, because no need to stop working, so we all need to use our thinking 🤔 cap on?!!!Amen they need all of us truckers to keep cargo going 😊🎉
You are not a dumb truckers . You guys is the root of the industry. Yes fight . I appreciate every mile you travel . ❤️❤️❤️❤️🦋❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸 fight fight fight all on board.
Being a Driver for the last 2 years the one thing I know is truck drivers are the least organized don’t care about each other and will screw each other over in a heartbeat.
The oilfields was rough I just left Kermit Tx. You gotta run extra hard to make good money. I mean 20 hours running no bs. It would be nice if all the trucks shut down for a week and let these rates go up. Yet it’s hard to because people isn’t about togetherness it’s about self.
Food fuel gas rent housing the rise pays by hours ,electricity all get flights tickets etc.. they all rises they prices but truck drivers owner ops are the sacrifices for these corporations
For more information-
Truckers Movement for Justice/Tamexun/Sitrabics....FB pages are under each organization's name. Email @solidarity0501@gmail.com
facebook.com/TruckersMovementforJustice
I fly an AMERICAN flag!! This movement is also supporting drivers south of the border B1 drivers.Hell No!!
FMCSA and DOT have a lot of explaining to do. Enough is enough. No more abuse. It is time to put an end to their government sponsored/privileged corruption. Long live our truck drivers.
True
I've done this for 30 years and from experience I can tell you, if you get 10 truckers to stand together you're doing good.....
I will be the 11th guy….anyone else to follow?
I’m joining on this! Where do I sign up?
13th
Count me in! I’m about to lose my house, my family, my life because I’m so depressed because I shouldn’t have to go 5000 miles a week just to support my family and be comfortable
@@charlonnbrown5173 damn bro- hang in there
When the people coming together is what corporations fear
100%
No what they fear is lawsuits, but truck drivers are too cheap and stupid not to sue them.
@@bobwilliams3502 They fear collective bargaining a lot more than they fear a lawsuit.
@@TheWandererOTR I beg to differ with you, collective bargaining is a negotiation. The motorcarrier act of 1980 has specific rules in it that have been broken. Therefore a lawsuit is the best way to go. They’re supposed to pay freight bills within seven days therefore, there will be no need for factoring. You have a right to see the freight bill that’s in black-and-white. The purpose of it was to have free enterprise so everyone could bid on a load there for companies like JB Hunt can’t go in and make a contract with the shipper. You’d be advised to get a copy of that and read it yourself or have your lawyer read it and also read the constitution because she getting screwed six ways to Sunday.
People never come together. That's why they been getting away with the bs. Most people are yes men. If one acts up they get rid of him. Truckers will never unite
Mother trucker.... you have the support to start this movement. 😊😮😮😮
I told him the same thing he has the perfect platform to get truckers organized
Yea but Muther trucker doesn’t do anything then do public announcements. That’s it
@raygarciaelcubanootr7541
Exactly
My name is David Heredia and I left my job in Houston, Texas. I was working at the Gulf Wings company. I stopped my truck and it has been in my house for two years.
I see that company always hiring
I did the same. My truck is paid for and I'm not going to beat the crap out of my equipment to make breadcrumbs. More people need to follow for us truck drivers to get our power back. We run the country! Let's have some dignity!
For the sake of all truckers I hope this becomes a nationwide movement. Lets remind those who are weak and afraid to make a move that everything worthwhile takes making sacrifices, that is why WE were able to celebrate the 4th of July because of the brave who sacrificed it ALL. I hope truckers unite and bring the country to a stand still soon!! #gotruckers #truckersunite
Organize
Those guys who have more than 1 truck , lease drivers and lease purchase drivers are the one who will never stand up . They rather live a life of mice .
I'm a lease purchase driver and I'm ready for a change.. Let's do this. I'm ready. Let me know when and where @unperuanoenlascarreterasde9964
@@unperuanoenlascarreterasde9964 pay increases to match inflation are stagnated by these individuals that will eventually feel the pain. They infect every trade not just trucking
Was in a union once, I was the only one to vote NO against the new contract... I lost all respect for everyone. Truckers complain constantly but do nothing about it to change anything.
