more to this business than just asking how many miles a company averages or if the dispatchers call you sir or hon. At that initial stage one doesn't even begin to know all the questions they should be asking. My goal is to get them to do enough research to know what they are getting into.
Many people have the mistaken notion that trucking in general and expediting in particular is a comparatively easy way to make fairly good money. They come in and get focused on a specific company and ask about money, miles, hometime or whatever without doing good research into the business in general. In a few months they lose everything because they don't have a good foundation of money handling skills and didn't build a good foundation of information on this business.
The other issue is that some of these people are just lazy and don't want to go to the trouble of reading back through the forum. If they aren't willing to do that relatively simple work toward a career then how much work are they going to give once they get in a truck?
Whether it's excessive eagerness to get into this with a specific company or it's laziness doesn't matter. Either way they need to do it right or their chance of success is severely impacted. I can't tell which is which from a post so they both get the same response. I'm trying to show them how to fish, not just hand them the fish. I could care less about my post count.
Leo Bricker, 73's K5LDB, OOIDA 677319
Owner, Panther trucks 5507, 5508, 5509
Highway Watch Participant, Truckerbuddy
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