All of these items are of concern and none is more important than the rest. : TRUCKING NEEDS AN OVERHAUL FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WITH PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND TRUCKING BEING AT THE CONTROLS. Not these woke freaks.
Truck Parking - Needs attention in every State. Build at least one per state, then allow truckers use these mega trucking parking lots - for free. We will pay for food, fuel and water and any mechanical services. Stop procrastinating on this important truck parking matter. Build it instead of sending billions overseas to spill more blood and to bury innocent women and children.
Compensation/rates - Government and DOT fees increase every year, including tolls. Yet they decrease our rates quarterly and shrug their shoulders in ignorance. These confused freaks keep digging into the wrong holes.
Fuel prices/cost inflation - This is being kept high on purpose to starve truckers
and weaken our power to lobby for our rights. Fuel prices can be fixed for commercial operations on a monthly basis and easily be lowered based on the fact that a barrel of oil produces way more diesel than all other refined products. With so much electric cars, should not fuel prices be on the decline?
Detention/delay at customer facilities - I do flatbeddiing and as such, don't have issues here except when a woke manager comes on the scene and is clueless about the real world and delays the whole show because of 'woke safety' standards.
FMCSA's speed limiter mandate - This is foolishness, having a speed limit for trucks on a road that already has a 70 mph speed limit. I am in PA. If we are ever limited then all we need to do is drive side by side for sixty five miles on any roadway. The foolish woke legislators will get the message quick and fast.
The economic outlook - This is hinged on fuel prices and the puppets that run the system into the ground. We have no control over this and cannot adjust this problem and it will affect all industries no matter what we do or say. The monkeys running the show needs to get their hands out of the cookie jar and stop spending so much on foreign matters that will never benefit the USA.
Hours of service rules - I have no problems with the hours of service, however the time clock on the dash that cannot be stopped when we are genuinely stopped is the problem with the hours of service.
The ELD mandate - Some mandates are dumb and some are useless. This one is both. However, I understand the monkeys running the show are both dumb and useless and as such we have dumb useless mandates. Just like mandating seatbelt use at all times is dumb and useless. Some things need to be an option and so if a company needs ELD, let those company drivers use that and if Owner Operators needs to use paper or electronic, then let us use the option that works best for us. Simple.
Yes.. I said it. Seatbelt use should be optional for us professional drivers.
I am Mark. That is it. !
NKeith - 8 months ago
Finding qualified, safe drivers that I can trust (including owner/ops).
Richard Davis - 8 months ago
It's not just 1 thing that is wrong in trucking. What about discrimination?
Michael Mathews - 8 months ago
The lack of training and the total disregard for other people on the road. I haul oversized loads. Today’s drivers are nothing more than steering wheel holders. They will not slow down and let you over if there is something on the shoulder. If they are slowed down by 2 minutes they are upset. I’ve had them run my escorts off the road and myself as well. This madness has to stop.
Tim Siedschlag - 8 months ago
Every single item listed is of a top priority for me, and should be for everyone. Each one builds off of the next, and without pay increases, less middle men taking off the top, more government regulations, more flexibility on our work days, better parking, more advanced training, closing the language barrier, driver retention, infrastructure improvement and repair, equipment manufacturer supply reliability and parts availability, we are on a future transportation crash that this country has never seen. I as well as many of my colleagues are soon to retire permanently. I am looking at a reduced work load for the next 7 years. At that time I will assess if I want to go on from there. I come from a long line of trucking family members who didn't retire before their mid 80s. I just don't find it that appealing to want to drive 20 more years. Especially if improvements to the industry don't happen.
Tim Siedschlag - 8 months ago
Every single item listed is of a top priority for me, and should be for everyone. Each one builds off of the next, and without pay increases, less middle men taking off the top, more government regulations, more flexibility on our work days, better parking, more advanced training, closing the language barrier, driver retention, infrastructure improvement and repair, equipment manufacturer supply reliability and parts availability, we are on a future transportation crash that this country has never seen. I as well as many of my colleagues are soon tobretire permanently. I am looking at a reduced work load for the next 7 years. At that time I will assess if I want to go on from there. I come from a long line of trucking family members who didn't retire before their mid 80s. I just don't find it that appealing to want to drive 20 more years. Especially if improvements to the industry don't happen.
