Dart

They are wanting me to interview. I am a guy who just finished trucking school. I don't find anything good about any trucking company that takes student/new truck drivers with no experience. Any suggestions? Do you just take the best of the bad and run with it until you get one or two years in. It is real disheartening and down right depressing trying to find anything good about a trucking company to start with.

 

This company is the only one offering 0.32 cents per mile for a new driver. All other offers have quoted 0.26 cents per mile. All offer increases at about the same times but the other guys were quoting me only a 0.01 cent increase but this company offers 0.02 cent increase. Is this just hogwash or can it be true? Any new drivers out there with them know, anyone at all know? I need the pay for the family but I don't want to be stuck with someone for two years if they aren't worth their salt.

 

DART, is that not what the thread about?

 

Hmm I have been with Dart since 07 with one 10 month hiatus where I went to do the whole dispatch myself thing. I started out with them as a lease driver and did that for 2 years, then ended up buying a truck outside and turned in their lease truck.

anyway I'm back and can't see myself leaving them again. Overall the best company I have worked for in nearly 11 years. This company being a headache? They make being an owner operator easy if you ask me.

However you are dependent with dart on having a proactive fleet manager if you run national account to keep you going. If your fleet manager isn't you will struggle to keep moving. At which point you discuss it with them, if that still doesn't fix it you fire them and get another fleet manager. Which dart will do for you.

Me, Im personally on a dedicated Georgia Pacific, target, and General Mills conglomerate account. I average 3200 miles consistently every week. In the past 30 days I have netted 7200.00 and that's net after fuel and after my maintenance reserve account. Which I put $.15 a mile into. Which comes out to be practically a truck payment in and of itself every month.

I will say I have heard mixed feelings about their Texas regional fleet, and a few years back I tried their super south which I didn't care for...however they do have some good fleets or just go national.

Sorry it didn't work for the OP. however your going to get those stories from any company. As for DART being crooks? That's laughable. They are one of the most up front companies I have dealt with. And yes even their lease option is pretty decent.

 

This is the only positive post I have ever read about Dart. All other threads about them say they are horrible. I usually go with the majority. There is way too much bad stuff on here about Dart to make me think otherwise about them. Type Dart into the search box in the top left corner. You'll see what I'm talking about.

 

Type in almost any company and your going to get bad reviews. That doesn't change the fact I've been with them for nearly 7 years and have done amazingly well. Do they have their problems? Every company does..

For me at least. They have been a great company to run with.

 

Thank you for your response.

I am to go for the testing in truck tomorrow (Friday) then a physical and etc. What is the physical like? Sounds unusual because of some kind of isokinetic testing machine used to test out muscles/physical capacity?? Never heard of such a thing. Is it real hard to pass?