Riverside transport, Company/owner ops/lease

I would very interested in this as well..They have offered me A position...

 

I just quit RTI day before yesterday. They tell you that if they don't have the truck you want, that you get 10 weeks payment free, but if they have the truck you want, you get a $2, 000 sign on bonus. Don't bother asking for a Kenworth, no one ever gives them up because they're good trucks! I was given a 2012 Peterbilt 587 and got "10 weeks free". Well, my dispatcher sent me a text message on Tuesday morning stating that I would be swapping trucks once I got back in Owensboro. They were going to put me in a 2015 ProStar which was fine because it had a cummins and not a max force! BUT, they wanted me to start making payments on the truck immediately! I had only been there a month and I still had 6 weeks left on my "10 free"! Just a week earlier I told Mike, who is the ops manager for Owensboro that I wasn't getting enough miles to make a decent paycheck (over $500.00) and I was given 2 loads back to back that were 733 miles each. Then it went right back to 112, 212 and 333 mile loads! 95% of their loads come from and go to Ragu which is literally right across the street from their terminal in Owensboro! Mike told me himself they didn't have very much freight! I told Mike I couldn't afford to make their truck payment of $553.00 a week when I was only bringing home $500.00 a week!! My third check, was for $2, 663.00 out of that check I only got $514.00! They deduct so much, you're pretty much paying to work for them! I never signed a lease thank goodness, or I would have been screwed!! My suggestion, STAY AWAY FROM RTI!

 

I have been offered and excepted a position to do lease purchase. See how it goes

 

So how's it going?

 

Good so far haven't got into the truck I want yet. Will have it soon. Keepin very busy, trey are great to work with. Good dispatcher always on top of stuff.

 

Plenty of miles? never sitting empty for long? decent equipment?

 

Not sitting long but I did 1 time. Just communicate with dispatch I keep on mine let him know when I will be done and ready. Equipment I am in a 2013 prostar waiting for my Pete. My first check I started running on Friday and the cutoff is tues. I brought in well over what I made for a week at old job.

 

You still with them? How's it going now?
I've been approved by them. Any latest news?

 

Just got in my truck out of the rental. A 2016 Pete. Beautiful truck, all good got me sitting for the night but I got layover pay. Going good I got a good dispatcher. Just communicate communicate. I drive my dispatch crazy lol but he don't mind. Good luck any thing you want to know just ask