Double "S" Transportation, Springfield, MO.

Sorry I couldn't get to it earlier, they are making changes to it and upgrading other things. I am not an IT person. Also I was not arguing anything. If you read my original post I even agreed with the gentleman that what he stated may have been true in 2009. Was just letting people know that changes have been made, what's wrong with that? Seems to me there are issues, but it's not here! I also agree with letting sleeping dogs lye, but gotta do what the boss tells me to do which was let people know that the people this original poster was commenting about are no longer with the company. Everyone else blew things out of proportion from there.

 

hehe i love the whole sneaky deceptive recruiter...i had to change my name act....amazing. notice ya said your dad and brother were trucker's. and admitted to being a recruiter for some company but....no mention of husband driving a truck lol... ya made my day flatbedder's wife

 

Yes my husband is also a driver for a flatbed company. What difference does it make. And yes I have recruited for a few trucking companies. I have also served in safety dispatch and accounting.

 

I'm not sure what all the problems are...I work there and it's the best driving job I've ever had. Not sure about all the tanker/reefer discussion is, but Double S is a FedEx Ground contractor that runs teams. I get home every week and I'm on track to gross over $70k this year....AND, my team mate and I just got a new Prostar! Life is good from my drivers seat.

 

Do you know anything about the TANKER side (Full Tilt Transport)? I got an offer but am a little leary about them.

 

Edit of my original comment. I misunderstood the company name.

 

I am currently employed with Double S Transport. Fed ex ground. I had a lot of high hopes for this company. The prospecting allure of home weekly, (“guaranteed weekends”), guaranteed pay, and potential dedicated routes that make you big money. Here is my story:

I started out driving with an experienced driver who had an established dedicated route. He came in right out of trucking school and had his dedicated route immediately. No prior experience at all. He gets home Sunday morning (1 am) and leaves out Monday nights (7pm). It was revealed he had a long time friend working in management.

My codriver who I paired up with after my “training” told me how one of his trainers had a dedicated route where he was off for two days one week and three the next. Making huge miles. 6-7k a week if not more. This driver was right out of training and has less experience than either of us.

we get thrown on to an extra board team, which is when you go to fed ex and they give you the scrap runs they have left over. You never know what your gonna do until you get there. The guarantee pay is a miles guarantee of 3330 miles as long as you’re available for dispatch and out till Friday at least. Most of my runs on extra board netted me about 2-3k miles a week. Guys, that’s 2-3k for the truck, not per driver. I always barely made my guarantee. With that being said, you’d think I’d be home for Saturday’s and Sunday’s like I was told. Nope. We would leave out Monday, and not be back till Sunday. Making 3k miles. That’s grossing maybe 36-40k a year. We would sit in our truck for hours. 6,8,12,24,48 depending on where we was located, between loads.
It got to a point where we decided we wanted to ask for a dedicated. We kept getting told “try this run out and we may give it to you”. However it was never formally given to us. They would give us the runs that those original drivers would decide to take a week off. They pay less for dedicated runs, and you don’t qualify for your guarantee.
Every time we would contact dispatch, he would find ways of pushing blame on us, for every issue we had, he would essentially say it was our doing. It got to the point where I finally called him myself (I let my codriver do most of the talking because he was “lead” driver). After a brief conversation about my personal issues, it became clear how he thought. He wants drivers who don’t contact him at all, who will stay out all week with no miles for extra board so he can have them to relieve other drivers when they want time off. He found us to be a “trouble team” because we kept an open dialogue about our experiences trying to resolve them. He took our efforts of working out a solution as a direct threat and warped it from a simple communication, to him defending his position and why he was right and why we was wrong.
He did try to make an effort to help, I suppose. Started sending us out Later in the week to get us more home time. However that felt more like a punishment as we would be in a vicious cycle of no miles and getting home later and later. We were told weekends off. There were times when we would sit at home all week because they had no loads for us. Isn’t that what the guarantee pay is for?

They generated a fee they take from you every paycheck, called escrow. This is money they just take from you and put in an account, suppose to stop at 500 dollars. It’s their insurance to make sure you put in your two weeks. Otherwise you forfeit said escrow. They also send it out 90 days after your last paycheck, and it’s “untaxed” not reported on your w2.
I found this entire situation very distasteful and somethings even felt criminal.

I decided to terminate my employment after making an attempt to correct issues, and was brushed off like I was his issue instead. I don’t need a job that bad to tolerate that level of disrespect. It also came to my attention that the dispatcher (aka the owners son) was talking crap about me to my codriver. Like my codriver wasn’t gonna tell me what he said. This company is only good if your friends with the management. Favoritism plays a huge factor on how people, or at least form my experience, get treated and paid here. I had a lot of high hopes, and am sorry it ended the way it did. However, I can’t help a man make money that doesn’t care about me. Apply at your own risk.

 

Been inactive since 2014 now thats it has been revived we carry on.

It's clear the former employee had a bad experience, I cannot attest to FedEx, It's very clear one the other the posters is a recruiter that's all well and good am certain there's a few here and other types staff watching what's being said about there companies. I have known a few drivers from FedEx ground some were happy be at swift over it when I worked there which says a lot.

The trucks don't have the highest amenities like most Megas and there CPM is below the national average. .40cpm the DM most are just dumber then a doorknob I have told a few that. Some the DM are well decent

Most decent DM are former drivers because they know when a driver wants home time they know the conditions they have to deal with some of it ain't even the DM fault they get pressure from above to keep you rolling. By no means am I pro swift would tell you avoid them main reason more so people without CDL trying to get in is they have no more manuals transmission. There are a few other reasons but they aren't the worst company I have worked for.

 

what? Lol we are talking about double s transport a fed ex contractor in Springfield MO. It seems like you’re talking about fed ex directly?

 

this thread related to FedEx in terms it's been mention the majority of the post here my first sentence is related to the original post and partly mentions the recruiter trying to defend her company. As for the rest I was just sharing how people seem hate FedEx just as much working a mega sometimes more to point they go to a mega.