BEWARE Of Trailer Transit

I am sorry to hear that your experience with Trailer Transit has gone downhill. I have been there for about the same amount of time and my relationship with them is good. But there again I was with northAmerican Van Lines for 16 years when there were drivers who had a bad experience and left after a year.
Sounds like an operational misunderstanding. Picking out individual loads and trying to determine whether or not they paid their way doesn't work on a percentage contract arrangement. Frankly I don't care what each load pays. I add them all up over say a 3 month period and divide by the miles I have driven. If it isn't at the profit target I have determined, I have a little talk with the folks in operations, preferably in person. The next 3 months should be at the target. I also don't care or inquire what the other drivers are doing. More often than not you aren't going to get accurate information anyway.
As far as "getting along" with either dispatchers or planners, no matter what company is involved, they hold all the cards. Maybe the 3 years I spent as a dispatcher and supervisor for Penske Logistics gave me a little peek at what that side of the phone is up against. Once you have lost that spirit of cooperation it is time to leave, no matter who might have been responsible.
Good luck in your next contract.

 

I have been with trailer transit for just over a year, and i have experienced the everything that dirt and corn said and more. They so have some good paying loads, but to get them you have to do 2 or 3 cheap loads and then alot of bobtail. Then they try to lump or average everything together to make it look like its a reallu good deal. Also, first in first out is a very gray area. I have caught the dispatchers in several lies. They will book you on several loads so that you will take bad load which means if you drop somewhere that another deivee haa been waiting on a load, you already have one and thay arw sol. Of the 12dispatchers months i have been here, i have only had about 4 reallu good weeks. The comment about brian was right on the money...if you turn down a load that the regular dispatchers could not sell you on, he will call you up and commence to telling you how to run your truck blah blah blah...very condesending attitude. They need to realize that times have changed and that there is a reason so many drivers have left and they have been forced to hire some less than desirable o/o. Finnally, a large percentage of trucks are really ragged out
. What does that tell you?

 

I drove for NAVL back in '80 -'81 in high value products, delivered quite a few loads to Kennedy Space Center. Not much money we had good times!