How my Truck Driving Career Ended
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2020
- A summery of how my last driving job ended and how I made the shift to fixing trucks
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Your Right .
I just took a long vacation. 3 months out of that truck. It’s helps. Refresh your mind and spend time with family.
I hope you’re well! Super interesting stuff! Thank you for sharing!!
I'm doing very well, thank you. Hope all is well with you!
I never will forget when you stuck it to K&B that was fucking awesome and that shit wound up on 20/20 that left a bruise lol
Glad you’re back and doing well.
I watch your trucking videos all the time. Great videos. Glad your back
Glad you're back, good to hear you're doing well 👍
Missed seeing your videos. Glad to see you're back.
Great video ... I'm also thinking about quitting trucking ... 5 yrs of bs and more bs ... I can read and write and I pray so 🙏 I'm gonna be alright ... Love you...
Run hard , get paid 😁💛♥️👍🏾🔥
Chris Cojack Yep I’m 7 in myself and I’m on my to contract my own power unit hauling groceries and will not be working for another company again
Was you in late 90's and do not miss it! Give me a shunt truck or forklift and I am happy!
Economy is good and majority of people can't read or write so u win
Man Im not even a trucker but I enjoy watching your videos. It would be cool if you continued to make videos on what you do now. Awesome content
Your dispatcher was fired, because he did things the right way by paying you for the work you done. He knew what he was doing, and Marten wanted no part of that, so they cut him loose.
Man it's good seeing you back. I was telling J Cannel a while back I miss the days of You and Ean Hannah and several others that aren't around anymore. Great video I'm happy to hear that your doing good and happy. Take care man..
If you want to get back in trucking and be home every night, try yard hostling, I’m 19 and I have a CDL this helped me get into trucking, but I know a lot of OTR drivers who get yard gigs so they can be home every night with their families, if you don’t want to sit in a yard all day, you can also look into fuel hauling, wood chip hauling, or some sort of logging gig! Also most of these jobs are paid hourly and depending on how far you drive, you don’t have to deal with DOT regulation (under 100 miles)
Your dispatcher made sure you got paid for everything that's why they smoked him
33 yrs in, trucking sucks , low pay, long hrs, current truck drivers are the worst I've ever seen. Eld has made it more dangerous, can't rest once the clock starts, today's drivers drive to fast, industry is a mess
Start your own company
good to see you again. best of luck to you
Glad to see ya Gabe. Hope you're doing well.
Hey brother just used your video for training my student driver thanks the video was the kb video I used for bulling by dispatch
congrats on the weight loss looking great.
Probably was Proctor and Gamble they make laundry detergent..
Good luck with your career.
Great info!
RUN HARD GET PAID I really understand your conviction but trucking is not a fair game once you know how to navigate through that stuff you'll be alright
Your to nice , I can't remember how many trucking companies, I got back at , when I quit them, I laid it on them, f a dac report, that's bullshit , left them hanging.
Dude, those trailers have GPS microchips...how could they become unaccountable. DM gave out $ & that's why he's gone. Cash is king.
More on what you're doing now please.
You're video was one of the most entertaining videos I have ever watched on CZcams period you should make a show and be like under cover busting companies that are doing bad things to employees ! Oh one question did you ever get a settlement did you take them COURT? k&B
He chose to take that load he didn't have to. He had 20 hrs of sleep i would have slept 8 hrs and woke up got in a workout and took the empty trailer on my second 10 hrs I would of played a game or went someplace for 2 or 4 hrs and slept 6 took the load and been fine. He made the choice
Good u look happy now and u lost weight 👍🏼
Over the road sucks period
Left the coke account as a driver now I'm an independent dispatcher and freight Broker
How's it on the flip side? Freight broking working out? More money?
Lost weight to my guy 💯💯💯
I live near Mondovi wi I see them all the time
My god if I ever had to stop being over the road I'd blow my brains out. I don't want to be local and I don't care about being home. For me it's not completely about the money. I just like to drive for weeks on end. Staying in places here and there like Wyoming National Parks or visiting Atlanta aquarium on a 34. Just hearing your story depressed me. I hope I never have a medical issue that stops me from going cross country.
Lol 40-50 miles to home...pc here we go!
Some companies don't allow PC.
I live up by the bridge, and i get home every weekend pulling a skateboard and driving a nice w9
Owner Operator ?
