Skyview Farms

I talked to some of their drivers.I haul a reefer that I own myself,I have seen them in the meat plants like Swift in Grand Island and I know they got thrown out of one other.The rumor is they want to grow,but it seems difficult.They buy cheap hand down trucks and try to lease them with interest.Their truck payments and trailer rental is over 700/wk,plus you pay reefer fuel.Plus if the revenue is negative,they apply your toll reimbursement to the balance,which means you don't get it back.Now last time I spoke to the driver,they do alot of Northeast IE NYC markets.That's tough on your pocket.In over 25 years in the idependent side,that's alot to put on a man.I hope it works,for the drivers and office ladies,whom i hear are very nice.Be Safe.God Bless.Ghostrider

 

That must be where you met me . That's my home terminal .

 

Their Safety Management SEA has been 98 since September . Was 89.64 before that .
http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SafeStat/SafeStatHistory.asp?ais=&dot=288779&WhichForm=

 

From what I read your going to stay where your at Slopoke96? I hope so, maybe you should check out the company someone on this thread wrote about who has a few friends working there and is making good $. Re-read the whole thread and you will find it. I'm glad I have saved at least 1 person from them and someone from my old neck of the woods. Prov. RI.

 

sure no problem,I'm in the making money business not in to lets sucker me business. i like pulling a tanker it just time to go back to what i really like and that's pulling a end dump.

 

If you want to pull an end dump why not look in to Oakley out of Arkansas I believe, with all the negatives that "santo" has posted about Skyview, one would be foolish to follow that path, it's like when you were a kid and your mom told you to give the soup a minute to cool down but you decided to eat it anyway and burned your tongue, this is not the time to be getting burned. Anyhow, Oakley drivers operate nice equipment, I see them very often down here in the south around me, and long dumps seem to stay pretty busy, I pulled frameless for my current company but am back to hauling trash again, it pays the bills and gets me home everynight.

 

I did call Oakley and everything is good except one thing, day want me to buy a new truck that's not going to happen,I just did the motor in my truck 34,000 miles ago transmission with it and two new rears 3 weeks ago. i own this old girl since she was only 10 months old. the truck will meet any D.O.T inspection and more...I don't believe it fair for anyone to obligate you to get something you don't need in order to have a good living.

 

Koby where are you? *looking under the kitchen table* Kooooobbyyyyy......*looking in the garage* Hey Kooobbyyyyyy *looking in the closet*

 

Check the dog house!!

 

I called Skyview about leasing my truck on and pulling a hopper for them about year and half ago and talked to the recruiter or saftey guy, can't recall his name. After asking several questions about rates to charges my only question at the end of the conversation was how does your owner operators make any money and he said they do. They have charges for everything, like a $500 deposit to use their fuel card. I don't recall what all the charges were but it didn't take me long to make a decision to say no thanks and hang up. And I thought Prime was bad.

Company's like this one stay in buisness because a new sucker shows up on the door step every week wanting to own his/her own truck and they are broke and have bad credit and the big bad trucking co. wolf opens the door and says sign here and that shiney truck can be yours. If your broke and have bad credit you have no buisness being in buisness. Stay working as a company driver, work hard, save your money and before you no it you will have a lot of money in the bank for a down payment and operating expenses. Also during this time you can clean up your credit. Don't go borrow money from your family it is a bad thing and I am talking from experince.