Unions destroyed America
That's a lot of people in general brother! You would think with the internet today, it would be very easy to organize but everyone would rather complain. It's like paying taxes, if everyone stopped paying until our government started spending our tax money wisely and quit stealing it, what are they going to do, arrest everyone in the Country?
I've worked 2 IBT Carrier without a new contracts for 2+yrs
I am working on becoming an advocate for truckers! I was wrongfully terminated , retaliated against, paychecks messed with, been called a liar about my brakes and airlines and air leaks!
Same thing in my trucking! We have to fight for changes!!!! United we stand!
I have a beautiful Peterbilt that I'd like to be running today. I can't run because the rates are so low.
Smh, what has come to this country…
Working us for pennies
My Pete and reefer trailer have been parked since last July. Sitting for a year now. Insurance and cheap rates don't make it worth it to run.
@@bigzachfulwe let the corporations squeeze our heads on survive mode just to pays bills it’s difficult to miss one day work because we let them the control 100% our business
ya’ll speaking Truth Boss! I’m about to lose my family, my house, my life! I shouldn’t have to drive 5000 miles a week just to support my family and be comfortable my depression from driving now VS. How it used to be is horrible
SAY NO TO CHEAP FREIGHT
I am 80 years old and have owned trucks for 60 years. I have seen good times and I have seen shitty times. I have driven millions of miles myself. I still have an unrestricted CDL, but I don't drive much myself. Getting drivers to unite is like trying to herd cats. Freight rates were crazy high 3 years ago. Lotsa people went out and paid way too much for trucks. Now we have too many trucks completing for less freight. Until the industry gets weeded out, we are going to have shitty rates. It sounds cruel, but this how economics works. I probably won't own trucks much longer because of my age. Neither of my kids have any interest in the business. And I am glad they have no interest. It has always been a tough business. All of my good drivers are about retirement age. Young people just don't want to drive any more.
I want to drive, but not for low pay. I want blue collar pay, for blue collar work.
Then you have guys on the internet telling everybody how to get their cdl and own and operate their own trucking business, saturating the Country with too many drivers! Guys like that idiot Barely Trucking trucker Justruckin idiot on YT putting out videos of how to start trucking and their own business! They dumbed down the trucks to auto transmissions so they could get any idiot to drive and now look at all of the accidents that are happening today!
@kennethcrenwelge4971 what trucks do you have ? What shape are they in? How much you want for them ? Price for each unit? And are they pre emissions 07 or older as I will not buy anything made after 07 up to and including gliders due to them using crappy blocks on the rebuilt motors as the glider market got so popular they started using blocks that previously they would not have used. Anyway been in it 36 yrs now and plan on hopefully making it another 10 to 15 but then I'll be done unless my grandsons want to do it at which time I'll teach them what I know. Anyways thanks hand for being a representative in our industry for as long as you have. My grandfather taught me he was in it 55 yrs.
I am 29 and when I drive, I drive in silence and keep my driver door shut. Not everybody that is young doesn’t want to drive, I make shit happen.
There are a lot of drivers from other countries that received grants for their CDL school grants to start up a freight business and fuel grant every month. If our country relies on truckers why give it away to immigrants with no sense of pride in country??? Unless it was a tactic to corrupt our industry? USPS pays brokers and pays for freight even when the truck is completely empty from Georgia to Los Angeles. Who is paying for that other than the tax payers. The drivers got paid 25 cpm but the carrier got over 5k for an empty load and broker got paid by USPS in other words the tax payers. Brother things are upside down.
Need to stop working for shit companies and shit brokers, it’s drivers that tolerate the b.s that ruin the business.
I been saying this for the past 4yrs. Basically ever since I worked for Schneider and I witness the weak yes men always putting up with the big companies bs and telling me to just put up with it. That's why I stopped caring for them and their significant problems. Companies and jobs go miles because these weak yes me stay giving inches and look at me like I'm crazy.
Every where you go is the same treat, understimate drivers all those ungreatful dispatchers, brokers and reciving/shipping wherhouses.
Brought my truck back to Albuquerque from West Texas 01/21 where it will sit until the industry gets some act right.
