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.

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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.

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