info on arrow - Page 2 - Truckers' Trucking Forum

MGASSEL · **^ Top** #11 05.05.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by whispers65233

Update on my friend: Well he gave Arrow another shot and it was no better. 3 out of 5 weeks he didn't get a pay check. They made him pay for straps for his truck and again little miles and sitting around a lot. He left them and went to JB Hunt (not much better but He fell for the lies.)

They tell people if you do not want to use rope then you may buy bungee straps. It was your freinds choice to buy the straps he was not required too. hopefully your friend took the straps with him when leaving they were his to take.

whispers65233 · **^ Top** #12 05.08.2007

OK thanks he failed to tell me that part. He did take the straps. And as a side note....I can't completely fault the company on the miles as I know how he is and if he acts with his DM the way he has in the past, he probably didn't make a favorable impression and one that doesn't exactly make people want to do things for him.

MGASSEL · **^ Top** #13 05.09.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by whispers65233

OK thanks he failed to tell me that part. He did take the straps. And as a side note....I can't completely fault the company on the miles as I know how he is and if he acts with his DM the way he has in the past, he probably didn't make a favorable impression and one that doesn't exactly make people want to do things for him.

Thanks wispers for the follow up. I am a newbee and I relize that all companies have their faults and I relize that I may have to sit a little but if you go into it with the right additude then I think most people could make it. If you go into it with the additude that hey you mf dispatcher im tired of the low miles and sitting give me my next load then that person will sit alot. I will just prove myself to the company early on I olan to run my butt off and prove that I can handle more miles. Then the company will see me as an assett not just another person on the payroll as a driver.

whispers65233 · **^ Top** #14 05.10.2007

Good luck with Arrow. I hope it goes well for you. You have a great attitude. Give good ETA's to your DM and have no service failures (this guy I was talking about had a habit of delivering late [never his fault according to him]) and the company knows they can depend on you. And in the event things don't work out, leave them professionally (not quitting under a load or making them come for their truck) and use them as experience and find another company. But I wish you well with them.

MGASSEL · **^ Top** #15 05.11.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by whispers65233

Good luck with Arrow. I hope it goes well for you. You have a great attitude. Give good ETA's to your DM and have no service failures (this guy I was talking about had a habit of delivering late [never his fault according to him]) and the company knows they can depend on you. And in the event things don't work out, leave them professionally (not quitting under a load or making them come for their truck) and use them as experience and find another company. But I wish you well with them.

sorry wispers for the confusion I have not made a decision on were I am going yet.
I have offers from arrow,may,watkins shepherd,davis trasport, Every new guy leaves after ninty days, and another outfit that may be o/o driving one of his trucks. just weighing all of my options with all what would your choice be out of those? the o/o not many people heard of him they go by stone mountain trucking they called from local landline registered to personal home number.

kd5drx · **^ Top** #16 05.12.2007

Well i don't know how they are now. it's been 10 years since i drove for them and they were growing then. But they were the first company i drove for out of driveing school and treated me good back then. THey like any company have there problems i'm sure. ANd your attitude will have allot to do with you makeing it in any company. Be posotive and be on time and be customer freindly and you will allways go far in the trucking industry. I am glad to see they finaly pay for tarping when i was there they didn't and i tarped some of the darndest stuff because it was free to the customer. I was also a trainer with them for a couple of years and they had a good training program then i am not sure how it is now. Heard some bad stories but those are just stories. i know some of the drivers have been there for 20 years or better so they are doing something right for sure. Any way with any company do your home work and remember as a newby you will be at there mercy for the first couple of years since you have to have allot of experiance to start makeing you self more marketable. My son will be going to school in a month or 2 and i gave him the same advise. Since he is only 21 his choices are going to be limited as well so just swallow hard and hang on for a year or 2 and then things will open up if you have a good record and a good attitude.

Pyro · **^ Top** #17 05.16.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by MGASSEL

sorry wispers for the confusion I have not made a decision on were I am going yet.
I have offers from arrow,may,watkins shepherd,davis trasport, Every new guy leaves after ninty days, and another outfit that may be o/o driving one of his trucks. just weighing all of my options with all what would your choice be out of those? the o/o not many people heard of him they go by stone mountain trucking they called from local landline registered to personal home number.

I hope you do not choose Arrow they are a complete and total joke of a company. I started with them in January and have been on time or early for all of my deliveries, have not turned down loads, and try to follow all company procedures (this is hard since they change things to suite them every f..ing day). No matter what you do they still treat you like #### and you will always be just a number to them. You willfind yourself sitting making no money, arguing with them to get you home, tarping about half the loads for a meesly twenty bucks and getting screwed at every turn by company policy, lazy DM, and best of all other drivers who are so eager to score brownie points they rat you out for things they think may get you in trouble.

