From a truck drivers point of view, is there any company out there that is good to work for???

From what I've heard, and seen in the want ads, it seems the companies will either give you lots of miles and you never get home. Miles=money. Or weekends off, and you make minimum wage for living in a truck 5 day's a week. Does this sound about right to everyone? Or am I just not seeing the bigger picture?

Why would a company think someone would work for $500 a week, and live in a '92 freighliner for 5 day's a week?

And if it's such a great job, why do companies have to start recruiting people from Mexico to work in the US? They aren't paying them any less then the other drivers. But why don't these companies realize that maybe, and this is a big maybe, Maybe if they paid more to the drivers already working for them, then turnover wouldn't be so high?

Feel free to correct my interpretations of the trucking industry. I'm just a girl on the side line, making an arm chair quarterback call. I hate seeing someone who's got a good work ethic, and the testicular fortitude to handle the job truckers do, and then get shafted all the time!!! Seemingly because the "higher up's" wanna buy their Cadillac Escalades and be outta work by 3:30 every day.

Category: Trucking