highway transport

trying to find some more info also...

 

Have you performed a search on them?

 

I work for highway transports, what you wanna know

 

Well, im a otr driver out of chattanooga and everything you was told i was told, now i dont know any thing about their croydon yard, but im been doing a lots of sitting, but you do get paid for it, i cant say to much because i just started working for them too, but they do seem to be a alright company and on your training, it will be after midnite, every nite.

 

I was a Driver trainer for them. I left in 97 because the terminal I ran out of in Reserve La. was going to be closed because the main Customer for them here was Union Carbide, which was bought out by Dow.

Anyway They were a heck of a good Company then. I had one of the first new Mack's when they changed from Fright-shakers. You got paid for everything you did. At the time you were paid $17.00 per hour for loading & unloading. I was getting .38ctm loaded and empty. 50 % was empty, you would normally dead head to the nearest terminal when you unloaded.
We were paid $ 12.00 per hour for tank wash, $ 12.00 per hour layover waiting for your next load 8 hours out of 24. And 99% of the time that was at a terminal. Except in Jersey City which was at a tank wash ( that place sucked ) You could use the tractor to go were you wanted. One time in Jersey City 8 of us Bobtail to liberty park and spent the day at the big green Lady in the Harbor. Most of the time layovers were over the week end. Loads were assigned on a first in basis and you got to chose which load you wanted, but if you were the last and there was only one load left guess what you got. lol
But all in all They were a good place to work after you were there a while you got to know everyone and they you. You were not just some driver.
I would still be with them if they had not had to close the Terminal here.