Life at American Central Transport (ACT)

The trucks aren't plain Jane,they don't have the full o/o gage pkg but got alot of nice features,air bag dump,boost,fuel filter,load gages so they're really pretty nice.Only thing i dont like is the cheap seats.I'm 6'2 and the seat only comes a little over halfway up my thigh.Last truck I had,had the premium seat and man does that make alot of difference.Going to ask about changing it when I have enough extra money to replace it.A good seats around 1k bucks but its worth it.I really like the t660,first one I've driven and so far so good.

 

Thanks pete..im 6'3 so i guess i hav to look into a new seat also.

 

LOL its good money not easy money. That seems like the punch line to a bad joke dude, if trucking wasnt for me then i wouldnt have been doing it for the last 5 years straight. As for the other commnts,tell me why i took off for the holidays and never recovered yet at least 23 divers i spoke with at the shop did the same thing and all had checks coming in the next week. Why did my dash board show 7.5 to 8mpg but they say i was getting 4mpg. You expect me to believe that the onboard computer is off by 4 mpg. If thats the case then the problem is the equipment not the driver. I never turned down a single load and stayed out everyday for a month and never got enough miles to make a check, funny how im not the only driver that has made the statement of "they couldnt keep me rolling" place the blame on me all you want, im just telling the FACTS about MY STORY. If yours is different then good for you.

 

That could be a major issue and fuel economy would be number one culprit. I would of got second opinion.

 

Never believe the dash readout. You may have had someone siphoning fuel out of your tanks which could drop your mpg drastically.

Anti-siphon devices, locking fuel caps, and computing your mpg on paper is the best way to keep an accurate tally.

 

I would do some research on that, there is no way a new T660 only gets 4mpg unless ur running at 80,000 up hill all day.

 

Easymoney I feel for you dude,I dont know the miles you ran or anything.But 4mpg? somethings bad wrong.You would notice having to fill up all the time.Maybe someone was stealing your fuel when you were off.Where was your truck parked?Heck when I ran just 1800 miles I still made 500 dollars.Something just does'nt add up.

 

Both of my fuel tanks had the anti-siphon filters in them, that worked so well that you alsmot could not get the cap off the tank far enough to insert the nozzel to fuel.

 

All i can tell yall is what i know. I would put in for example in KC 500 dollars in fuel taking it from empty to full. And could make it to knoxville tn before getting fuel again. That was running at 65 mph with an 8,000 lb load. Dash read 7.6 mpg. ACT stated it was no where near that. Every time i asked for an explination i was told something else. Best thing i hear on the way out was when i made the comment of my last to settlements showed that i made over 3,000 dollars. 2 weeks in a row. However, i did not get a penny, and was then told that i was not behind in my truck payment, that i was in the hole with ACT,,,not Excel. Tell me also how i worked for them for just over a month. I got a few advances but not many and my settlement showed that from my start date to current i have 1800 dollars is advances, and they sent some other drivers settlements to my house, When i commented on that i was laughed at and told "We dont make mistakes". No joke, thats what they said word for word. Just dont know how i made a little over 6,000 dollars in 2 weeks and was still in the hole, and how anyone with a family can say trucking isnt for me.....I went OVER a month with out a check......I have a wife, a new born, a 5 yr old, and bills. How long would any of yall go on working for free before you left. Sorry i just dont think that was a very adult comment considering the stuation.