I have an opportunity at Cassens

DO we have in info on the terminals in michagan

 

Bump , any new info on the terminals in Michigan

 

Hello. I'm also interested in Cassens, I have an opportunity to work with them. All i want to know is what the home time is like. I work for an asphalt hauling company right now. Great money, lots and lots of hours but it is seasonal. I don't mind working in the snow, I run my own plowing service. I use to haul cars privately on a dodge dually pickup. But I work around 70-80 hours a week and see my house for 4-6 hours a day since i live so far away from my yard. I'm just looking for a trucking job that I can be home with the family and do what i love to do. So please tell me what home time is like. Thank you

 

For me it's usually 1 day during the week and anywhere from 2 days to 1 1/2 on the weekends. Most weekends it could be 2 days but I choose to load Saturday.

 

Really so more than likely you get a couple days off a week? Is this a union company?

 

Yes. And yes.

 

Does anybody have experience with the detroit terminals? I live in Port Huron which is only an hour north of three of their terminals I believe. When you live that close you can be home every night right?

 

Nobody has chimed in yet, so I'll give you a little general information.

How often you are home is a direct result of the type of terminal operation you are working out of. If you are based out of a railhead, the traffic is generally local to out around 200-300 miles. They would run local and shortline type of trips. Home every night or day if they run local slipseat and maybe out 1 or 2 nights a week on shortline. Or work from an assembly plant and you could be out all week. Or they may do round robin type dispatch where you load from your home domicile deliver, go into another terminal load/deliver, go into a 3rd terminal load toward home/deliver.
Keep in mind, in a union barn, seniority prevails. The bottom drivers get what is left over. I know in this age of entitlement that may seem like a tough pill to swallow, however a new driver has to suck it up and pay their dues so to speak.

 

So cassens has some sleeper trucks then? Or do they put you up in a hotel all the time?

I drove school bus for a few years before I became a truck driver and we had the Teamsters union there so I'm familiar with how seniority and all that works. However there it was easy to move up because turnover was so high, I doubt that'll be the same at a car hauling outfit. Either way I look forward to a union again.

 

Any Cassens trucks I see in Ontario are always parked in the Hotels... I see them in Oshawa,Ont all the time at the hotel not far from my house... I have also seen them in other hotels as well... Most of time that I see them they have 2-3 guys parked in the hotel... I have yet to see any cassens sleeper trucks....