Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

Soooo, how are those applications coming along? Wow you do get some of the finer customers lol, and no we don't look for misfit customers, though we definitely have our fair share!

Reefer is not for everyone l, I know we like van drivers get crap about being door closers, but there is a lot of paitience required in this job. Customers do not value our time, heck my detention money from St Could is adding up to real pay lol.

Hopefully your lanes will improve, man you're going places I haven't at Magnum that's for sure . And yeah beer loads generally are to be avoided! Wishing you a better trucking week!

 

This is not the norm for reefer loads, unless your pulling produce or a lot of meat plant loads...

I hauled a lot of beer in vans, rarely did I see 4-6 hour detention times, and we hauled from just about every brand. Plus, I rarely saw detention times over an hour or two at the distributor end, but we also had abundant equipment to do a lot more drop/hook at the brewery end.

As far as the apps, I have narrowed it down to 1 dedicated regional and a flatbed company. I had a line on a FL to MN to FL run, 3200/wk, speed limit truck, pulling dedicated for a warehouse chain that is nation wide. KW and Freightliners only...but I found out they don't offer health insurance for their drivers... Obamacare only.

The one drawback to the flatbed is that since my flatbed experience is limited to what I pulled at the chicken plant 20 years ago, I would have to ride with a trainer for a while to learn the proper way to secure a wide variety of freight...and they drive only Macks

 

I still don't understand your difficulties. We must work for 2 different Magnum's. My average miles are well over 12 and last month's was 15.

Wish it worked better for you .

 

Wow! You DO have bad luck! I've been in my own truck with Magnum for almost 8 months, & the most detention I've collected is 8 hours. Granted, I was griping & in a foul mood that one time, & I don't like waiting any more than the next guy. But I turn in for detention EVERY time I'm due it - even if for only 30 minutes. It all adds up (mileage, detention, layover), but if course I'd rather be rolling.

As I write this, I just came off an unnecessary 34, AND am now sitting at Peterbilt in Yakima, WA with a DPF problem. Even still I'm going to wind up with close to 12k miles this month. I'm not real happy I'm sitting here broke down, but I take comfort in knowing (looking at hotel flyers on the wall) that Magnum will pay me breakdown pay AND pick up the hotel room if I'm delayed too long. Meantime, I sit here in an air conditioned waiting room with a TV & satellite, drinking Peterbilt coffee, playing on my new Note 7 phone, while my cat roams around sniffing everything in the room .

With that said, I just try to take the bad with the good, although it does sound like you get more than your fair share of the bad! Good luck in your search.

 

"I had a line on a FL to MN to FL run, 3200/wk, speed limit truck, pulling dedicated"

I would think that for that kind of $ you could buy insurance.

 

You know, at some point, I had to ask myself…
"Self".... How come everything sucks for snack bar? What I've learned from his posts is our customer suck, our equipment looks nice but really sucks, our lanes suck, our health insurance sucks, our vendors suck, where we have to fuel sucks, the office staff sucks, our planners sucks, our dispatchers suck, our terminal sucks, our repair shop sucks, and most of all, you imply that the posters on here that don't have the same experience here as you are in a Cult and lying...
And then you wonder why people react negatively to your posts...
That, my friend, is hysterical

I would love to hear some of the positive that you posted... Cause I can't recall any....

 

Just like so many others. You say all I do is bring up the negatives...but that is exactly all you ever do to me...I have had plenty of positive, but all that keeps being brought up is my negatives. What do you want me to say? I suck? Everything I do sucks? It's all my fault? Fine...if that'll make you happy...Maybe this company, this forum, and this industry as a whole would be so much better off if I wasn't around...and how much better off would the world have been had I never existed

 

I don't think that's what he meant. He was asking for you to post something positive about Magnum.

 

Sounds pretty cryptic there SSB, in my former profession I'd have to refer you to professional help.
I sincerely hope that you find a job/ company that fulfill's your wants and needs.

 

Everyone of those things I posted is something @supersnackbar has complained about. The couple positives I can remember as something like ' I had a great week with like 3500 miles' followed promptly that that ment next week would be 1500... Before it even happened...
So out of curiosity... I asked if he could list the positives for us... For is Cult Members With bad memories....

Don't go all suicidlal on us!!! It isn't that serious....