Year up in 5 months is Conway in Ohio a good choice?

Sounds like you need a job with Con-way Freight.

 

Brother, since you ask, I would say "no way"! I just resigned from Conway Truckload 4 days ago and I am moving on to another company. The main problem was the lack of miles. Average pay, about $500.00 to $700.00 a week BEFORE deductions. And that for working 7 days a week, up to 14 hours a day. I was there for 9 months and the entire time that I was there, I averaged about 2200 miles a week or less. Plus, the truck that I was given had alot of miles on it and it was breaking down alot (twice a month in the shop for 2-3 days at a time). I communicated with my FM, Road Service, Truck assignments and even the upper echelons in Joplin... nothing ever changed. For what its worth, I had a perfect safety and service record. I hear Conway was a good company to work for at one time; not now. Not for me. Is there a perfect company? No. But I cannot take care of my family on $500.00 to $700.00 a week. Especially if I have to be away from them for sometimes months at a time. Best thing is to physically talk to a Conway Truckload driver in person; preferably several, and make your decision from there. Good luck!

 

Just from my observation, theyre using truckload to shuttle conway freight's freight..So its really short term runs. Conway freight is ok, but it all depends on where you go.

Most likely youll be home every night but you could end up sitting on a forklift for more hours than you drive. Pay is also decent depending on region, so give them a try. Last I checked they had over 100 driver openings across the country

 

Cudafish:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ttention-all-rookies-wannabes-local-jobs.html

 

Union Hacks,,thats 2 threads down

 

So are you unemployed and looking?? or have you cuaght on somewhere else?,hope it all works for yah out there ,but what you were saying is pretty typical of CWTL and the rest of the TL companys out there,,but im curious to know as to where you decided to go

 

If you want to be home every night/day your looking for Conway Freight. You have a choice of City P&D or night Linehaul running doubles. You will need Hazmat and Double/Triple endorsements to work at Freight.

The Columbus terminal has around 145 drivers with bids based on seniority. New drivers will start on a flex board for either day(city) or night(linehaul) depending on what you bid when you start. The city flex drivers are on call and will fill in for call offs or extra volume/routes etc. and if freight is slow they will be called in to work the dock. Night flex drivers have a set start time but if freight is slow they will just work the dock. It takes about 6 months to a year to get a bid with a set start time.

City drivers are paid hourly and work about 10 hours a day with a couple of those hours working the dock on a forklift. They start as early as 5am and all they way up to 10:30am.

Linehaul drivers work around 12-14 hours a night getting paid mileage for driving and hourly for hooking sets and dock time. They start between 6pm and 8pm and can finish as late as 10am the next day. Linehaul runs average between 200 to 450 miles a night. The less you drive the more dock time you will get. Linehaul drivers make about 20k more per year but also work around 70 hours a week.

I've been here around a year now and its been a great company to work for. It all depends on the size of your terminal with bids and seniority. I've heard it takes a long time at the smaller ones to get a good linehaul bid or city start time.

Any other questions just ask and I will try and help.

 

Sorry to add, need to get post count up to PM. I'm a board stalker that wants to come out of the closet.

 

anyone else have any miles input for TL? Equipment info? I was approved Fri to head to Joplin. Thx