Indian River Transport, Co. - Winter Haven, FL.?

When I worked there I spent two days at the "dairy" in Cleveland. No pay.

 

dairy farms/dairy plants... you can end up waiting at both.. normally if you're waiting at the farm it's because dispatch sent the wrong time across the qualcomm.. once i spent 15hrs in Leesburg, Ga because dispatch said the load was to be picked up at 10am and that its' normally early. I got there around 7am and no trailer was loaded.. i sat and sat, and sat.. took naps and went to burger king to eat.. came back and feel asleep.. loader comes in around 9pm and asks how long i've been there.. He told me it wasn't the first time he's seen it happen and is sure it wont be the last..

so much for waiting at the dairy plants.. it depends on which plant you go to.. some are strict on appointment times and they actually work out properly... others... is pretty much first come first to wait in line behind that otha driver that got there 8hrs before you did and has been waiting for the plant to get fixed so they can start processing milk again and empty out a silo.

cheese plants are interesting.. sometimes they're fast, alot of the time they're not.

delivered a load in Goshen at a cheese plant around 11pm, was out the gate by midnight.. burn'd up and picked up the drop load out of Michigan and smoked the tires all the way back down to Goshen, got there a little after seven.. saw the line and didn't even bother to check in, just went to sleep.. around 9am i go to check in and find out that after i left, around 1am i valve blew out and they couldn't process any milk. They filled all of the silos and had about eight trucks sitting on the yard.. they tried to reject the load, but since it was loaded the day prior they took it..

once they fixed the valve they had to process all of the milk that was in the silos, then wash the silos before they could resume unloading trucks.. I got there around 7am, left out empty around 2am...

that plant in Atlanta is no better, and their parking sucks..

 

Dairy= where the cows are. Typically they run a decent on time schedule as the cows have got to be milked and they typically have limited storage capacity. So when the tanks are full it typically gets loaded out.

Milk Plant (dairy)= Where the milk delivers. These places can be on time or a complete mess. Best advice I can give is to talk to the receivers at these locations and get phone numbers. They often don't mind you calling ahead to see what's going on or to reschedule an appointment. Unlike some trucking jobs where u may only see a customer once or twice a year, chances are you will be back to a milk plant often. Communication with the receivers is key to a good experience.

 

IFA does alot of the dairy work around Salt Lake City. I have thought about trying to get on there to build some tanker experience. But Jesus, I have seen some of the farms they go to on their routes and I don't think I could even begin to get to the darn places in winter.

 

Fruit season peeks it's head around the corner and all of a sudden it goes quiet in here. Or maybe everyone is too busy blowing motors in those Freightliners they just got.

 

Ought O! What's the deal with the Freights blowing motors?

 

This place been dead for months!

 

Maybe everyone quit?

 

I have a buddy that works for IRT and he likes it... He decided he wanted the winter off so they told him come back whenever he felt like it so maybe they aren't as bad as they seem sometimes. All the bad stories kind of scared me off from them though