Poly Trucking What you need to know !

That ain't good, I hope it gets better

 

That ain't good

Bout Ur miles and Ur not trying. ..lol

 

I'm really suppose to be driving today, I ordered the Simplisafe security system for my shed and have to finish that after while.
And safety hasn't called me yet to tell me I'm back in service. sshh

 

Ive been out 2 months with no breaks ...and I'm still going nowhere
Thats all the trying i've got

Guess i could steal a tank and drive it through the building into
dispatch and demand some good runs

 

Im seriously thinking about getting into the Tour Bus business ...guy i know loves it.
Shuffling old people about the country...Casino Life kind of thing.

I'd go to Magnum but the winter/snow world is whats keeping me away.
No more 80,000 LB ice skating for me

 

at $.50 cpm/hub you are still doing better than most of my months this year. I will just break the $50k mark (gross) and I am paying almost $500/mo for high deductible health insurance for just my wife and I. Oh, but don't tell the Magnum guys I warned you because most of them are like:

 

Yes , i agree , guy was telling me last time i was at GP that of all the working people there ,
the drivers are the best off by far.

 

That's disgusting! Man, you guys put up with a lot of b.s. just to have non forced dispatch and paper logs.

Just goes to show cpm doesn't always tell the whole story.

I'm not stating the following because I'm trying to brag. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just illustrating with real numbers that you have to look at a lot more than just cpm and miles before settling on a home for yourself.

I'm making more than that based on the numbers you posted and I'm at .45 cpm and I average about 2300 miles a week. But, I have 4-7 stops almost every load and that stop pay adds up fast.

I'm rarely at a stop more than 30 mins. In fact, most of the time, it's around 15-20 mins. Sometimes, I have to sit there for a few minutes just to log the required 15 mins for unload.

Additionally, I get paid detention, layover and breakdown, although I've only had to claim detention once for one hour. I've never had to claim layover or breakdown.

Bottom line, easy running (not busting my rear for a check) and never leave the southeast (a HUGE plus to me).

That said, I don't care about JUST the money. I made more money at my last gig, but it was miserable. In fact, based on all I've heard about Poly, my old company and Poly are mirror images of each other, basically, private fleet crap holes with crap fleets that lure you into not so good work places with high cpm.

What I do care about, just as much as a decent pay check, is home time and being treated like they're glad I'm there.

I'm home 2 days a week, a FULL 2 days, not a 34 reset. And, sometimes it's anywhere from 4-12 hours longer. But, never shorter. Most of the time I'm dispatched back to my truck within a few hours after my 2 days.

But, and most important to me, is I truly get treated well. The owner and his family (wife and kids all work there) all know me (and, every other employee) by name.

Just one example of how they treat you:

I had to get a pm done on my truck. The owner's son happen to be standing there when I checked in (he runs the shop). He asked where I was going to sleep because they would have my truck until the afternoon because it was also due to have the DPF filter changed.

I said I'd probably just sack out in the driver lounge. He said "Oh no, you can't get any rest in there. I'm going to find you a truck that you can sleep in for the day". And, he did. He even made sure the APU was on and cooling the truck down before moving me. I got my sleep (I drive at night), woke up to find my truck 50 feet away and off I went.

And, had he not had a truck I could sleep in, he would've sent me down the street to the hotel.

That's what works for me.

Hope your situation gets better man, but take it from someone that used to just chase the money. Crap hole work environments aren't worth it, and they're are great places to work where you can also make decent money.

 

Who do you work for? PM me if that works better. Thanks

 

Which company do you drive for?