Barr Nunn Transportation - Granger, Ia.

Bum, do you remember that big rule book you got when you went to your driving school? It says something about this very problem. Sure, the inspector is really trying to raise revenue, but so what? He's got you. I hate to admit it, but it looks like YOU are going to have to pay this fine. You, in theory, should have seen this in an inspection. I say that knowing that I would have missed it, though. That's because my inspections were only walk-arounds. I never climbed under any trucks when doing inspections, and neither did the trainers I had. Yeah, I'd be right where you are now if I'd been driving that rig instead of you.

I'd pay the fine and not worry about it. Yeah, I think you should buck up, pay the fine, and simply write it off as a lesson in the college of hard knocks. Don't let it eat at you. Judging by your font size, I'd say you're letting this eat at you a lot.

This is one of those things you have to watch out for in truck driving. Don't let it make you pissed enough to quit if you have to pay that fine. You'll lose a lot more income than the fine, and the company will probably screw with your DAC.

Just pay it and get on down the road.

Good luck.

 

I recently quit BARR-NUNN Transportations based in Granger, IA.. This has to be by far the most lousy company I have ever worked for. I was hired under the premise of several lies told to me by the recruiter. When I addressed these to the so called people in charge, they didn't care. All they wanted me to do was run my butt off "legal or illegal didn't matter" with freight that paid the driver very little. I can count on one hand the amount of times my paycheck was over $500.00. I even spoke to the owner of this company about the promises made to me before I was hired on, his answer, "Well, we run all the drivers this way." No wonder this company has an almost 85% turn over rate. The drivers for this company get short changed each and every day when it comes to miles and making a good paycheck, except if you live in and around Granger Iowa. We called those drivers the "Iowa brown Nose, Granger Elite Fleet." They got all the good dedicated runs along with all the good company perks. Drivers that lived in another state, they got all the crap and that included a very low pay check. During my time with this sorry good for nothing company, I told them, my wife works at Wal-Mart and makes more than I do.

So when you read about how good BARR-NUNN is and how your gonna make pockets full of money driving for them, "Don't believe a word of it, it's nothing but a pack of lies." When you read about their top of the line equipment, don't believe it, that's a lie too. My pay check the week before Christmas was a grand total of $148.00. Needless to say, my family and I had a bad Christmas. When I complained about it, I was told that no one in Granger cared about my concerns. I would always fight for all the miles I could get, but, a normal week with those jerks only gave me around 1,500 to 1,800 miles, if I was lucky.

So guy's and gal's, if a BARR-NUNN driver approaches you, or a BARR-NUNN recruiter approaches you about working for them. The best course of action you can take is tell them to get lost. This is one sorry company that's totally driver unfriendly, unless the driver lives in Iowa. The owner of the company also, could care less about you or your family. So take my advice and steer clear of this company if you like paying your debts and making a living for your family.

 

Don't know how a company can make a profit on a truck running 1500-1800 miles a week, unless it's one that a lease driver got starved out of?

I don't blame you for quitting. You can make $500 a week driving for even a crappy local company, and be home at night. If I'm running OTR my cut-off is 2500 average minimum per week and I let them know that from day one. I don't look at week to week since there are slow frieght periods. But at the end of the year I want to see around 120,000 miles worth of pay in my bank account. Anything less and they won't have to show me the door becuase I will find it myself.

 

The three weeks I spent with this company were the biggest disaster I have ever lived through in my life. I have driven for three companies, and out of all of them, Barr Nunn is the only one I wish I had had one of those "Dispatch Busters" to record my incoming phone calls from the company. Oh they won't tell you over the qualcomm to do something iffy, they CALL you. Repeatedly.

Unload early am, if you are lucky, you can pick up next load late in the evening. If you happen to be sick or running close on hours, so what? You are the only driver in the area and they need that expedited load moved. If you drive for them, expect to spend most of your time at Fedex, CCX, or even DHL terminals. If I wanted to haul freight for any of those with their tight time requirements, I'd have applied to THEM, and got paid by the hour to do it, and slept at home every night as well.

I don't care how good they look to you, do not drive for these people.

 

I am not trying to slam you. But were you willing to run more or was you one of the people that wanted hometime weekly?

I have seen on here that most of the people that got those kind of miles allways wanted to be home weekly, not trying to say that you are one of them.
Hopefully you will get better miles and pay at the next company providing you do not make this company mad enough to black ball you on your dac.

 

Even if someone was getting home weekly 1500 - 1800 is not acceptable, thats a lot of sitting. 2200 and home weekly would be ok by me.

 

No MGASSEL, I would stay out as long as the company needed me to run and I had the hours to run. But, when you stay out an entire month and only get 3,600 to 4,000 miles for the month that does get one concerned very quickly. I had to fight for every mile I could get. The only times I insisted on being home was my anniversary and Christmas. As for my DAC report, I have already informed the company that if anything negative goes into my report, they would answer to my lawyer. The 2 years I was there, I kept a journal of every load, every mile and every conversation I had with BARR-NUNN both on the telephone, the qualcomm and in person. I also requested that they put me on a dedicated run which would have given me 2,841 miles per week. They lied to me and stated that they had no return freight. I called the company we hauled for and was informed that they had all types of return freight. As I stated in my earlier post, I would not recommend BARR-NUNN to my most hated enemy.

 

I would of quit too with those crappy miles. I would of even probaly left sooner than two years with those low miles.
I am a newbee and I have several offers with alot of companies but they understand that I will not take low miles per month I do not care what the trip miles are as long as I can adverage about 10,000 miles per month providing that I have the hours to run and knock on wood not sit alot.
I love driving so natuarlly trucking is a good job for me might as well be paid for what I love also like seeing some new country even though most of it will be the asphault in the front of my rig.

 

MGassel, these companies will tell you anything to get you in that seat. If you say you have to have x number of miles per week, they will assure you that you will have that or more. Once you've signed on that dotted line, however, you find that it was all lies. After orientation, I met with my teamleader and we went over what I expected from the company, and what the company expected from me. She even made it look like she was writing down what I expected, so she could keep that in mind when assigning loads to me. YEAH RIGHT. From the way I was dispatched once I left, I can only assume that piece of paper went into the "round file" as soon as I left to go to my truck. I had no problem with the amount of miles I was dispatched, what I had problems with was the poor utilization of my time as a driver, having me sit around and wait all day after unloading early, until night to pick up the next load, which had to be delivered in early am. Sitting one or two hours doesn't bother me between loads. Being expected to go back into the sleeper right after coming out and delivering, so I can pick up an evening load and drive through the night does.