My journey with PGT begins today

Well, i'd like to chim in here, been at PGT for a few months now, and i gotta say that there growing on me. Was'nt use to all the micro management that one has to under go to work for them. But there not gonna change there ways, so you'll have to live with it.

I guess the only thing that really bothers me about the fact of having to drive what seems to be, the slowest thing on the inerstate, 64 mph is a tough speed to drive, i find that i have to worry more about tailgatters riding my #####, than my driving some one elses.

Meaning that you'll have to watch your following distance, all the time, because evey once in a while, one of there pace cars that they have running around at differnt locations at different time of the day, will spot a PGT truck, and report your performance to the company, then you get the Email letting you know about it, if you are one of the lucky one's to get spotted.

Yeah i got an Email sent to me this week, letting me know that i was doing a good job. All in all there a nice company to work for, so good luck at PGT
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I feel ya on the slowness but its not bad. I did 631 miles in my slow truck today. My issue so far is the fuel solution. This load I have now I picked up Friday in Cofield NC which about 70 miles from my house. Well when I left the smart fuel software they have that tells us where to fuel thinks Im running to OH then and not taking my load home for the weekend. Well it gave me the solution to fuel at the Pilot in Emporia. Since we "have" to hit our fuel solution 100% of the time( so ive been told by my FM ) I had to drive down 58 to Emporia to fuel when I could have gone up 64 and hit the Pilot at ex211 just before the Richmond scales. This load I have now isnt paying to hot and it came from one of the agencies so their hand is in it. Nice when I get the paper work that says linehaul is this and the qualcom says the linehaul is actually this. But still WAY to early to really make a call either way other than so far so good. Trucking is trucking.


I have to say going from my Classic XL I owned to this coffin bunk 9400 is holy heck does this thing turn on a dime lol.

 

What is fuel solution?

 

I hope you have better luck at PGT than the trucker in my family. He was forced to stay in the truck with his trainer for 6 weeks so that his trainer could earn more money. He could not get his daytime dispatcher to give him loads and when he did he was ALWAYS given bad routes that he had to adhere to--to the letter! He was never given proper amounts of time to get to deliveries. They shorted his pay every time. He couldn't get truck mechanically maintained. In short, 3 months in and he quit. I have seen his pay stubs and know he wasn't lying about the amounts earned. He couldn't support a family on wages that put him under the poverty level. He is with another company now and grossing out at around 1100.00. I hope your experience is vastly different. GOOD LUCK!

 

Its where the company wants you to fuel. Usually its enroute to your destination, it helps the company out if you use it. They will know where the cheapest fuel stations at. When i was a co driver and you missed your fuel stop, you had to call driver service so they could turn your fuel card back on. It only worked at the fuel stop provided enroute.

 

That sounds like no fun to me

 

Yeah I heard from my trainer that there are guys like that. I got lucky and got a good one. He signed of on me in a week. Also from what he was saying it is really dependent on what terminal you get dispatched out of.

 

Which terminals are good and which ones not so good?

 

He told me to try and stay outta Monaca and away from Birmingham. Hes only ever been out of Monaca so just want I was told.