PMTG - new to the company

My husband is considering PMTG or Pilot, both are in MI, he also has an offer from Schaffer but the pay for hauling cars is very tempting. Any advice that can help us decide? We need to make the money and if he is going to be OTR he might as well be paid well for it, thank you for any info.

 

Both are good companies. I work for PMTG as you have figured out. With Pilot you may have more local opportunities since you live in Michigan. With us you have NO local jobs in Michigan. There you will be out a minimum of 14 days at a time. The money is excellent here once you figure out how to work the system.

 

hey rainman, i spoke with precision and they told me that i got the job, they just need to hear from one of my old job then they will send me out for training. i watch news alot and i see that the market is slow and people are not buying alot like before. i am afraid that if i go everything will get slow and i will not get much work. what do yu think?

 

You will be just fine. The market that we mostly deal with is the luxury market that hasn't seen any downturn as of yet. We are buying new equipment and are still growing. Yes, right now is slow, but that's just this time of year. We are all taking turns sitting home for a few well deserved days off and then you are right back out there. Congrats and hope to meet you soon.

 

Unfortunately, we are stuck with those POSs for another year so supposedly Warren can break even on the purchase of Auto Elite. I feel terrible that hubby is stuck like that. Believe me though, we are so slow right now that if he wasn't sitting at least getting breakdown pay, he would be sitting at the house with no pay. I'm nervous because I have to deliver to the Philly Auto show tomorrow and I might get told to go home afterwards and call on Monday for a load.

 

Don't tell anyone that I can give sensible advice. I have a reputation to keep. I kinda made some of our drivers mad this morning. There were 8 of us waiting to unload cars at the Philly Convention Center for the car show. Everyone in the joint had 8 am appointments! Since I only live 20 minutes away I slept until 7 and showed up around 750. Last one to show and the first one empty. It didn't matter when you got there, they were unloading according to the floor plan. Since they wanted Mercedes before BMW, I was empty around noon and the BMW trucks weren't even going to get up the ramp until late afternoon!! BMW was going to be the last cars they wanted in because their booth was next to the loading entrance. Sucked to be them. Oh well, the bright side for those guys is when we go back to pick up cars, they will be the first ones out and I'll be there until midnite!!

Oh ya, anyway, the breakdown pay is basically 132.00 a day. Could be better, but better than nothing.

 

Maybe he will get lucky and they will put him in an 8 pack. I heard that Greer is real quiet right now. The loads that are coming out of there are real ugly. They aren't much prettier up here that's for sure. I have an ugly 3 way to Long Island for Monday morning. I hope the new X6 get released soon. I've been itching to get down to Greer.