Freymiller

@Chinatown can give you the lowdown

 

Pay on the company side is low but they will keep you moving to make up for it. I never feel below 3k miles a week unless i went home or truck was in the shop. The started at.39 cpm when i was there. They have a pretty good lease program but you have to drive company with them for 6 months and catch Don in his office to discuss that. They treat you like a professional and if you do a good job for them then they will bend over backwards to do you right. Trucks ate pretty much all pete 579's with a few 386's still there and they have kW"s for teams. And when i left they had gotten 10 freight shakers as an experiment, doubt they will last long but they are nice as well, they are all cascadia evolutions and all trucks are o/o spec'd with apu's and the shop sells fridges for them deducted weekly and for the trucks that don't have inverters, they will install one up to 1500 watts if you buy it.. all in all they are a great company, especially if you hate the n.e. and love the west coast

 

I have. Been with them for 10 mo. Still here for now. It's been up and down for me. +nice equipment, + treat u like an adult. +if u give them the day you need to be home u will be there (okc for me. No idea if it works for others who take time off in other parts of the country.) No matter how inefficient they are at it. And by this i mean if you're 200 miles from home you could sit for 2 days until they give up and have u deadhead home. But u will be home when u asked to be. Nevermind the 2 or 3 days u give up for free to get there.
My biggest peeve is detention a lot of these shippers and recievers are chronic detainers. It's out of control. It's not exclusive to freymiller but I think the only way to get this problem under control is for it to cost the shippers and recievers money. As it is now there is no recoarse for these clowns. They can keep a driver and equipment tied up for hours for free. How many millions of dollars of driver and equipment hours are lost to this each year? If it affected their bottom line the way it does drivers it would cease to be a problem. Now if reputable companies like freymiller keep bringing them freight on time in spite of chronic detention it will never change. There are some great shippers and recievers that treat our time as valuable and that is awesome it's a real treat to go to those places. The answer so far has been to punish and regulate drivers into poverty. We are skilled valuable human beings that tolerate crazy amounts of bs from government regs to company policies and stupid traffic deal with maddening delays for absolutely no reason other than "we can now leave".

 

My experience was not like yours. I drove for them for 2 years. Never,not 1 time ever, did they get me home on the day I requested. I'm from Western NC. The miles are low, the unpaid detention is very high. It's not unusual to sit at a dock for 5-7 hours. I made EVERY appointment on time, unless it was out of my control. I tried my best to get good miles. Nope. I went all the way up the ladder, and used the open door policy,and spoke to David Freymiller himself about the crappy miles.
I drove a Pete 386. It was the SLOWEST truck pulling a mountain. In my opinion, you can do a lot better than Freymiller.

 

This is mostly correct trucks and inverter info . As a driver at freymiller you

I have a 386 and she is bit of a slow climber too but Im kind of fond of it.in other words it hasn't broke down yet. The ironic thing about time off for me is even though they got me home on the dates I put in the ridiculously slow qc I sat waiting in mo or ks for a load home longer than I was off. Maybe I would appreciate that more if I had a surgery planned for that date or something. I hadn't realized you were gone although we've never spoke sandman I followed your post around the time I started here. I took solace in your steady handed approach.

 

Thank you for the kind words. I tried all I knew to stay. I spoke to anyone that would listen.
There's 2 things you don't mess with 1-a drivers miles. Miles=$$.
2- a driver's home time. I NEVER EVER got home as planned. I would schedule early,and still be 2 days late getting home. I made all my medical appointment on a monday.
Honestly,it broke my heart to leave. But, Freymiller made it clear to me that they didn't care if I left. I kept the cleanest truck in the fleet. I emptied out on a monday, I'm sure there was a new driver in my truck on Thursday.