Need your .02 (Con-Way / Knight)

Florida Rock & Tank has a terminal in Wilmington. Get that tanker/hazmat endorsement for future use anyway. You can knock down avg. $65K per year driving tanker/hazmat. Quality Carriers hires new drivers also; don't know if they have a terminal near you though.

 

Oh they changed it? wish it was like that when i was there a year ago.

 

FFE has a terminal in Winter Haven.

 

you asking or telling? it's on US27 in Dundee. Drive past it on my way to IRT's terminal.

 

Sort of...if you deadhead 50 miles and pick up a load that is 251 loaded miles your getting .35 per mile not .39

 

If you look at Schneider, stay on the tanker side. As a former SNI van driver, that division is, IMHO, becoming less driver-friendly with each passing year (I spent 4 1/2 years there). You'll get some good experience at SNI in their tanker division, pulling a variety of bulk commodities.

Over the years, I've spoken to far more UNhappy Knight drivers then unhappy ConWay drivers. But that is the limit of my experience with either company.

Good luck!

 

In a nutshell...heavily restricted idling by way of "ambient temperature sensors". Fine if you have an alternative source of heating and cooling, but SNI apparently doesn't feel that anyone should EVER have a need to idle if the ambient outdoor temperature is from 20 to 70 degrees. (There are auxiliary heaters, but no alternate source of cooling). This is just one way, but to me, it's the most stark example of a company saying to its drivers "we really don't give a tinkers crap about your comfort....but we're going to continue to preach safety, even if this policy means that you sometimes can not sleep comfortably".

I was based out of Charlotte (living in SC), and my time got chewed up running to the NE. The last two years I was there, I had exactly one week over 3000 miles (3003, to be exact), and that was with staying out 21 to 24 days at a stretch.

In trying to stay on top of the latest technological advances in our industry, they're often guilty (again, my opinion) of instituting new policies without fully considering the consequences first. Though this is by no means unique to SNI, they seem to have made an art of it.

I also will add that last year, their VP of the Van Truckload division left to take the top job at Interstate in Washington state. Marc Rogers was, I feel, one of the last guys in Green Bay that could even remotely be called a "drivers guy". When he left (which was after I was already gone), I personally feel like SNI van drivers lost any hope for sensible policy improvements.

Bottom line was that for my investment of time, it was no longer worth what I was getting back out of it. SNI has some good people working at the terminal level, but they're just puppets of Green Bay.

 

Dont know what .02 is but I can tell you in the 8 years I have been doing this I have never met a satisfied Con-Way driver