@@tez_foe4382 50 truck operation tjere is a steel mill right across the river in sault st. Marie. ON we haul direct for them mainly coils headed south and rejected coils and steel coming back. We all drive nice trucks they show them at the st ignace show in the fall. Nice trucks decent pay we are never rwally hunting for drivers
I think about you all the time, thought you died, watched your before I started driving, always wondered if you were still out here,
$ he gave out was earned!
What sup my mentor🖖Salute
Were u in the middle of the change over from the Coca-Cola distributor facilities changing from CCR to reyesholdings/great lakes Coca-Cola? If so that's probably why so many changes took place.
I was
@@RunHardGetPaid that's probably why man. I'm at coke still, everything is ok, it has changed a good amount but as of rn pay and benefits still good but yeah those guys do everything for profit, CCR was more for amount of sales since it's a publicly held company great lakes/reyes companies are privately held
My first few years I bounced around that’s just how trucking works to many people behind a desk trying to drive for u
@@BlockBallerRecords That is not "just how trucking works", if you drive for a decent company.
Big carriers don’t give a crap about drivers. Which is crazy because the cost of on boarding and training must cost them millions.
It's an invisible cost. I've worked companies in heavy industry that spent insane amounts of money training and onboarding, only to watch them walk in less than 3 months. And they didn't take their training to a new job, the job just sucked so hard ppl left. The only reason I lasted 2 years is pay was good, and I wanted to go back to college.
Ooooooh yeah
Yoooooo!!! Sup brotha!??!
@@RunHardGetPaid Same shit you know
I've been following your channel pretty much since I started driving otr. I got laid off of Werner in September. Not really looking to get back into trucking either. They dicked my sleep schedule over by changing load times and crap, never got me home on time and pulled the whole "oh we forgot you requested time off on such and such date". They did this shit aaallll the tiiiiime. So I slept in... All the time, every day. I didn't set an alarm and I just drove my full shift or until I got too tired to drive. I got to the shipper when I got there. Took them 9 months to let me go give or take. Drove for them 2 years, something like 200k safe miles.
I'm glad I'm not doing that anymore. Otr sucked the life out of me.
SolarWingXI I feel much better I’m not driving right now either. I went through a divorce, met a much better girl than I was with and now we have a little baby girl. I’m missing driving a truck but not at the risk of missing my family at least 5 days a week
@@benpotter2399 I can kind of relate to that. I miss driving out over the open road, never quite had a job like that before either. It was actually kind of fun to wake up in a different state every other day for a while. But I certainly don't miss being treated like a number or statistic.
Family's important man, be sure to be there with them. I missed out on a quite a few family events because of trucking and especially thanks to poor dispatch.
SolarWingXI I’m currently working in a shop doing what I did before trucking. I’m thinking about trying to find a job dispatching though. I didn’t miss the birth of my daughter and as much as I want to be out running loads I probably won’t be until she is a bit older.
Same thing happened to me! Lol I went local for them though and then they let me go cuz I was slip seating with another driver and they were complaining all the time about me coming back to the drop yard a little bit late. Had to drive an hour to the site everyday. I just wish I had quit on their asses before they fired me.
You haven’t uploaded in years. What’s going on with you?
I'm here... hi 👋
@@RunHardGetPaid hope things are lookin up for you. I’m in trucking too and it’s sucks. I’ll never feel ashamed for not being right for this career. It’s a rough one. I may be out of it soon.
This is why I retired. Sick of the bullshit!! 25 yrs was enough. Don't miss it.
That's bs but you shouldn't have abandoned the truck. If you want things on your own terms then start your own company. Especially since you have mechanical skills.
I came to the same realization you did. They only care about what's in the companies best interest not yours. They get real shifty when you quit.
Another realization you'll see if you owner operate is that the expenses are high. I pay $1000 a month in insurance and another $1000 in truck payment. Then there's diesel and repairs. You'll understand exactly why they couldn't get you home.
To turn a profit they'll need you to work at least 6 days a week. It's not them it's the damn bills they have to pay. That's why they were so savage.
Anyways I hope you're doing good now. In a better head space.
Cute
Where can you see ur DAC report?
Call hire rite they can give you a dac report or they get you to the right ppl
Lol bro you look younger here than the 8 years vids… was it the trucking ????
