Halvor Lines =/

Halvor is a low paying low mile outfit that hands out nice sweatshirts treats you like a cupcake while paying you below average wages and they have Volvo’s. I would never work for this outfit at their current payment scheme

 

Because the words being spewed from their lips are not meaningful. They're shallow niceties meant to appear "professional". They just don't really care about YOU. You're nothing more than a battery, Driver. You're used up and tossed away. I'd love to see your type of honest dedication and work ethics utilized in a small fleet owned buy a former driver that does care about you.

 

Refusing to payout the bonus may be unethical - but it's not illegal. I've heard similar comments about Halvor. Good place to work IF you've managed to blow the right people.
I don't like the hokus-pokus bonus or efficiency schemes like you get a 10cpm raise for running XX amount of miles with 9 mpg average only to take a 10cpm pay cut the next quarter because you pulled loads over the Rockies and blew up your mpg.

 

I don't want to work there because they only pay every two weeks and I do not go to the Northeast.

 

“looking from a Owners perspective“ is just another way of saying “I don’t care about other drivers because I view them with the same contempt that their employers do, but I won’t admit it”

 

and they have Volvo’s

LOL, that would be enough to make me run. I would rather drive an Int prostar with a pos maxfarse engine, then drive that floppy- rough riding- short wheelbase -blow you off the road 670.

 

The truth is people like that just don’t care. Years ago I worked at one super-regional company in the past that was almost a dream job until the owner retired and handed it to his daughter and her greedy, snake-in-the-grass husband(think of Dougie Pigstinker x10) who basically overrode her decisions and ran the place straight into the ground, using company funds, material, fuel, etc for himself, farming the good freight out of the warehouse to cheaply paid Chicago & California outfits while leaving nothing but crummy broker runs for the company drivers, and scaling maintenance back so badly the company’s DOT scores went into the toilet. Eventually the owner came back out of retirement and tried to save it but his son in law sold it behind his back, then forced him out of the remaining warehousing/ logistics end of that company altogether. The sad part? There’s a number of companies this has happened at. Personally I think it’s a generational thing. The younger generations (not all but a lot) just don’t care about running businesses ethically or caring and the employees at all. I’ve seen it happen with a lot of general businesses in my area as well.

 

Need current info / opinions on Halvor Lines please!

Graduate from tech college CDL-A school in December. I am based near Milwaukee, WI. Looking to go OTR right out of school. So far Schneider and Halvor are options. Local smaller company (Laufer) may be an option too. I want run almost everywhere but prefer West / Southwest / South to East and really want to avoid Chitown and NY/NJ at least early in career. Ultimately I want to drive for touring bands or a place like Haul Bikes (BikeHaul.com) which is walking distance from current home.

Read the whole Halvor thread, reviews here, Glassdoor, Indeed... Got to start somewhere.

Help please!

Thanks!

 

Oh... minimal hometime (at least compared to most) required...

 

If you're based in Milwaukee, how are you going to go most anywhere, and avoid Chi Town?