Koch Trucking Minneapolis any thoughts?
Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by radiorambo, Aug 5, 2007.
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And the odds of starting on a dedicated account are what? exwallybulldawg you sure must need those 2500 dollar recruiting bonuses.
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the odds are good if your a professional and not a crybaby, just sent a driver up on delta today, will be on bestbuy account starting next week if he can get thru orientation, and yes I do need the money, I have only made 15.000.00 this year on referrals, my wife wants to go to Europe again this summer.
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Any updates on Koch? How are they as a company? Pet policy? Benefits?
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there is no pet policy. There orientation bonus is not really a orientation bonus as a year to get bonus. The insurance needs work. Orientation is from Monday till Thursday if you are on Polaris or Cummings. If not it is out bye Wed nite. Layover pay is 50.00 dollars after 24 hr period
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Their Road Service Department and Shop are one of the best ones that I've ever experienced anywhere and I've been driving trucks on and off since "79" and OTR for the last 17 and a half. Breakfown on the road. If you can't limp to a shop or it's unsafe, they send someone to come fix it or tow you and put you in a hotel if it's going to be awhile. The shop is the best. If you write something up, they don't just fix that, they go top to bottom and fix everything that you didn't find to make sure that the truck is safe and you can do your job. The medical insurance is Medica and it is expensive if you want it for your spouse and family. I was paying over $9,000.00 a year for myself and wife for the middle of the pack plan. After Obamacare kicked in, I dropped my gold plan and went with the bronze plan. The legal plan that they offer is through Open Road out of Overland Park, KS and it is the best one that I've ever had for only $7.96/week. My MVR is clean and I've only gotten 1 moving violation the whole time that I was at Koch which was when I first started in 2011.Last but not least I was fired from Koch on 07/23/2018 for overspeed and alleged hard braking by the Director of Safety John deHoll. I got overspeed with heavy loads going downhill in TN and PA which all of a sudden within the last 6 months became a big deal, because in 7 and a half years, no one has ever said anything to me about it until now. My engine/jake brakes are set on 3 the whole time and I very rarely have to touch my brake let alone slamming my brakes. The hard braking incidents are also all of a sudden a big deal within the last 6 months. I was getting calls and messages from Safety and my FM about hard braking, and I would ask, " what are you talking about, I never hit my brakes that hard and never have in almost 40 years of driving." They would tell me that the computer registered a hard braking incident. I would tell them not on my end it didn't, so we would go back and forth about it and that was the end of it. Or so I thought. So I started to pay more attention to this hard braking stuff and noticed that if I hit a pothole, bump or railroad tracks too hard that a hard brake registered. Also if the stick popped out of gear, got stuck in ice, snow or mud, or the fuel cutoff engaged that a hard brake would register. So I tried explaining this to all of the desk drivers at Koch and to John deHoll who was a restaurant manager with a few jobs in between before coming to Koch that this is why the hard braking incidents are showing up. That wasn't good enough. I was still fired as a driver mentor with clean DoT random stop write ups, on time delivery and pick ups throughout the whole 7 and a half years. So if this is enough info for you to make a decision, then I hope it was helpful. I don't like companies that have high turnarounds in their HQs and I don't like changing jobs after being somewhere after almost 8 years. -
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