Greatwide dedicated transport brings disfunctional to a whole new level!!!

They know exactly what they are doing.. They are trying to sell it for a profit. Most investors don't care about the operations they want to see the profit loss... I bet in 5 months Greatwide is sold again.

 

i worked for great wide for 3 years in shelbyvile tn at the new dc .but it only got worse to work for as time went on they called me late at night like 2 or 3 am in the morning to cover a load some one fell offf of what a really bad place to work for .DONT DO IT DONT GOT THEIR HOPING TO MAKE ANY MONEY..

 

The real problem with greatwide is you are married to the phone if you want to make any money.. I make money but I work 7 days a week 12 to 16 hours a day.. (now I have slowed down recently) To make any money with these guys you have to run that way, now I am not saying I run a lot of miles I run a lot of loads.. but you either do what they want or go broke.. and if they figure out you want to run during the day all you will get is night work and vice versa.. Now the company guys seem to do ok.. o/o is tough always has been..

 

Does anyone know if D & R Logistics out of Romeoville, IL is using their trucks to haul for Greatwide?

 

Jason who did you talk to at Great wide about leasing on with them?

 

Yeah they lost da three in Florida an picked up dollar general.went an helped out tha terminal down there once an all drivers trucks was paid for an they didn't want to work so its not get fault its our fault as sorry drivers

 

Just left greatwide charter steel div/saukville,WI&Cleve,OH. this past week. Both trucks assighned to me (1 taken away for returning afgan vet). BOTH! were wasted inside! The 2nd one they refused to give me a new mattress (will post pics on new post soon!/pics on way to wisconson board of health/FMCSA branch office/wisconson labor depart/wisconson DOT/greatwide corp office in dallas.)...The 2nd rig actually had mold growing in it and (SOMETHING GREEN? growing on the wall fabric???)and under the WATER DAMAGED/Bowed flooring???? MOLD!!!. the mechanics dont clean them! the safety officer never got the ok for me to take it to the blue becon... dispatch= "you have to clean it at your own expense&on my hometime" (quote from blue becon....$ 450/not counting the purchase of a mattress)... the 1st night in my 2nd rig all the air leaked out! the mech. said its normal????? "Yeah right!"...$20 tarp pay, No detention pay (avg load time 5hrs), no driver assist pay during loading or unloading(upto 5hrs lost per load)....34hr restart hometime.... no communications between shop & dispatch (driver responsible/ if mech says 2hrs and it turns into a overnight repair....NO HOTEL OR BUNKRM. ... your sleeping in a 15yr old filthy yard truck! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!)Showers at saukville terminal--- Nasty (except for the 1 in the main office/closes at 430pm). Dispatchers have a attitude towards drivers "why? I have not a clue". they want you to p/u your load from droplot, secure it(1.75hrs) all while on your 10hr break.. drivers thier are nothing more than meat in a seat! worst place i ever worked...Now you know why thiers all those prostars sitn parkn and empty in saukville, WI, rising sun, OH, and clev,OH terminals... "1 more thing- I delivered my last load for them this past sat morning in rising sun ohio charter steel plant. a greatwide driver parked his rig (Still hooked to a loaded trailer) walked inside told charter thiers your load have fun.... and quit! left his truck&trlr parked thier to be unloaded....

 

There's a couple of places i go to that are pretty much run by greatwide, and i see their drivers whipping around like they are on a race track. One of them almost ran over one of the managers who was doing a lot check. I ran over to see if he was ok, and he was LIVID. "Wtf is with drivers they have to drive in that big of a hurry around our lot?"(the speed limit at that yard was 15mph.) I informed him that i see this kind of crap all the time nowadays., he had praised my company for being good about it, but was ready to kick the offending gw drivers' ###.

 

Does anyone have any info on DE Transport (Greatwide affiliate) out of Dallas? They claim to pay 50cpm, 3000-3500 miles a week out for 14 days, home for seven. Wondering how much of that, if not all is fiction.