I wish we had at least 1000 truckers with his energy and his strong beliefs.
I believe genuinely on what he stated . IF WE DONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT , CORPORATIONS WILL TAKE IT OVER AND WE ARE DONE !!!!
I believe I’m doing my part . I refused to haul cheap loads . I’ve been running an average of 3 k miles per month , working just enough to pay my bills and to stay alive .
Come on truckers , don’t be stupid and greedy !!! Stop driving !!!!!!
They need us more than we need them !!!!!!!!!
Exactly!
3000 miles a month? I remember 3000 miles a week was a short week
I'm doing the same thing just run enough to pay my insurance which keeps going up for no reason and to have somewhere for my family to live thank God my equipment is paid for and been low maintenance for a while that truck and trailer has really hung in there with me I'm thankful for that been driving 20 years alot has changed wish we could stick together but for some reason everyone isn't on the same page SAD
A majority of truck drivers are not real Americans anymore. They are all foreign immigrants who will happily take the low paying loads. The biggest issue is the low pay loads are actually high pay to them compared to the countries they came from. IMMIGRANTS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY LITTLE BY LITTLE.
Everything we haul has went up in price but our pay has dropped to haul it
We first need to start raising money to buy billboards all across the US and let them know we’re serious!!!
RUclips ads!
@@Tejaneaux-ic8dpthis ^^
NO MORE CHEAP FREIGHT
I'm independent company..I haul refer freight we have the same problems I say let's do this. We need a spokesperson and a agenda of conditions to be met ..
Thanks!
Here's the thing... if you don't have a trade and are working at a grocery store, fast food, some low paying construction job, etc, you can go into trucking and get some freedom and make more money than you're used to making. There's alot of people out there like this that can come into the industry and drive an automatic truck and be rolling in one month. There is an endless supply of future drivers out there. I wish there was a solution to the problem with lower wages and shitty working conditions! Automatic transmissions coupled with desperate people looking for higher wages than they are used to is the future.
Bingo as long as the megas can keep turning out drivers at .45 cents a mile they will keep rates low. It’s not the brokers it’s the megas and endless drivers coming in and out of the industry. The easier the trucks are to drive the less demand a truck driver offers. It’s becoming a low skilled job. Especially if they start driving themselves and the driver just sits on his ass.
New truckers only get $650 a week for OTR while training, its a big barrier to enter the industry, right?
@seancrafty idk your bills and responsibilities at home but if you become a minimalist with your stuff and go homeless the limit
I'm retiring next month. Gonna roll a fatty
👉🏼😁👈🏼 🔥🔥💯🔥🔥
They only smoke the seeds now. 😊😅😂
I roll Fatty's all the time and I know the exact amount of eye drops to put in urine to come back clean 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 , I actually have made money off a half dozen drivers giving them the recipe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 only works for moderate smokers not heavy smokers .
If you can afford to retire with today inflation,you must be very fortunate.
It will be a challenge for many to retire and to afford a survival income….
This guy is a moron , he says it's war , why would you care just go get a class B local waste hauling position for $50k to $55k and live your life . Trucking is a horrible job why would you continue to fight for a prisoner on wheels home on weekends position . Let it go and get a life leave the freight game behind
That's why they are getting self driving trucks, they will fear no more
Lol if you honestly think
1. That automated trucks will take over in our lifetime or our grandkids life time.
2. That if it ever does take over, that a bunch of pissed off drivers won't run that thing off the road or do something to put it out of service.
Don't be so quick to accept defeat. Maybe get a backbone there bud
As long as there is over capacity of trucks to freight, this won't end. Brokers and shippers are calling the shots when there are 10 trucks available for one load. All those people who took free government money to buy more trucks or expand their business, never thought about the economy returning to normal. Now it's biting them in the ass.
You know you’re not lying I work for a company that give all the free money to his family members!
It’s been that way for the past 100 years
No there’s a shortage dude, and a lot of old dudes retiring, it’s just inflation,which is bull shit corruption from the government
No it hasn’t. During the pandemic the lots of companies were formed. Those same companies should’ve never been formed
I am with you in spirit. It is embarrassing that in this day and age that you have to use a porta potty. Not allowed to run the engine for heat and AC to stay comfortable which in turn means a drive is well rested and alert. Mutha Trucker please stay on this issue.
