Triple Crown Services reviews

 Their good people, just some tricks to dealing with some....

Triple Crown is the only road railer fleet out there. It was a joint venture between Conrail and NS and now that Conrail is gone it's all NS. 

I was out of Fort Worth terminal, but they call it the Dallas terminal. My friends that are still there tell me it's gotten worse. They ding you for over speed on "your" truck, ding you "breaking", (which friends have said it's just when a car pulls out in front of you and you hit your brakes), you'll have to have a talk with safety. Also if you put "your" truck in the shop for any reason, even when you are paying the bill, you have to call and report it to Road Service. As one driver said, he was treated better, and had more freedom when he was a company driver for another company. In the last two weeks I've talked to 5 people that said they were going to quit. The only difference between a company driver and a TCS driver is the TCS driver gets to pay truck expenses and tax out of his own pocket. Average gross reported to me is between $1500 and $2000.

I talked to a driver on Saturday that said it's slow, but he's not going anywhere. He got 2 contracts and 156 miles for the day, but he's at home almost every night. The detention is almost automatic, if you are at a S/R for two hours, you get an extra $20, three hours an additional $30, after four hours it goes to $40 an hour. Not many companies match that detention pay policy.

But your maintenance cost will be about double of an OTR truck. It usually runs about 7 cpm more than an OTR job, and steer tires seldom make it over 75,000 miles, which OTR can see upwards of 200,000. Drives also get about half the mileage as it's mainly city work in rock yards, lots of bumper pins and nails in the yards. TCS will not pay for tires ruined in their yard. Also as most of your miles are run in the city, your fuel mileage will be worse as well.