Ashley Distribution Services: no time off

From everything of read hear on these forums, no I don't believe you can sleep in the trucks during your 34. You need to park the trucks at the yard your assigned to and they usually perform maintenance on them during that time. I believe if you do get stuck out on the road they pay for a hotel.

 

I applied at Ashley when I lived in Wisconsin but after I found out the home time and can't take the truck home I said no thanks .

 

can you give an update on how things are going @ ADS might be working out of Redlands ca

 

Finished orientation, drive back to CA. They treat you good in orientation, but what they didn't tell me was CA driver's only get the smaller Volvos something about the length laws here in CA. There not too bad, but man was I looking forward to a Volvo 780 or Kenworth T680. Oh well, but yeah so far it's going good. Dispatchers really seem to be friendly. Time will tell I guess. Lol Let me know if you come on board.

 

Same thing out of leesport DC in Pa, fairly obvious reason running the northeast for the smaller volvos.

We have them in NC as well but stopped getting them as of the '14 models and that is cycling out to all kw's. I started in one of the small 670's running out of NC until I got a kw. The 670 is not a bad truck just not a 780 for sure. The main thing is they're well maintained. It won't give you many problems they stay on top of the maintenance

I'm ptp as well. Can't offer any insight into running the left coast. Each location seems to be somewhat site specific as to regular runs/backhauls. You'll learn quickly how to adapt and manage them before they manage you lol it's not like a regular common carrier you have to be open minded enough to break that mindset and be open to a different way of doing things.

Don't let the short trips throw you or frustrate you as well when they come. If you do the math on them once the drop pay is added in, those are the money trips. Stack up a couple of short runs in a day it'll look better on the pay sheet than if you'd run all day on a long one.

 

Well if you dont mind keep me up to date .they are prossing my app as we speak

 

what do you mean no time off , what are they doing to you ?