Transitions are going on for everyone. I know more than one person that has been laid off, fired or are having to make tough decisions about keeping their truck or their house. People are helping their families and receiving help from their families all at the same time.

Here I sit at a grocery warehouse, waiting to haul 44,000 lbs over the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania 200 miles to deliver tomorrow afternoon, two hundred miles. I should be grateful I have a job, I should be grateful for the load the company got from a broker where they’re losing money (huh?), I should be grateful for what the company does for me and shut-up.

Why would the Clark Transfer take a load that pays less than what they are paying me? When Clark Transfer takes a brokered load I’m supposed to get a percentage. Lately the brokered loads have (they say) have paid less than the regular spot pay they give us, so they give us the greater of the two. How do I know they’re being so generous? I don’t. It’s their policy NOT to show the drivers the invoice on a brokered load. Even though this is going the opposite direction and I’m driving more miles empty (less money) I’m doing this load because if I don’t, I lose out on any layover pay because they offered me a load, but there’s not forced dispatch. But according to many of the drivers, don’t refuse a load or they will make you sorry you did.

Clark Transfer is a great company, but I should be grateful right? They have gone back on so many things they said at the beginning, not really gone back, they’ve rearranged what they said and how they interpret the contract.

Out of all of the crappy companies I’ve worked for I’ve never wanted to do this before, usually I just go on and mind my own business.  Have you seen Wal-mart sucks.com? Paypal sucks.com ford sucks, every major company has a sucks.com, why should trucking be exempt? Even though it would take time away from sites that make money or could make more money plus, it would take away time from school,

Since I do SEO (search engine optimization) pretty well (really, really well), I could make ten sites that just push their site off the front page of the search engines. I’ve already looked at the SEO of their site, it’s non-existent. When drivers are looking at a new company to drive for, what do they do? They go to the internet and look up that new company’s name. Hopefully, I can get to drivers before it’s too late.  I’d be gone and blacklisted anyway and not looking for another trucking job so why not? Honestly, I’ve got better things to do, but this keeps sounding like a good idea, I can’t help it.

What can a company do when sites like that come up? They can call the company that controls the domain (hey that’s me- waynes domains.com) or the hosting company (hey, that’s me too and I know the guy that owns the server I’m on), plus it’s a first amendment thing, so not much.

So, if they are being so generous and losing money on this load, why don’t they prove it and show me the invoice that shows how generous they are? You would think they would want me to be grateful at how much they’re doing for me.

I have to go in this warehouse now, bow down (or bend over) and be grateful to some dumb-*** shipping clerk. If I’m going to do stupid things and go out of business, that’s my fault, I don’t need any help going out of business from anyone else, I’m perfectly capable of failing on my own.

I know a lot of drivers and owners are doing a lot worse for a lot less, so I am grateful for what I have, I hate when someone tries to force me to be grateful to them. Kind of like respect, something that’s earned, while the more you demand, the less you get.

Update:

The point here, before I was interrupted, was that I’ve transitioned from being a business partner that worked together with complete openness and transparency with the office making money together, to a company driver with a truck payment.

I left because Bohemian didn’t have customers, they got leftovers from other companies and brokers, which was working good until a few years ago. Without customers, the leftovers dried up.

Update 2:

Did you know it’s against the Truth in Leasing Act from the FMCSA (DOT), CFR 49, 376.12 (g)  for a company NOT  to show their driver the proof of how much a load pays if that driver is getting paid by percentage? The problem is that most drivers won’t rock the boat because they want the job, so a lot of these companies get away with whatever they want, the policy that Clark Transfer depends on; Drivers not rocking the boat.