I used to work for a broker back in early 90s. They would keep 15%. I'd always try to help drivers out by giving them more money. How can this be legal for a broker to keep 40% when even a lawyer is capped at 33% by law when hired to go after money just like a broker. Everything that man stated abt the old drivers is true. Today's new drivers are very scary!

Great interview; straight up honesty without sugar coating the info.

My experience in trucking having my own authority, and being in the industry since the late 90s; is so wildly different than this guy.

Many of broker are very happy with double broking and Corporating with them ( sharing carrier info with them ) and you thin you got from orginal broker but NO and eventually they share the profit . Absloutly DAT doing nothing .

Brokers were needed back before apps existed. If a good app existed brokers can be bypassed today

This has been my general experience, ha

The competition for ever slimmer profit margins yet increasing stock prices eats up everything else.

Thank you for saying this. Drivers who like this gentleman that have been driving as long speak as if the commercial transportation business is one of the few that aren't operated with integrity. That's really the real issue. At the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day it's a business and everyone has to work.

....truth....everyone is essentially...disposable...

@@rickthompson1422 people are just commodities

Yesss. Love this!!!!

Eggzzactly! I’ve told kats this to, u have to stay regional an have certain mechanics u deal with that won’t screw u. Staying n the same region is less stessful most of the times also

Finally a comment on here that actually makes sense and is the truth other than just complaining about brokers.

Not enough loads to stay mainly in Texas. Unless leased to someone. TX leasing be low pay unless flatbed or oilfields.

Sounds like a internet Guru trying to sale something....... all O/O suffering but you.

It’s a brotherhood if you really a driver

That's the way truck drivers used to be. Unfortunately those drivers are long gone.

M8, Aussie truckies will be happy to help make sure everyone else gets to travel safely.

Dido 🎯💯

Run for office.

Eventually, quite a bit of trucking will be done by self-driving trucks that will go by themselves from node to node. They won't need to stop for meals or for sleep -- and they'll never need to pee on the go. Only on short hauls and deliveries, where many complex decisions are required, and robotic stamina provides no real edge, will humans retain some advantages, and remain fairly common well into the future.

​@@polarvortex3294 no...si is a nothin burger, provides 0 growth to country.

Ai*

It’s called broker price gouging

FBI hates truckers

Love it great interview

Screw that the FBI needs to be shut down for good.

@@lilbfrom094princeton8 don't take the load....go get a load without the broker...see problem solved

Socialist. lol.

And the government needs to bounce too

That’s what we need more government regulation telling us who we can and can’t work with. I’m say this sarcastically.

Without lumpers FAT, LAZY, CHEAP WRECKLESS drivers like YOU would still be sitting on your FAT AZZS looking for some LUMPER to do YOUR JOB.

Lobbyists

I used to hitch hike and yes we referred to you as the "Knights of the Road" and there are many still there. Thank you for giving me a lift, sharing your life stories, sense of humor, integrity.

This stems beyond trucking… America has started WW3

Idk the stock market has been thriving for 100s of years. You must know something about greed they don’t.

You forgot greedy politicians.

You are 100% correct.

Your partially correct. It's greedy corporations that are destroying America. Corporatism is fascism. Once they control and industry, the industry has no more freedom or "independence"

Manufacturers need brokers to get trucks to pick up loads from them because their docks are difficult to back into or they treat you like shit and no Driver will ever Go there again.

@@lewis9888So, how do brokers fix that? Don’t need them in these modern times. Websites and Apps.

@@lewis9888 STOP IT!!THAT MAKES NO FCKN SENSE!!

⁠@@lewis9888💯that’s what I am telling all times

Here in Brazil ...we don't have brokers....

...Air Force !

So what’s the best way to make money out there !!!!!

Ever heard of the guy who worked for 40 years and did the same mistake for 40 years? If you did a specific thing for a lot of years doesn't necessary make you good at it. He might be a very good driver, he might know a lot of stuff, but by what he's talking about about brokers and how he calculates his net, he's doing some rookie mistakes.

Not if they don’t give a shit about trucking.

