Saia

Bump, need info too

 

Might want to specify p&d, local, or line haul .
Also check the LTL forum.

 

Pronounced 'sigh-ya'. Very solid outfit, I believe. CSA for Vehicle Maintenance surprisingly high, 48.4%, Driver Safety 7.4% (and I'm sure they intend to keep it there), HOS 16.2%. So there are some issues with the age, maintenance of their fleet. Far below Alert-level, tho.

See: http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/carrier.aspx?enc=m+09n+cvAao=

Crash numbers on par with Gordon if you account for size difference. 2000 truck Gordon has 132 reportables in last two years. 3645 truck Saia has 283 reportables. Gordon Vehicle Maintenance 21.6%. (The lower, the better.)

 

I get at least 2 emails a week from them with p&d spots in nashville. I know they have a large turnover rate there. Secretary for company I drove for said her husband was terminal manager there but left them and went back to driving for someone else. Never know until you try though. It just might be the right fit for you.

 

35 reviews on glassdoor from clerks to linehaul drivers (who make $65-$85 grand).

See: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Saia-Motor-Freight-Salaries-E15285.htm

 

If it wasn't such a long drive for me I think I might go with them. 85 miles one way too much to be doing daily.

 

Rent a good-quality sleeping room there for $300 a month, tow. You'll be home a lot more often than you are now. That's the mistake I made with Mid-States Express in '08, the terminal that next door to Gordon on Dividend.

50-mile drive morning and night and then 10-14 driving PU/DEL was way too much. Boy! Was I cranky. Boss pulled me in one day to chew me out for 16-hour day picking up his freight at dispatch's pleading. Gave him written notice the same day. He all but harassed me, insisting that I couldn't quit the whole time thereafter. I said I could and I would. And I did.

But for a few hundred bucks could have had a sleeping room in Indy and kept the job. Well, they were failing and went out of business anyway.

Never occurred to me at the time. Sleeping room.

Larger than a Cascadia, too.

Bring your own mattress, if you want. : 0)

Hell, invite the wife over mid-week for mid-week whoopie.

Dinner and a movie in Nashville. What's not to like?

 

Think linehaul starts at .45cpm tops out at .55cpm after 3 yrs. Meet and turns home daily. Drop and hook.

 

I can't find any info on this company all I have found was a local add saying 46.5 cent a mile they won't let you talk to a HR Driver Recruiter so any info in linehaul home time would be fine is any one has any info