I need help with Boyd

All their trucks are international prostars, many of them new. Well, they have a couple of cascadias and peterbilts, but literally just a couple. Being new you might not get a brand new one, but theres no telling, you might. As far as miles, if you want to be home on the weekends you can probably expect around 2100-2300 miles a week. A little more if you stay out longer. I think that as long as you can pass the physical thats all that matters, but if youre concerned about your blood pressure you might want to check with recruiting, they'll tell you all you need to know. You do have to pass some sort of agility test, which basically involves picking up tarps, progressively heavier, and stepping up on a ladder or something while they monitor your pulse but I dont know much about that. As far as hometime, depending on where you live most guys get home most weekends. But that really comes down to your dispatcher. A lot of guys get home on the weekends, some don't. I'm home about 9 out of 10 weekends and usually I'm home for about 48 hours. Compared with maverick, I think the big difference is that youre not as micromanaged at boyd. As long as you do your job and you dont screw up they'll leave you alone. At least thats been my experience.

 

Living in Ok, I wouldn't expect the hometime to be great. Unless, you become best friends with your dispatcher, (which is impossible to do with most of them) and your dispatcher is best friends with the load planner for that region. How many Boyd trucks do you see run on a daily basis on the nearest interstate to you? I bet not many.

 

I don't see many running here in NW Georigia. I'm not far from I-75.

 

They have a 'stealth' setting on the dash. LOL. They have or had an Atl. yard. I've seen them around town quite a bit. I think it's the colors. They just don't stand out.

 

We have a small yard in cartersvile ga right by the ameristeal plant.

I know of a few guys taking loads in and out of Tulsa, not sure what tho.

They try and give most drivers the chance to be home every weekend. However there are some exceptions, myself included. Because of where I live I'm out every other weekend.

Physical requirements are basically can u move. Simple range of motion test. However u need to be able to pull 100 pounds, roll a tarp, pull chains. We do have lumber tarps that weigh around 150 pounds. You dont have to pick that up for the fitness test but you will once you get out on the road.

And Im not sure about the blood preasure.

If you have any other questions, hit me up. I've been here for three weeks and do far just love it

 

How do we not stand out? We have a weird off green and a purple color, not to mention the blue and white and a few tan

 

I have been with Boyd since Aug 2008. Im currently near the end of my lease purchase by July 1st. To me, Boyd has been a great company. Its what you make of it. If you complain about every little thing, you won't make it. Some days you will be in bad area, some you won't. Cursing your FM out won't help either. It will only make matters worst especially when you need a favor.

The company is mostly Prostars but like Poa Triv said, the are a few Casacadia and 2 Kenworths. The Pete's are lease trucks now. The downfall is that they are governed between 60 MPH and 63 MPH.

You can get between 2100 to 2500 miles depending on how frequent you want to be home and of course you and your FM relationship. You can ask your FM to find you a good run and some will when you get off loaded but you are still force dispatch.

I don't know much about the blood pressure guidelines but don't drink coffee the day before orientation nor after. Take some aspirin to help thinning your blood and drink some water.

Other then your DOT physical that they pay for, the physical fitness part which is lifting a tarp and climbing a ladder is new to me. Listen to Poa Triv on his info on that.

I think you are expected to be home every two weeks coming out of OK but every once in a while that 2 weeks maybe 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. Those weeks, just make the best of it. Don't get frustrated by not getting home. That just add to the stress. Relax and make the money. Those weekends not being home helps in big miles since they comes mostly around weekends. There are some that come doing the weekday also. And the #1 problem most drivers complain about is the deadhead miles. You get paid all miles loaded and empty. You can deadhead 482 empty and 265 loaded and still get paid for all of it.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions.

 

When i was running OTR Flatbed for Roehl, I started out on the 11 out 3 home. That actually turned out to be 14-16 days out 3 home. I was not happy.

Then i started running 30 days out and 7 home and loved it. almost every load was 90 to 100 mi. bounce 1000-1200 loaded! loaded 2 or 3 times a week, compared to 4 or 5 on the 11-3.

 

Late for the party, oh well.

The Kenworth is an O/O, we had O/O who drove a Volvo, but he suffered from cancer and parked it at cincy. It was there for quite awhile intil the news cancer won got to us, it was put into the company and soon wrecked.

The handful of 9400i's are lease trucks, like mine.