Tyson Foods vs Pride Transport

That sounds good; in that case may be the better choice if they let solo drivers run it, unless he's willing to run teams.

 

Pride is great if you like sitting in your truck in West Valley City. If you're lucky their best driver will quit and little Jeffy England will come out of his office and throw a fit in the lot like a 5 year old for your entertainment.

 

before i retired was making 38 cpm new drivers were gouging me about that,but i also received $5000.00 profit sharing check,$1500.00 bonus check, 401K match, 10 paid holidays,vacation pay,and health insurance paid. oh yeah 1 cmp for safety. so pay can be a tricky thing in trucking its not all in the cpm. i would look at tyson pretty hard,to me i always thought it was better to work for a company that hauls there own product. lots of luck

 

Pride has long runs and miles and that's what everyone loves about it. It's got it's down side too. Like being pushed to run hard, lack of hometime, and strict rules about going through inbound, outbound, and the truck was EVERYTIME YOU GO THROUGH THE YARD.

 

KLLM hauls a lot of Tyson loads; I think have some kind of logistics contract with Tyson. I'm guessing here, but I doubt if Tyson trucks have long waits picking up or delivering at Tyson plants. They probably dump those long waits on KLLM.

Worse comes to worse, just flip a coin and try one company for a year then move to the other and try it for a year.

 

Yeah the downside of that is KLLM though.

 

I drive for Tyson. Been there 3 years. Best company I ever worked for. On the average good miles, good benefits, and good equipment.