Super Service

I should have been clearer. The story they tell us is Dan Strong, the current president and CEO bought Gainey, made it all one company and named it all Super Service, to leave the former owners' names out of it. Then there was some legal stuff, buying and selling of property...something about bankruptcy that I don't know much about. Rumor has it that Gainey still owns the Ellenwood terminal and leases it back to SS. Weather or not that's true, I don't know.

 

I worked for SS for a month... what a joke. The people there are nice, but their tractors are ancient history. And the trailers are even worse. I think they bought the trailers when the wheel was first invented.

And their "training program"? All I can say is, avoid this company like the plague. Their trainers are Neanderthals and their training program = the trainee drives while the 'trainer' sleeps. You're basically on your own as a newbie, but your so-called trainer gets paid for your miles, while you make slave wages as a newbie. Avoid this company.

 

Anyone have any details on their orientation and training program?

 

Yah....just read the post DIRECTLY ABOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That's good the trainer sleeps while you drive. You can learn much faster and gain self confidence more quickly without a babysitter in the passenger seat blabbering away. Driving a truck isn't that complicated.

 

A friend of mine used to drive for Lester coggins until super service bought them out and started screwing the drivers over.

 

That's the whole reason we have an entire generation of poorly trained idiots.

 

SS is buying new equipment all the time. They've already phased out all the old trucks, replacing them with brand new Cascadias and ProStars. Brand new trailers are coming all the time. Yes, a bunch of old ones are still around, but they are good about getting them fixed.

As for the trainer sleeping while the trainee does all the driving, that's not suppose to happen. If it does and Safety hears of it, the trainer will get reamed for it. I don't know about the trainee pay. I started as an experienced driver. Orientation in Grand Rapids was pretty might like at any other company, but with minimal bs being spouted by the director, who is a former driver of 28 years. You do get paid for it and are put up in a really nice hotel for the duration.

 

Agreed. What's the point in the trainer being in the truck if he's not actually training? People like that are stealing the company's money by not doing the job they were paid to do. There's so much more to it than driving the truck. A monkey can do that. Besides holding the wheel, you're also a navigator, secretary, mechanic, problem solver, mathematician, customer service, safety and any other category that comes your way. If an accident happens in front of you, you become a first responder. Anybody who thinks driving a truck is that easy and that the trainer should leave the trainee alone behind the wheel, then that driver's trainer failed him as well.

 

Thanks for some actual info. Do they do any type of endurance or physical agility test? Do they make heafty people do a sleep study? Auto or manual?