Trucking isn't a job or a career! It is a lifestyle! Realize it embrace it or keep losing drivers!

Truckers lives matter https://www.facebook.com/truckerslivesmatters/ and Dreksa transportation llc https://www.facebook.com/lifethroughawindshield/ Presents management update 2.0 the road map to a more productive future for the trucking industry. Improving profits, employee satisfaction and share holder profits is our goal. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/first-life-style-trucking-company/x/16037545#/ Improvement starts when you ask yourself one question! Why are drivers required to live like they are homeless? Trucking isn't a job or a career! It is a lifestyle choice! Realize it embrace it or continue to lose drivers!

The way forward!

Truckers lives matter https://www.facebook.com/truckerslivesmatters/ and Dreksa transportation llc https://www.facebook.com/lifethroughawindshield/ Presents management update 2.0 the road map to a more productive future for the trucking industry. Improving profits, employee satisfaction and share holder profits is our goal. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/first-life-style-trucking-company/x/16037545#/ Improvement starts when you ask yourself one question! Why are drivers required to live like they are homeless?

How I am working to fix the trucking industry.

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How to fix the trucking industry.

The American supply chain has no equal in the world. Their are many groups of people that make the American way of life the envy of the world. What goes on behind the scenes is so seemless that the general public knows nothing about it. No big city could survive without our supply chain. No store chain has enough product on hand to keep their shelves stocked more than 3 days. If the trucks stopped rolling. Lots of people work hard for our American way of life. But none sacrifice as much as the American truck driver! Of all the groups that work to make our supply chain work! The American truck driver is the only one who doesn't get to go home every night! The American truck driver takes part in a minimum of 3 stages of the supply chain. First we take the raw materials to the processing plant. Next we take the processed material to the manufacturing plant. Than we take the manufactured goods to a distribution warehouse. Finally we transport the goods from the warehouse to your local store. Day cabs are great for drivers who will be home every night. But since a lot of drivers do the long haul and won't be home every night and modern technology makes it possible for a driver to taking home with them. It seems to me providing these trucks to the drivers is a worth while investment. A custom sleeper only increase the cost of the truck by 33%. But currently we live like we are on a long camping or hunting trip with one of those hard shell travel trailers that has nothing but a few cabinets and a bed. It can very greatly in size depending on what company you work for. What we hunt for is generally a parking space especially on the east or west coast. What we forage for is generally not that healthy and rather expensive. Since truck stops have pretty much a captive clientele. Given they are the only place we can park safely in a lot of areas of the country. So is it any wonder that young people don't want to live a life style that is only slightly different than that of homeless person while they have a job? I really don't think so they are used to being able to goto the kitchen day or night and grab a bite to eat and go to the bathroom any time by just getting out of bed and going down the hall without having to get dressed first. While driver's provide a very important service for our nation! We are like everyone else we want respect and to do an honest days work for an honest days pay and to relax at night during the week and when payday comes around we expect to be able to take care of our families with what we have earned. The only ones that have custom sleepers are very successful owner - operators. Part of how they got them was they thought about their retirement when they were young so they have land also known as collateral. When you have one their is no waiting in line to use a shower a 100 people have used that day. You can eat healthy and relax. You actually have time to relax and prepare for the next day. Their is a lot of talk about a drivers health and disqualifying drivers if they don't meet certain standards. Where is the talk about how to give a driver a good quality of life? With a good quality of life drivers would natural be more healthy. We could rest better, eat better and everyone would be safer. Their would be no waiting in line and no need to eat expensive fattening foods which is mostly what truck stops offer. People want to complain about trucks in their town, trucks being in their way. But that truck is carrying your American way of life. Those people are cutting down and making life harder for the group of men and women who make their American life possible. In this modern country of ours every driver should be provided a truck with a custom sleeper. Custom sleepers should be the industry standard sleeper! http://legacysleepers.com/video-tour Of course that wouldn't fix the bad management problems most companies are currently struggling with. I know for a fact the companies I have worked with haven't changed how dispatch and management work from the early 90's except very slightly. The biggest change and most companies have done this is to offer so called lease purchase programs. They offer a chance for a driver to own his own truck. That is the claim. I have tried 4 myself. So the facts are quite different. What they actually do is with a contract they rename a company driver position a lease operator. While under the contract you can not seek your own freight, you can not alter the truck in any way and you can not even get it serviced without permission. On the financial side the driver is paid half the actual revenue of the truck and has to pay all the bills for the truck and support their family with their half of the revenue. Some may call it good business I call it stealing from your drivers. Their are simple alterations to the way trucking companies run their offices that would make them competitive and profitable again. Sadly they all seem to have blind faith in the idea the more trucks the more revenue and give absolutely no thought to the driver to dispatcher ratio which is even more important. Open your eyes guys and be profitable and competitive again.