I was making $30K a year a couple years out of high school, 25 years ago, with no degree. And fast forward 25 years later (with all the inflation that's occurred since) and they're offering a $40k a year salary that requires a bachelor's degree? In an area with an above average cost of living?
Walmart offers $110,000 to new drivers amid shortage
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I was making $30K a year a couple years out of high school, 25 years ago, with no degree. And fast forward 25 years later (with all the inflation that's occurred since) and they're offering a $40k a year salary that requires a bachelor's degree? In an area with an above average cost of living?
If you pay me enough I will drive for a short term gig. I'm sure you can hire enough people from McD to drive your truck if you pay them enough, both are dead end jobs anyways.
Electric won't do squat with driverless, hybrid truck running low speed driverless mid-night to 5am is the future.
Pretty stark explanation and entertaining at the same time.
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... and someone filling orders for coffee at Starbucks makes $41,600 a year right out of high school.Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000.
same goes for someone stacking paper towels in Target ... or only $35,000 a year starting for a cashier at Aldi in South Carolina
All work is honorable.
We are decades away from not needing drivers, I feel the job is more secure then almost anything in the technology and office field. Those people will be more easily replaced.
You can't speculate what your job will be when nothing currently exists other than opinions. It going to be a very, very long time before you see completely unmanned autonomous tractor trailers on the highways, if ever, and the soonest a generation away. I can think of a lot more jobs people are going for right now that will disappear sooner.
$40k doesn't go far in AL either.
The most money I've ever made by far was last year selling car parts for an employer that probably isn't even aware I have a college degree.
I graduated high school in 2002. When I was in school they more or less told us that you had to get a college degree or you would spend your whole adult life flipping burgers. I never did get a degree. I'm currently earning about 1.5x the salary of the teachers that told me the degree was the only path forward.
Mess up driving a truck and you can kill some one.Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000.
No one wants to be a long haul driver because it sucks ass. No one is afraid of self driving technology. lol. If you made 100k driving working for walmart, that would equate to about $18 an hour. It ain't no 9 to 5.
I just finished doing a Walmart contract as an outside carrier for their dedicated fleet , ran by the numbers, safe and compliant ,hours of service were followed to the letter of the law , I did well on this contract and if I wasn't6 months from retirement I would work for them ,, They tried to recruit me several times offering a big sign on bonus but I was up front with them telling them I enjoyed working for them but retirement is on the horizon and it wouldn't be fair to grab the bonus the walk out the door in 6 to 8 months
Yea-but you can only drive 11 hours per Federal Law. And now with GPS tracking it can't be fudged on any level. Not like the old days of "two sets of books".
Same could be said for just about any profession though. Pilot, Boat Captain......doctors. List goes on.
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When I worked repairing Roll Up Doors about 15 years ago.
I remember there being 2 dock doors. One had an empty trailer, the driver would dock a full trailer, unhitch, and pull away the empty trailer. Never touched the cargo. Seemed like a good gig.
I remember there being 2 dock doors. One had an empty trailer, the driver would dock a full trailer, unhitch, and pull away the empty trailer. Never touched the cargo. Seemed like a good gig.
that's only in certain regions others are sub contracted up here it's Martin still good money but listen this is not a good job for a young family man because it is up to 14hrs. a day and driving 11hrs. then your gone from home 5.5 days a week. I went from making huge money in sales to finishing my work career in truck driving but went to 4 on 4 off schedule at a hefty pay cut compared to these WM cowboys but kept my sanity.
There is alot of freight these days that are "no-touch".
It's not the driving. Most carriers dispatch you 8 hours driving a day so you can drive 7/365 under the 70 hour rule.
It's the endless unpaid waiting where you are somewhere you don't want to be, but forced to be there by your employer. They own you. If you add up all that time, because time and your life aren't worthless, you're making less than a burger flipper on the west coast.
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it's called drop and hook and it's how most do it these days. The shipping facility loads trailers ahead of time. Live load and live unload are becoming much more rare for company drivers. Owner ops who own their trailer is a different story.
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