Trucking is the only business that cant die. Theres a reason your still trucking $

I agree that the new people driving are very dangerous. Because these trucking schools literally hand out the license as long as you pay them they’re 10 grand they give you a license. I’ve only had my license for less than two years. The Trucking School I went to was six weeks and I got tested at the DMV. It was not easy to get my license but once I got my license was a ready to drive? Hell no I was not ready not even close, luckily my husband who’s had his license for 25 years took me out in our truck every single day for three months and he taught me in phases until he was 100% comfortable with me driving the truck I now drive our truck from Boulder city Nevada to Phoenix daily. We have a 2007 Kenworth W9 18 speed. Now my sister who got her license about the same time I did told me how she only went to school for two weeks and that they felt bad for her and she literally was given her license. So when I took her out. She was all confident in saying that she could drive the truck so I let her get into the driver seat on a deserted road, and she couldn’t even shift the gears. I told her there was no way in hell that she was going to drive my truck. She wanted me to teacher but I told her you literally will have to come with me every single day for the next three months and first we’re gonna start on this deserted road and I’m going to teach you how to shift that is the first thing you were going to learn. Ask me if she ever came back and asked me to help her again??? She’s had her license for a year and she still is not driving now. She tells me that her boyfriend is going to Trucking School and the school is only three weeks. How in the hell is he going to learn how to drive in three weeks!? It takes three weeks just to learn your maneuvers, but that’s how the schools are here in Nevada specifically Las Vegas and it’s disgusting. They should be put out of business because it’s very very dangerous. The people that they are giving these license is two an even in the short time that I’ve been driving I see so many dumb truck drivers out there I especially love the ones that are on their phones texting while they have an 80,000 pound load. Am I Trucking School they didn’t even teach us how to properly tie down a load they didn’t go through flatbeds or reefers or any other type of truck not one word was even spoken about properly tying down a load. And some of you might say oh you don’t learn not until you get on the road. But I’m sorry for $10,000. You should be at least taught a little bit about it.

Old school drivers always saying the trucking industry changed…. But if you really think about it everything changes ? And if you really wanted new school drivers to be different why don’t you come out and teach instead of posting shit on bonehead truckers. Pass on the knowledge old man. Video is great but the old school times has passed and new regs and rules are because of the old school drivers lol. Lease operator is an owner operator old timer we have decided as lease operators not to deal with all that work ? I mean this guy just needs to retire just like all the other cranky old Karen’s. Fooh

@@41933you’re right trucking can’t die, it’s gonna be exterminated if the industry keeps ripping the drivers off, there’s no money in driving anymore, you have to be a desk jockey to make money. Drivers will eventually leave the industry and then the country will fall. As a driver we are being starved out of the trucks, and as a company driver too.

​@@truckingwithtobee Yeah, imagine that! $10k for only 2-3 weeks of truck driving school, with not even the basics. Total scam!!!

Investing can be complex, so it's smart to get professional guidance when building your financial portfolio.

I spread out my $25k portfolio across various markets to diversify my investments.

That's awesome! I ended up making a net profit of about $115k by investing in high dividend yield stocks, ETFs, and equity.

Naomi Dean stands out from other brokers because of her realistic approach, unlike those who often set unattainable targets and fail to deliver. She's truly unique!

How can I get to her?

Not shippers are charging.. brokers are charging the carriers

I can say this quite confidently. In the midst of broker carrier feud there are alot of shipper dropping rates drastically and profiting from this saga. Carriers think brokers are withholding money whereas, its the Shipper who have gone down drastically on their rates.

It all goes to back to the shippers who use brokers to find trucks instead of doing it themselves and saving money in the process.

@@petrosaguilar8916 exactly 💯

Great idea long hood,s and a manual transmission thats,why some have a vary hard time with fuel prices and the vary trying rates you have to be even more efficient than your competitor aero and mpg are up to 20,000 to 30,0000 dollar,s in the bank over 5 to 6 mpg in100,000 mile operation,s

@@kimberlyhemerson4828 My older FLD120 that non emissions, pre eld, 13 speed, 500hp Detroit, 7.5+ mpg all day long at 65 mph. Buddy has a 97 Pete 379 with a 500hp Detroit, 18 speed, 300 inch wheel base and a 110 inch sleeper and he manages 6+ loaded pulling a Conestoga. Screw all these new trucks. My neighbor has a 2014 Pete with a Cummins and my old freightliner gets better fuel mileage. Not by much, and his is in the shop almost twice a year for Def related issues and it's never cheap.

