Atlas van lines Commercial Division

Sounds like it's time for a change , that sitting around stuff don't pay much huh?.....thnx for the heads up brandyrose
.....they all seem to be good people until you do something for em

 

They weren't great 25 years ago when I was leased to them for 3 years. I did like the loads, but we did a lot of blanket wrap stuff back then. I complained about the money I was making, and was told 'you are in the top 3% of earnings'. I told them that is all I needed to hear, and quit a month later. No sense hoping to make more there. I did like the runs we had then, though, a lot of really long runs, but a lot of work in the trailer. Yeah, we sat, sometimes 4-5 days on the West Coast.
I thought they had switched more to moving pre-loaded household goods trailers, though?
If I remember right, we were getting .87 a mile, plus some accessorial charges back then.
They would try to screw you out of the deadhead pay if they could.

 

I bought into their BS back in the 80s and signed on to the SP Division,big mistake!! I somehow managed to stick it out long enough (1 yr) so they wouldn`t charge me back for the paint job. I remember going into to Evansville to talk to them about being gone FOREVER and not making any money. He told me they had operators there grossing $300k so he didn`t understand my complaint. I asked him how many miles they had to run for that money and his reply was "What difference does it make"!! That was a peace-out for me! Just for the record,the husband and wife team that did that had a 3rd driver in the truck at all times and ran 364 days a year,everyday except Christmas!!

 

Bedbuggin' that's all you need to know. Dirty business.

 

It's not all household, or bedbuggin', I knew a guy in SP, I helped him move an art show from Cincinnati to San Francisco one time. Definitely a different way of life.

 

My grandparents were team o/o's running special products for them many moons ago...they had a nice big truck and did quite well pay wise. They ran about 10 years and retired comfortably...the downside was they were NEVER home more than a couple weeks a year on average...they were ok with that fact.

 

Sharing my experience may bring some light to yours. Atlas is not a company to be trusted. They had an add about their "Shuttle Fleet" and I felt for it back in 2013. I went through orientation and there were six drivers with me in the class. By the time we finish orientation only 2 of us remained. The other drivers saw the light before it was too late. I was working for a power only company before and because their add read that type of work I signed on. Needless to say, it was all a lie. I stayed with them for three weeks and out of those three weeks I only moved one empty trailer. They had me going to convention centers all around the US. It is true that they did pay for loaded and empty miles, but that was not what I had signed for. They will dispatch you for a show with no enough time to make it then when you unload you'll have to wait at least for a couple of days for another load. It is not a place to be trusted. If you want to go that route you will be better off working for an agent but if you work for corporate, well, good luck....That was my experience, not good. And now, they keep on sending me emails to get me to work for them again after almost two years!!!

 

How is commercial truckload division I'm interested in truckload or shuttle. Clearing a grand after expenses if you only ran 1500 miles sounds better than what I have now I can deal with sitting if it pays. I have books, xbox, laptop games and a wife. Some paid sitting is fine.