Chief Carriers reviews

Overall solid company. Certainly not perfect but they do try and people care. I think they care and try harder than most carriers. I would recommend to any driver with a clean record and solid work ethic. Not for lazy drivers or super truckers.

In 38 years this is the best place I've worked. I have been here for 5 years, and have been shown nothing but respect.

I was here from 2007-2012, known as the large car paper logbook days. Pay was abysmal, "top" drivers made a paltry 35 cents a mile. During the 08 recession, company froze all raises for drivers yet spend tens of thousands of dollars on trips for customers who purchased buildings. Yup, screw the guys hauling the buildings but take your customers on 25k dollar deep sea fishing trips...good strategy. The management at the time played a$$ kiss politics and enjoyed pitting drivers against each other, kiss enough butt and you got a long hood Peterbilt, didn't matter if you were the top earner, you kissed the wrong a$$ and you got a worn out Freightliner Classic. They also loved to rub it in a drivers face, the almighty "high miler awards", in those days we had guys staying on the road 3-4 months and 4-5 days home and somehow the guys who lived in Nebraska and were home every other weekend received the "high miler" awards. Politics. I left when the original owner was pushed out of the company by his penny pinching kids. Gone were the large car trucks and paper logbooks, replaced by cheap International Pro Stars and used Werner trucks out of Lincoln. The paper logs went bye bye when a driver killed a family in North Dakota in a blizzard, driving 70mph. DOT put an end to the outlaw days. All the old school, million mile safe drivers left when it was discovered that existing drivers with a decade or more service to Grand Island Contract Carriers/Chief Carriers were still earning below 40 cents a mile and new hires were coming in at 50+ cents a mile. We were the crew that built the company, Big Ed, Rabbit, Texas Red, Roadhammer, Big Rick, Bruce, Bear and many more hard working, hard driving SOBs. The last thing I want to say is, Chief was featured in an article claiming that they want drivers out 290 days, the pay averages 2,350$ a week and at 42 weeks of solid running, they are putting 6 figures in the drivers pockets... ???? sure they are. We barely had guys taking home 800$ after taxes on paper logs with their politics in the office.

I’m almost 18 yrs OTR I have never worked for a company like Cheif,your not a number your a name,and they all get to know you and your family in a personal basis,your truck NEVER comes out of the shop broke like other companies,EVERYONE from the manager to dispatch care about your miles because of your not making money Cheif is not making money.

They will never let you sit,free XM radio,everyone from the President down is willing to help you,trucks are superb,seeing one of their trucks in the shop is odd because they are so well maintained