FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Dispatchers were nice enough at Schneider but the load planners didn’t know their ### from a hole in the ground and equipment was subpar at best. You know how FCC tries to get their trailers in every couple months? Schneider services them yearly. You know how we take our trucks in so often for PM’s? Schneider saw them maybe twice a year at best. And then there’s the pay which would take too long to get into

and then they wonder why they have such chronic turnover

 

I seem to recall not all that long ago that the ability to speak and read English was a prerequisite to receiving a CDL.

 

funny thing is that there were 5 other people in my class when i went to my CDL school and all of them were Americans. Although it was a private CDL school in a smaller town in northern Michigan

 

Morton has never been quick. Spent many a day there waiting to load back in my flatbed days. Leave out at 3-4pm and truck all night to make delivery in Burlington WA before they closed the next day.

 

Yeah, I’m sorry you had to do Morton.

 

Is that the place you have to go through a “safety” briefing before they let you in the gate?

 

Back then (early 2000’s) had to do some safety crap and then get a card to show them to get in. It used to be FCFS and everyone would show up at the same time to load because we all just unloaded in SLC. If you could get unloaded early and beat the rush it wasn’t bad, but I’d hate to total up the hours I spent at that place over 10 years of flatbedding.

 

Last paycheck and this coming paycheck i will have grossed $4,580 in two weeks. Not too shabby for a dry van company driver