Posted on 07/04/2018 10:46:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly
I believe Wal-Mart owns their own trucks and employs the drivers.
Well,
I hope so. My 19 year old son just got his Class A CDL. His first job offer is really good for a 19 year old kid, but inadequate for raising a family.
Yes, but how many truckers do that? I have seen many who don’t.
We do have a local guy, I think he may be a former Olympian, who tries to do a fitness program for truckers.
There is nothing the government can do about your little problem.
Perhaps you could raise their wages and give them more incentives?
Or do you prefer to cry in your milk?
So are flying cars.
Let me know when they have self driving trains. That is much easier then a self driving truck and they have yet to crack that problem.
Too ,amy ‘employees’ today can NOT pass drug tests.
Counter help——truck drivers-—you name it.
Some companies are now even testing long time employees-—not just potential new hires.
Most goods should be shipped by train..Trucks should only be used the last 20 miles or so to destination.”””\
Many goods re. I saw a very long train with 4 diesel locomotives pulling it go thru Fernley, Nevada, yesterday. All the cars behind were holding trailers, many of them Double Decked.
But- Your thought about 20 miles of Truck travel at either end isn’t realistic. You must not have ever driven thru the Western part of the USA.
MANY, many miles of truck travel after the train leaves off it’s load. I was 21 miles from where I live when I saw that train. We have a Dollar General, a Family Dollar, a Subway, a Napa store, and 2 gas stations that have fine tuned the art of piracy in their gas prices. The Standard station is charging 38 Cent a/gallon more than the station in Fernley.
There has to be a large staging yard for train cars to load & unload, also.
all required by the companies’ insurance companies.
Insurance and lawyers run the country.
LOL OK smarty pants!
Electronic logs systems already alert company safety departments of drivers going more than 10 mph over a posted speed, so modern means are starting to regulate fast drivers”””
Nevada changed speed limits on I-80 to 80 in SOME sections. Then What??
I have a relative that found a number of things about being a driver for big shipping/hauling/transport companies that he thought were attractive. It turned out in his view that all the attractions could not pay enough for all the things that made it a bad job; after hanging on to it through multiple employers based in more than one state. “Retention” was an issue he was part of twice. He left trucking once, then went back, left again and is now not going back. How bad was it. Well, seriously, h’d rather be a bum.
Heretic!! Burn him from a lamp post. We're all socialists now. Only the dogma of Brother Karl Marx will save us from the evil capitalists.
Only the rail companies use the railroads. Everybody uses the interstate highways (except the Amish, who will when riding with somebody that has a motor vehicle capable of 45 mph or more). Even the rail companies have rail service/maintenance trucks that use the interstates.
There are a LOT more products to ship compared to the days of all the railroad spurs. There was a smaller population with a good share of them raising gardens and canning a fair amount of what they raised.
This nation will be in a world of hurt if there is ever a major breakdown of the power grid.
**Not true..drove for 2 years and didn’t put on a pound.
Salads..sardines oil and vinegar...snack on apples.**
Yes, discipline is key. My wife has trained me well to avoid all the deep fried fast food. If you paid attention to the drivers at the truckstops you saw plenty of obesity, usually but not exclusively the ones pulling dry vans and reefers.
When the safety dept. views the ‘red flag’, they look at where the truck was at, then they know if there is an issue with speed or not.
Walmart has their own fleet, but does have some contractors too, such as Werner.
A trucker friend of mine says they’re hiring Middle Eastern drivers like crazy. That’s how they get drivers to accept such low pay rates.
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