Don't work for Lessors Inc .

Does anyone here think that because 1 driver is doing great at this company that all should be or they are stupid or lazy? I hope not.

This seems to be a pattern on these threads. A person posts a bad experience and then someone is popping tall on how they must be doing something wrong because they are happy. And someone happy is called a fool for working for a company they think sucks.

Is it not possible that 2 drivers at the same OTR company with identical mo's could be having opposite experiences? My experience says yes.

 

I look at it like this. Joseph works his ### off wherever he's at. He did the same at Gordon. Obviously the work is there for drivers who want it.

Like my company. You want to run they have the work. Any driver here at Munoz who is sitting is sitting because they want to or need a reset lol.

If Joseph worked here I guarantee Pascual Munoz would have a hard on for all the money he was making the company lol!

 

Thanks buddy. I have a saying. Learn how to work kid. I learned that you can be successful almost anywhere. The key is to stand out in a good way. My customers are happy to see me. Well dressed, good attitude and a good work ethic. Whether it's 20 trucks or 2000, I want them to notice me. I want them to realize that they need me, I don't need them. Safety and service can and do go hand and hand. There are drivers you see who have a good rapport with shippers and receivers. I'm that guy. And it's selfish in a way. I get what I want that way.

 

I always have to wonder about these sort of things. Driver says the company sucks, but is it the company as a whole, people in a specific part of the company, or the driver themselves?

At my last company, I was told all the time by fellow drivers how bad it was to work there. Got bad enough that I quit talking to other drivers altogether, because it ruined my mood.

They were supposed to work you to death and never give you a break. Yet, whenever I told my dispatcher to slow me down for a certain amount of time because I was tired, sick, or whatever, there was never an issue and I always got what I wanted.

Apparently we didn't get any miles working there, as reported by most drivers getting 1,500-2,000 miles a week. I would get 2,300 miles on a terrible week where I couldn't run on Monday (I was pretty far down the load list being newer to the company), could get 2,500 miles most weeks, and was starting to average 2,700 on a pretty regular basis. Seems that taking two days to make a day and a half run is bad for your miles. But, if you make the run in an appropriate amount of time and keep in touch with your dispatch about your ETA and hours available, you get quick little local runs when you get back, which add to your mileage and give you a little bonus of short haul pay on top of it.

I was told my runs were the crap, and actually had drivers laughing at my having to run them because I didn't have the seniority to get the better runs. I actually had no idea they weren't good, until I was told, because I was able to run them at the correct time to get the freight delivered when scheduled, which put me on the bad roads during times there was no traffic. Jersey turnpike sucks at rush hour, but is just another road when you're on it at 4am.

It was punishment that we had to go to NYC, and eventually drivers complained enough and refused enough loads that we quit going there. Funny thing is that I used to volunteer for that run every Friday. Made 550 miles, an additional $250 in all the little extras that run give us, and had me parked at my home terminal by 5pm that night. I threw a fit when that run was cancelled, and threw an even bigger one when I found out why. Seems that other drivers didn't realize that, when you sleep in and deliver the load late, you hit NYC in high traffic and it becomes the nightmare everyone thinks of when they think of the place. But, when you deliver on time, the roads are empty and there is nothing to slow you down. Then, as you're leaving, you get to watch traffic backed up for miles in the other direction.

Trucks were also supposed to be junk. Yet, everything worked on mine and the shop would repair it when it didn't. Apparently some drivers don't seem to realize that trucks break sometimes, and if you don't get it fixed it will stay broken. Also, if you never clean your truck it will get dirty and stay that way. When drivers saw how clean mine was, I'd often get asked, "how'd you get such a nice truck?", and never comprehend that their filth was their fault.

Then, after my route got transferred to another terminal, the other drivers couldn't have complained more about how bad our new dispatcher was. While I will admit that she was horrible (pretty sure she had some sort of learning disability), I never found the need to get all tweaked about it like the other drivers. There were things that she could do, and things that she should have been doing but just couldn't seem to manage. Other drivers quit, called corporate on numerous occasions, and just generally refused to deal with her. I just let her handle what she could handle, and made the other decisions myself then reported to her what I had done. We got along just fine due to me being pleasant, while others couldn't understand why throwing a fit wasn't making things any better. Even then, the problems that she caused were due to her not being able to do her job correctly, and were only relevant to her being good or bad, not whether or not the company was bad.


I'm sure there have to be bad companies out there, but I'm really of the opinion that most of the time the fault falls either on the driver or just with certain individuals (dispatcher, terminal manager, mechanic, etc.) within the company and does not represent the company as a whole. Yes, there has to be exceptions to this, but if you're unhappy with your company I would take the time to think and be sure that the problem is with them and not with you.

 

This should have a sticky. You're a smart driver.

 

Sounds like my experience at my current company. Unbelievable some of the stuff the drivers come up with to complain about.

 

he's an old ### hole and when he is dead and rotting i will there standing in line waiting to piss on on his grave.

 

Sounds like you're a pleasure to deal with.

 

Then I bet you'd be blaming the company for the line.

A good driver would call ahead and ask if they can deliver that "load" early, so they didn't have to wait.

 

During my short stint with Gordon, they told you not to do it and wouldn't give you the number. Apparently they forgot about smart phones..... Lol