I have a job offer from them. I too have questions. I see no one replied to this post 1 month ago. please send me any inof you now have. thank you captian kirk

Originally Posted by Allow Me.

I'm somewhat familiar with them, sitting there along side the I-10 near Tucson. I've seen a small cluster of their trucks parked somewhere, like maybe Flagstaff, doing a long term job probably. Can't help you on pay etc.

I worked for them for almost 1 yr. the Tuscon truck yard is the home office. flag is another yard, also have Laveen, st.johns, and Kingman. pay is not very competitive.( all per loaded miles) alot of dead head miles, and sitting at plants waiting to load, and as anyone familiar with pnuematic bulk transfer knows, unloading is time consuming.most tractors are older,degraded units,and trailers are hazardous at best. i was at the laveen terminal,and went thru 4 terminal managers in less then 1 year.overall, not a stable, safe, competitively paying experience for me personally.

Originally Posted by ny4t9

I worked for them for almost 1 yr. the Tuscon truck yard is the home office. flag is another yard, also have Laveen, st.johns, and Kingman. pay is not very competitive.( all per loaded miles) alot of dead head miles, and sitting at plants waiting to load, and as anyone familiar with pnuematic bulk transfer knows, unloading is time consuming.most tractors are older,degraded units,and trailers are hazardous at best. i was at the laveen terminal,and went thru 4 terminal managers in less then 1 year.overall, not a stable, safe, competitively paying experience for me personally.

I am assuming you are no longer with them? I just finished up orientation with them and will be out with a trainer next week to learn the pneumatic thing as I have never done it before. I will also be out of the Laveen yard as well. As you can see from my original post I have spent some time looking at them. Talking to their drivers at the mines when I would run into them. Most of what I got was that CTI was alright, better than most, and at least Im home every night kinda stuff. Their CSA for maintenance was a little high for the companies 300+ trucks. But my plan is to learn this and see if there are any O/O opportunities in this field of the industry.

Originally Posted by tirednaz

I am assuming you are no longer with them? I just finished up orientation with them and will be out with a trainer next week to learn the pneumatic thing as I have never done it before. I will also be out of the Laveen yard as well. As you can see from my original post I have spent some time looking at them. Talking to their drivers at the mines when I would run into them. Most of what I got was that CTI was alright, better than most, and at least Im home every night kinda stuff. Their CSA for maintenance was a little high for the companies 300+ trucks. But my plan is to learn this and see if there are any O/O opportunities in this field of the industry.

I went to orientation about a year ago,is not worth yout time and health,trucks are nasty and abused,too much waiting unloading,waiting for a load,not worth really.

Well this was a short lived adventure. All done with this back to the road.

Originally Posted by tirednaz

Well this was a short lived adventure. All done with this back to the road.

What went wrong, if I may ask? I just started the very beginning of the process for a company driver slot with them out of their Fontana yard, can't turn down an offer, but don't want to waste the time and effort if it's really bad.

When I lived out in AZ back in the late 90's CTI appeared to have the oldest, nastiest looking trucks on the road. I see nothing's changed.