Ward Trucking

cOULD ANY ONE TELL IS WARD TRUCKLOAD GETTING NEW TRUCKS

 

Nice. What are they? Freightliners, Internationals?????

 

Go with LTL division, the OTR division is what it is another OTR trucking company.

 

Regional Life where do you run out of. I'am looking at running out of the Phila. Ijuat like to know what area I would be running.

 

Whay terminal do you run out of. are the new trucks Freightliners. Thanks

 

I've been employed here at Ward Truckload Express for over 10 years now and have every intention of retiring one day from there. Lately I've talked with lots of other drivers and they were complaining that their weekly paycheck was down, their miles were down and they were having to deal with more and more broker loads that paid less and less.
Maybe I'm just a fortunate driver as it has been exactly the opposite here. The second week in December was the highest income week the comapny had all year in 2012. It's hard to believe since our normal busy season runs from the end of March until about the end of October. I've been a driver since 1974 when I got out of the Army and can remember freight started to slack off about Thanksgiving, got really thin from Christmas until about the middle to the end of February and then slowly recovered into March. I realize that Ward Corporation has a bunch of sales people out calling on potential customers,(last I heard there were about 35 sales people making calls) but our loads haven't skipped a beat. It seems that every week I either pick up a load or deliver a load to a new customer's location. The last five weeks have me scratching my head and wondering why there hasn't been a slow down like there was in the past. I don't know what has changed and I'm certainly not complaining that I'm busy but I can't seem to figure out why we are busy but a lot of other drivers are complaining about being slow. I've told other drivers that I've talked with that were complaining that their earnings were off to give Ward Truckload Express a try. Granted we only run the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware and you have to live in one of those four states to get hired on but with ten years in and almost no complaints, I think it was a very good choice I made over ten years ago.

 

I understand that they just got in 10 new 2013 Freightliner Columbias (I think) I've only seen a couple of them so far. I heard that they had to get them because they had more loads of freight than the current number of trucks could handle so they added these 10 and are looking at adding more.