What was your first Trucking company?

Burlington motor carriers. Left after 4 months to go local.

 

Ist one wasn't a company at all...it was my uncle's dairy farm this was in the mid 60's

2nd one was a friend's Dad's construction company driving a dump truck after the army , the name was Clover Grading inc. stayed about 6 months or so til I started my next one with...
Thomas Produce Co. stayed there almost 3 years and then left to be home more.

Last one was GSF...stayed there 33 years til I retired in 2011......

 

Crete two years. Needed two years experience to get on with the LTL that I am currently with.

 

Ag commodities Transport - 3 months - grape season ended

 

Smythe Van Lines in '77 codriving with my brother. Off and on for two years until he moved on to flatbedding.

 

A small local company CMT trucking, driving a double stick Mack with a window in the back, stayed until the trucks got repo'd.

 

A company out of Orange Park FL called Sav-A-Stop. Or as we called slave a stop. It was 1977 and I left after a couple of years because I got transferred in the NAVY. In the NAVY we only worked 4 days a week so every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I ran team throughout 7 southern states. I was guaranteed to be back at work Monday morning and one time I did break down and they did get me back. The tractors were leased from Ryder so all we did was go to the nearest shop and they fixed us up. The pay was low, 12¢ a mile but that was 2 cents more than the full time drivers because I had no benefits (didn't need them).

The company I really worked for was a service that provided drivers to different accounts. It was called Progressive Driver Services or PDS and when I left Sav-A-Stop they wanted to transfer me to a CA account but I had to tell them it would be very hard to drive and be stationed on an aircraft carrier. There were jobs out there for military drivers but you've got to look really hard.

 

Big Tex Trailers- 3 months, miles werent very good and I figured out I did not like flatbedding.

 

Yeah, I hear that is going . . Not Well. A few hiccups in the software.

 

hagen trucking sioux city iowa. stayed there 15 years. meat to the west coast an produce back to the midwest