Mr Bults Inc. MBI

Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by DIESELDOCTOR, Feb 18, 2008.

  1. Mack185

    Mack185 Medium Load Member

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    I would recommend KRD over MBI if you wanna haul trash and that's only if they are in your area. They are almost identical o MBI minus a few important things.
     
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  3. TRASHAULER

    TRASHAULER Bobtail Member

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    Out of curiosity why would you recommend KRD over MBI?
     
  4. i hate driving for mbi

    i hate driving for mbi Bobtail Member

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    I am looking to go elsewhere after only ??? months with MBI. MBI sucks. At least in the Antioch, TN area. We have the worst trucks on the road. They have a mechanic that isn't a mechanic. He is a driver that got too many speeding tickets and they moved him to a mechanic. In order for him to fix a truck, he has to call a real mecahnic at another shop and be told step by step by step on how to fix it. If he can't get ahold of someone to talk to, he puts it on the back burner and sometimes that truck or trailer will sit for a few months even if it is a minor issue. There was a computer that went out. The driver told him he thought it may be the fuse because when the cigarette lighter outlet quit working, the computer quit. That truck sat for about 3 months because the computer didn't work. He said it needed a new computer and said Chicago was supposed to send it. Finally he took it to another MBI terminal, they hooked up their machine, changed the fuse, and boom, the computer was working again. You have to change your own tires. They are mounted of course, but you have to change them yourself. We sit on the side of the road for 4 and 5 hours waiting for a tire repair to where we can only make 2 loads that day. We have trucks that have brake issues and they want us to run 90,000 lbs plus down the road. You have no tarp pay, you get no pay if you have to wait for 3 or 4 or 5 hours for trash. you have to walk in trash. You stink up to high heaven especially if it is slippery and you fall in it. you are almost always overweight. they pay the tickets, but still having to deal with DOT is nerve racking. they don't care if you have a family. On Holidays, say Thanksgiving, you work the day before Thanksgiving, off Thanksgiving day, and go back the day after Thanksgiving. I go in very early between 1 and 3 and get off around 6pm. I sometimes don't get home till 6pm. Sometimes earlier. Normally working around 15 to 16 hours a day and some Saturdays. The 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month. How much family time do you think I get? If your wife, daughter, son, or whoever is sick, they expect you to be at work and haul trash, even if they are in the hospital. ***The safety guy from Chicago told us that. He also said that they don't have to respect your religious beliefs on Religious Holidays. If they tell you to work, they expect you to work that day and any day they schedule you to work. Unless you are dead, they expect you to be at work. Say you have to take your wife or child to the hospital, they don't care, they expect you to be at work. You get three unexcused absences and you get wrote up, if you get 9 in a calender year, you are terminated. That includes, not being able to come in due to bad roads. They don't care. We have a terminal manager, Jeff Gill who is one of the sorriest managers I have ever had to deal with. They change the rules during the middle of the game. They tell you one thing one day, then yell at you or at least try to yell at you for you doing what they told you to do. And oh yeah, you go 2 weeks without a paycheck. The 2nd week, you can get a one time cash advance of $500 and it is paid back in $100 increments, but only if you ask for $100 increments, for 5 weeks and that includes the week you get the advance. Paid with a TCH express code. The training consists of only 2 days and you do get paid for it. $100 a day. So if you want to go work for these people, by all means, go ahead. But I would steer away from them. It isn't what it's cracked up to be. BTW, remember you are walking in trash which includes, shot needles, hospital waste - I have hauled hospital waste. That includes blood, syringes, IV needles. You don't know what else is in there. You do have to wear steel shank boots, but the boots don't protect your chest, face, hands, etc. There may be a person that don't care about putting the caps back on the needles and just tosses them in the garbage, you fall and get poked. Um guess what, you don't know if that is a diabetic needle or if it is a needle where someone has been doing drugs or maybe someone that has AIDS. I have had a bag of just shot needles with most of the needles sticking out of the bag. I have seen it first hand. This is just something to chew on if anyone wants to do this kind of job. DON'T DO IT.
     
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  5. i hate driving for mbi

    i hate driving for mbi Bobtail Member

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    Just to update, I quit MBI for something alot better. There is another driver who quit very soon after I did and another driver is looking to leave as well. It was the best career move I have ever done. I wish I would have never ever driven for MBI and wil never ever, ever drive for them ever, ever, ever again.
     
  6. Pferney

    Pferney Bobtail Member

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    am looking to go to work for MBI..i see alot of neg output toward them and some good...i need to know if it is worth thye time and trouble to work for them..i have 29 years out there and will be leaving a job that pays 44 cpm but home every 3 weeks...looking to be home weekends and at night..so need some stright foward info here so i know what to look for and what the company is all about..thanks
     
  7. bulkhauler

    bulkhauler Bobtail Member

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    read what i hate driving for MBI. I drove for them for 11/2 years, in Ohio. What he said is all true. Look else where. Stay far away from MBI.
     
  8. scythe08

    scythe08 Road Train Member

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    What state are you going to be driving for them in? Their safety scores are HORRIBLE! http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/carrier.aspx?enc=HwX7GcWUgs5yD4vc4fugwQ==
    I drove for them for 6 years in Salt Lake City, hauling turnpike doubles. It was ok for a while, but 6 years with no raises, the same 3 accounts, and some of the most unprofessional Drivers I have ever seen made things unbearable.
     
  9. Schism

    Schism Light Load Member

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    That's too bad...the negative equipment etc with this company.

    I'm from Northern NH and MBI is one of the most common trucks on I93 north of Concord...All the way to Littleton which is 41miles from my place.

    It's rare to regularly see the same company north of the mountains on Route 3....and don't you know it....
    I see them there all the time too.
     
  10. OFTOTR

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    I saw one of those clowns on the mass tpk 2 days ago, tailgating a car, in the snow.
     
  11. OFTOTR

    OFTOTR Medium Load Member

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    Ok, found the video of this MBI truck on 2-19-20, I-90, near Albany, NY. This is a wide angle lens, and he is closer to the car than it appears, and was driving very aggressively on the slippery roads, climbing up on the bumper of this car multiple times.
     

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