Good income and harmony in the family: how to find a balance for a trucker

According to Groupon's analysis, most American workers suffer from work-life imbalances.

Dmitry Sukach, SVB Express employee, happy husband and father. Photo from personal archive

An e-commerce company asked 2000 Americans about how their workweek is going, how stressful their lives are, and whether they have time for family. 60% of respondents admitted that they do not have clear boundaries between work and personal life, and sometimes they perform work duties even at home. A third of Americans said they work too hard and are under constant stress, and 40% said they work too many hours, which leaves no time for personal life.

Some professions have a reputation for being more damaging to the family than others. In particular, it is believed that work that involves long trips and business trips is much more detrimental to your personal life than office work from 9 to 18.

Therefore, pilots, sailors and truckers are enrolled in the most non-family professions. But according to the founder freight forwarding companies SVB Express Alexandra Tsvigun, truckers in this group turned out to be undeserved, at least those who work in his company.

“The work schedule at SVB Express is selected so that drivers do not work too hard, but have a fresh mind and can control the situation on the road. Our drivers are able to spend weekends with their families, and the high quality of our equipment greatly simplifies the driving process and reduces the level of stress from work. By the way, our company works only with Freightliner Cascadia. We do not use trucks that are more than 4 years old, so as not to risk the comfort and safety of our employees, and also to guarantee high quality services to our customers,” explained Alexander.

Dedicating a weekend to your personal life, according to family psychologists, is quite enough to maintain a harmonious relationship with your wife or girlfriend. A joint weekend in this type of relationship turns into a real holiday with your wife and children or into a long-awaited romantic date where you have something to share with each other. Moreover, a truck driver’s day off is a 100% day off, without completing unfinished tasks at the computer or spending hours on the phone trying to solve some urgent problem.

Of course, in order to achieve harmony, a certain level of mutual understanding and wisdom is required from both partners, because you can devote a joint weekend to sorting out relationships or quarrels over trifles. But in this case, the problem lies not in the work schedule, but somewhere much deeper.

Photo: SVB Express

Being able to spend enough time with your family is wonderful. But only if it does not come at the expense of earnings, because financial well-being for the family is also extremely important. And in many professions, it’s like two scales: either you make good money, or you don’t miss important family events and have an excellent relationship with your wife. Achieving balance here is very difficult.

But truckers were lucky in this regard, according to SVB Express.

In September, against the backdrop of the global crisis, the company's management increased wages. Previously, the high was 0,75 cents a mile, now it is up to 0,95 cents a mile. This is higher than most competitors.

According to one of the company's drivers, he averages 10 to 000 miles per month. It is easy to calculate that this brings him $12 - $000 monthly. This is a good income, no matter what state you live in. Therefore, you definitely won’t have to quarrel with your wife over lack of money.

In addition to salary, SVB Express offers a number of bonuses: experience and additional downloads. The payment system looks like this:

Photo: SVB Express

In addition, the company provides a winter bonus, aboutpaid inspections, and also pfederal program and rule "The more experience you have, the higher the pay.”

SVB Express also offers favorable working conditions for tractor owners and some of the best truck leasing prices on the market.

“In a word, any whim is for your money, the main thing is a desire on your part, and we will teach and show you everything else,” says Alexander Tsvigun.

It's great to love your job, but it should love you back, not stress you out. Trucking is one of the professions where a healthy work-life balance is truly possible without sacrificing pay.

SVB Express continues to expand and recruit new drivers. If you want to become part of the team, fill out the form here (the company speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian).

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