I hear freymiller bought buel inc...

True one of buels main accounts was schwanns. they were also one of the companies who were suing buel. buel used to make drivers carry schwanns loads for free practically to help pay off the debt. schwanns out of Suwanee ga or salina ks to americold in Clearfield ut. I even lost money on those loads as they didn't even pay enough for fuel. Not to mention the truck payments at $72 a day. Security at the salina Kansas plant treated buel drivers like worms. I hated going there. They didn't mind deadheading a driver 300-500 miles at 10 cent a mile to make you go pick it up either.

They didn't send me there much as usually came back with a decent load to make up for it but still I thought it was bad that they would ask drivers to do these loads knowing the driver was going to take a loss.

 

Yeah that was the way it worked there. you would run out west for practically nothing then they would give u a decent paying load to get u back east which would be your paycheck basically. The terminal was not far from where I lived and I was tired of all the issues with getting home at the previous company I worked for. I thought it was nice just to be able to just jump in my car and go home from the terminal.

You had to look at the big picture there and not just a load by load basis. I made decent money there got some experience in refrigerated hauling and learned a little about the business side of trucking. I got the load info from dispatch before I left and wouldn't hear anything from them until it was time to get my next load. The length of haul was nice. I was glad not to be bumping docks every day or twice a day. Buel had a lot of problems but it wasn't too bad.