How bad is Job Hopping Really? Vent

Go find something you like doing and get out of trucking. You're not doing yourself any good and as you have found, job hopping is expensive.

 

How do you expect to ever move up pay scale and start making more money if you keep changing jobs about once a month?

Groceries ought to be the first thing you buy, not the last, after paying the rent, the electric bill, and the water bill.

If you just want to keep moving then you should work for a temporary service, they'll keep moving you around from one carrier to another.

 

The industry has gone to Hel in a handbasket. Sounds like you're young enough to make a change. I highly recommend you make said change and find something you actually enjoy because it's only going to get worse before it collapses entirely.

 

I think a temporary service would be better in their case to be fair their is a lot bad companies its actually better to list the good ones because the list is so much smaller unfortunately a lot times those companies don't last either go under or restructure. Food service isn't for many people for that hard work I'd recommend moving ie North America moving just example i know nothing about them you make a lot more money but its rarely job you sustain with age

Take value in yourself just remember trucking itself isn't for everyone more so the OTR life I won't go back to OTR and couldn't recommend any company to go OTR unless the pay is over 100k to justify it

 

No one wants to hire someone who's going to bounce inside of 30 days.

30 jobs.

I don't think I've had 20 jobs my whole life.

 

I think some companies that I have applied with consider me to be a job Hopper because I've worked for three different companies over the course of 2 years. I first worked for Roehl transport to get my CDL back and they fired me before I could complete my contract even though I did want to stay with them. Next I work for a company in North Dakota in the oil fields and it was a miserable experience, specifically having to deal with junky, unsafe equipment that never got fixed properly and I got blamed when things went wrong even through no fault of my own.

So now I've been working for a local OTR company in Wisconsin which has treated me very well and they have an abundance of outbound freight but I'm running into a lot of equipment issues that add to the general frustrations of doing such a job. It seems like they just try to squeeze every last little bit of service out of their equipment and only move to replace something when it's apparent that something is near total failure. The truck I have been driving is literally in the shop every week for some major issue and the replacement truck I'm supposed to get will not get here until at least October so I'm just stuck driving this clunky truck hoping that the ticking Time bomb doesn't go off.

My question is, is it my fault that I don't want to work for a company that has junky equipment because if I leave I'm a job Hopper even though I might actually want to stay but I get concerned about safety issues and things like being stranded because of equipment failures.

 

When a person has a beef with everybody and everything, the problem generally isn't with everyone else.

You left the Ryder flex position because they had you driving a class c vehicle, but were they paying you the same as if it were a class a?

Frankly, you haven't stayed anyplace long enough to learn if the management is good or not. First hiccup and you're out the door. I'd say get a warehouse or factory job as most of them seem to be paying as well as driving these days but I think you have problems being a good coworker. Whatever you do you need to man up and stay a year - not to help clean up your resume but to build your resilience and interpersonal skills.

Best or luck.

 

Yeah.....

That's obvious....?

 

Sounds like you need to grow up. Swallow your pride/ego and keep your head down. It’s tough being an adult sometimes and often not very fun.