Trucking Companeys Run By The Mob ?

I dunno, sounds an awful lot like the insurance business too. And sales. I'm looking at mileage like commission, and driving for a company like being a career agent, for example with Prudential or John Hancock. You have a hero in every office, and often that hero is well-liked by the powers that be and gets fed the best leads and makes tons of money. The hero is held up by the company as the example for everyone else to compete with, and in the meantime you have a 99% or higher turnover rate among first year agents who burn themselves out trying to match the hero. Those who survive long enough learn how to play the game, how to network, how to prioritize their time to make their contracts and ignore the stuff that won't work in their favor.

Personally, I am an independent agent, I wasn't greedy (ambitious) enough to qualify as a career agent. I'm doing fine but I have a mentor with 43 years experience with a big company who has kept me on the straight and narrow and auditing me to keep me compliant with all the regs. It's like being an O/O in trucking. It's allowed my wife and I to survive the last three years.

But the problems in the insurance industry echo the problems in the trucking industry. When I first tossed my resume up on Monster after graduating college, the companies that contacted me were all insurance companies. I'd toss them into Google and they would show up on ripoffreport.com as employment scams. Turns out they were AIG subsidiaries and they made their money by making sure that new agents never stuck around long enough to earn commissions while making them responsible for licensing costs (sound familiar?). So someone would come in, sell a half dozen policies in six months of 70 hour workweeks, and never get paid for it. They'd quit and the company would keep the commissions that the agents earned. I think those AIG subsidiaries were sold off or shut down after the crash.

I worked for commission at Radio Shack. Your success was a matter of whether you were in a store where everyone's credit qualified for cellphone contracts or were sent to the corner of The and Hood. Friend of mine went to a mall store and was pulling in $60K a year on commission. I was sent to an inner city store and nobody there was pulling in more than $8 an hour because of the local cash economy, and with the numbers in that store you were not getting a transfer elsewhere.

So keep in mind that this is an issue that is faced by many outside of the trucking industry as well.

 

**Godfather voice

You betta deliver the load on time Johnny, or you'll be sleepin with the fishes...lol

 

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sounds like every business, 1% percent of the people run 99% of the money. 99% of the people fight for the left over 1% of the money.