Jack B. Kelley???

They were just recently sold...

http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2011-09-06

An Ohio company has acquired an almost 70-year-old Amarillo business launched on a shoestring and expected to post $50 million in sales this year.
Kenan Advantage Group of North Canton, Ohio, closed the purchase of Jack B. Kelley Inc., or JBK, on Aug. 31. Officials declined to disclose the sale price.
With 12 terminals in the United States, 48 employees in Amarillo and 229 employees and contractors in other parts of the country, JBK is now part of Kenan's Merchant Gas Group, which transports industrial gases.

 

kenan advantage just bought CTI and Kelley we are having a plant outage now and have many of them pulling for us..stay far far away from CTI... Kelley is a little better but since KAG owns both I look for bad changes coming for them...neither of them pay near the industry standards...from many ( not all) of them I have seen they are lacking a lot in safety training and basic knowledge of the products they are hauling..I thinkl at one time they were a very reputable company but I think those days are about gone...they are used alot to cover spot work,plant outages and also are brought in to cross picket lines during strikes at customers and co plants

 

dont know much about the owner op pay for pulling cryo...i did have a cti tell me this week that he was making $1.40 mile but didnt get load or unload pay until he gave 2 hours ...as far as co. driver pay for jb kelley and cti they are very low compared to what co. drivers earn...I have a pal that used to work with me at AGA that now works for cti he is only getting .395 a mile and $15.00 hour whereas all of the co. guys around here ( Linde,Air Products,Prax & Airgas) are getting over $20.00 hr and around .50 cpm....he did say that kelley offered him a couple more pennies on the mile but expected him to stay out 3+ weeks...as far as owner ops go pulling cryo I have heard cti and genox are bottom..kelley a little bit better ..theres a co. called grammer industries out of grammer IN that pulls a few cryo , co2 that pay O/O well...from the couple of guys I know Grammer is no comparison to the others..one thing I have saw regularly is the grammer guys work hard(14 hours everyday) but make premium pay where I see the genox and cti drivers doing about 10-11 hours and calling it a day...our plant has been down for 2 weeks its 300 mile turn from where we have been loading to run into our pipeline tank most( not all) of the cti, genox and kelley are doing 1 round a day the grammer and suttles guys are doing 1 1/2-1 3/4 trips per day..

 

There's a lot of them pulling cryogenics grammar is good company . Jack b Kelly is a good company to work for but since the buy out I don't know . I was there 5yrs as an o/o did very good . I should of never left . Went to the hack of Genox which his daddy owned cti daddy has money into Genox to and say so . Tri gas is hauling cryogenic to which they bought out logax out of Cali . I know guys still at Kelly and some that went back there doing all rite . There on elogs. It's a shame don't no how true it is just here say but was told after momma died the son had a gambling problem got cought cheating on his wife . Don't know how true it is .

 

I'm working for Kelly now, been 5 yrs. Best job I ever had, got a good deal going in Wy with Natural Gas.

 

Well, it's been a few months highwayman, are you still with Kelly and if so, how's it going for you?

 

Bump for this. Would also like to know as we have had an offer from them and I have some friends who started there a few weeks ago..so far they are happy.