All of these items are of concern and none is more important than the rest. : TRUCKING NEEDS AN OVERHAUL FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WITH PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND TRUCKING BEING AT THE CONTROLS. Not these woke freaks.
Truck Parking - Needs attention in every State. Build at least one per state, then allow truckers use these mega trucking parking lots - for free. We will pay for food, fuel and water and any mechanical services. Stop procrastinating on this important truck parking matter. Build it instead of sending billions overseas to spill more blood and to bury innocent women and children.
Compensation/rates - Government and DOT fees increase every year, including tolls. Yet they decrease our rates quarterly and shrug their shoulders in ignorance. These confused freaks keep digging into the wrong holes.
Fuel prices/cost inflation - This is being kept high on purpose to starve truckers
and weaken our power to lobby for our rights. Fuel prices can be fixed for commercial operations on a monthly basis and easily be lowered based on the fact that a barrel of oil produces way more diesel than all other refined products. With so much electric cars, should not fuel prices be on the decline?
Detention/delay at customer facilities - I do flatbeddiing and as such, don't have issues here except when a woke manager comes on the scene and is clueless about the real world and delays the whole show because of 'woke safety' standards.
FMCSA's speed limiter mandate - This is foolishness, having a speed limit for trucks on a road that already has a 70 mph speed limit. I am in PA. If we are ever limited then all we need to do is drive side by side for sixty five miles on any roadway. The foolish woke legislators will get the message quick and fast.
The economic outlook - This is hinged on fuel prices and the puppets that run the system into the ground. We have no control over this and cannot adjust this problem and it will affect all industries no matter what we do or say. The monkeys running the show needs to get their hands out of the cookie jar and stop spending so much on foreign matters that will never benefit the USA.
Hours of service rules - I have no problems with the hours of service, however the time clock on the dash that cannot be stopped when we are genuinely stopped is the problem with the hours of service.
The ELD mandate - Some mandates are dumb and some are useless. This one is both. However, I understand the monkeys running the show are both dumb and useless and as such we have dumb useless mandates. Just like mandating seatbelt use at all times is dumb and useless. Some things need to be an option and so if a company needs ELD, let those company drivers use that and if Owner Operators needs to use paper or electronic, then let us use the option that works best for us. Simple.
Yes.. I said it. Seatbelt use should be optional for us professional drivers.
I am Mark. That is it. !
Finding qualified, safe drivers that I can trust (including owner/ops).
It's not just 1 thing that is wrong in trucking. What about discrimination?
The lack of training and the total disregard for other people on the road. I haul oversized loads. Today’s drivers are nothing more than steering wheel holders. They will not slow down and let you over if there is something on the shoulder. If they are slowed down by 2 minutes they are upset. I’ve had them run my escorts off the road and myself as well. This madness has to stop.
Every single item listed is of a top priority for me, and should be for everyone. Each one builds off of the next, and without pay increases, less middle men taking off the top, more government regulations, more flexibility on our work days, better parking, more advanced training, closing the language barrier, driver retention, infrastructure improvement and repair, equipment manufacturer supply reliability and parts availability, we are on a future transportation crash that this country has never seen. I as well as many of my colleagues are soon to retire permanently. I am looking at a reduced work load for the next 7 years. At that time I will assess if I want to go on from there. I come from a long line of trucking family members who didn't retire before their mid 80s. I just don't find it that appealing to want to drive 20 more years. Especially if improvements to the industry don't happen.
Every single item listed is of a top priority for me, and should be for everyone. Each one builds off of the next, and without pay increases, less middle men taking off the top, more government regulations, more flexibility on our work days, better parking, more advanced training, closing the language barrier, driver retention, infrastructure improvement and repair, equipment manufacturer supply reliability and parts availability, we are on a future transportation crash that this country has never seen. I as well as many of my colleagues are soon tobretire permanently. I am looking at a reduced work load for the next 7 years. At that time I will assess if I want to go on from there. I come from a long line of trucking family members who didn't retire before their mid 80s. I just don't find it that appealing to want to drive 20 more years. Especially if improvements to the industry don't happen.