Osborn Transportation, Gadsden, AL

Worked OTR for Tyson for 5 years, loved it, If I ever sell my truck I am going back

 

Bullet I hope you dont pull for OWL, I just left them because they are all hired through a temp company, they talk about having freight and I never ran, I always had open availablity and never complained. Although I am glad they fired their head dispatcher. I hear alright things about MLS and NSE, BR Williams has a weird sliding payscale, nothing will ever be exactly what you want it to, but I just found a job driving for Nationwide Express looking for a shuttle driver out of NSE Talladega, start Monday.

 

No I'm not with OWL. I'm with BRW. I run regional plus so there is no sliding pay scale. The sliding pay scale is only for the local day cab guys. Something like .40cpm under 400 miles then .36 for 600 miles or something like that. I ran it for about 6 months and didn't care for it. Regional and regional plus is where it is at. 1 load a day. Avg 500-600 miles a day so you're home every night and off every weekend. I was averaging 3400mi/week regional and just recently moved to regional plus. They run just slightly farther.

 

Current Osborn driver. We were bought out by Celadon. So we are getting ProStars. I already have mine. As for the company, as was previously stated, it is what you make of it. I've certainly worked for worse. I'm home every weekend. I run 2400-2600 miles LEGALLY every week. I have a good relationship with my FM. I will say those old trucks are really bad. They are scheduled to be completely phased out by July 1. Glad I'm out of mine!

 

I just couldn't take it anymore. I now have a 2014 prostar. Plus more money/mi. And the benefits really make it a much better deal all around. I had the best dispatcher at Osborn. He would give me whatever I asked for and I'd pull whatever he needed. Great guy out of Montgomery. But glad to be gone. Good luck.

 

Back with them now. Happy to be back.

 

Since Celadon has really taken over (we TransFlo our paperwork in to Celadon, Celadon direct deposits our pay and we have Celadon ComData cards), my miles have gone up! Since my last post, I've been running 2500-2900 every week LEGALLY! There are some who are complaining but they were complaining before the Celadon system transition.

 

More prostars are rolling in. Passed then when taking my truck to ryder yest.

 

I worked here for 3 months... I was.kn downtown Chicago day before Thanksgiving trying to dock a trailer. I was unable to.. I called and told them that. It was a safety hazard 3 days later they fired me for it stay away

 

Wow.... You know if it was a bad company when it improves after a buyout. A lot of times companies get worse after getting sold.