FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

just_sayin · Mar 27, 2018

No kidding, I was there 3 times this week.

runningman0661 · Mar 27, 2018

just_sayin said: ↑

No kidding, I was there 3 times this week.
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Ugh, living just outside of Charlotte I once worked for a company that had me in Kennesaw, Ga three or four times a week. If you weren’t rolling south towards the loop by 1500, you would fight traffic for hours. I don’t miss that on a weekly basis.

just_sayin · Mar 27, 2018

runningman0661 said: ↑

Ugh, living just outside of Charlotte I once worked for a company that had me in Kennesaw, Ga three or four times a week. If you weren’t rolling south towards the loop by 1500, you would fight traffic for hours. I don’t miss that on a weekly basis.
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just_sayin · Mar 27, 2018

Yeah it sucks I'm about had my fill of it. I was detained again as usual, they got my load done right it 1600. And I'm like nah, I'll wait till tonight

just_sayin · Mar 27, 2018

Guess I will call it a night, unload tomorrow in Chicago no pre-plan. Running man I will watch for you out there, I probably won't be pulling an FCC trailer but you know what my truck looks like. Have a good night everybody

Drivingotr4life · Mar 28, 2018

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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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3000 miles a week helps yeah. What would they pay me with just under 2 years experience cpm? Any bonusus

Gregmw28 · Mar 28, 2018

Drivingotr4life said: ↑

3000 miles a week helps yeah. What would they pay me with just under 2 years experience cpm? Any bonusus
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41 or 42,and every quarter you get a 4 cent bonus for every mile dispatched on..

runningman0661 · Mar 28, 2018

So stopped to take a 30 minute break in Texhoma, and my Qualcomm took a dump. They tried remotely rebooting, no luck. Then they had me unplug the main power source from the black box, still nothing. So I guess I’m on paper until I get back to Fremont.

radioshark · Mar 29, 2018

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So stopped to take a 30 minute break in Texhoma, and my Qualcomm took a dump. They tried remotely rebooting, no luck. Then they had me unplug the main power source from the black box, still nothing. So I guess I’m on paper until I get back to Fremont.
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Isn’t that a shame.

runningman0661 · Mar 30, 2018

Unloaded yesterday in Arlington, Arizona about 1430. Reloading this morning in Claypool, Arizona going to Ft.Wayne, Indiana, with a stop in Council Bluffs to get the Qualcomm replaced.

Looking at the map, I’m going to run US60 from Claypool to Show Low, and pick up 77 on up to Holbrook. I’ve never run that way before, should be interesting.

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