Florida Beauty Express

I see them in California all the time

 

See them picking up a lot of produce in California....

 

Here's a post I found by "omar806"

Ok just to update you guys on whats going on at FBE.

My first week out on the road I left Miami on tuesday Nov. 25th on a load heading to California with my trainer. Got to Cali in 2 days and took a load heading to the north east. Had stops in NY, MA, NJ, and RI. After that we picked up a frozen food load in MA to come back home. Got back to Miami on Dec. 3rd early wednesday morning. The load didn't have to be delivered until thursday morning at 8AM so we got a release from that load, took it to the yard and went home. For my first week in trucking I would say it was a pretty decent week. Hardly sat around waiting to get a load to hit the road or to get unloaded at our stops. The truck was a 2013 Freightliner cascedia. Next week ill be in a new 2014 volvo 780. All of their trucks are automatic which I don't like but I guess thats where the future of trucking is headed. Also all the trucks are equipped with APU and inverters. Very comfortable. Now for the main thing everyone wants to hear. As a trainee you are paid 16 cents per mile, $7.50 for every stop and 10 cents per box unloaded off the trailer. For that first week at FBE my gross was $1703.30 and after deduction I took home a little over $1300. To me being fresh out of school that is not bad at all. FBE is not good on first impressions I'll say that but its not a bad deal comparing to how much you will make at other companies coming out of school. Another thing I like about FBE is they don't pressure to come to work. You can stay home as long as you want but you know if your not out here turning wheels, your not making any money.

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Was a guy posting on here he started there fresh out of cdl school recently made like $1800 gross his first week out haven't seen him post much since then

 

U could prob make really good $$ right now it's prime time for plants. My dad use to do it at another company around this time a year he was doing $2-2500 wk running solo and they run elogs. A lot of lil extras that add up doing plants

 

Are the paychecks consistent? I wonder how the work load is around late fall / winter months.

 

Ran teams for them for 8 months you make decent money running hard with teams solos only make .30 cents a mile going to e logs now so good luck trying to unload all those flowers and still get miles like that teams make .19 cents a mile to start nice equipment though mostly automatics though