Don't walk, "Run From This Company."

Well.... I was defending Barr Nunn on this thread in a few posts but Barr Nunn has finally gone over the line. Everyone in the North East is quitting and Manchester has over 20 tractors parked with no drivers. Usually they would only have 3-5 trucks parked. They have decided to pull everyone off of salary daily pay that were on Northeast Regional and put everyone on milage.

They only have short haul freight usually under 130 miles loaded. No one can earn a pay check on 300 miles a day or less. Because everyone is leaving as they get pulled off of salary, as well as OTR guys that were getting shafted on miles all along, we are now required to work Saturdays without pay (while we are still on daily pay salary) and without being asked or told ahead of time. They offset our starting time a few hours from Sunday night to Monday morning to make it seem as if you get a full day off back on the backside. If they don't pay for Saturday, I shouldn't have to go to work till Monday night and that would be a true offset.

Carlise Carriers runs a similar short haul operation for a different group of customers than us and they ask their drivers for Saturday volunteers according to one of thier drivers I spoke to.

In short I would recommend everyone steer well clear of Barr Nunn till they sort out this mess they started. They claim they are being outbid on all sorts of freight and the out come is $600-700 gross per week for the milage guys out 2-3 weeks. Some of dedicated guys may be able to earn $800-900 gross a week. Every other week we lose a different driver friendly rule, right, or pay item. Some guys lost a $650 bonus weeks before they were due to collect as the 6 month bonus is only paid out once a year now.

I'm still employed here. I'm hoping I can weather the storm but I think I may be out myself in a few weeks.

 

I too worked for Barr-nunn. I got bumped off daily pay and put on mileage. I also got sent home with a load every weekend. They have a policy mandating you to check you truck and send them a message every 12 hours. Needless to say I complained about having my weekend plans screwed up. I requested not to have to take loads home because it interfered with family time. Last weekend I got sent home loaded again. I got that preplan on Thursday. I raised hell with them. Got stuck wih the load anyway. I got home late Friday night, had to leave Sunday night to make early Monday delivery. Made delivery got sent to Manchester and got terminated. 1 1/2 years with them. No accidents, no lates. Screw them.

 

WOW..all these posts are terrific feed back!! Thank you shadowrider,qcommkiller,hard river and all the rest..this is EXACTLY WHAT FORUMS N MESSAGE BOARDS ARE FOR..to inform others when especially we would not know this shadowy secret unless we hired on.Thank you for saving other truckers lives and wasting our valuable time.WE ARE TRUCK DRIVERS AND WE ARE THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA!! KEEP ON TRUCKING...Love You All!!

 

I have been a company driver for barr-nunn for about 1.5 years. This past year 2011 my total take home was $44,000.00. That amount of pay is about what any other company has paid,and i have driven for five other trucking companys in ten years. I get home on most week ends which is a real stress releaver as far as i am concerned. Barr-Nunn has "blue cross of iowa" and a self insured dental plan, $1000.00 max for any calander year. The dental plan might be a little plain. I could drive more miles "2115 miles on average" than they assign my truck,but from a safety stand point less might be more for safety sake. I agree with some of the other drivers that we are not consideared DECISION MAKERS at this company,but they have been fair and my role here is to delivar freight. I drive a new international pro.star 2011. They track "hard stopping" "idle time" "fuel milage." They have been decient and donot pressure about the results,also the paychecks are on time and always clear the bank. They are down to earth and don't need to be family.

 

I'm considering them. Glad to hear honest thoughts.

 

I just started with Barr-Nunn 2 weeks ago. Here is my take on the company. First the Good...
1. Nice new equipment
2. Excellent communication with dispatch and everyone else
3. 401K contributions day one.
4. Sign on bonus
5. All around professional attitude
6. Easy drop and hook accounts, FedEx, Conway, UPS, Kelloggs, etc.
7. Home every weekend.

Now the bad...
1. Trucks governed at 63
2. Lied to and told average pay was $1,000 per week. I'm at .048 per mile. Only given .1,700 miles per week. When I told them I needed over 2,000 miles per week I was told the Northeast Region only provides about 1,700 miles per week. Well, that's $816, NOT $1,000.
That's the skinny. If I could get 2K- 2200 miles per week this job would be perfect. As it is, if the miles don't pick up, I'm out of here.
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