Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home
Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by JohnBoy, Apr 10, 2013.
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I was told I wasn’t the only one sitting though sometimes Im paranoid thinking they are trying to run me off/make me quit. If anything Id rather go local if had to leave here.
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I’m near Columbus, OH tonight. There is a Knight Refrigerated a few spots over from me, of course Knight has a yard nearby, so does Swift I believe.
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As for freight, feels like we do a lot less in the way of broker loads these days. When I started with Abilene, and for a good while after, they'd send me out of the yard with a contract load, then bounce me around a bit with brokers, maybe get me close to another contract customer. I could go out from Richmond and stay out until it was time for hometime 3 weeks later.
These days, feels like most of what we do is contract stuff, no brokers. Just direct customers, either from us or from Knight-Swift. And if there's no loads involving a direct customer, we wind up twiddling our thumbs. And it's a lot more of the out-and-back drives. Leave Richmond, deliver, come back to Richmond. Leave Richmond, deliver, come back to Richmond.Friend, jarhead0311 and Knucklehead Thank this. -
I was up in Wisconsin a week ago. They let me stew for a bit but eventually gave me a pick up in Kenosha, to be delivered to the WalMart warehouse a mile from the Swift yard in Columbus.Friend, Knucklehead and jarhead0311 Thank this. -
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Broker loads suck! Most of the time heavy crap loads, horrible facilities you have to pickup & deliver to, be happy with Customer freight. A Company that has steady Customers is way better believe me. We as drivers lose so much time & money by jumping from Company to Company
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And word on the street says that we've hired 30 new drivers over the past few weeks. Our driver retention rate must be abysmal.
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