Goodbye tankers, hello flatbeds

Well, my time with A&R Transport has come to an end and I start with Maverick next week. Probably bad timing with the holidays and all, but it had to be done.

A&R was an excellent company 2 years ago when I started there. I'm not going to piss and moan about A&R, but the final straw was 4 breakdowns in 2 weeks and not getting paid a penny for waiting on the truck and sitting beside the highway for many hours. Their trucks might look good, but they are not being maintained anywhere near where they should be. They have even decided that they can go 50k between oil changes!!??

So I start with Maverick next week. All I have heard about them has been good. All their drivers seem to be reasonably happy. Of course, you can't please everybody.

I enjoyed pulling tanks and will probably go back to it eventually, but for now it's going to be flatbeds. Any advice anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

 

Well, it's a story about the new trucks. A&R started a reefer division up in Joliet. Unfortunately all the freight that they had planned to pull fell through. They had a bunch of the International and Freightliner trucks ordered just for that division. When everything fell through they sent them out into the fleet. Texas drivers got most of the Internationals, whereas new hires got the Freightliners. Leaving many long time drivers still driving 700k mile trucks. More unhappy people.

Thanks for the replies. It will certainly be different than tankers