Long hoods and manual transmissions… I don’t think you understand fully what direction this industry is headed…. The end game is autonomously moved freight without human interaction. Thinking we’re going backwards to more human input involved freight relocating makes you sound so oblivious to the industry.

@@Daniel-oy8ic My original comment still stands. I have zero interest in self driving junk, battery operated garbage, none of that. Here in Northern Minnesota, ev's are garbage in the winter, I refuse to trust a self driving vehicle, and the mega carries pushing for all this stuff are what is ultimately ruining the industry for the guys like me. I've been out here 25 years now, trust me when I say it's garbage now compared to what it was when I first started.

@@Hippie459MNthe future isn’t waiting for you’re approval. It doesn’t care about your opinion. It doesn’t care about your career or your livelihood. Mega carriers are controlling the market more and more each year. They’re partnering with robotic companies and will partner with brokers to handle all the freight being moved EVERYWHERE. You’re going to have to accept the fact, your long nose truck with your manual transmission and pre emissions engine is the past. If you haven’t noticed already, this industry is going forward and not backwards. I’m sorry but you will be left behind and I hate it for both of us.

Unless you're in Calgary, lol! Edit: Only disco lights will get me outta the middle there! Jus' passin' through you monkeys!! Leave me ALONE. 😇

@@c.thompson9771 to far north for me unless I can find a load coming back to make it worth it lol

I don't know how many times I've said that on the CB. Guys in Chicago love that hammer lane at 60 mph..

Unless there is that turning lane on the left. But everyone should know the right lane is the slow lane.

@shaydesofblue2281 keyword "should" just like all the Indians/Pakistanis should know not to block a line of trucks at the fuel island for 2 hrs for no reason.especiallu when they're team driving.

I agree

We need an app. Not just a load board.

That's a dispatcher and my friend did it. She booked $20k in a month for one driver and he never ever paid her a percentage of what was agreed. So as you talk about dirty , greedy brokers there are the same with Drivers! I have booked my own trucks because I went out and found my Customer's only for Driver's to no show and or want such a large amount that I made no money! It's a 2 way street. It called business ethics and drivers and brokers are guilty of not having any! We have drivers we work with all the time and we take care of them and pay them right away. I have also had Driver's and shippers back solicit me. Society as a whole has no morals or ethics!

Yesss

yield* moron lol

A merge. That's when you ride alongside the vehicle next to you and just maintain speed until your lane runs out right?

@@chuckliquor3663 Merge means the right-of-way alternating between two streams of conflicting traffic. E.g. zipper merge, where as the right lane comes to an end, and the way it is supposed to work, is that the left lane traffic and right lane traffic take turns, to make their lane changes. Yield means that the onus to give way to conflicting traffic, always stays with the same movement, and the other movement always has priority for the right-of-way. E.g. left turn yield on green circle. Left turns have the onus to wait for oncoming traffic, while straight traffic has a continuous right-of-way (except yielding for incumbent traffic in the intersection).

@@carultch The only caveat I'll add is that it is the ending lane's job to safely make the merge. I don't care if they merge ahead of me or behind, just don't drive next to my vehicle and force me to brake.

But it's who you are. No one likes you 😂😅

😅😅😅

Guys used to at least get on the CB and ask if you had help coming back in the day. Now they barely will get over when passing you on the shoulder.

A lot of the "old school" drivers get mad when you blink them though.

So right

If you flash your lights at me to let me know I'm clear to come back over, I'll blink you back but I've been doing this off and on for the past 26 years. There was a time drivers would wave to one another when you passed on a 2 lane or when being passed on the interstate. And back in the day, you didn't ever see a driver in shorts and flip flops.

@@TheGifted333 I turned 77 today, Feb 10, and still driving, but just in the province. I drove my first truck a year underage.,17 years old. You had to be 18 to get a chauffer's license in Manitoba Canada back then, and you had to have taken your driver's test in a standard tranny car. You paid $2 extra and you got a chuffers license. The flashing your lights and especially the wave to another driver I miss these days. Whether it's lites or a wave, maybe 1 in 10 might acknowledge you. Quite different these days. Be safe out there Gifted.

