companies with fast trucks

It looks like some of us are on the same page here. I do agree some places a slow truck just cant move over in. I also agree some just should not be in fast trucks or any truck for that matter. I myself have no accidents of any kind.Have not torn up anyone's equipment. Ran hard but new when it was not safe for me to drive anymore. I have been shut down twice by DOT both times in Ct. Think I would of learned after the first time lol. Running team is getting some use to but surprisingly I am liken it. The best part is legal comic strip. So much less to worry about. Well I am going to shut up before I get myself into to much trouble.

 

Insurance companies rule the world. Many companies, as well as people, would rather abide by an insurance company's rules than operate with no coverage. What was that? Turn my truck down to 60 mph and fire my drivers if there is as much as a rock chip on the windshield? Okay, where do I sign for my new policy?

/rant

 

Good job with the physics. Now for the logic.

So, I am to believe that all of the major multi-million dollar a year companies haven't figured out this fuel savings from running a truck wide open, but every $40,000 a year owner operator complaining about fuel prices has?

Imagine if J.B. Hunt, Swift, and Schneider ever figure out this money making tip how much of the market they would corner then?

 

I ran across the other day looking for something else. I don't know what kind of turnover they have.
I have never seen them advertise, unless they do so locally.
Sounds like something I would have liked at one point in my life
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High Horsepower Meat Hauler



The company delivers about 50 loads a week to Laredo, Texas, for transshipment into the interior of Mexico. It delivers about two dozen marine containers of meat to the West Coast every week for ocean shipping to Asian markets. About six to eight containers of pork are hauled to Newark, New Jersey, each week for shipment to Europe.

Monson's domestic business has been growing rapidly after the company's 1993 startup by Ron and his wife Linda. To handle the increased traffic, the Iowa terminal in Britt on US Highway 18 has been expanded , doubling the office space and increasing shop space by 50%.
Trucks go through a complete safety inspection every time they are in Britt. Service work usually means maintaining brakes and changing oil. The majority of Monson's service work is performed in the areas where drivers live. Drivers are hired where loads originate - near meat packing plants in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, the Texas Panhandle, and Wyoming.
"We prefer to hire `meat haulers,' " Monson says, "drivers who can give us a 100% on-time record for our customers.

Driver hiring and retention have not been problems, Monson says. He attributes this to a number of factors, such as providing good trucks and running favorable traffic lanes. Hauling meat from the Midwest to Texas and the Midwest to California means that most drivers are home every weekend.
His drivers like the trucks that Monson buys - big trucks with big power. Most of the company-owned fleet consists of W900 Kenworths with engine horsepower of 525 and higher. The current favorite is the Cummins Signature 600. No truck in the fleet has less than 460 hp.
"We buy big power for two reasons," Monson says. "Driver retention and resale value. We originally planned to trade at 450,000 to 500,000 miles. However, the used truck market has been so bad that we decided to overhaul with rods and main bearings at 600,000 miles and run them another year. We are planning now to sell them at about 750,000 miles."
Besides putting his drivers in the best trucks and getting them home for a couple of days every week, Monson pays well. Top company drivers get 31 cents per mile, while entry level drivers start at 28 cents. New-hires with some experience start above 28 cents. The Monson benefit package includes a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, health insurance, and life insurance

 

What nine pages of opinions and four or was it five suggestions for a faster company which I believe was the question. Just think if we get ten more pages we'll be on nineteen, breaker,breaker one nine.

 

pays well 31cents. hahaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

get on w/a broker that owns his own equipment.pay is usually on a percentage basis BUT you'll make money running legally while in a nice truck that is actually a truck.fuel mileage is a moot point to a broker as he has already charged the fuel surcharge for the load and just wants it delivered in a timely/safe manner.I average around 5-5.4 mpg.NEVER had a word said regarding fuel mileage or lack thereof.Get called in on more than average but I figure that goes w/the times.*So far,per the man I drive for,it has been by trucks that I pass.Go figure.
Until then PLEASE keep those slow trucks in the right lane.Period. What is it about that statement that most drivers can't comprehend?
YEAH there are certain instances in which that can not be done but those who frequent the hammer lane in a slow truck know full well just whom they are.

*w/the times-as ascertained by me and my years behind the wheel.I have to assume that w/ALL the slow,automatic transmissions ,electronic loggers,qualcoms,vorad(or whatever it is) truck school grads(as well as the disgruntled old timer that is stuck in that slow truck),I am going to pi$$ off many drivers(used loosely) simply because i enjoy what I do for the most part and I just passed one of those slow trucks that I just listed,most often in the right lane and sometimes in the high dollar lane.
Wonder what those signs mean that read-"Slower traffic keep right"? Why get on the radio and snitch me out for getting in a lane that I should not have to get in in the first place? Just let me keep on trucking and keep it off the radio please UNLESS you are giving that bear report that I always give but rarely get in return.
Yeah I feel better for that vent.Thanks.

 

All a matter of perspective, I suppose. I wouldn't fault a man who drove for that, if that's what he had to do.

 

Faster trucks? Then newest propsal coming down the pipe after the first of the year is to mandate speed limiters on all trucks. Just one more regulation by your Goverment leaders, who know whats best for all drivers.

 

Cant fault a man for hiring on at that wage,but hauling meat for less then $1K
take home a week
I made better then that back in the 80's pulling for Lisa Motor Lines
when all our girls were on hooks.