Roadrunner Transportation Pool Trailers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by kw600, Aug 21, 2016.

  1. kw600

    kw600 Road Train Member

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    Roadrunner Transportation pool trailers, total scam. I list my reasons below and hope this helps other IC realize how horrible it is to sign up for them.

    1) Cost. $210.00 PER WEEK. You read that correct that's per week. Let's do some basic math with said figure. I hate to say it but that's $840.00 per month for a trailer. If decent credit one can go and find a brand new one for $300-400 a month. Cutting your cost in half. If you decide to be off for one week and want to stay home, you are still charged that $210.00

    2) Their posters at each terminal states "less waiting! , less downtime!, less expenses! , more profit!" This is direct from Roadrunner themselves. I explain why this is a lie. Less waiting and less downtime means the same thing. It's like saying you have a dollar bill or you have four quarters, same amount. You do not wait less. Most of the time you call the terminal you are heading to and they say ok you are on the board for so and so night. You end up waiting an extra two days for that pool trailer to be loaded anyway. Less expenses--$840 a month in comparison to having your own trailer at $400 is NOT less expensive.

    3) WHY ON EARTH DO THEY SAY DROP AND HOOK WHEN YOU DROP ONE DAY HOOK IN TWO DAYS
    Pool trailers are meant to be used like this. You have a pool trailer going to LA. You call them Monday tell them you are coming Friday(example). They should then load another pool trailer and have it ready for you, after all you are paying $840 a month. Then you get their Friday and it won't be loaded til Monday night. At least you get 34 hour reset.

    I'm just trying to say $840.00 is stealing from the people who, without, roadrunner wouldn't even exist. Have some respect yeeeesh
     
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  3. LumbraX

    LumbraX Medium Load Member

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    Never heard anything good about Roadrunner. The 2 trucks leased to them at my yard have sat there rotting for almost a year now. You always need a little pull here and there but I feel like if your not plugged with someone beneficial at Roadrunner you don't stand a chance in the long run. Just word on the street though no actual experience with them.
     
  4. kw600

    kw600 Road Train Member

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    Been with them 8years ; they have their pros and cons just like every company.

    Just wanted to give my two cents on their pool trailers to any other roadrunner operator that is on this forum thinking on using their trailers, or just anyone out there.
     
  5. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    I leased onto them in March 2014, they set me up with an Xtralease rental trailer. I think it was $107 a week plus $85 a month for insurance. That works out to $548 a month or $126 per week.

    I remember when they started bringing on the pool trailers, they sure were pretty and shiny that first few months. They were calling me from corporate to turn in my Xtralease and use theirs. The big selling point was the drop and hook trick. It was $185 a week so right away I was not sure $60 bucks a week would be worth it.

    Had an opportunity to drop my trailer at the Mira Loma yard because they needed a hot load to get back to St Louis on the pool trailer. So I did that and was supposed to get right back to Mira Loma however another hot load popped up to Orlando out of St Louis. So I thought I would do the pool trailer thing for a bit and see if I'd be making more money.

    Turns out I was sitting just as much at terminals as I had before. Typical deal was I'd roll into any given terminal Monday night and they would say 'you are 12th truck out of 17' to deliver tonite. Means they have to load 11 trucks before I get mine. Means I will be sitting there til Thursday night if not Friday night for sure. They locked down the broker freight so hard you had to ask permission to get a broker load if you were close to a terminal. Too many times corporate said, no, make him wait for a terminal load.

    Probably my biggest regret about my trucking career so far was not leasing onto Roadrunner back in 2011 after I talked to that driver explaining how he ran mostly broker freight and a few terminal loads a month. By 2014 it was still that way but they flipped the script and locked down the drivers to strictly terminal freight. Then if by some miracle they release you to get your own load, you couldn't call just any broker off ITS, no you had to call the inhouse RR agents to book the loads for you. You'd work with a guy for 2-3 loads and think now I can start to press for more money as I have proven myself to this guy. Can't get ahold of that guy anymore, they have this new guy you gotta talk to and he doesn't know how you run so you have to run cheap to prove yourself to him. See where it is going?

    Not sure how those RR drivers are surviving that I see running the interstates. $210 a week times 52 weeks is $10920 a year divided by 12 is $910 a month just to rent their trailer. I knew it had to happen that they'd raise it from $185, those trailers are coming up on 2 years old and needing new tires and brakes that the drivers like to use the trolley brake going down hills to save the tractor brakes.
     
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  6. kw600

    kw600 Road Train Member

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    Most of them have the same exact dent on the top right corner on the front of the trailer. Exact same spot and size. Tires have been replaced on some as I sit in terminals and walk by.
    They are getting more and more demanding and greedy but won't do anything when we need them.
    Quarterly bonuses completely wiped out. Yearly safety bonus..? Forget it. They always find extremely little things in log books and mark it against you like you damaged a trailer or got into an accident just so you don't get the bonus.
    You handed in your maintenance one day late. No bonus for you.
    Yeeesh
     
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