Sammons trucking?

Go check out Fred's place for me. All the years I've stopped at the trkstp. To lazy to walk over to the place and see if the dancers were nice size or large and ugly.

Any way, congrats and good luck..

 

Will do! Is it by crossroad's or the ambest?

 

crossroads.

 

I've been with Sammons for four years great company nothing bad to say about them don't plan on going anywhere soon

 

Are you an o/o or l/p? I will be in Missoula on Monday for orientation.

 

Well I've been reading the posts on here and doing research online, and Sammons sounded the best.... so I decided to call Sammons today, a female rep answered, told them I was interested in working for them but had a few questions. Asked multiple questions about the setup of the truck, what areas do they run the most, etc. and all I got was a lot of "I don't know's" or "I'm not sure" for answers. She said to fill an online application, told her I'd like to know about the questions I asked beforehand, but she seemed to be in a hurry, so told her I would and hung up. So after carefully considering about Sammons after the phone call, I filled out the online application, I was actually surprised I got a call back for another lady fairly quickly. Unfortunately that was the only thing that was good about the whole thing and the call didn't take long because according to her, even though I had a few years in driving in the Northeast pulling flat bed, step deck and heavy haul, her excuse was because "I haven't been driving in all 48 states, you don't have experience in driving in different weather conditions and mountains"?? I said "Seriously"?? Well I think she needs to come to the Northeast in the dead of winter and then tell me I don't have experience in them conditions. And then the 2nd reason was "We want you to stay out 4-6 weeks and because I didn't do OTR, I won't stay out 4-6 weeks"?? Now by this time, I'm thinking this is really funny. So by this time I already had my mind made up that I wasn't going to argue with someone who already thinks she knows how well I can drive. But funny how according to the video's on Sammon's website, they say "You can run when you want and come home when you want" .... well evidently you can't or they won't hire you. Sammons, you need to update your website and tell the true details and tell your drivers in the videos to tell them to say what you told me and not what you want prospective drivers to hear. Glad I found out their true motives BEFORE I went and done something stupid and started driving for them!

Also, this is not really to do with my experience with Sammon's, but sorta does... I hear people on the CB saying and bragging about how they have 20, 30, 40 years experience driving a truck acting like their professional drivers and then saying how the drivers with only a couple years under their belt don't know much about driving..... makes me bust out laughing, especially when I see these so-called experienced drivers trying to maneuver their truck in a tight spot or even trying to park their truck at a truck stop, takes forever for them to do it ..... so that's just proof that you professionals might have drove for 20-40 years, DOESN'T always mean you can drive better than other drivers. I've seen a quite a few of these so called professionals try to park a truck many many times and it takes them longer than the rookies. And after the new "30 minutes off within 8 hours" law, you should have heard all these professionals on the CB trying to figure that one out. LMAO!!

 

Ok were you wanting do do lease purchase or do you have your own trk?
I've been with them just a little over year and they never bothered me when I took last winter off 2 months.
Plus I've taken time off some this year and no issues..
I think, but not sure that on the lease purchase side they might want you to stay out longer to help build revenue. Buddy of mine is doing lease purchase and goes home about every 4 weeks and takes 5 to 7 days off.
He lives in NH..

 

There is a difference in winter driving in the northwest than the northeast. Pennsylvania has it's wicked roads and rugged mountains, snows like hell, high traffic, tight roads...etc. but out west, you're looking at twice the elevation, much colder temps, much less humidity,much more wind, much less traffic cities spread much farther apart, ice fog,...etc. and it all adds up to a brutality that you don't see out east.

-40, winds howling, snow is dry like sand and it feels like you're being sandblasted, that freaky fog...something goes wrong, you're part of the food chain.

Anyways, I would have offered you a job regardless of your not running 48. Either you can drive or you can't. If you can drive, it doesn't matter what Mother Nature throws at you. If the road is open, you go for it.

A few years back, I had to do a stint at Swift to get back under a skateboard. Delivered up in Minot, and was waiting for a load. They had that Opt Idle crap in the truck. Temp was 3 degrees in the daylight and near 20 below ( this was the warm winter weather). I had the thermostat set to keep the inside of the truck around 70degrees. The Opt Idle would get the truck up to temp and shut off, but kick back on within 15 seconds. Burned up the starter. I was trying to sleep (hard to do when a truck keeps on starting and stopping), but when that engine failed to restart, that really got my attention. I had grab a motel ASAP.

Whats weird is the weather in Alberta, Canada. It can be cold as hell in Saskatoon and Manitoba, but 25- 30 degrees in Alberta. Took a monster of a load up to Conklin, AB, stopped at a truckstop on the way out. The weather went to hell. Temps dipped below minus 55, plus 50 mph wind. The wind and the snow does a constant pounding on everything. You go inside a truckstop, and it's warm. And they have hot food. It feels like you're in hell and someone is being nice to you.

 

Yeah it might be colder and higher elevation, but ice is ice, fog is fog, snow is snow, any of them are bad enough no matter where you're running, and if the roads are ice covered, etc., you'll be sitting until they clear the roads anyways. So if that's there excuse, they told me they run southeast too, which is closer for me to begin with, so them excuses don't work down there :/

 

in the west. the only people sitting till the roads clear. are drivers from the east.

the mentality of if the chains are out. it's too bad to drive. will leave you sitting for days. and quite possibly UNEMPLOYED.

you can drive a truck all you want. but if you're too afraid to drive in the snow. then you really aren't experienced in winter driving.

driving in the snow. chucking chains. is part of the job. you can get away with it on the east becuase there's no hills. average elevation is only 800 feet. on the west. you've got mountains. and elevations anywhere from 4000 feet to 14,000 feet.

there's bad driving conditions that warrant parking. and there's crappy conditions that require some extra traction. no one wants their loads sitting around becuase drivers are afraid of adding traction.