I can remember the day when I would have killed for a new KW flat top. sure beats the old f/l cabover I started out driving!
Halvor Lines, Superior, WI: No longer worth it
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Well I spoke with a Halvor driver yesterday. The reasons for the new flat tops with super singles are this. When Mosnon was wiped out of the picture, a good deal of regional freight opened up out of NuPage and Sappi. Fil-Mor and a few others tried to step in and steal some of Halvors existing freight as well as all of Monson's. So the main reason behind the smaller trucks was to keep from losing probably 3 or more major accounts as well as picking up a lot of regional feight. A small somewhat cramped sleeper is better than being jobless.
I guess they are actually busy again according to the guy I talked to. Their long distance OTR is a little shaky but regional is going nuts. Makes me wish i would have stuck around there, But I was starving from last November through February.
You said it yourself, there are far worse places to work. Why not give them the benefit of the doubt and move on if you're so happy with your new job? If you're happy, that is...fighting sioux Thanks this. -
I saw 2 of HL's new petes today. The T660's have the flattop bunk, but the new petes have both 48" bunks and 70" ultra cabs.
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So they needed to cut weight to save some big accounts. Where's your excuse for the other idiotic rules and regualtions they have come up with over the past 5 years?
For trucks set at 65 MPH that turn themselves down to 62 at a moment's notice?
The idiotic fuel/routing program? I know of outfits twice as big as HL that let their driver's fuel where they want. The office staff keeps growing and growing and they're too lazy to figure out fuel taxes?
And how about dispatchers that won't let you get decent hometime, and are in one hell of a hurry to send you to the east coast so you can sit for days on end?
The job market in Duluth/Superior sucks, is always worse than the nation's average. There are no good trucking comapnies left up there, maybe Jeff Foster but that's a stretch. This is the big reason HL has turned into a dirtbag outfit. Unless you talk like you starred in the movie "Fargo" these idiots up here look at you weird, like you're the one with an accent. I guess the brutal cold winter and 2 week summer screws up the wires in the brain.
Don't just walk from Duluth/Superior, RUN!!!
Don't just walk from Halvor Lines, RUN!!!jon69, rossi46 and fighting sioux Thank this. -
I haul a lot of scrap paper for all over to Green bay with Covenant but the pay is not good so i am looking for somthing better -
This thread just about describes my experience with Halvor Lines to a T. There are worse companies, but I pity anyone who is stuck up there in the frozen north working for these fools.
Back when I drove for JB Hunt I heard people rant and rave about how great this company was. 6 months showed me they are nothing more than 65 MPH JB Hunt trucks. The benefits are ok, but the pay and miles are terrible. Not to mention they stuck their trucks into the most God-Awful places to get backhauls out of, in addition to trying to pressure drivers to go to Canada. Sorry HL, I work for a real outfit now that actaully takes care of me. You and your stupid Quallcom can no longer afford me.jon69, rossi46 and fighting sioux Thank this. -
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"And that real outfit is......?" ....not Halvor Lines or JB hunt anymore, thank God for that...jon69, JustSonny and diesel_weasel Thank this. -
halvor has ran downhill and faster than their trucks can go. kreilkamp sound like it cause they actually work with halvor in some way. i picked up a kohls load in wi and they had to check me in thru kreilkamps system somehow. i left halvor cause i was only getting #### short runs and it was vans when i was supposed to be a flatbed driver. they relied to heavy on only one place for their outbound flats and it crashed. halvor thinks they are to good to take some frieght and it forces the drivers to suffer by sitting and waiting. halvor is also afraid to send their drivers far from the yard empty to get a load to run out with. they are looking down their noses to much and they cant see they are running straight towards the ground. smaller trucks, sitting to long, no toll roads, favoratisms, idle times, dumb routing and fueling assignments, its all pointing down hill and they dont want to admit it. their van dispatch is horrible, playing favs to brown nosing drivers, the dispatchers dont communicate with eachother on anything. im already hearing rumors that charter films is gonna drop them cause they are brokering #### out and its not working out. kinda funny they can broker their loads out and they cant keep their own drivers running descent miles. im just glad i ran from them when i did.
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From what I can see here I'm glad that i ran when I did. When I quit they acted like I was crazy. But for the first time in a long time my annual income actually went way up. Looks like things there at HL keep gettting uglier and uglier. Now they want to get picky with toll roads? Smart, real smart HL. And brokering out loads from Superior while your drivers sit next to jobless, that's a really nice touch too. What goes around comes around
Van dispatch was indeed on the verge of terrible when i quit. Lack of communication, favoritism, and a love affair with trying to send drivers to Canada. Also a carefree attitude for forcing drivers to sit without freight for days on end. There are indeed many brown nosers who swindle freight away from the drivers who actually work hard and deserve to run. Some of their owner operators will try to cut off company drivers and unload reload first if there's more than one HL truck at the same place.
Yeah, the whole crew of drivers and office staff seems to be living in some cloud of false bliss that things are not that bad at HL, and things are more rotten everywhere else.
When this outfit finally crumbles, I hope they have enough integrity to shut down the moral and ethical way and not do what Arrow did.fighting sioux and veteran_rookie Thank this.
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