Miles

SOLO than. This guy isn't paying your bills. And it appears, the company might not be either.

 

Try to stay alive financially and physically then find another company. PAM is a bottom of the barrel company willing to hire anyone that can hold the steering wheel. Get as far away from them as possible. I'm a new driver myself and I have plenty of companies willing to hire me for more money. 36-38 cents per mile. PAM wants me to go on a dedicated run for 14 cents per mile. Mexicans won't work for that. As soon as my financial obligation to the school is taken care of I am gone.

 

guess i see why PAM is advertising in my town and why i wont be looking at them

 

PAM is advertising in your town because they need drivers. Because their drivers leave them after 1 year and go to another company. Because they are a training company....

There will always be someone to fill their seats, and if they hire someone that costs them too much money, they get fired. When I worked for PAM, I receieved a lot of load assignments that were built incorrectly, mainly including what PAM is getting paid for the load. Take into account what I would be making and you'd be amazed I didn't bother leaving, because the difference was outrageous. I stayed because I knew that every company was the same way, and rightfully so. Sure, I would have liked to make more, but I was making more than enough to survive, while getting my experience to go to another company for better pay. *shrug*

 

Glad to hear it's working out for you....getting on the same page with dispatchers/load planners definitely helps.

 

I know this an old post, but when i was driving as team my co-driver and i had an argument and demanded to be separated we were routed to the nearest terminal that was in route. He got a new truck an i was sent to FL. We were teaming for 3 months. I was told to contact David Finnly for new bubba, but ignored it and still driving solo for about 10 months now

 

I know this an old post, but when i was driving as team my co-driver and i had an argument and demanded to be separated we were routed to the nearest terminal that was in route. He got a new truck an i was sent to FL. We were teaming for 3 months. I was told to contact David Finnly for new bubba, but ignored it and still driving solo for about 10 months now

 

Well they told me I would be off the truck within a week. Well now its been 6 weeks out and still with the same person. His 6 months is up at the end of Dec so he'll be going back solo.

The running has definatly went up after the first 3 weeks of having to sit all the time. These 2011 International Prostars are crap, leaking roof, no drain in the ac causing water to come out the vents and short some crap out that made the fan run on high even without a key in the ignition and truck off, multiple sensors going back. Now those are straighted out we have an issue with the steering gearbox leaking.

But they have us on UTXL (UPS) crap for the holidays and are running almost nonstop (cept for the 3hr naps he decides to take in the middle of his drive time getting 8hrs drive in his 14hrs) 5400 miles last week. Little less this week since the horsham,pa - cleveland, oh - horsham, pa parts got dropped and are sitting waiting for the horsham to buffalo, ny part of the trip.

 

Hey Digger, Its your old friend you taught how to back up from C-1, Wait until you are put on TEAM duty. I have been on with another person from C-1 and they were a pig. Truck was a S$%thole and the person was worse. Thanks to God that I got a diff. parther and we started out shabby and then it got respectable. However, every ten or so days another pile of horse manure ends up in our lap. It took PAM three tries on a certain simple problem to get our truck fixed. Its 1800 one week, 5200 another, up and down and up and down and the DM's are good folk. My first one was a jackhole, Wont name him until you call me, just called your phone and left a vm. DON"T WORK FOR PAM!!!