I hate Tyson, I HATE Tyson, I HATE TYSON!

Oh yeah! We drove for JCT and used to pull tyson out of OK to La, CA. Been to the one in Tn too! It's funny they can only get convicts to work there.

 

If ya'll wont go back to Tyson, that's more miles not brokered away from us company haulers (not to mention dinged up trailers, stolen load locks or stolen new trailer tires. Not saying who GReatwide.)

Pretty good to drive for. 3000-3500 avg week miles. None of the out forever crap. I'm home everyother weekend, no exceptions. Excellent Dispatch !! Great insurance, etc. Longest wait at plant is probably 12 hours. Some are crappy. Temperanceville ring any memories? Exceptions are Internationals. 222,000 miles and have had 6 breakdowns. (speed sensor on auto trans, fuel solenoid, broken hose where coolant runs through apu, spilling ALL your coolant, etc.) On a final note, we are going elogs and 65mph.

 

Bottom line on Tyson and Any finished meat producer that has its own trucks....the outside carrier will more times than not be the last to be loaded. Why do outside carriers continue to line up for these loads? Reasons vary, but you can be assured that they aren't sitting there for free..YOU the driver may be,..no matter what kind of lies your company is feeding you. Sometimes these sit-arounds are being compensated by the hour, or come with a flat $150 to 4 or5 hundred dollar demurrage amount attached to the move...

 

i'm almost afraid to ask... but what does tyson produce that gets hauled out in tankers?

 

Affectionately known as liquid chicken

 

I haul alot of hot chicken fat out of Foster Farms in Livingston, CA. They use it to flavor dog food. We also haul the blood out to a waste water treatment plant in Oakland. Tyson likely has the same thing going.

 

Uh Tyson chicken feet go to China it's a delicacy over there.....

The place we don't haul for anymore is Ken's Foods....they don't understand appointments at all. Not spending a whole day because they set an appointment but then it's never held by the company.

 

Only had to go to a Tyson plant once. Wasn't bad at all...... Admittedly I was just dropping off a trailer loaded with pallets (Walulla, WA)

The crappy part was my empty trailer was waiting over on the fringes of the employee parking lot. Finished hooking to it and started to pull out just as everyone was getting off of work. Good GOD that was the worst parking lot traffic jam I have ever been in. Didn't help that all the "polite" workers kept cutting each other off, passing in stupid places, and two almost clipped the front of my tractor.