Two Team Students Looking for Decent Company

If you can get on with ConWay it would be far and away the best option of any of those companies listed.

As new drivers you have no business being in a truck with anyone but a trainer. You're about to find out that operating a truck OTR is quite a bit different than whatever you learned in a truck driving school.

Good luck,

Jim

 

From what i was Told Wiley Sanders is about to have another layoff again. They laid 175 people off last year at christmas but there a descent company good luck. Also you MIGHT be lucky to get 1500-2000 miles a week

 

I'm a green teamer as well and I'd love to hear how you two are working out with your new job there at FFE. I'm training now and have a team/partner and hope everything is going as planned. How many miles are they giving you, how long was your trainer with you before your team was back together, and what is your mileage pay. Also are you O/O or not?
Thanks everyone else for your suggestions as this is precisely the question I wanted to ask the forum. I'm not quite sure if I want to try O/O to start with (and frankly have been advised numerously not to) but I love the idea of making more to start and my partner and I want to modify our truck to run with a Propane Booster for MPG gains and I feel a company would frown on that being done on one of their trucks, even if it DID increase MPG's. SAY We're crazy...its o.k. we know it too.

 

O/O ? Where are you buying your truck ? A lease operator is NOT an O/O .
Propane booster .

 

I love this little laugher here thanks, its so cute. O wow I can get my own, COOL!!! anyway, I'm not planning to lease, (and just now realized that "THAT" is what they are doing) my initial plan is " Since I don't want even a slight possibility of breaking down in the first month of being a trucker, I figured I would just bite the bullet and pay RYDER their $400/week plus $.08/mile until I get established and feel that the company is for me/us and then I'll buy a decent used truck, or lease a decent one, if that's possible, though it seems that is real rare. It seems new leasee's just take on the trucking company's old junk trucks and pay through the nose for them. I would probably end up paying the exact same over a few months especially if the leased old truck needs a tranny or engine. At Ryder I just pay the $2200 month rental and drive a sweet newer truck. Hopefully the newer Ryder will get better MPG's that may offset the added cost of payments, though thats wishful thinking, i'm sure.
Safe to say you are a neysayer on the propane booster for fuel mileage gain. Simple matter of fact. Propane costs $1.40/gallon and is sucked into the air filter as a gas, mixes in with the air/fuel mixture and since its a high octane fuel it burns slowly with the end result being a complete burn in the combustion chamber resulting in a more efficient and cleaner burn process. Since diesel is $3/gallon, I'll use 80% diesel and 20% propane. Since we burn diesel and get 6mpg we pay $.50/mile. But if 20% of my fuel costs $1.40 or (at 6mpg) $.0466/mile & 80% for diesel at $3 or $.50/mile X 80% = $.40 plus $.0466 you could see that if there's NO increased efficiency by using 20% propane, I would save 5+ cents per mile or 100,000 miles would cost $50,000. but with the propane booster I'd pay $44,666 for fuel, AGAIN IF THERE'S No INCREASED EFFICIENCY. But since there is documented increased efficiency with its use, somewhere in the neighborhood of 8%-15% depending on the engine and how it is driven, then the savings would be increased.
In fact, at a cost of $3000 including the 110 gallon propane tank installed on my/your truck, it would in fact pay for itself easily within the first year if not in 6-7 months. It is known fact as well that at CUMMINS WESTPORT in their san diego - Phoenix corridor that they use the cummins diesel ISX engine that is modified to burn a mere 5%diesel and 95% natural gas and it amazingly gets the SAME MPG's as a diesel only truck same spec's. TRaditionally everyone felt (believed) that since diesel has more BTU's per gallon (GGE) that there is NO FRIKKING WAY it could get the same MPG's, but their #'s don't lie. There is in fact increased efficiency using natural gas or propane with a diesel engine. AFter carefully determining that my midwest runs wouldn't allow me to refuel as much as i would need to using a natural gas (not CNG but rather LNG) truck because of lack of infrastructure available now in the midwest, I've decided to go with the extensively supported infrastructure of Propane for my fuel. More later after you pose some questions. Bring it on...