A Shout out for Chief Transport out of Atlanta, GA

As it is with many new ventures, there are some growing pains but after 9 years in this business and working with three other well established larger trucking companies I have to say that working with Chief Transport I'm actually beginning to make the money I should be making driving a truck. The owner Larry is an awesome guy to work for. He knows your name and understands you are human. But to work here, you have to WANT to work. Driving a truck is not about sitting in a truck stop eating or taking a "break" when you should be on the road getting the job done. They have about 20 trucks right now. I average about 2800 miles a week, sometimes more, sometimes less but we DON'T go to the northeast rarely if at all. It's about 50/50 live load and drop N hook. The company is growing so things change from time to time. We do some broker loads for backhauls and those can be tedious but it's not like your not getting paid for it. I average about $1100.00 a week gross but I run sometimes three weeks at a time. I don't expect to get home every weekend so I get an extra load or two on the weekends however if you live in the Atlanta area you could probably get home more often. We have Comcards for fuel and scale tickets but since we don't usually go up north they don't pay tolls. We have the Prepass but no EZPass. We get paid every week by Tripscan. Our average length of haul is about 400 miles. We have newer Freightliners and some Volvos (2014 and 2015), some with APUs. Our trailers are "getting better." They are trying to phase out of the older ones but I still run into some issues with some of them (but those are usually left by other drivers not doing PTIs on the trailers before they drop them. My truck runs 75 MPH and I love my Volvo. Its clean and comfortable but some of the other drivers here are slobs and quit leaving their trucks nasty. We are on the E-log and Qualcom and we don't get any other benefits (like health insurance) right now but that will be changing very soon. This company has only been in business for about a year but if you can live without the smaller things you can make money here. There seems to be a high turn over rate and I'm not sure why. As long as you do your job, communicate with dispatch (we only have one dispatcher right now and his name is William and he's a good guy. He works hard to keep me moving) you can make some good money. They don't hire inexperienced drivers and we don't train, If you've got two years and a good record call Marty (our Safety Guy) at 800-765-4992. Please keep in mind, this isn't trucking for beginners here, this is a place for drivers who don't mind working hard. Just tell them Walter said so. Just so you know, I'm a driver and I actually work for them. I'm not a recruiter...we don't really have any of those.