PAM Transportation

waiting for truck repairs can be stressful, but i found that if u want to keep rolling u have to be proactive and take matters in your own hands. I found out that u swap trucks on your own. You can call P.A.M. main # and ask for Darrell Shaffley and ask if he has any empty trucks for to take over. I have done it twice now if the shop tells me it could be a long wait

 

The something like that actually stands for "Probably A Mess", "Pinchers and Misers, Pitiful and Mismanaged....You get the drift.

 

7 days for repairs is ridiculous. When I worked for Stevens Transport, if the repair was going to take more than a day or so, they'd just assign you a new truck. I got a nearly new T2000 from an old T600 that way. Back then they were converting the fleet from T600's to T2000's so I think they were probably more proactive in reassigning them.

Of course now with the small fleet I work for now, if it breaks, you're stuck! Which makes the inspections all the more important. But despite being 7 years old and having 912K on the odometer, my truck is in pretty good shape. My dispatcher's husband is the mechanic for all the trucks and he keeps them in good shape.

So far I've had one delay for a blown tire but it was on the trailer and was Werner's problem and not ours. Though it took 4 hours and I was stuck in Tornillo, TX only about a half hour from home!

 

sorry to hear your experience was so bad at PAM. I'm starting to think its not just the companies that are at fault,maybe its the drivers expectations also. PAM is known to be a starter company and so they probably are not so nice to fresh meat because they think those people will not even make the cut so why baby them. If you had drove for Crete, USXpress, J-Mar, MSCarriers, TriState, why didnt you try to apply with one of them if they are so grand. Im sure is more to the story, always is.

 

Keep drinking the Pam kool-aid

 

Not sure what that means but if its a stab at PAM...dun bother me none.Hell ill take any starter job i can get,after all i am just a rookie w/o the money to pay an independant school for training.Ill be a bigboy someday but for now PAM will do just fine.

 

You got to start somewhere. Just do the 1 or 2 years and get your foot in the door and some exp under your belt and then you can go to the better places that pay better and all that.

 

keep trucking brother, be safe.

 

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