Jack Cooper Transport

When I worked at that terminal you could get forced on a "hot" load, but not 2 loads in a row. That's the only forced dispatch that I am aware of.

 

That's what I was referring to. I was told Ft Wayne was forced meaning if you had hrs you loaded. We are the same way with the hot loads. Usually there city loads but you can pick a road load at the same time.

First in first out just refers to how you pick your loads. We have dispatch times and our loads are picked by seniority. Timed dispatch blows when you miss a dispatch by minutes and have to wait 2 hrs to pick.

 

Yes that time dispatch sucks, i did it in Smyrna and missed a board by minutes several times. Sat there for 2 hours and was still the only one to pick. Wasted 2 hours for no good reason. I see no point in it at all. What we have in my terminal is seniority dispatch 4 times a day and first in first out in between. That way you don't have to wait for the next board to pick. If you don't like what's left, you can pass and wait for the next board. Cooper occasionally tries to force you out even on Friday afternoon if you have the hours to deliver, but there is always a way around everything. My clock gets as close to 14 hours every day so if I pick a load that is deliverable on sat, I don't have the hours to run it. Or I look for one dealer that is mon-fri delivery only and pick that load. You just have to be willing to play their game when they are playing games. Most of the time if you are producing good revenue and not damaging cars they will leave you alone, which is why I took this job! Of course you can always find something on your rig that needs repair if all else fails.

 

Yea gotta love those load n go Fridays.

 

Can I borrow a pen? Hehehe, no I have a pen, I am in Afghanistan, coming home in June, 2015, and will be very interested in a driver position, eventually an O/O and live near Youngstown, Ohio. Any information about Cassens, Fleet Car and Jack Cooper and URS, I would really like to hear. Thanks, Marmal, Afghanistan

 

Youngstown is a stones throw from GM Lordstown assembly. Check out who has the haulaway business next year and apply there.

 

A perfect example of "playing the board" for anyone that wants a definition.

 

Thanks for letting me in Slant 6 and the rest of the guys. I am in Afghanistan now, been here it seems eternity, lets just say I left USA in 2008 for Kuwait, and now after being here four years plus in the 'Stan, I am looking to come back to the States permanently around June 2015, or at the outset if we get "held back" till Dec 2015, to a "new trucking world" now in the USA. I did come back for 10 months a year ago, and worked tankers for oil and gas in Ohio and PA. lifting 75 pound high pressure joint pipe and water hose connections. In the 22 below zero madness. Well, I have found, or my wife actually found a friend whose husband does car hauling for Fleet Car, and I am interested in working first then if I make it thru the "I hate this" period and knowing what I was prior, and O/O I may jump the faith leap and go for it again. The first company I "went for it" as an O/O was Burlington Motor Carriers out of Daleville, In. So I am not a spring chicken, rather a leathery hardened trucker contractor who has a good 10-12 years left in him to get er done.

I am all ears to anyone who has anything to say, you can insult me, call me names, you can even spit at the screen. Been there done that. Been shot at, bombed, mortared, and had the entire race card thrown at me. Still standing. Been thru four recessions, as I live in Youngstown, Warren area. Been devastated since 1978. So, guys, I don't want my last big go around one of a busted and broken promise. Is the car hauling business here to stay. When all said and done, I am going to retire in the Philippines and sit on my beachside boat at my Nipa hut house with my beautiful wife. Been there and done that in almost every conceivable way known to a man. Thru a divorce after coming home from a long distance truck run. That was with Burlington. Stayed single till I went to the "land of little happy feet".

Enough about my trials and tribulations. I am here for the strait gut truths of this business. And if I am eventually going to lay out 250 grand on a business, I will spend hours on these forums to collect the best of information. Like is Jack Cooper one of the best, United, Fleet Car, are any of these guys good, bad, what is the ins and outs, starting out, maybe with Cassens, I am from Lordstown Ohio area where there is a main CSX terminal, 5 turnpike gates, I-76, I-77, I-80 and I-70 and I-90. I am going to meet with an O/O in February in Cebu, where he and I will be vacationing in the Philippines, and I want to know some pretty good truths before meeting up with him. The wife and his already went on a little trip to Pitt with him. So am losing last 25 pounds of extra Army chow wt. and going to be ready for this outstanding opportunity. Also am a veteran of the USN.

Sorry this is so long. Been thru a heck of a lot since '78. But transportation has been in my blood since getting out of the Navy in '88. Thanks guys.

 

Explain Slant 6 what you mean about playing the board. My definition of playing the board is the people who use their phone tree to see what's left on a first in first out board. If there is only one or two loads left they sit around the corner from the terminal and wait on a couple drivers to go in so this board player can get a new board. With a seniority board there is no playing the board. With my current dispatch procedure if you come in between the 4 boards you pick or pass and wait on the next board. If your referring to picking a long trip on Friday and delivering on Monday, I know of no carhauler who want to work the weekend unless they live out of state.

 

Thanks Slant6!!! Just looking thru the forum, I knew you had answered, so getting the hang of it. Yes, I live exactly 5 minutes from the GM Lordstown Assembly gates.
I will do so and thank you so much. Ya, I usually end up with three extra pens I have no idea where I got them from , so I silently slip them back on the dispatch desk when nobody notices. Kinda like putting ol Roshaw's prize #### back over the line fence when Casper the friendly mastiff brings him trotting in his mouth to me. Not even a dang feather ruffled. This has been so far a very good site. Fleet Car and Cassens are the two I know that are there, will look more thanks.