70mackMB Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy... Now US Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-handed-out-cdls-candy-now-us-highways-are-public-national-security-nightmare Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 48 minutes ago, 70mackMB said: Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy... Now US Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-handed-out-cdls-candy-now-us-highways-are-public-national-security-nightmare But he had to, because of the trucker shortage 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago I let my Haz/Mat go 10+years ago. Now to get it back i have to jump through hoops. Background check and a class to get it back. My mistake i guess.. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago If a guy in a suit, and a fashionably dressed attractive woman on the TV said it, it has to be true Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago See that???? they'll finance ya and everytthing. few weeks in class and 90K + per year. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago Damn... 90K/year... Where the hell was that when i was in my own truck in 2005????? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago 2 hours ago, Joey Mack said: I let my Haz/Mat go 10+years ago. Now to get it back i have to jump through hoops. Background check and a class to get it back. Don't forget your fingerprints Joey!! l let mine go when they wanted fingerprints. l told her the last one to get my fingerprints slapped me on the ass in front of my mother. Besides the BAD guy handling haz-mat is not going to worry about having an endorsement or a license... .....Hippy 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 3 hours ago, 70mackMB said: Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy... Now US Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-handed-out-cdls-candy-now-us-highways-are-public-national-security-nightmare Funny that? Every time I got or renewed my CDL it was issued by the state! I guess I didn't know enough to get one of the mythical Federal issued CDL's ! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Hippy,, I did forget about finger prints.. im getting ready to be a CDL-A trainer with my city. I guess i need to get it back... 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago I think the fingerprint is only the first time Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago Nobody wants to do that kind of work anymore. Too many hours low pay a lot of times especially these days. It takes a long time to get into a good out fit but does not help with their drivers shortage not like the old days you just wait your turn and jump right into a teamster sweetheart deal 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted 17 hours ago Author Share Posted 17 hours ago 2 hours ago, Joey Mack said: im getting ready to be a CDL-A trainer with my city. Can l come down and help?!! LOL! .....Hippy 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago Yep... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 13 hours ago, mowerman said: Nobody wants to do that kind of work anymore. Too many hours low pay a lot of times especially these days. It takes a long time to get into a good out fit but does not help with their drivers shortage not like the old days you just wait your turn and jump right into a teamster sweetheart deal Pay and working conditions! If you are willing to pay and provide decent working conditions, you'll have no trouble attracting good employees. If the conditions suck and you pay starvation wages you always have trouble attracting and keeping any workers. Trucking conditions are hard, always have been but are getting harder*, Wages have (for the most part) been on the edge of what is needed to keep reasonably competent workforce,and have declining . This leads to the real bad turnover rate the industry has always struggled with. * the driving is easier, but everything else is worse, wait time, traffic, JIT, parking food, the list goes on. When on the "open road" driving is a enjoyable, and will attract some, but the real world conditions lead those that can find other work not to stay long term, and those that can't to take their turn in the mill of "training" and then disappointment. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Ha ha that’s another thing you mentioned that people don’t realize till they get too far into it. Send you all over the United States and have your sitting half the time. One of our weather Man, Here in Reno. Quit the TV station and trained for a class a license wound up hiring on with swift. My wife follows him on Facebook. He claims they pay him to hang around and wait. I don’t know where that started or how much he makes but that’s a great. Thing to offer and I don’t know how long that has been going on especially with that cheap shit outfit but even if it’s minimum wage It’s better than nothing. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75376-biden-handed-out-cdls-like-candy/#findComment-573095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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