Joe in Pennsylvania
Good luck fighting a dragon with words
And that's all it's ever going to be. Just words.
Truckers don’t stick together is the reason the way it is!
That because in America immigrants take cheap loads. To them the money is still great when compared to their home countries. Face the cold hard facts, YOU ARE GETTING REPLACED BY CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR. Unionizing the entire industry is your only hope at this point.
Stop blaming foreign drivers. They struggle just like us. Even if they weren't in the equation we'd still be in this situation. Truckers are not united. I know that I'm not. I'm tired of these yes men being loyal to bad companies.
@@JD-773 it’s not ready true I know a lot of them they shut down there business the corporations dictate how much we make
That’s right let’s stand up together!!!!
We're having the same problem in New Jersey delivering & picking up Butane in the Tri-state area. When I listened to the issues you guys are having doing the sand in texas I was shocked because I didn't know that there was another group of guys that's going through the same exact problems that we're going through here in NJ. The only way to make things better is to Join the fight! If we can get someone here on the ground floor in NJ to help get organized that would be great. Feel free to contact me at any time.
Everyone unite together no matter what race you are and I can bet you that things will change
Union log truck driver here, solidarity!✊🏼
No one is demanding anything that’s not earned. But if we’re at work we should be paid.
Going against corporations
If all drivers stop for 3 weeks
Solid stand together
If all drivers stopped for 2 days it would fuck shit up hard
Time to stand together ... Let's go
GREAT! IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR TRUCK DRIVER TO REMAIN TOGETHER AND FIGHT BACK!
Damm this man is spot on, 💪
As an otr driver, brokers are the biggest issue
I left the industry two months ago as the sh...t stacked too high. 30 years over. I wish you luck...but the only it works is getting EVERYONE on board all at once. Not piecemeal.
ty for moving America
With ya brother 36yrs owner operator 5mil. Miles later I’m done with the shit .
@@tomhall7250🔥🔥💯🔥🔥
We must change our ways of doing business!!!
We
Must agree on the amount of money that ALL of us must charge , it doesn’t matter where you live !!!
-DETENTION
-LAYOVER
-TONU
-LUMPER FEE
-REJECTED PRODUCTS
-CANCELLED LOADS
-FIRST COME FIRST SERVE ( we must never accept it )
how in the hell we normalized the abuse and exploitation???? How ? When ???
We are essential for this economy . We are special people , we are willing to sacrifice everything to do
Our job !!! Why we are selling ourselves short ??!!!!
That’s why last year I quit Trucking!
I hate how the industry getting peanut pay.
I made the hardest decision to atleast save a little dignity for myself, the worst feeling I felt everytime I see my paycheck is the hardest part!
I’m a ex Trucker who advocated the sleeper hours to get paid by hours.
I hope this is the time for a overhaul.
Keep safe my fellow Truckers out there.
God Bless America and Canada Truckers
I'm from Baltimore and a sitting board member for TMJ drivers. We need to stand up they need us, and without us, the world stops. All across America, we are the tip of the spear truckers are your future and if you don't think so if we aren't there your shelves are bare
The way to change the tide is to keep this conversation going and get someone that is respected in front of legislators. Right now the large carriers have the ATA, legislators, and FMCSA in their corner. The smaller carriers that make up the majority just don’t have a unified voice that is loud enough to be heard over the large carriers.
Realest talk I've heard in the trucking industry 💯
Billy come to Ohio, WV and PA, the oilfield here is the same thing. I’ve sat for 3 days on a load without pay, food, water, just me and the food I had in my truck.
To make it worse now all dispatchers treat us with attitude, force us to take loads threatening to blacklist us if we refuse. Forcing us to take a 11miles load deadheading 60miles.
Yawn , I have been saying for years if truckers really stood together and just stopped the world for a few days things would change in a hurry verses smaller groups pecking at it for years ... they say if you want change you have to be willing to make changes yourself , change your habit of just rubbing off the footprints from being walked on stand up and do something about.
