KLLM - Financial Problems???

Don't know if this is fact or not; I read somewhere that the drivers actually had a pay cut. Doesn't seem logical, but that's what I read. May have been on a thread here.

 

They've been putting big pressure on company drivers to switch over to lease purchase for the past couple of years. Trying to get more and more of the fleet to be LP. The Prime model. Imagine that, making a big push to shove all the truck expenses on drivers and still going downhill.

 

No you don't you boss is probably as mean as mine. It is really the wife, always making me turn in paper work forcing me to grease truck, stuff like that. She will fire me some day I hope.

 

I have not seen many of their trucks on the road recently. Every once in a while I see one.


I remember when I started driving in 2005, of all the different company trucks I'd notice, and which ones I'd see the most of...and which ones I don't see as much anymore, and which ones I do see a lot more of that I didn't see of 7 years ago.

Companies come, and companies go. I guess in the next couple of years, we'll see a lot more companies go than come.

 

does sound a little like arrow trucking before they went under

 

Check out the KLLM threads in different parts of TTR. Same ole story for a long time. Reads like a Trans Am thread - newbies being enticed to lease purchase in orientation and even longer term drivers too.

 

(somewhat recently over-hauled the Jackson terminal / new bathrooms / new showers / new break room / you name it). This is usually what you do before you sell something and / or put it on the market to make a property seem more attractive along with tax advantages. Glad other people are catching onto this.

I was entertained to hear that Hostess is going out of buisness. How on earth will night dispatch / road breakdown (and I use that term lightly) survive without the vending machine continually filled with Honeybuns now?? They won't have anything to stand in line for now.

Nothing like a 3 hour wait to get a license plate light fixed on a trailer. Maybe the phone will get answered a little faster now that Hostess is going out of business. Just trying to look on the bright side of things...