Hey Abe, how old are you?
Watching this on a 55” 4k tv. The white-light and/or Olof balance keeps flashing around, very bothersome for the viewer. Are you colorblind and/or insensitive to light intensity?
@Cpt BEARDless my eyesight is better than yours per your comment. Also, you're an idiot.
Anyone who drives and doesn’t like it and stays is an idiot. Do what you like it’s that simple. I love trucking so I do it, if I hated it I would just do something else. Problem is these driving start making more than 20k a year and get into substantial debt and can’t leave, also the reason we can’t have a shutdown cause there so in debt and can’t take a month off.
Dont take no shit off any company , if people would not work at the places that treat ones like shit , they would close there doors !
How did you get into diesel mechanics? What schools do you recommend
I wonder if he makes more as a mechanic, Im making around 46k a year as a driver, I think our mechanic makes 40k. We only have 3 trucks LoL.
@@jayrider2726 I'm sure it depends on experience, customer service, and the company. Some pay 40 per hr I've heard.
@@jayrider2726 If you are only making 46k as a driver you with the wrong company. Guaranteed he don't make as much as a driver.
At most places your only a number
They don't give two craps about you
At Mega Carriers ?
I left Marten because they were substandard. Randy Marten screwed some chick and got her knocked up and his momma took the company over from here. Marten was doing shady shit like some bs sliding scale on pay where if you ran more you got paid less and shit.
He got a davorce in 07. So hes still paying alamonoy. So I heard
Is your beard glued on ?
Im trying to figure out how to look at this.. your a truck or was a truck driver and wanted home every couple days..what?! . And u look 25 to 30ish ..u gotta do what u gotta do...working isnt it tho..from what im hearing..trucking is totally different as u know..most of the guys i know who are home nights or every couple days have put some serious years in..u havnt put the time in yet to do what u want..if your a driver for a company..sorry man..good luck tho
I had about a million miles of experience even this happened.... plus I actually held me company accountable to the agreement we made when I started the account.... the company changed and I ditched them.... I've never been the type to take shit, i recorded a bunch of me fighting the system lol
@@RunHardGetPaid well the other side of this coin is company's gotta stop promising certain things or guaranteeing certain things and not holding to what they agreed to then acting surprised when a driver gets upset or leaves.. so if u get any promises get them written down..yes things change but they gonna have to make it up to u another way if a previous promise falls short..to many companies promise the world to get u in the door..
Trucking is ONLY good for young men with no family. You can make decent cash driving, but unfortunately, the only way to really cash in is to
1)own a reliable, cheap truck & efficiently run spot..
2)Bust your ass, stay away from home & run your behind off.
This is a VERY SLAVE LIKE INDUSTRY.
The industry is a complete mess. All a driver is to a mega carrier is a glorified indentured servant. They use HOS to their advantage. And they really don't care about the driver as long as their quota is met and they get to leave the office on-time to go home. The industry got ruined by the big carriers and foreigners. Along with dot regulations and lawyers. There should be no reason now to be paid hourly with eld and satellite. I got out of trucking of 12 years because of eld. It added up to a minimum wage job stretched over a 60 hour week. It's not worth it. Yet companies are being flooded by the foreigners getting their cdl out of a cereal box. If trucking was paid hourly now and harder for foreigners to get a cdl and the union was unbarred I might stay. My advice. If you're 35-40 years old and single have around 30k saved up. Knock out 1 or 2 years of tech school for a field that's unionized that you like. That way you don't have to work while attending school and have something that pays double of what trucking does right after school. There are tons of jobs out there. It's what I did and it's not hard to make a career switch. Trust me you'll be glad you did. If you like trucking then take a part time gig. It's not a good career anymore. It's just going to get worse and throw away more time off your ticker. There's some guys out there who made it trucking, but with eld and mileage pay. I don't know if it's possible to even start a small company anymore.
I couldn't afford the fuel anymore
Go company driver they pay it why do that to yourself I'm on percentage as a company driver best damn choice j ever made!
Go blue
"Little Guy" going back to RST? "Now This?
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jay rider why u care all?
He only gonna be there for a few months anyway lol
Honestly I think you're burned out. Any industry you join it's going to happen . You can only do something for so long before it happens. Ive change careers to become a trucker. I'm coming for the IT industry working in hospitals. Burnt out!! same feelings as you. Good thing you changed out before losing your mind.
i thought it was that time you got caught with that load of bootleg beer
My personal opinion is that some folks are born truckers and some ain’t.
