Freymiller , how cool is that?

He's a good guy and has an open door policy for all employees. That's not common at all, but he keeps his company driver friendly. If I went back to refrigerated trucking it would be with Freymiller.

 

I agree with @Chinatown i don't think that's common at all. That's a class act. Good for them for being approachable and inviting and good for you for landing the job. Best of luck to you over there I hear a lot of good things.

 

He has a radio station you can access from their website:

 

That's awesome. I know I've seen you post before on them and have had good things to say, and you know your companies for sure. How much meat hauling does Freymiller do? I'm about getting fed up with waiting 7 hours every time I pull into a stop.

 

I really don't know about their meat contracts. @Ssand Man will know; he works there.

 

I've worked for a few companies that rave about their "open door policy"...that has dispatch and executives behind a locked door, drivers unable to enter without the person they want to talk to coming to get them from the driver's lounge. Doesn't exactly seem "open door" to me.

Where I'm at now, I can walk into the office and approach the desk of anyone at the company to have a conversation...dispatch, safety, payroll, even the CEO and COO. In orientation, they handed out a card with all of the necessary phone numbers. Office numbers for everybody. Cell phone and home phone numbers for people you might need to contact "after-hours"....dispatch, safety, as well as the CEO and COO. Now THAT is "open door".

Always good to hear other companies taking the ACTUAL "open door" approach, treating their drivers as respected members of the team, rather than the more common "open door in name only" which relegates the driver to a status lacking respect and undeserving of access to the office staff.

 

He's calling you to let you know not to pass Swift trucks on the right shoulder as you're taking the place of the driver that they terminated.

 

That is VERY cool!

I worked for a smaller sized fleet of about 150 trucks. I remember how I felt when the owner called me and essentially said the same thing, but added, "we'd love you to come and be part of our family."

But alas, he hired a business "coach" who told him he needed to stay up at the 30,000 foot level and should have all the lower level management at the 5,000 foot level deal with such things.

One of the worst pieces of advice he could've of ever heeded, and I told him so too.