BD Transportation Piqua Ohio

Hello Mr. Rollingweird, nice to hear from you again and I hope that you are well.

 

It all good Rollingweird. It is always a pleasure to hear from you. I am actually honored that you feel the need to comment on my "bad" company after all this time. It must be going on a year since you worked here. I actaully don't keep tabs on you. This site is just kind enough to send me an email alert when someone responds to this thread. I unfortunately do not do Facebook either. Not smart enought to figure out how to use it I guess. To bring you truely up to speed, we are at about 80 drivers now. Pretty good for a company that started with 5 trucks 13 years ago. I know that not all 80 are happy but that kind of goes with the territory. Some don't like their route, some don't like their start times, some don't like their stop time for the day, some don't like the idea that routes cancel from time to time. The best we can do everyday is the best that we can do. I know that is not enough for some, but no doubt that we are always trying to improve what we do and the way we do it. As for who you are, you are right, I don't know who you are. You hide behind a web site, I am kind of out in the open with a target on my back. I am good with that, it is what I signed up for I guess. Since you know me why don't you stop by the office some time? I will buy you lunch and we can talk like face to face as adults sometimes do. As for any driver out there who wants to know what I am really like, please contact me at john@bdtransport.com. I cannot offer you perfection. I can only tell you that we try.

 

I guess. Maybe I am just too old. When I think Facebook I see people putting their entire lives out there for the world to see. One of my kids posted that he is on they way to the hosptial because he doen't feel. Maybe I just cannot grasp the overall good that it can do.

 

Well just give a call. I really don't like going around angry.

 

Thanks for the input Lonewarrior. Here is current and verifiable data on BD transportation. We are mainly a round trip dedicated freight company. We run dedicated team, some lane based OTR single, but mainly home daily drivers. For those who do not know us, we have been in business for 14 years. Started with 5 trucks and have grown to our current size of 60. There are no plans to expand further. We like our size, our service and our customer base.

2013 W-2 driver payroll, or pretax earning to dispute your "shameful" comment.
Top Driver gross pay $65,638. Number of drivers with gross income over $58,000 =12. Total number of drivers with gross income over $50,000 = 23. This will cover mainly the team and OTR drivers. Local drivers earn, gross pay, between $750 and $1000 per week. The average pay of $873 per week gross pay is accurate. It will be higher than that for 2014.

60 trucks, 81 full time drivers. 7 trucks run dedicated team operation, 6 trucks run OTR (for us, OTR is out 1 to 2 nights at a time). The balance of the trucks / drivers are home daily (some do slip seat assigned units). Most of the home daily are dedicated, but we do have 3 drivers without dedicated routes that work as fill in to cover vacations, driver call off and such.

Of the 81 drivers, 2 have been with us 12 years out of 14 in business. And additional 3 have 10 years with us. 1 more has 9 years of service. 6 have 8 years, 3 have 7, 1 has 6 and another 8 have 5 years. 24 of 81 drivers (30%) have 5 plus years with us. Of our current roster, 49 out of the 81 (60%) have 2 plus years with us.

We offer very steady work. Direct deposit that is there every week. Life Insurance, Health Insurance (United Healthcare, for a the employee only program, 80/20 with $750 deductible the driver cost is $20.00 per week). We have paid vacations, paid holidays, short term disability, 401k.

Trucks are good, our CSA scores are excellent. Our current oldest truck is 5 years old. We are going to a 4 year trade cycle this year, so in July we are getting rid of the oldest 15 units with 15 new trucks coming in. 25% of the fleet.