Exactly…yesterday would have been perfect time to begin Global Computer Outage and Transportation Shutdown…let’s circle back around in 6 months 12 months and ask for an update with this movement will it be crickets and like you best said…yawn…let’s see! Respect!
Our paychecks have been at the bottom of the barrel for to many years The owner of my small trucking company has a heart of gold...Like he say there's only so much money to go around, things need to change for everyone in this industry....
Rules and the pay is trash 🗑️
DO NOT COMPLY WITH FMCSA
Go ahead and not follow fmcsa rules . What you are earning will begoing for fines ?
@@locomato11 united we stand, with that outlook we will definitely fall.
@locomato11 The only reason they have so much power is because we do everything Our government tells us to do
@@We-are-at-war-cw1zj I don't
Got to pick and choose the fight
About time I've been saying this all along, let's fight back,😊🎉❤
Yes everything is true and sometimes when we try to negotiating a rate many brokers end the call to our face
We drivers endure the scam rates and the extortion from DOT scales and their pirates with the random freeway stops. They all want a buck of our backs looking at us like we have it. Mechanics, DMV, gas stations how can we forget good old chevron.
OTR gets the shaft big time. I'll never go back. Hauling equipment now, local, home every day, hourly pay with overtime, PTO and benefits, weekends off, holidays paid and actual benefits. Actually feel appreciated to be a truck driver. I would never go back to cents per mile.
How do you land a good local job?
WOW who cares.
The whole point of the protest is to be paid for ALL hours worked, kinda like I've gotten. It truly makes a difference I think. That's who cares 🤷♂️
@@deejayyy1681 Well I care more than most since I’m working over 100 hours a week which really takes down my average earnings per hour.
Ive been hearing the same augment for 40 years 😮
I stand with you. Let me know what I can do!
Everybody in this country is suffering financially and people have lost their way morally so they’re scratching and clawing for whatever they can get
Every truck driver should be paid the same US, Canada, Mexico..people always say there taking my job..no one can take your job if you are doing your job..I went to pick up a load in El Paso, I did do van much and load required 3 load locks, I had 2 and if I didn't get one more I couldn't pick it up...I ask other trucker and they were rude..I have a bad temper and went off..the only person that offer a load lock..was a Mexican truck driver....
It's about time the world starts pulling together that we are a family everywhere thank u all stepping up.
All facts !👍🏾
I already lost my business as a owner operator in west Texas hauling frac sand.
Us west texas boys always try to warn outsiders that they will go out of business when they get to west texas and they tell that we are greedy, that we want all the loads for us 😂😂
Ya can have them all 😂😂😂
Yes united we stand divided we fall
Count me in. I'm done with the dictation and corruption 😤
Prime inc trainer died during flatbed accident but is not on the news whats going on
send info muthatruckernews@gmail.com
That’s because prime inc like to delete and block when you post stuff like that about them
I'm with them this Charles Allen payback Express LLC is behind you in this fight.
A hay broker told us she made $2500 on our 900 load from AL to New Mexico!!
Are you kidding me???
Truckers are the ones getting soooo ripped off.
That pay should be reversed. 2500 for the truck. 900 for the broker. The higher pay should go to those in the arena doing the work owning and operating the equipment. Period.
That's the problem right there,who took that load that far for that rate🤷
@@scottowens8474 Thats exactly right, couldn't have said it better myself !!
The dispatcher accidently slipped and told my friend what she was making on that hay load. MY friend didn't take the load becau se she threatened him saying she had a CONTRACT with that farmer !!
Apparently she thinks we drivers are satisfied with 1/3 of that price of that load!!
I live in FL and wrote an email to Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Webster and our Governor DeSantis too.
I said , we are the guys that bring loads to the Consignee. We pay for the tires, Preventative Maint. and the Dispatcher onl y sits at a computer 8-6 !!
What the hecks with that?????
@@scottowens8474 you are so so so right !!
This is ass backwards!!
@@deneenmorgan9119 One liquid fert ilizer manufacturer near my house said he's got a bunch of guys living in FL that will take their loads for $1.50 a mile because they only use their truck as their HOME !!
