GP Transco

Interesting. I had always heard that they pay very well. I am an independent, it been a long time since I was a company driver, so I am a bit out of touch with good companies, I do know a lot of the bad however lol

 

• Companies would always try to put me in a cheap motel, making me check out every morning and wait at the dealership all day in case they fixed the truck. Trucks never got fixed in less than three days, so I’d book a room for two nights and tell them to call me if it was ready. I just paid for it myself, got reimbursed for the cheap rate, and expensed the rest at tax time. You don't want critters in your truck or your feet hanging off a short mattress if your tall like me.

 

I'm updating this with my own review.

I worked for gp for several years. Lot of concerns circa 2024-2025

> Increases in the amount of live unloads/loads. Spent tons of time, consistently, waiting around for several hours at many different shippers and receivers every week. I can not tell you how many nights I parked 10PM to 2AM bouncing in between full truck stops because of the consistency of the delays I experienced.

> Increases in the amount of time wasting short runs they give you. They constantly started giving 300 to 500 mile runs in 2024 and beyond that don't allow you to use your full clock and max out your miles. It got progressively worse as time went on. Even when I had a good week it would immediately be followed up with a bad week of miles, almost like they did so intentionally.

> Increases in micromanagement. They have a system that forces your truck to go the speed limit or lower, creating dangerous situations. They evaluated and reviewed drivers weekly based on idling time, deliveries on time or not, and more. Got tired of getting constantly talked down to because I'm idling in severe cold or hot weather. Most of my idling came from mandatory 34 resets where I'm just stuck in the truck all day, I wasn't willing to spend my 34 inside a truck stop or stay in hotels consistently. They started saying exactly where to fuel in 2022 or 2023 I think.

> HUGE increase in turnover from driver managers, and drivers. Specifically veteran drivers who had been with the company for years started leaving in 2025 and to my knowledge it's still continuing. I had really cool managers prior to 2024, after that it devolved into a constant crap show of guys who clearly didn't enjoy their jobs or were pressed for time. They tripled the workload for driver managers and this made tons of the good ones quit

> They also did/do a ton of business with paper companies. So a lot of waiting in long lines and slogging through mud and dirt. Frequently hauling very heavy loads over mountains and i 68 (they didn't allow us to use i 76). Something you'd never know about them unless you really asked some questions to drivers. Most of the companies they do business with didn't care about how much of your time they were wasting.

Heavy loads not just from paper companies but from alcohol vendors and pet food places that almost assume you transport every load on 1/4 of a tank of fuel in order to have legal axle weights.

> they also mostly liked to keep us in the eastern mid west + Pennsylvania/New York, north east. They stopped sending us out west beyond Denver or beyond in 2023. Even the Denver runs seemed to dry up in 2025. Dealt with Chicago traffic and lots of non interstate driving in Indiana/Illinois/Ohio, other states.

> Medicore salary for otr

>> Positives for me:
● Good equipment mostly
● Good maintenance staff/office personnel generally , (although i felt like they were being severely overworked.)
● Fancy HQ building with courtesy cars (it started getting severely overcrowded in 2024, they badly need additional terminals besides the one in Joliet)

 

Inquiring minds would like to know how doing the speed limit creates a dangerous situation.

 

Well....if the speed limit is 55, but the traffic is moving at 70, or better, someone doing 55 might create a dangerous situation.

 

The speeders are the ones creating unsafe conditions in that scenario needlessly changing lanes trying to be the "me first" one. The speed limit is 55. It's one thing to run 5-10mph over the speed limit on the open highway in rural areas where the speed limit is 65 or more. Doing that in a 55mph zone ain't the same...

 

Sooooo..... California
Unfortunately, CHP is gonna throw the book at a 58mph truck long before a 78mph 4 wheeler.

 

Lately CHP has been going after a lot of speeders,4 wheeler and big truck alike to curtail the “speed demon” activity,especially if they’re in the wrong lanes.

 

Not just Commiefornia, the expressways in Chicago used to have the speed limit at 55MPH. If you weren't doing 70, or better, in any lane, you were a hazard.

 

Again you're wrong about the road hazards in CA or Chicago expressways. Keep it to the right running 55 and watch all the road hazards causing accidents do what they do. The crazies in a hurry are the ones causing accidents, not the other way around.