Freymiller Bound;Reefer Madness Begins!!!

Man, this thread has got WAY off topic. LOL If anyone is interested, I am now 90 days in or so with Freymiller. I am happy with my choice. As always, there is no PERFECT company. That being said, I am happy with my choice for once. My take home pay is quite a bit higher then I have been use too due to longer average haul length. People have been good to me. Equipment is great for a company. If anyone would like to bounce questions off me, go ahead and PM me if you would like.

 

does freymiller run the west and northwest? just curious...

 

80% of my loads have been between Dallas, Houston, and OKC (and LA) to California, and then back. Back and forth, average length seems to be 1300-1500 miles. Northwest is quite rare for thos,e that don't live up there and headed to and from home. I have only wondered from the south west and middle south when headed to or from the house in Michigan. They do have customers going in and out of North East, Florida, and North Carolina but its much more rare then the Southwest runs back and forth. In other words, most commonly found West of the Mississippi on I-10, I-20, I-40, I-5, and CA-99.

 

wc5b - as you travel around the south west, are they mostly your runs or do
you end up with many relays ? Thanks and stay safe.

 

They do relay when they need to get someone home or someone is too tight. Normally the longer Southwest loads do not seem to be an issue. When it happens, it seems to effect the more Regional or East loads for some reason. Most likely because the bread and butter Southwest loads are a bit longer haul so you can be more flexible with them. Or it could be just my luck. Out of the 90+ days I have been with them (and I stay out about 4 to 6 weeks as it is my choice) I have had three relay's. Two to get people home, one because my own load was a bit tight and it would not have made it.

 

how many company trucks do they have?....when i drove for them (1990-1994) they had over 800 before the bankruptcy....its sort of funny about the bankruptcy, in 1993 i passed a driver who was talking on the cb about freymillers shaky finanicial condition...that was about 3 yrs before they went under...wonder how this guy knew so much? i had someone here tell me don,s wife divorced him , and took him down the tubes...i am not sure what really happen that caused the bankruptcy...its too bad, freymiller was really growing back then...i did run a lot of northwest, allmost every other month i was coming out of the northwest.. usually around the seattle area..i ran through nevada a lot, but i did not stick around there and gamble, straight threw ...there was a team that i met there, and found out they were late on delivery because of the gambling...freymiller frowned on that, and in most cases would limit your runs throught the gambling state...i lived in phoenix, and got threw there a lot when i drove for them too...i enjoyed working for them ,though i did not like the yuma to montreal runs....4 days was allmost too much for me in those slow trucks....
how fast does freymiller trucks run????????/they were governed at 66 mph when i drove for them...60 series detroits, 400 hp in top gear, shift once, down to 350 hp....

 

There you go...

 

Ya, from what I have learned (mostly from this thread and other drivers) is that the bankruptcy was under other management and not the Freymiller Family, so I am not sure how Don (who is not even in control of the company, his Son is.) and his marriage has much to do with anything. That being said, I believe he is a happy married man, though I have not much asked about it.

As for the number of trucks, I believe it is at 400. I am not 100% sure if that is total Company and O/O or just Company. I am pretty sure its a total. From all I can tell, they seem pretty stable to me and actually have shown steady growth if you look at the growing number of trucks, loads, and average age of equipment.

 

Ok to the OP, don't take this personally, but when I read a post that a driver screams how they run the highest miles with the company their are with when they have only been there a short time, and they have driver that have been there for years and years, I get a little skeptical for their claims, Proof is in the pudding as they say, talked with drivers that claim they make X amount of money, When I tell them to put the money ware their mouth is1 all of a sudden they claim up, Would you tell us your truck # and if we see you on the road, would you show the miles on your settlements? to prove your claims?, Had a Prime driver tell me he took home $4000. a week, I told him I'd call Prime right then and there, use him as a referral, If he would just show me his settlement to prove his claims, Well! he said "I not showing you that", If I actually made that kind of money as a company driver, witch he was!, If I was called out, I prove my claims are real

 

We're beating that dead horse again I see. When I First joined this forum and told people the money I was making or the miles I was running, people wanted me to prove it. So I put up settlements. Then people accused me of picking the best statement out of many...so I posted several consecutive settlements. Then they accused me of "cherry picking" settlements; so I started to ignore them. Those same people then proceeded to follow me around the forum calling me a liar and bullying me until I got the moderators involved and they dropped the ban hammer on a couple of them and threatened the rest.

Does Float run 4,000 miles/wk consecutively? I don't know. Hell, I don't even know if 4,000 miles/wk in a 65mph truck on e logs is possible...but I know 3,800 is. I've done it. When I was with Freymiller, I averaged around 2800 miles/wk. Some weeks more, and a few weeks less. Miles started to fall off dramatically about a month or 2 before I left, and it was system wide. Freymiller had just switched over to a new dispatch system that screwed everything up...not to mention some position switches that saw a couple of the good dm's moved elsewhere. So I know that Float wasn't getting those kind of miles in June-July. Float did, at one point, give out his truck number...and with some digging around in this thread, I bet you could find it. Float said it over and over that he had nothing to prove to anybody, and it was up to you whether or not to believe him. He left the thread once because he was called a liar (and I'm assuming he did again...either that or he quit Freymiller.) I will say this: Freymiller may not have the most miles, and they might not pay the best, but (for the most part) they treat their drivers right. I thoroughly enjoyed driving for them, and I'd drive for them again given the opportunity.