My new career with Superior Carriers begins!

So far they have been extremely flexible on home time for me. Whenever I have asked to be back in they have always gotten me back on time and typically a day early. They have never questioned my amount of time off and I have taken a bunch off. Mostly for family stuff. I can say they are definitely a family oriented company.

 

Well, we got another raise effective in October. Will be making .50cpm loaded now. No raise on the empty but we are getting 3% on the hourly rate.

 

I don't know if I would like getting paid by percentage. At least getting paid by the mile, we get paid both ways. I imagine with percentage, if you aren't loaded you aren't making anything.

 

Well we have lost a few good drivers due to equipment. I know Superior is working to get the trucks changed out as quick as possible. My ProJunk is having issues again and will need to go back to the shop. Getting tired of it myself but hoping we will get some new trucks before the end of the year and hopefully I will be on the list for one of them.

I am seriously tired of the slow speeds and lack of pulling power our trucks have. 64mph is a joke out there on the highways when everyone else is running 70mph. I don't want to quit the company but these slow trucks have me seriously considering it. Corporate, if you are reading this please turn the trucks back up. You are not saving any fuel and if anything creating a road hazard with the slow trucks. We constantly get caught up in traffic because the trucks are too slow to get out of the way. 35mph up Monteagle is just insane and dangerous. One of us is going to get rear ended one day. I could go on. Ask some of the drivers here. They will tell you the same thing.

 

Yep, still running dedicated. I will probably be on that indefinitely since one of main Dow guys is retiring in December. I will fall in his slot. I have also been running a lot of out and back dedicated to Kay Chemical and Sun Products. So it is nice to have things switched up like that. Breaks up the monotony.

I have not heard much out of the Pete trucks because they are so few but I have heard about the Macks. They seem to have some issues as well. Leaking sleeper tops, a/c quit working, 12 volt outlets not working, etc. I have not heard of any major mechanical issues though. I have heard they pull better on hills than the ProJunks.