My Experience with Pride Transport

Yes... If your home is along the standard lanes of travel, they will hire you.

 

Despite the forced per diem, which is no small downside, I'm looking real close at applying with Pride since every job's gonna have at least a few downsides.

Since I reside in Laughlin I am wondering if I would have to leave my vehicle parked at their Las Vegas drop yard or whether they'd instead let me bobtail home (Laughlin's slightly over 100 miles away).

When I used to drive for Marten, their Vegas drop yard was the Ocean Spray in Henderson, so I got to bobtail home.

 

Re Pride's scrapping APU's in favor of an "above 70 below 30" idling policy, many years ago before Marten had any APU's, my FM mass-Qualcomm'd all of us one day asking what could be done about us idling too much. My response wouldn't have made my fellow drivers very happy, but I suggested that Marten make the truck impossible to long-idle when the temperature's within a certain range.

This was the first I'd ever heard of any company actually doing that! I have no problem with the "above 70" part, but the "below 30" seems a little harsh. My reply at Marten suggested "below 45".

 

We have the 70-30 here at Arnold. We have bunk heaters for the winter. The 70 is ok as long as you stay out of the direct sun. Much more bearable than I thought it would be.

 

Pride never had APU's. Maybe 5 trucks had them when I left. All trucks do have ESPAR bunk heaters.

 

Okay I didn't know they have ESPARs. Nothing harsh about the below 30 policy then, except those ESPARs, in my experience anyway, are not very reliable. Since I didn't sign up for OTR to be a chimney sweep, all I do with them is use the on/off and temp adjust. Before long, all the ESPAR does is (a) kick out so much white smoke that unknowing bystanders think the truck's on fire, and (b) not heat when the ambient temp drops below 55 degrees.

I would also miss having an APU for the battery-charging functionality. I routinely plug equipment into 300-watt inverters while the truck's parked. Doing this with the engine off and no APU reduces the life of the alternator.

 

I wonder why they won't allow a big inverter? That's a bummer. I use a microwave and coffee pot in my truck everyday. Our trucks come with big inverters already installed. Oh well. To each their own.

 

Wow....I musta got one of them 5 trucks then.

Cuz I got an old Pride transport truck and it's got a factory installed TriPac APU w/ espar installed on it.

 

What year/model truck? I was there for 2 years, and none of them had APU's. They just started trying them out on some of the '12 ProStars and Cascadia's when I left a year ago.

 

I have an old 2007 Century that came from Pride Transport.