Risinger Brothers Transfer

I am no longer at Risinger. There are several reasons I left.

1. My CSA score is good while their company score is terrible. Fedex already dropped them as a carrier because of it and I am pretty sure other shippers will too. I decided to leave before that happened.

2. No matter what I did I could not get above 5.9 miles to a gallon with the truck I was leasing. With fuel prices going higher and summer coming up which meant idling for air conditioning it was going to get worse. That and I was tired of them not wanting to fix things that the truck would of failed a DOT inspection because it. It was just falling apart. If it did fail they would of probably terminated me and then I would have had a hard time getting another job. I needed to protect my career.

3. I was getting tired of all the short loads and they are getting more and more of them. I was tired of doing them while the Russian and Polish partner carriers as they call them do nothing but Uline loads out of Chicago and then right back to Chicago. I got tired of getting preplanned on a load back to Chicago then being told it was cancelled then a partner carrier is picking up the load at the same time I am picking up some short load.

I will say they do run the hell out of you. My last 4 weeks there I averaged 3800 miles a week.

 

I was averaging about 1150 a week and that included weeks I took off.

 

You could not be more wrong. I am sure it shocked them when I left because I averaged 3800 miles a week for the last month I was there. I left for a better opportunity at a better company. They did not even know I was leaving until I was gone. Was just tired of the short loads and the bad fuel mileage and with their CSA scores being so bad I decided to leave while my personal score was good. I am sure they would take me back in a heartbeat if I wanted to go back.