Ruan transport

They have been all over the Craig’s List here in the Tri Cities area of Eastern Tennessee.

 

Safe to assume he wasn't a great person?

 

My opinion is not very high that family liked to throw money at the City of Des Moines to make themselves look good .. but I did not know him personally.. I have a couple of good friends that worked for Ruan.Transport.. they like others on here have nothing good to say they both got the Christmas parting gift too in 2011 that was mentioned in some posts here

 

Anyone know anything about the Publix dedicated out of Marianna, FL? Im considering applying soon, was curious how long the typical shift is?

 

I drove for RUAN for 5 years @ 3 different terminals.

Grocery delivery out of Seattle on two separate accounts. And Bobcat equipment out of MN.

The grocery work was typical liftgate/pallet jack work. Groceries deliver at night and on Fridays (no saturday here) and Sunday so weekends off are out. Good company and the terminal staff was pretty good. It was Teamsters with a pension. Managers Carl M, Carl G and Steve M couldn't have been better. Very fair and super-duper professional. I hated half the store people at the deliveries (get outta my way and let me work, you're not my boss) and Seattle traffic sucks but that wasn't really a RUAN thing.

Hard work, long and late hours but great staff. Score: 8/10.

I loved the Bobcat work. Seattle to ND with machine parts, then back to Seattle with finished machines. Open delivery appts. Great miles with zero traffic other than Seattle, great equipment to drive and headhauls/backhauls pre-planned days in advance. I never sat waiting, swap pre-loaded trailers and go! Cool supervisors too. Jeff W, Pam H, and Pete O are the best.

Orientation was great, they flew me out, put me in a car with a charge card and a room and paid me for a whole week. Top Notch, no joke. When the truck broke down for 7 days, they put me in a room and paid me $250 per day to sit and wait while the truck was down.

I left at the one year mark because they were getting (IMO) too nit-picky with petty rules about uniforms and load securement. RUAN has a business model to provide best possible service to their accounts. Uniforms and formalities are part of that, but I thought most of it was 'show-boating' by the desk jockeys to make themselves look good by making the drivers jump through hoops. It's not really a typical OTR outfit. I always made it a point to arrive at the ND terminals on the weekend so I wouldn't get hassled about petty issues by the higher-ups. I didn't see a happy future being scolded about glad hands bungied to the catwalk or a minor dress code violation, so I (reluctantly) bounced.

Nowhere better for guys who like to run hard, but old school OTR guys like me may find the whole 'rules' thing too rigid/rulebound. Score: 7/10

 

@Wendall_334, you might get the answers you're looking for about Marianna, FL & Publix via the following Ruan hiring event:


Tue, Mar 29 at 9:40 AM



Join Ruan at our Hiring Event in Marianna!

We are holding a hiring event for our open driving positions hauling for our dedicated customer, Publix! You will get to speak with local management and a Driver Recruiting Specialist about these great driving opportunities. These positions are home daily with no-touch freight!

Where:
Ruan

3851 Family Dollar Pkwy

Marianna, FL 32448

When:


Friday, April 1: 11am to 4pm

Saturday, April 2: 10am to 2pm



RSVP for this event by clicking "Learn More"




--Lual

 

Strange world. I was running veal calves into Rath Packing at Waterloo in say 57. My memory of the name RUAN was a red tanker blowing by me on IA 218 .
Was amazed to go by an outlying road here in Tupelo a few years ago and see vans. Did not think a RUAN tractor would connect with anything other than a tank. Thought of them as a red E Brooke Matlack rig.

 

Not many left that remember Rath.
And I was scraping a birth canal in 57..lol

 

What about Red Owl Food Stores warehouse in Minneapolis? Delivered them lots of grapefruit and oranges from Haines City, FL in the day.
Rath was one of the old original Watkins Motor Lines mainstays. Fruit up, Blackhawk meat products back. Shoot craps in an empty trailer in
Lakeland while laying over.

 

I did RO also. And Gateway foods in Mpls.
I was mostly meat and cheese to the w coast and produce back here or Chicago. Never ran citrus.