Proof is in the CSA score.
OK since everyone is bitching about the OBR and all the new regulations that are constantly being pushed upon anyone that drives here is where I ended up when I quit driving.
I was leased to Landstar for 19 years when you pull your contract they basically do an audit/review of your time with them.
the Lady in safety called me [which they don't usually do] and congratulated on the fact that I had "0" CSA points which she informed me was almost unheard of, she when deeper into my file, all the way back when I started and came up with 2 speeding tickets [both in speed traps] 1 "warning" at a level three inspection, a dozen or so minor log book violations a year [most of which were due to the log reader reading my logs wrong,
and that is about it!
I also got three star of quality awards [which at one time was a big deal]
and never missed a safety award
I didn't make a million but a decent living and was able to do it safely
I didn't make the million mile club with them mainly because I went with another company somewhere around year eight and had to start over and also I didn't get a huge amount of miles yearly because I had I few agents that had some very special. high value freight that paid very well I only averaged about 80 thousand miles a year and due to the fact that there was a LOT of dead head involved probably a third or more of my yearly miles were empty miles unless something was going close to where I had to pick up the next load.
the main company I ran for was building Medical research equipment that flew engineers to wherever I took the load and thebengineers over time started to use me to help set up the equipment which usually took 2 -4 days it got to the point that they would send 1 less engineer which saved them a lot of money and paid me 30 bucks and hour to help..
I ma not trying to toot my own horn but to show that you can make a living by using your head and do thing within the framework the government allows !!
that is not saying that I agree with the over regulation that has been going on for many years quite the opposite in fact, you folks that think things are going great are out of your minds, the pay today plain sucks in comparison to what it should be due to inflation,
IMHO drivers starting out should be making AT LEAST a buck a mile and seasoned drivers AT LEAST 2 bucks.
O/o's should at A MINIMUM should be a 5 bucks plus but the companies, brokers. and even the government has been able to make the driving community believe the money isn't there and since you have 3,4,5 or more middlemen [scumbags] taking their cut the money for the trucks isn't there,\
I would hazzard a guess that for every dollar the trucks make a buck and a half goes to the middlemen that are sitting in their easy chairs in pajamas scuffling freight around to their buddies each taking a hefty percentage for their 3 minutes of work.
there is a few that were arounf years ago that remember when a protest against this was started, I know
@Mike remembers it and a few were deeply involved and it was gaining traction I even remember the HB it was HB 2290. and was sponsored by Omplia Snow and Jeff Sessions among others.
the brokers were scared out of their minds that it would get passed and they would have to show the true price the customers paid which would have gotten them tarred and feathered it the driving public knew the extent of how they were getting screwed.
what the Brokers did was come together big time and put pressure on the elected officials to quash the bill,
While the driving public talked the talk just not of them were able to walk the walk, and that was the last time the driving public even tried to come together to do anything to right the wrongs that they endure!!!
I quit driving due to health reasons and in the end I probably happened at the right time!
while it doesn't effect me anymore I still wish the Driving public would wake up to the fact of what is being done to them and take action to right the wrongs, but honestly I might as well be whistling Dixie
the Brokers came to