Most folks ain’t got what it takes and I guess your one of them
This attitude among some drivers of "You must not be cut out for trucking" is hilarious.... a monkey could literally be trained to drive a truck.... I just had options, and after a million miles a flexed my options after not willing to put up with the BS in the industry.....I pity you guys who don't have other options actually. Sad.
RunHard GetPaid
There is BS in every job.
Trucking is a lifestyle not a job.!
@@RunHardGetPaid Most of us have options but like me I was raised in truckin and it's in my blood. We out here runnin makin 80k+/year. You my friend were never with a good company to drive for. Also you wanting to constantly go home.... Sounds like you were never really meant to drive. At least out here. Why didn't you go local? I stay out 2-3 months. Mega Carriers eat you up and shit you out. We do run hard and get paid. Good luck turning wrenches.
@@NedKellyIreland , OTR Trucking Is A Lifestyle. Let's Be Specific Here.
Exactly, it's why they are going to be replaced by ai in the next 2 decades. Longhaul on the highway and point to point in the city are going to go fast.
worked for Marten years ago...did not like them either. However.it was best u left truckiing...not cut out for it. .
Both drivers and companies lie companies and driver EXPECT to much and WANT to much (want and not need) what he is saying might actually have happened but what I call BS on is how CALM he supposedly acted n handled the situation
Crying too much pal!!! You were in the wrong biz to start with!!!-😭😭😭😭
Haha crying would be me sitting in the driver seat still and not changing..... everything I've ever "Cried" about I've changed..... I have a problem, and I change..... that's something 99% of drivers can't do.
You going to do better as a truck tech.
What is it with some of you all? He was telling a story and explaining events. According to some like yourself, anything a truck driving says is crying. I could walk outside and say it's raining. Then you would say that Im crying or whatever. The truth is that there is no respect for people who are out on the road doing all they can away from their families and all you can say is that they complain too much all because they drive a truck. The problem with society is that many people are the same. People say the same crap over and over. The same thought process goes through many people. He must be a whiner because he drives a truck. There are many dumbasses are like you. Oh, and one more thing. Stop your bitching. You probably litter, throw your feces in the lot, hold up drivers in the fuel island, cut others off in the left lane, pass another truck going up a hill when you should know that it will slow down being heavily loaded, being impatient when somebody is backing up for ten seconds, wear flip flops at customers,etc. Those are the types that say truck drivers are crying when obviously that's not the case.
Its funny. Some guys drive trucks,make 85 to 100k a year, (once they have a year or 2 under their belt)save,invest,buy real estate, become self employed and are very successful. This guy always seemed to have a horror story. Bad company this,lousy company that. Maybe you just were not cut out to be a heavy truck driver. I drove for K&B for 1 and a half years. Perfect company by no means. Yet I ran hard,cleared $1,500 a week after taxes. Paid off some debt and bought my first rental property. I also carried weights,push up bars,bench,jump ropes,fold up bike,and protein powder in my truck. Avoided truck stop garbage food,bought fresh clean food from Walmart/farmer markets, exercised everyday for at least 45 minutes,did not smoke, ,maintained my fitness,saved a shitload of money, and kept a healthy romantic relationship with my girlfriend at the time who is now my wife. Yet when I look at your videos at the time you were 50 pounds heavier, a smoker, and was crying about money. Was that all the companies fault too?
Fml lol
you don't run hard or get paid sleepy head
Everyone must cater to gabe or they suck?? Man your part of your own problem
Cry baby
Dude, wtf? With all due respect, drop this leftist mindset and catch back on hardworking and self-improvement. Wishing best of luck for ya.
Hardworking and self improvement, I I'm thriving in a career I switched too at the dealership level as a state certified technician and am in much better financial and physical shape then I ever was trucking..... I know a thing or two about hardwork and self improvement 😉
@@RunHardGetPaid What classes and where did you take to get state cert? More on that too please. And oh yeh. Home every night? sleep schedule that lets you be human?
Just another cry baby who didn’t get what they wanted and starts crying
Actually, I had an issue, I changed my situation, and I currently run my own business now. I did a little more than cry about it 😄