Trucking has became it own Joke.
You cna not make money when there is so many levels of ideas of what is right or wrong with trucking. First problem is that the cost of equipment is way out of sight.That brings another problem .How do you train the people who set the rates for the haul to be educated enough to realize their rates do not match the equipment cost. Which causes another problem and that is their therory is to haul overload.which will give you more money per mile. this causes another problem which cause a owner operator to have to start making bad desisions. Most owner operators of today can not afford a 145000 new tractor with a 40000 thousand new trailer. Do the Math and you will see that it does not even come close to the rates that are offered to haul todays freight. So this causes another problem because the owner operator does not want to quit. So he finds a cheap tractor and trailer as he can get by on. Sinks his self in debt and still tries to haul the cheap freight that the companines are setting. You see its not that the good times are gone. This maddness has been going on for years. As one old timer explained to me. Have you ever went to a dog track. I said no. he said well they put those dogs behind a starting gate and then let them go to chase this mechanical rabbit. The dogs don't know they will never catch it, but they still run their hearts trying. And for all the people invovled they try to make it look fair and that they care. Trucking is about the same way . The owner operator just wants to make a living and be comfortable. But he does not realize the rabbit he chases is rigged fomm the get go. The chance or should we say percentages of cost of equipment, repairs, licences, federal goverment, local goverment, shippers, brokers,the banks that thought so much of him until he got into trouble on payments. And the most important that has takien a many out is their health. Everything is stacked aginst you succeding before you put the first mile down. No idid not forget the very hardest against a owner operator and that is INSURANCE. When alarge company thats in control of many buy and sell positons all they have to do is set a standard that if you don't have this much insurance then we can not use you. Like most they get on the phone and ask for more not considering that the rate did not compensate for the increase. I Hope one day that the truckers of the UNITED STATES would quit talking about all this small talkand come together to change the standard in which we are having to live under. We have the power , the comon sense, to make this a better industry. But we continue to let people who do nt understand trucking to regulate us. Their saftey rules , their work ethicsthey twist the truth about trucking to manage and mandate control of this industry. The Best part is they kept the working man fighting with the working man because they no thats one way to keep control. So Before you comment on how stupid I am then answer the first question so we know how smart you really are. Question if 500.00 is paid to federal goverment on every heavy duty truck in every state of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. How much revnue do they take in per year? and why can we not run in the third lane ? why are the bridges and roads in bad condition not being fixed?why do they regulate trucks but allow each state to say how much weight to be hauled ? difernt axle weights, diferent axle lenghts all of this if the federal goverment taking in money and wants to regulate log books on every truck in all state then we should have standard weights ,lenghts ,standard prices for fuel cost per mile in each state. The money that one truck generates is unreal to the american public. We as truckers should stand up and say there wrong and demand a answer wher all this money goes. Specially since they use that money to make more regulations to tax trucks. When the trucks quit rolling then America will have nothing to offer. The railroad the airports the ships all depend on trucks. And yes the stock market of today depends ,on trucks. But they do nothing but continue to chip away at this industry and take more and more.