@@rodedawg77 lights off then on, not hi-beams

Appreciate you

@@MuthaTrucker Quit interjecting so much... I want to hear from the interviewee. Thanks

Fact. I live in Canada and unload trailers for a major trucking company( an employee). The new crew will do it for nothing.

Their working that's a good thing.😊

​@@brianforgie7724your foreign.😊

I agree 100%. Every now and then I get a little change to Talk with a Old School truck driver and listen every word and story they say. I notice these guys are very down to earth and very knowledgeable and just real nice person.

I miss the ole mom and pop truck stops more than anything out here. I-40, exit 184, Williams or Belmont Arizona, I can't remember which; there was a truck stop that had the best chili on the road. It even said on the menu that it was an "old west trail recipe." I hadn't been through there in a while and was looking forward to stopping in for a bowl of chilli. I pulled off the ramp and turned and I didn't see the truck stop. I thought I had gotten off at the wrong exit. I was at the right exit and there sat a God damn Pilot. Pilot had bought it, dozed the building and put their fk'n shit in the place. I made a loop in the parking lot, left and I haven't been back. Another one was Weidmeyers in St Joe. Loves put their outfit in across the street and put Weidmeyers out of business. Hopefully one day these big outfits put each other out of business.

@@JamesStreet-tp1vb Oh come on now! You mean you don't love standing 15 deep in line at the check-out in a Pilot to buy a day old corndog?! Just joking! I miss those mom-and-pops so much! There are still some good ones, but it takes years to find them it seems. I was eating at the old sit-down TA restaurant in Lodi, Ohio a year or two ago and I was talking to the waitress about the sit-down restaurants going by the wayside and she said "Enjoy your meal because they're closing this restaurant in 2 days.....to put in some chain outfit". Broke my heart!

Wasn't trucking better before it was deregulated?

Drove most of fifty six and seven,only quit when doctor said I was destroying my kidneys with truck seats. Most I ever drove without stopping except for fuel was seventeen hours.Only good roads then was the Pa. Turnpike. I have never been sorry for leaving the industery. The govt. we have nowis going to destroy everthing with over regulating everything!

The government can't stand it, when you take money home

Keep em honest.😊

​@Paratrooper.369So do Greedy Companies. 😊5

Yep..the freight in California was one of the best paying with the frieght...now it's all the same ghetto money 💰..poverty money 💰 to move freight..it stinks

I just got offered a 1.10 load out of there said no thanks I'll sit

Y even move the truck for that how can they be making any profit

That’s low.

09? Well ..guess you gotta start some where...81 for me

He was awesome 👌

As 28 year diesel mechanic with a mobile diesel repair service & drove for 3 years OTR before I started mechanics. I can tell you this buisness is dead in the water I've seen the good, bad & ugly this is the worst I've ever seen it, I closed my shop I had for 3.5 years new from the ground up now I only do mobile and theirs no money in trucking anymore. I use to have them lined up down the street doing 5 to 7 calls a day now I hardly do 3 a week on mobile service. 😢 I'm getting out of it because I know this buisness & I see the direction it's going. I purchased me a sprinter van & my ass is going to get into local cargo van delivery. I spent half my life sacrificing for a dream & now it's just dead in the water. All the owner operators are dropping like flies and the foreigners are taking over the trucking game. All my phone calls come from africans and Russians, Pakistanis and man are they cheap inexperienced and whinny😢😢😢. I have to argue about my invoice 89% of the time. I'm tired now 52 years old and I have no more fight for this buisness and these new drivers they are dangerous and all they care about is loads not safety or maintenance on their truck. If your getting in this buisness better do your homework, because its definitely not the same and never will be. GREED$$$$ has come into play instead of passion for the buisness. Foreigners can live off that low pay Americans can't we dont stick together like they do. 😅 try at your own risk & I wish you well.

