Eagle Transport (Gas Haulers)

Thanks Rug I pulled tanker for coraluzzo and I started at 4pm to 4am .

 

Eagle is an alright company to work for. Its not perfect by any means. One of the problems is paying a driver by the load. Some loads pay better than others. For example some loads will pay close to $20 an hour. But then other loads will pay closer to $15 or sometimes lower. Thanks to forced dispatch we had to run some of those loads.
When dispatch plays favorites and giving certain drivers the higher paying loads day after day its hard to stay loyal to a company. I can only speak from my experience at the terminal that I worked at.

 

Hey Mike I never heard of a company paying their drivers different hourly rates for different loads. !! But I agree that doing tanker work , that it's better to get paid a good hourly rate because of all the time consuming factors. ..

 

We can charge for our time if we sit at the rack too long. We actually got a raise on a bunch of things.

From what I heard Eagle pays different at different terminal. Some (I think) get paid by percentage of the load.

I am happy so far.

 

Yea the different rates for different customers did not make any sense to me either.

 

It's a shame that the bigger oil companies are going to common carriers because they paid the highest wages of anybody. Out west I know Chevron and ARCO were really close in pay and it was $26.50 an hour and that started as soon as you went to work and stopped when you were done. At ARCO you got paid on a 10 hour day and anything over than was time and a half. You worked 4 days on then 3 days off. I've never seen where you couldn't get a day of overtime if you asked. There were 11 days of holidays before BP took over then they dropped it down to 9 I believe. The benefits were outrageous and when the stock spilt 4 ways a lot drivers were really up there in retirement funds. But now they are closing terminals and I don't think Chevron even has any trucks left. ARCO has the 4 western states they still run in but I heard it was tighting up. It hard to find an oil company that drills their own oil,moves it with their own ships,refines it at their refinery,then moves it to the station with their own trucks. Those are the companies where the drivers made a killing and a career because distribution costs were absorbed in the downstream marketing plan.

 

It's all about liability.

 

It's all about costs and profit. Exxon still has a few in Houston and I think Chevron has ( had ) 3 or 4 left but I havn't seen them for awhile.

 

liability=costs. that's why big companies keep things seperate. If one branch falls it doesn't take the whole tree

 

I am currently employed in the Taft terminal I would like to share some info about this terminal and Eagle.when I started it was a great job the manager was a great guy he didn't lie to you he was a straight shooter unfortunately he became ill and was replaced by the president's son Rob well he has absolutely no regard toward safety of the driver or the public's well being.He and the lead dispatch Hoot will have you overload the load and when you question them they say if there are no scales on your route just load and go because every extra gallon is money,they schedule you on 16 hour days and if you advise that you can only work 14 hours they say you don't want to work.The latest is they make you go over your hours Hoot tells you to go off duty at terminals and then send a driver in the company pick up to replace you at the station you are delivering to. Rob will send messages over the hand held as an alert just to tell you how bad this terminal is doing and how embarrassed he is of the drivers.As for pay we have drivers who are making over $1000.00 a week every week and we know this from drivers that were made to work in the office while on comp meanwhile the rest of us barely make $600.00 a week there are some days you work 14 hours and make $130.00.Recently Rob send a message that he will make example of some of us I have taken pictures of all the messages on the hand held and safety boards because I know this behavior is hard to believe.So if you are planning to work for Eagle think about this .