I’ll stick with my old-school coding training. Because I’m thinking that some day punch cards will come back in vogue. And when they do, I’ll be the one in demand.
Posted on 10/04/2021 4:19:20 PM PDT by blam
All you truck drivers in need of work out there need to take a second to look into this: A company called Sisu Energy has been paying experienced drivers up to $14,000 per week. It may sound too good to be true, but it’s actually the real deal.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many truck drivers left the industry, due to a lack of product to haul and reduced rates for loads. The trucking industry was already facing a driver shortage prior to 2020, and this only made things even more severe. Once the demand for products came back up, those former drivers had already settled into a new industry. Essentially, this left demand hig, and supply low. As you may have been able to tell, goods such as gasoline and wood have drastically increased in price over the last few months, and this is certainly a factor in that.
That said, businesses still had to operate, and Sisu Energy CEO Jim Grundy had to find a way to keep things moving. His solution was to offer experienced drivers in South Texas a rate of pay that was too good to pass up. This company has been paying drivers $14,000 each week, which equates to $60,000 a month, and over $650,000 a year. No matter what freight you’re hauling, it’s practically impossible to find another job that pays in the same realm as this.
With pay this high, there’s bound to be skeptics, but it’s been confirmed by both the CEO and others who have worked there as a driver. In fact, I happened to be listening to the radio the other day when one of the newer drivers for Sisu Energy called the station to tell them it was very much real. On top of that, he claimed he didn’t even need his own truck and trailer, but just some experience as a commercial driver.
I learned to code. I should have learned to drive a truck.
Well that will help with the inflation.
I could learn real fast.
Not true in my view. No company can afford that pay scale. They must be hauling gold at that pay scale.
Do they require their drivers be vaxxed?
There IS no driver shortage.
ISonny Pruitt and Will Chandler would have found a way just to break even.
If only I was younger…..
Yeah, it’s not real. Not sure what the angle is. Half that would still be outrageous.
I’ll stick with my old-school coding training. Because I’m thinking that some day punch cards will come back in vogue. And when they do, I’ll be the one in demand.
I tend to agree. My uncle now retired since 2017 for around 20 years, told us what the realistic” pay scale was as a long-haul truck driver. He knows reports of drivers making $10K/week due to Wuhan virus, but he does acknowledge there is a long-haul trucker shortage. He wont do it again as it takes its toll on you driving hours and days + sleepless nights all over North America.
14,000 a week translates to 728,000 a year. Even Pstupid Jan Psaki would jump at that.
Looking at that punch card reminds me of learning the cutting-edge languages, IBM BASIC, COBOL, RPG 2 back in the mid 1970’s.
There is. On Fox News they interviewed the head of a Chicago area trucking company who is 200-yes, 200 drivers short.
Well there was thanks to the Rat/RINO uniparty extending unemployment and extra unemployment on top all the way to September. My company usually has 5 to 6 trucks going every year (we ship farm goods) and the past two years have been hell as nobody wanted to work while getting $1000 a week unemployment. Now the season is winding up and of course unemployment has ended so I guess starting March 2022 we will get drivers again. There was absolutely no reason whatsoever to extend that unemployment, there were jobs everywhere especially in the restaurant industry. I was in Connecticut in August and saw a sign in McDonalds hiring people starting at $20 an hour.
Ch3ck out the truckers report.com. I have for years. It’s BS.
Run the numbers on that and see how much of that is left to pay your own salary!
Soooo, one companies problems are industry wide? Perhaps they pay their drivers crap? Maybe their rids are crap?
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