The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

In a nutshell. I will try to be as brutally honest as possible.

:smt068 Million Milers are quiting/being terminated at an alarming rate!

If you are just starting out in trucking, IE fresh out of school. I can highly recommend CFI to you as your first choice of companies. Main reason, money. Nobody likes to enter any new carreer and starve for their first month or 12. CFI pays students enough in their first year, to justify the hard work, compared to other companies. EVEN IF YOU owe a large student loan, it will pay you to seek out CFI over other companies that offer to pay your loans off. Be forewarned though. Working for CFI will test the very limits of your abilities. Anything that touches your truck is considered an accident....period. For instance, Your DAC will read...accident, not "hit road debris". If a future employer does not follow up on said report, you may not be able to work anywhere in the future.

To more experienced drivers...I don't recommend them If you are comfortable with an average pretax paycheck of about $1900 every 15 days, and 1 day off for every 7 out, then check them out. They allow you to bank days...a plus in my book. However, do not expect to run 2800+ miles a week consistantly. You'll have slow weeks, and good weeks. On average, you'll sit 2 days a week SOMEWHERE (just not at home). Once you get a load, you are dispatched immediately at 47 mph (50-52 on Conway loads) and expected to be on time, every time. It's not difficult at all. It just doesn't take long to get that 2800 miles, then sit. If you complain about miles, you will be labeled as a complainer...and subject to deaf ears at every turn.

My personal beef with CFI... I stayed out on average 6 weeks at a shot. They pay me to drive their truck, then expect me to maintain security for their equipment for 2 days a week for free. If I do anything for free, it will be sit at my house, in my own chair.

While others get paid to drive a truck, I get paid to stay away from my family. If I am not being paid, I can no longer persuade my family that what I do is for their benefit.

 

Since you are obviously on the BB there. Why not ask him why he has refused to allow me to post. I suspect there are others as well.

It's called controlling the access.

Hard to make a large recruitment bonus, if the post on your site about the company you work for, are bad. I know that comment will draw some wrath. But if the shoe fits.

 

Nothing on them. I've seen their ads. Thats' it.

Personally, I don't go for companies that offer lease purchase deals to their drivers. Not even as a company driver.

I've done the math, and the only thing a lease/purchase offers. Is the ability to refuse a load. Which is kind of like saying to yourself...Let me see if I can miss a payment, and still eat.

I know guys who have made it through a lease. But, I know a 100 more that have failed.