Indian River Transport, Co. - Winter Haven, FL.?

Ask to go to washington, Texas , cali, fl az or northeast ( if you are from there) to get longer runs. Iowaa has runs to Alabama and cali also. Always ask.

 

So have any of yall made over a 1000 in one week
3000x.32=960

 

been running around 3 weeks, 1st week was around 1k 2nd around 700 3rd i will know monday, i havent got any statments yet or id tell ya actual,i recently moved into a new place so my mail is all screwy.

 

Used to make pretty good money there,

but like most things--shot to hell.

Used to be alot of fun working there, tons of miles, in a NICE fast truck.



Ahhhh, the good ol dayz !!!

 

whats it like drivin a smooth bore versus one with baffles and how do u guys scale them

 

It will completly change the way you drive.... lol. Liquids in the tank do the Exact oppisite of what you do..... You go forward, it rushes backwards, you turn right and it wants to go left, etc. But you get used to it. My first few weeks were really ruff. But now i barely even notice the surge.

As for scaleing the loads.... Not a whole lot you can do. Most of the places have scales on site, so you never wanna show up light on fuel, becuase they WILL load you with as much product as they can and keep you legal. We also have quite a few places that we go to where the trailers are preloaded (drop and hook) and i just go onto those places at about a half tank of fuel. But thete are plenty of times when i have picked up a tank at a barn loaded with 51,000lbs of milk on it, all that you can do at that point is to make sure your logs look pretty becuase the nice DOT officer may request to see them as he is filling out the overweight citation at the scale house lol. IRT pays all over weight fines.

 

Hello everybody been running wild since 03-02-11! got a 07 pete with over 500,000 miles on it. but shop manager in FL told dispatch they want my truck to FL asap! ran I5 back & forth alot then got out of that. and now run out of clovis,NM came home for 1 night to grab stuff and leave again. with a load to FL for new truck. miles are great. just got to get use to being over weight.I have no problems with the company. met a few driver's like knuckelhead,nick ect. all nice people.goodnight 1 night home alot too do.......... Grasshopper over and out

 

Anyone have problems with having to sit at shippers for a long time to get unloaded or with sitting for hours waiting to get tank washed out?

 

yep it comes with the job!

 

Well I start there tomorrow, they have a truck for me in California which works out great since I'm only 45 mins from the term.

here's the think I have NEVER driven foodgrade before does anyone have tips for me. This is a company I plan to stay with for a long time , I have looked up and down everything and this is the best company i have seen in a long time. I have a few friends working there and they all love there jobs. anyone know of any problem i may or may not run into.