MGASSEL · **^ Top** #18 05.17.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro

I hope you do not choose Arrow they are a complete and total joke of a company. I started with them in January and have been on time or early for all of my deliveries, have not turned down loads, and try to follow all company procedures (this is hard since they change things to suite them every f..ing day). No matter what you do they still treat you like #### and you will always be just a number to them. You willfind yourself sitting making no money, arguing with them to get you home, tarping about half the loads for a meesly twenty bucks and getting screwed at every turn by company policy, lazy DM, and best of all other drivers who are so eager to score brownie points they rat you out for things they think may get you in trouble.

hey Pyro

What has your takehome pay been ? How much advances have you taken? You have had to actually argue with them for home time?

If it was me I would of reminded them for the entire week before my hometime. Most company's you just have to beat it in their heads about rembering what day you requested to be home. I hear that common complaint about homtime by alot of drivers on here.

Pharaun · **^ Top** #19 07.06.2007

Don't waste your time with Arrow.

ISS Rating for Arrow is 97... that should at least tell you something about the company.

The DMs don't care, try getting home... that's a joke. They treat you like #### and then when you tell them to shove it, they threaten to "punish" you. Of coarse things like this happen with most trucking companies, but Arrow is horrible. Far worse than any other company that I've seen. The new President Thomas Witt is supposedly trying to change things, but the only thing that has changed is that now there is a turf war in the middle of all the usual #### you have to deal with.

Don't waste your time with Arrow, there are far better companies to work for.

Angeleyes · **^ Top** #20 07.08.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro

I am currently a driver for Arrow, and I would not recommend to to anyone except maybe my worse enemy. I have only been with them for 3 months and it has been nothing but b.s. and problems. Sitting waiting on loads, trouble getting them to get me home, piss poor DOT safety rating, getting stuck in the shop for days due to there lack of maintenance to equipment. You are nothing but a number to them. Several times I have had to argue with them about screwing up my paycheck, which are laughable at best due to down time and truck repairs. You will tarp a lot and they only pay 20 lousy bucks for tarping, and every time you tarp it will be with 8 ft drop lumber tarps which are way bigger than needed for most things. I know my DM is a lazy worhless #### who does nothing to help you with the things he is supposed to do, not to mention he sent out a message the other day telling the drivers not to call him for any reason, showing even more they don't want to know you they just want you to be a #### number. Even better his chicken #### ### sent it out at night when he wasn't even at work to have to hear any complaints about it from pissed off drivers. He is good at not telling you something untill the end of the day if it is something he thinks will piss you off so he doesn't have to hear about it until you have had time to calm down overnight. They say they are a first in first out disbatch but that too is b.s. the dibatchers play favorites. I hope you reaD THIS BEFORE YOU MAKE A HUGE MISTAKE. As for Swift I have not drove for them and have no personel knowledge about them only what I have heard from other drivers. Good luck with you choice

Pyro,
Scott, my husband has been driving for Arrow for a year and a half, true, some things you are saying are true, but others may only be true for you, I have been riding with him since day one. Since we have been here, we have had slow loads, but lately, we have been running nonstop. Our Dm gets us home on the day we want to be home every time, but we only go home once a month, if you want to be home every weekend, why don't you check out Builders Transportation, out of Memphis or Mavrick. All your complaints about Arrow sounds childish, maybe you should request a different Dm...my hubby gets treated great by the company, but he has 28 years driving expirence no accidents, so that might be the difference there. You are complaining about the company, but a lot of that fault rests on the drivers shoulders, hubby and I keep our truck clean and polished, and we have added about 7 thousand dollars worth of chrome and extras to our truck, Arrow knows we respect them, and in turn, they respect us, respect has to start with you. We have seen the way other Arrow drivers treat their trucks and Arrow's trailers, some of the trucks you can't tell if they are white anymore. I don't know about anyone else, but Arrow is the best company we have worked for, and Hubby has worked for a lot of companies, you think Arrow is bad, you should try working for one that your idletime has to be below 30%, we have, Arrow at least has put idleaire at our terminal in tulsa, and look how many drivers have torn them up, if you show respect, you get respect. And also, the tarp pay is $30 now, best of luck to you, but if you show Arrow the kind of respect in person that you have shown on here, it's no wonder your being treated this way. And that's just like, we wave at every other Arrow we see, and most of them stick thier noses in the air like they don't see us, where has the comraderie and respect gone??

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes	Rate This Thread
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode	Rate This Thread:

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Trucker Forum	Replies	Last Post
Arrow Trucking Need Info..	jessejames	Arrow	150	1 Week Ago 07.36 PM
? Arrow or Crete	BusGod	Questions From New Drivers	9	02.13.2009 03.37 PM
Arrow Transportation in British Columbia info	KWkid	Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop	8	06.11.2008 10.38 PM

Truckers' Trucking Forum/Message Board - The Premiere Truck Driver Forum

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)