Millis OTR journal

5+ years have never pulled an overweight load out of Trenton. All that changed today on my hometime load! Heading over to Ohio logistics to get reworked.

 

MTI FREE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: There is no cost to you for the program itself but there is a one-year agreement contract (failure to fulfill the one-year obligation will result in a $7,500 fee). However, during the program you will be responsible for your hotel stay in weeks 2-4, food and transportation. You will become an employee of Millis Transfer, LLC, on your first day of Apprenticeship Training. Your rate of pay during the Apprenticeship Program will be $600.00 per week. There will be a 3 ½ week period of classroom training and range driving this pay will apply to (paid for 4 weeks). After completing the classroom training you will be paid at a rate of 44 cpm while with your trainer for all truck miles calculated using Rand McNally HHG Practical Route Mileage Guide. After training you will be paid based on the standard Millis Transfer, LLC Driver Pay Table for the selected Division. You will be subject to all terms and conditions included in the Millis Transfer LLC Employee Handbook.



APPRENTICESHIP BREAKDOWN: The program is broken down into 3 weeks of classroom training and range driving, followed by 3 days of orientation, then 5 to 8 weeks (or until you hit 15,000 miles) of over the road training with a driver trainer. After that the trainer will bring you back to the terminal where you will take your road test with the company. Our successful apprentices will then be assigned to their own solo truck with Millis Transfer!


RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You are responsible for your transportation and hotel reservations as well as the cost of the hotel during your stay. The first week of hotel will be covered by Millis as long as you are willing to share a room with another student. You can go home on the weekends to save money if you would like. Lodging expense will be reimbursed at $30.00 per night with receipt of hotel/motel billing.
• Prior to class starting you will need to obtain your CDL-A PERMIT and DOT PHYSICAL. Once you get your permit and physical I will need a photo of each, emailed or faxed to me. Fax #: 715-284-9125 Email: [email protected]
• www.cristcdl.com has really great practice tests and study guides.

· You’ll need to test out on: General Knowledge, Combination, Air Brakes (TX RESIDENTS: Commercial Vehicle Operations, Combination, Common Knowledge Texas Rules and Air Brakes.) **you do not need any endorsements, we are dry van only**

· (Helpful study video for General Knowledge)

• For your physical you can go to your normal family doctor or a chiropractic office, call around and get prices before you make your appointment. Millis will pay for your pre-employment drug screen so DO NOT do that on your own, we will not be able to reimburse you.

BENEFITS: We offer a full benefit package (Health, Vision, and Dental) and 401k; these perks will kick in after 60 days (the 1st of that following month) of employment with Millis Transfer. Your 60-day wait period starts on the first day of the apprenticeship. The cost for a single policy is $50.00/week. We are insured with United Healthcare and MetLife.


RESCHEDULING POLICY: We ask that you notify us as soon as possible if you need to reschedule your class date. We require that you have your permit and physical before we can secure a different date for you.


Darby

Driver Recruiter

Direct: 800.937.0880 x2116

Fax: 715.284.9125

Email: [email protected]



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Is this true? No hidden fees to worry about, or sneaky hair tests?

 

I'm sorry for your loss.

Glad to see that Millis hasn't changed with regards to this. I had to come home suddenly twice due to family emergencies in the 4 years I was there (Dad went into cardiac arrest during a minor surgery and my son got shot during a home invasion) and once that wasn't even an emergency.

With Dad, I'd picked up a load of magazines or something from Wisconsin that was going to New Hampshire. Sent macro telling them I needed to be home asap. Was initially told to deliver the load and they would get me home but they kept working on something better and I was later told to drop in Weedsport and I think they actually let me just grab an empty and head home. When my son got shot I had dropped an empty in Plillipsburg, picked up an empty Dart trailer in Allentown and was picking up a load of plywood from Baltimore going to Indiana. They told me to go get loaded and take it to Trenton (or maybe it was Columbus), grab en empty, and head home.

For.the non-emergency, which was an event that I wanted to attend and had forgotten about, I just sent a macro and a message telling them that it wasn't an emergency or anything but asked them to please try to get me home. I'd been out less than a week. Got no reply from them. Ran a load or two and picked up Budweiser going to Lake Shore on Chicago. Delivered that and was told to pick up a load in Horicon that delivered in York, PA and to take it home and deliver when I went back out.

 

That's a lot to process Gremlin, hope things worked out for your family.

 

Well they all made it. Almost lost Dad again in 2022. That was a very rough time. He's still hanging in there, though. When I got the call that Michael had been shot, the doctors were only giving him a 10% chance of surviving. He's also hanging in there and gave me my first grandkid back in January.

 

Story time.....

I loaded at the Pinney Dock in Ashtabula, Ohio today. When I walked into the scale house I saw that there was a sign on the door that said (among other things safety-related) "Please be dressed when entering scale house.". So naturally I said to the scale master "Your sign makes it sound like you have a problem with people coming in here naked!" To which he replied "We had one driver that weighed about 400 pounds come in here one day wearing nothing but a speedo and his work boots. That's why we have the sign!"

Ew.

 

Well technically he was dressed but.....

 

That is funny. They should have took pic and posted it on the wall. Like Essity in Cherokee, Alabama.

 

I don't think I remember that.

Are you guys pulling loads out of there again now?

 

I mentioned essity in that post and my very next load was out of Essity in Neenah. Sort of odd. We have trailers there but Smith is the one booking the loads. Took it to Columbus Heartland where there were 2 other millis trailers with Essity loads booked under Smith.

Past week it’s like someone threw a switch. I almost got 3k miles and several other people who I talk to regularly either went over or got really close to 3k.