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Current Employee - Mar 31, 2024

Robert was running it was a great company. Now it's average at best. Driver facing cameras. Paladin (management company) will fire you quick. Lowes loads outbound. Backhaul can be anything. SE regional 95% of freight. Breakdown pay is tough. Have to stay on top of it to get paid. Weekly home time if you need/want. But not going to get but 2k-2.3k miles per week. Average equipment. 67mph. Govern

Pros

Home time. Dispatch nice if you run

Cons

Driver facing cameras. Intended to put you in prison! Make no mistake drivers. It will hang you.

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Current Employee - Mar 16, 2024

I'm really happy at RBI. I haven't had a problem with dispatch or maintenance. We have gotten detention and breakdown pay without a problem. We get all the miles we want. If we need a certain day, whether it is a weekend or weekday they accommodate us. They truly hire you to retire you and we don't plan on going anywhere.

Pros

Professional, caring, good miles

Cons

None I can think of

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Former Employee - Oct 24, 2023

if your lucky you will get maybe 1000 miles, they are in the middle of a restructioning at the office in cairo georgia, and they have let go over 30 drivers in the month of october, due they stated those drivers arent putting in miles on the truck, how can you put miles on the truck when your waiting for loads after a tractor supply load, (they are maybe 200-250 miles and that includes the deadhead, they use to run lowes stores thru the southeastern US but over the last few years they been losing stores. The are very bad at giving you breakdown pay (even when its their fault, their mechanics barely know how to do anything but sit on the butts all day), the yard is a joke, nobody wants to work over the weekends, so the yard becomes a virtual maze to try to drop or pick up trailers, but i think because of the covid-19 hype they got to many drivers, and now they are shedding them as fast as they can find a reason to cut them.

Pros

none

Cons

no work, sad maintenance (everything must be done in valdosta) poor management (i liked it when mr bearden was still running the company, he retired), poor maintained eq, drivers dont want to get trailers/trucks inspected, or have issues fixed on them

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Former Employee - May 8, 2023

This company treats drivers like trash. Talk down to you. Cuss you. Threaten to fire you. They have a screwed up dispatch system, 2 different dispatches. One outbound and one inbound. You only get to pick outbound load. Then the other dispatch gives you what they want and you have no say. They don’t want you home on the weekends. That’s why they word their ads weekly. Fuel stops that make no sense. Forget about maintenance, favorite phrase is “I’ll have to order parts”. I was miserable there from day one! Oh and the so called yard in Valdosta. No shower,drivers room smelled of cigarette smoke. Get ready for a truck full of sand every time you go there.

Pros

Wished I could think of something

Cons

Everything. Worst job I ever had

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Salary Surveys

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Cairo, GA on Mar 31, 2024

$1,231 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Cairo, GA on Mar 16, 2024

$1,200 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Georgia on Oct 24, 2023

$1,442 per week

Current Employee

No

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Cairo, GA on May 8, 2023

$1,000 per week

Current Employee

No

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Tallahassee, FL on Oct 4, 2019

$1,200 per week

Current Employee

No