Truckers move the F world we need to come together
Good luck
We got to stand up.
Maaaan we ain't gonna do sht, and the government knows it. Every year it's a parade and back to work.
Facts 💯 , and sad at the same time ... Never ending cycle .
I bet you're writing this from your sleeper cab, all dirty and smelling like skunk, eating a whole large pizza, while your small mattress begging for mercy! There's a lot of difference from a worthless trucker and a professional commercial driver.
Ain't that the truth. 😂😂😂
We shall overcome ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏻✊
I’m Ready and willing to join in the movement truck drivers are scared they don’t wanna lose their trucks. They can’t afford to not go out and work because the banks are gonna come looking for trucks, but we do carry the economy on our backs and if we can join together all of us in unison and we can make a difference, one of the prime difference that we can make is getting paid correctly but every action has a reaction and if we are being paid correctly then prices will rise a lot more than they already are and that’s just one issue. I really hope that we can get some traction with this.
Profits are up and pay stays low. I'm with you.
you guys are on the right track, united we stand, divided we fall, i wish you guys would consider joining forces with the taxi drivers of America against ride sharing, so many Families destroyed
They all connected! The brokers, shippers and receivers, the fuel companies, the load boards, the franchised truck stops, fmcsa, dot, etc! They all operate under the power structure and their ideology is "you will own nothing and be happy "!
38 yrs you can't get 10 drivers to agree on anything if you change the classification of truck driver from unskilled laborer to skilled labor nothing changes
Compartire esto a todo el mundo ❤❤❤❤
Truckers were once considered american heroes, in my book you still are ! Keep doing a amazing job take back your respect its time stand one stand all!,,, Salute american heroes!,,,❤
Let’s go 💪🏽💪🏽✊🏽
That industry is nothing but a headache. Risk my life for a low paying headache? I'm done. Been done with that over a year.
I have been listening to this since 1994 they thought it was bad back then too we will see
Yes let’s find way to better
The trucking community.
💯💯💯💯💯👑👑👑👑👑👑👑 #TruckDriversUnited 💯💯💯💯💯
Amen ✊🏽
Please let's stick together on this we cant take this abuse anymore our kids wont be able to make a way if we dont stand now. Im with you guys my truck has been parked for 2 years now together we're stronger.
Truck drivers need to stop taking cheap freight from brokers. Only take the good paying loads if you can. The loads are out there, you just have to look for them. When you snatch up the cheap freight it hurts everyone.
Let's go truck drivers
Thank you I like this man he talking with understanding, because no need to stop working, so we all need to use our thinking 🤔 cap on?!!!Amen they need all of us truckers to keep cargo going 😊🎉
Important work here 👍
You are not a dumb truckers . You guys is the root of the industry. Yes fight . I appreciate every mile you travel . ❤️❤️❤️❤️🦋❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸 fight fight fight all on board.
FC CINCINNATI soccer team play on the TQL STADIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!can anybody imagine how much money cost a stadium?????all that from truckers pocket.
We asked everyone to STP hauling their cheap freight and they're still hauling for them 🙅
It’s time that we fight ✊🏽
I parked my truck in December 2023. This is getting out of hand; everyone is in our pockets.
Damn right
The time is now 🔥🔥
I stand with him 100 percent
Being a Driver for the last 2 years the one thing I know is truck drivers are the least organized don’t care about each other and will screw each other over in a heartbeat.
As long as the big companies are training enough drivers for a 150% turnover they know they can pay as little as they want.
I like this guy
I support that I need help in Alberta trucking to fight for tracking
The oilfields was rough I just left Kermit Tx. You gotta run extra hard to make good money. I mean 20 hours running no bs. It would be nice if all the trucks shut down for a week and let these rates go up. Yet it’s hard to because people isn’t about togetherness it’s about self.
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE WILL FALL
We can't even speak the same language smfh
@@muddymountain6186 don't matter
Let's start said no for the low rates because some drivers do loads here in Los Angeles move loads for $120
Food fuel gas rent housing the rise pays by hours ,electricity all get flights tickets etc.. they all rises they prices but truck drivers owner ops are the sacrifices for these corporations