For many years we have been joking about the day we all would be working for one of only a dozen or so companies. Buyouts and mergers are happening at a faster rate than I was aware of recently. It's all very sad.
The End Of A Once Great Company To Work With: Anderson Trucking Service (ATS)
Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by seawind, Apr 13, 2014.
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Pete, the securement instructor at Landstar was just telling a few of us how he had the chance to go to ATS' heavy division, but declined to do so because of how far they had fallen in the last 35 years. Apparently, they used to be an excellent company.
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Pretty much what what happened at a couple of places I worked at...and then there's the owner taking back control of a company, getting back on its feet, then those same greedy kids either sell it out from the owner or shut it's doors. -
......what you describe is what's going on at the vast majority of truckload carriers today - most of the drivers today are either too inexperienced, too young, or too stupid to remember what trucking was like before all of this garbage started taking over the industry within the past 5 to 10 years......they have no clue. The only way these new morons in management can be stopped is if enough drivers report them and make it clear to them that their crap won't be tolerated by other drivers....
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Drivers are the same today as they have ever been. Good God had the internet been around in the seventies the guys who started in the fifties would have been on here complaining about "drivers these days". My dad was a trucker and I remember riding with him in the summer and aside from a lot more c.b chatter and pay phones not a great lot has changed. No, other drivers didn't stop when a truck was on the side of the road, they had appointments to make. New drivers still couldn't back well, they couldn't trip plan well. Drivers called other driver idiots and there was always that one guy on the radio talking about the "back when I started" crap. It was the same game, be on time and don't hit anything.
The generalizations about this industry kill me! Every company I have been with has had great younger drivers, terrible younger drivers, great older drivers and terrible older drivers. Everything evolves and changes over time. I try and stay vigilant because I don't want to become that old guy in a rocking chair yelling at the "kids these days" They were yelling that back in the day and what do you know different old guys are yelling it now.
Also, aren't you that guy who thought I was a manger at Bay and Bay or something?KeithT1967, xsetra, Rooster1291979 and 3 others Thank this. -
Companies grow and grow? Schneider used to have over 15,000 drivers in van alone, that number was way down when I left a year ago. They use to have over 1500 in bulk, we had less than 800 when I left. You can be too big, everything grows and shrinks. Companies make moves when they feel they can and scale back when they can't maintain. Constantly feeling for that sweet spot, which is itself constantly changing. They have been predicting the end of capitalism for a very long time my friend. Bet against it at your own peril.
Companies get run into the ground every day. Companies are formed and grow every day. It's a cycle. It's business, it's life. Hardly a bubble which is in dire straights and about to burst. -
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i talked to a recruiter at ats last year and he kinda gave the vibe like he didnt give dam whether he hired a driver or not so i never called back and glad i didnt .
i was at dart from 87 to 92 and they are proof positive of how the next generation can take the helm of a good company and run it into the ground ...also saw the same thing when i was at cornhusker moter lines RIP . -
I agree on the third generation running the company into the ground, seen it many times.
I have also seen many first generation companies fail.
The common problem I see in both cases is does the boss actually still drive a truck?
When the bosses ask drivers to drive trucks they themselves won't drive there are problems.
In many of the "problem" companies I see the management has no real concept of what they
are asking their employees to do. When employees complain the complaints are dismissed
because the boss doesn't really understand what the driver goes through.
I am not personally aquainted with the ATS company but based on the reports I have
seen I suspect the original owner actually drove a truck. I bet the younger generation
no longer drives, and if they do they have their own special trucks and choice loads. I
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