FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Knucklehead · Jun 22, 2017

What's a psp?

ncmickey · Jun 22, 2017

Tennesseahawk said: ↑

What's a psp?
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runningman0661 · Jun 22, 2017

For being down for 2.5 days due to breakdown they are going to pay me $394.64. Not to shabby for a company driver. Picked up in Lincoln, went back to Freightliner to get more essentials out of the truck, got to talking with the mechanic working on my truck, asked when he thought he would be finished making the repairs, he said close of business today. WTF? I guess I will be moving back into that truck on the way back from California.

runningman0661 · Jun 23, 2017

The O/O that picked me up Wednesday and carried me back to Fremont, told me about this killer burrito joint I needed to tryout in Heber City, Utah. So I stopped in today, Holy $&@! they have amazing burritos, I got a Carne Asada burrito for lunch and a breakfast burrito for in the morning. The drive on US 189 was incredible, that will definitely be a regular grubbing spot for me.

runningman0661 · Jun 26, 2017

Sitting here in Ontario, California getting unloaded and reloaded in the same door, going right back to Lincoln, Nebraska for Wednesday morning. From there I should be getting something towards the house. I had hometime scheduled for July 1st-3rd, because my daughter who is in the Navy is getting ready to leave for a four year stint in Yokosuka, Japan. With my breakdown last week I had given up hope of getting home as scheduled, because I agreed to go out West to try and make up for 3 days of being down, but it looks like by dispatcher is going to make it happen.

Frank Speak · Jun 26, 2017

I just looked up Heber City. That's off the beaten path. Lol

I LOVE Mexican food and I go through Utah all the time (I drive for May Trucking) so I had to see where these great burritos were. Lol

Btw, I was in North Platte last night at the Love's (exit 179). In Concordia, MO tonight. I'm pacing myself as I don't deliver until 8:30 Friday night in Jacksonville, FL. Left Salem, OR Friday with load. Another 3000 mile week. I avg. 2950 including home time.

Speaking of great Mexican food, I used to go to Laredo, TX quite a bit and there was a little hole in the wall truck stop on 59 south of Houston that had KILLER street tacos.

p.s. I like your thread. I enjoy reading threads where the poster is positive, and can actually construct a proper sentence.

JohnBoy · Jun 26, 2017

Frank Speak said: ↑

I just looked up Heber City. That's off the beaten path. Lol

I LOVE Mexican food and I go through Utah all the time (I drive for May Trucking) so I had to see where these great burritos were. Lol

Btw, I was in North Platte last night at the Love's (exit 179). In Concordia, MO tonight. I'm pacing myself as I don't deliver until 8:30 Friday night in Jacksonville, FL. Left Salem, OR Friday with load. Another 3000 mile week. I avg. 2950 including home time.

Speaking of great Mexican food, I used to go to Laredo, TX quite a bit and there was a little hole in the wall truck stop on 59 south of Houston that had KILLER street tacos.

p.s. I like your thread. I enjoy reading threads where the poster is positive, and can actually construct a proper sentence.
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And know where to put a period, along with an occasional paragraph.

JohnBoy · Jun 26, 2017

runningman0661 said: ↑

Sitting here in Ontario, California getting unloaded and reloaded in the same door, going right back to Lincoln, Nebraska for Wednesday morning. From there I should be getting something towards the house. I had hometime scheduled for July 1st-3rd, because my daughter who is in the Navy is getting ready to leave for a four year stint in Yokosuka, Japan. With my breakdown last week I had given up hope of getting home as scheduled, because I agreed to go out West to try and make up for 3 days of being down, but it looks like by dispatcher is going to make it happen.
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Jason, I had no idea your daughter is in the service. Tell her there's some people she's never met wishing her the best, and thank her for her service.

bzinger · Jun 26, 2017

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FCC is based out of Fremont, Nebraska. The have a dry van and a flatbed division, with three different divisions, Mid-West regional, South West regional, and the long haul fleet. Living in SC I am only eligible for the long haul division. They have approximately 360 tractors, almost 2/3 of those are either O/O's or L/P drivers, with the rest being straight company drivers. I started here 3 months ago, and wanted to wait at least 90 days before starting this thread to get a decent feel for how things are done here.

Orientation is 2.5 days, depending on where you live, they will offer to fly you in for orientation. I wanted to rent a car so I could bring most of my gear with me, and hit the ground running after orientation. They reimbursed me the full amount for the rental, and had someone pick me up at the Omaha airport. Our orientation class had 4 people including myself, the other 3 drivers went in the Southwest division.

Most of the drivers can be home weekly if they run either regional division. I have been staying out about a month at time, but this time I'm going going home after 3 weeks. In three months I have run 39, 156 miles on the odometer, with 36, 972 of those being paid miles. I have averaged 3081 paid miles per week.

On the Longhaul fleet, I usually pull a load out of the SC coming out of the house headed to Nebraska, then pick up a load out of Nebraska headed to the West coast. I have been to Oregon, Washington, and California coming out of Nebraska. Usually reload from the West coast headed right back to the Midwest. My average length of haul has been 1506 miles, and they have a great customer base, the majority of the stuff I have done thus far has been has been drop and hook. When I have had to live load/ unload it has been a painless process. In three months I have only had to put in for detention once.

They mostly run freightliner midroof cascadias, they have a few Volvos, internationals, and a few Peterbuilts in the fleet. All trucks have refrigerators, Apus, flatscreen tv mounts, and inverters. Company trucks are governed at 65 mph. The trucks and trailers are well maintained, and as long as you communicate with the shop, and tell them when you will be through the terminal, they get you in and pretty quick.

Things I like so far, small company feel, every person I have dealt with in the office has been great. Well maintained equipment, no micromanagement, they send me my load, and leave me alone. Average length of haul, and our running lanes.

I will try and update this thread weekly, any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
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Thanks for the good thread and keep it going ! My best buddy was at fcc many years ( deceased)...RIP jim Monaghan .

Knucklehead · Jun 26, 2017

JohnBoy said: ↑

And know where to put a period, along with an occasional paragraph.
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