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Deb Tandy

Female. Lives in Clearwater, Florida, United States. Is married to James Tandy.

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I know this is long, but please bear with me and read this. I would love your opinions. Trucking is one of the most low paying jobs in the America. You work 80+ hours a week. You only make money when ... View MoreI know this is long, but please bear with me and read this. I would love your opinions. Trucking is one of the most low paying jobs in the America. You work 80+ hours a week. You only make money when you are rolling. The company that we work for does not pay a driver on Sundays. It does not matter if you are 3000 miles away from your terminal and loaded with an oversized boat or if you are home. There are absolutely no Sundays being paid if you are not rolling. Even if you have a permit that states that you cannot move over a holiday weekend. Some of those weekends begin no travel on Thursday at noon and you cannot move again until Tuesday morning. You also have curfews through major metro areas where you cannot drive near them during heavy traffic times. When all you get is $50 for holiday pay (only the day it falls on) especially with prices being what they are, eating a good hot meal at a restaurant is not going to cut it. There goes that $50 on one meal plus tip. You will sit for four days over the holiday without being able to see family and only get $50. The office workers and bosses her to go home and be with their families and never give the driver a second thought. If it is a weekend, you can’t get anyone to answer their phone if you break down or have a problem. Being ill is not an option either. You can’t delay the load because it has to be there. We have not been in for a holiday in over 7 years. We try to let those with small kids get home first. It is the old school way of doing things. There are times when we sit 3000 miles away from home for 4-7 days waiting for a load. They don’t like to pay for that either. When you are out like that, without making money, it gets rough. We have bills to pay just like the owners do. It seems that in this industry you live to drive and not drive to live. There is no life outside of driving. Or so the dispatchers and owners seem to think. I don’t know of any other profession that treats there employees this way. Many places close early so people can get home or they close altogether. The trucking industry needs some major changes in order to keep the seasoned drivers and employees new drivers that are willing to work and keep traffic safety in mind. These are the drivers that take pride in their work, put their trash in the vans or dumpsters, dress appropriately, and are the courteous and helpful drivers that they used to be. With the industry paying such low wages, constantly pushing the drivers, and not caring about their home time and hiring anyone with a pulse just to move freight, the industry has become a nasty version of itself. Drivers throwing piss bottles all over the place, throwing trash out of their trucks and pulling away, tossing bags of crap our of the trucks, and just generally being gross and inconsiderate to all others which seems to now be the norm. It has turned into a me first society and it has to stop. People outside of the trucking industry have become the same way. No consideration for anyone else. They cut trucks off and the flip them the finger for not giving them more room. Everyone is so impatient. Truckers no longer stop to help stranded individuals on the roadside because it gets them in a possible lawsuit. I remember reading, some time ago, about a trucker stopping to help a woman and her kids when her car broke down. It was cold outside and he let her and the kids get into his truck while he worked on her car and for it running. She then told the cops that he tried to kidnap her and the kids. That they could find their hair and other dna in his truck. The trucker finally got the charges dropped when they figured out that she was lying. But the damage to that trucker had been done. We have became a sue happy, money scamming, sickening society. Too many people who don’t want to work and feel that the world owes them something. Newsflash people!!! The world don’t owe you a damned thing. We, the older generation, had to work hard for whatever we have. No one gave us anything. If you want it, you work for it. It is just that simple. Hard work, humility, humanity, and courtesy are things that were instilled into us when we were young. This has since gone by the wayside. It is a sad commentary on our times when there is no longer respect for one’s elders, no longer being kind to others, no more respect for those who are teaching our children, and the inability to clean up after yourselves. I am so glad that I am on my way out of this new world that is coming along. I had never thought that the world would come to this. I feel for all of those that are just beginning their lives in this mess.

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