Not my company. 100 trucks we move freely. Just obey ELD. Were good

That might be a big problem for me. If the company is presuring me to make and drop off my truck load. Yet, there is four feet of snow. or black ice. Or a EF-5 tornado. Or a huricane. I might have to let the company know the weather is too bad. I do not feel safe driving. Thats why I will only carry none refrigerated frieght . It will not get or go bad. Better to be safe then sorry. California Labor Code : 6300. No employee is required to do anything unsafe or illegal . The company might cut my hours and fire me. Yet, at least I did not get hurt or hurt any one else. So if the company fires me. I would get Employee Rights Lawyer, Don D. Sessions in Orange County Calif. To help me file for a wrongful termination. Of coarse my hours might be cut. Yet, if that termination is hurting my chances of getting another truck driving job. Then I have no choice to sue the company for a wrongful termination. Why ? To protect my work history on my resume. Big companies some times do not care about the small guys. A truck driver might survive if he is in a good union that protects all truck drivers. All employees in California are required to work with Best Efforts. Calif. Labor Code:2924. However : I will no drive on Black Ice. I will not drive through a huricane. I will not drive in a EF-5 tornado or drive through floods. That would endanger my self or other drivers. So its better to be safe then sorry. Haste makes waste. He that studies a situation is wise. These are two scriptures in the Holy Bible. In the Book of Proverbs. I have heard about truck companies presuring drivers to go to that designated place to drop off or pick up. Yet, what is the traffic like. What is the weather like? Driving a Big Rig truck over the road is not a easy job.

Better drive Uber

When people started calling this "business" a "game," that's when it got fucked up

it's basic business... It sounds like you have an issue with Business in America.

@@pokerman9108 sounds like you have a problem reading

@@kajg4236 Absolutely, I comprehended your point entirely. Essentially, the main idea of what Im pointing out is that almost every business delegates different tasks to external sources. As a business owner, why should I incur additional costs and burdens when I can simply outsource that task? Once again, it seems like your concern lies with the way business operations are conducted in America.

Every one is foreigner including yourself. The only difference is when was your root migrated to US. I have learned this from my native Cherokee friend. Btw, what’s your origins? British? Irish? African-American? Whatever you call it, either you are invader or …. Let’s respect each other.😊

@@dont3222gtfoh they lost, they didn’t have a society and culture that could compete with white people it is what it is. Natives are doing fine better than fine they can stfu or the US will finish what it started

Honest question, what's the problem with foreign drivers? I moved to the USA from Germany 13 years ago (Dual citizenship/Army Dad) and I'm considering getting a CDL.

I’m a foreigner - Jamaican, and I’m fearful of the drivers from India. Honestly.

​@@dont3222, African American isn't a real thing that was another identity that was given in the late 80s, before that it's was afro American negro before that it was Indian, you really don't know You're history before 1492 if you did you would know it was plenty of people with dark brown skin that inhabit the Americans long before pale people arrived, I have plenty of family members who are different shades of brown in different tribes, America school system has lied about the history of this land but most people don't read, the real indigenous people of America is the one you call "african Americans" which most of us didn't come from there we was already here, where are the slave ships?

I'm going to be semi retired in 8 months. Congrats on your retirement 👏 🙌 👍🏼 😀 I'm next lolll

Yep.so true

Well some are getting rich with social media it’s a new day. But I agree

The dreaded 900 dollars from New York City to Chicago load. Every time you pull into Vince Lambardi Travel Plaza. You knew there more than one fool out here swinging it for the hills.

Appreciate you!!! Getting back to interviews.

Agreed

I agree 100%

Facts!!

The middle finger is the new era for waving hello😅.

Yup, many Americans, dead, and illegals voted the current president who doesn't even know he is still alive😅.

Lease drivers are glorified company drivers.

@@thedevilandhertrumpets4268 🤣🤣 i totally agree

Exactly, being disciplined enough do crunch numbers on the daily and know when, why and how each dollar was spent... I have a trucker friend, he doesn't even think about paying taxes, let alone figure out how much he made, how much was spent on fuel a year and so on... Be disciplined or suffer, like my friend does.

Your input newbies like me is needed. Please let us know where to go from here after obtaining out CDL A. Thank you in advance.

NGl that was my firs guess.

Low exhaust system killed it for me

Lol

They got Uber & grocery stores

😂❤

Ok Boomer

And the old school truckers were too busy jerking it on the CB. Today's problems are here because old school truckers fell asleep at the wheel.