Need input from current KLLM drivers

Hey Big Al C how are things going still with KLLM?

 

That sounds good. I'm getting ready to goto school, just trying to do some researching on different companies. So they treat you fairly well? Do you have to have HAZMAT? Hows the equipment? Thanks for responding, just trying to figure out who to go with.

 

Thank Big Al C. Do you need your hazmat, before or during training? Do they have perdiem? Do you have to take it? Thats really good you got it off today instead of tommorrow.

 

im thinking of going with kllm talked to them and they sounded decent alot better than the other companies what do kllm drivers think

 

Probably a bad question for me to tackle today but....

Right now I'm pissed beyond comprehension...

I came out to California with a load to drop in Victorville. I was just coming back from hometime and it was a nice easy run with plenty of time so that I could ease back into things.
UNTIL....
The load planner q'comms me Saturday afternoon wanting me to drop the load Sunday morning instead of Tuesday morning because he has another load he needs to put me on Sunday afternoon.
So I shuck butt and drop the load in Victorville Sunday morning and run down to Fontana to pick up this other load which is going to Ohio. I think I've scored pretty good and am happy. I get to Ludlow before I run out of hours for the day.
I wake up the next morning to the message that I need to get to Needles to swap out. I am NOT happy about this but I comply. The load I get is going to L.A. and can be dropped whenever I get it there. So..I run down and drop it and go to the yard.

This morning I wake up to a q'comm message with a load that picks up in L.A. and has THREE drops on it tomorrow in N. Cal. I'm not trying to hear that...I'm not running all over California. A lot of drivers ##### about not getting California loads...they can have mine. I hate this place. Apparently everything goes into the state via S. Cal. but nothing leaves except out of N. Cal. (so they tried to tell me this morning...).
So...after me telling them NO *five* times on this load, they finally figured out I was NOT taking it.
THEN they send me a load with two pick-ups in East L.A. going to Phoenix. I hate L.A. with a passion but it will get me out of Cali so I take it.

I get to the first shipper and it is this s***hole little "facility" (if you can even call it that...) on a tiny, narrow road. The instructions say to park on the right side of the road and the shipper forklifts the freight out to the truck. Lovely plan....except.....THERE IS NOWHERE TO PARK ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD! There are cars parked solid along the right curb.
I look around and there is no curb space big enough for me to park this 70 foot truck....none. So, I pass on by and call the shipper. I get the secretary who proceeds to tell me that she was just out there and that there is PLENTY of space to park and that I should "just make a u-turn" and come back up the street and park across thier driveway.
Thier driveway is 40 foot wide and has cars parked along the curb on either side of it. I'm not even going to TOUCH the "just make a u-turn" comment...sure thing babe....NOOOOO Problemo....idiot....

All of this leads to calls between me, my dispatcher and the shipper with the end result being that I said a whole lotta words my parents would scrub my mouth out with bleach just for THINKING and took my little *** back to the yard. My dispatcher said he was going to get with customer service and I have not heard a word from anyone.

So I just wasted 150 miles worth of fuel for NOTHING and I'm pissed (and that is putting it mildly..). I have also blown an entire day. This will be the LAST California load I ever take....don't give a d*** if I have to sit for a week waiting for something else. The fact is that they could have just had me deadhead up to Salinas and get a Fresh Express load instead of putting me through all of this bull**** and drama, wasting my time and my fuel.

More and more lately, it seems like the right hand has no bloody idea what the left hand is doing in this company.

18 months and counting until I get off of "Trucker Plantation"...

RT

 

There are very few company drivers left to take the crap runs! We came so close to falling into the LP trap!....we were sad to leave but as a company team the 500 mile runs with 2 to 3 stops or 2600 mile weeks were unacceptable! We have moved over to Con-way Truckload and are
Happy...happy..happy!!!!

 

anything new in the trucking world freight anybetter

 

ya, stay away from reefer companys, you will personally pay a steep price, just look at transam under bad trucking companys, they where good back in the 90's, now you will pay dearly, stay with large dry box company's with lots of drop and hook