Drivers needed!

   Well, it's getting to be that time of year again.  The giveaway lists are building already & recruiters are going CRAZY trying to find drivers.  Unfortunately for them, they finally have their work cut out for them.
So far, within the last few months I've heard from carriers I looked into signing up with as much as three years ago!  I've been offered jobs from several places.  Another friend was offered a job at every agent he stopped at on a trip from Va to Southern Cal..  He told me an agent in El Cajon has no idea where he's going to put tonnage because,  in his words, 'No one is going to want to haul this junk...' ALREADY?!?  It's not quite May 1st yet...  He has an absolute right to worry and wonder because he is right.   My advice to him - Don't do it! Don't do it to yourself, your company, and your help!  It's stupid.  If the carriers want to overbook junk tonnage, let the carriers come pick it up off the street and bring it back to their cubicle and store it until they can sucker some greenhorn to take it!  We as drivers and small agents have a HUGE advantage right now people, let's not pass this oppurtunity up.  It's economics 101 - Supply and demand.
Drivers have never been in such high demand.  Now that finally it's being realized, even in the offices finally, that without drivers, there is no moving company.  Without the guys at the bottom, nothing gets done, nothing.  I'm actually interested about what this summer can bring.  I'm thinking hopefully we can throw alittle bit of OUR weight around now!  Tired of dispatchers and operations managers with their panties a little too tight??  You should be!  We are the slaves of today.  We do work noone else will do and we are doing it for free...  Slaves - sad to say in this day and age.  Let's take advantage of this oppurtunity..  Input from anyone would be good...  I know SOMEONE has to agree with me!?!  Let the salesman who books a 70% discount pick up the shipments - don't haul them!  How quick do you REALLY think it could change if NO driver will touch it?  Newsflash - if he doesn't get paid, if the job doesn't come out of the house.  They may fire the first guy that tries it, but when noone hauls it - what are they going to do?  Go into June with no drivers!?!  Let's get this together!  I want to make money.......

It's time to take a stand!

       Ok everyone,  as an owner operator,  I've continued to see this moving industry be controlled by large carriers and corporate know nothings for far too long!  It's time us, the operators and small agents stand up, stand together and say - "Enough is enough!".  I may not think the same as everyone, but all the folks I've dealt with over the past few years all say the same as me. This industry is running itself into the ground.  Especially within the last year or so the situation has gone from dire, to now - desperate.  Every driver I know personally, or have spoken with is broke!  BROKE?!? No, none of them are overindulging in Sin City either..  Everyone is saying the same thing over and over - 'I don't know about this moving game..'
       Well,  although it may sound stupid, but I used to enjoy it.  Most movers do - the work hard, ridiculous and alot of stress, but at one time you as a small business owner were rewarded with gratitude from everyone, and most importantly a nice fat settlement!  Boy those were the days....
       But wait! No, that's not good enough! Those weren't the days. What about tomorrow??

       What I haven't figured out is why is it the people that have NO IDEA about what it takes to do a household move have ALL the say in what WE get paid?!?  Are you kidding me?? The people in the office that are telling us what is best for us to do probably hasn't even stepped inside a truck and trailer, unless it was part of his little walk through about 'our operation here at ABC Van Lines'.  Come on guys we need to get together and say enough is enough! If its junk tonnage that isn't going to make us a profit, let the carrier deal with it.  Let Betty from customer service take your two wheeler and go out to the job.  Do you think ANYONE from the office will be shedding their button up to lug a dresser to the fourth floor?!?  We have a job NOBODY wants to do - but we get to do it for free!  What?  This is a no brainer - let's get together and put a stop to this nonsense - BEFORE the busy season!  Everyone is "gearing up" - Let us do the same and DEMAND what we deserve!  We are broke now - at least if we are broke over the summer, its nice out and we can enjoy time with the family.  Betty will be busy answering complaints but everyone else can be broke too then!