Good/bad

You made a good chioce IMO. Despite my personal feelings for they way they treat experienced drivers. I can only say good things about how they deal with new inexperienced drivers. The pay is much better for a starting driver.

Super singles...a mixed bag. Personally, I would rather run them. Others hate them.

They suck BIG TIME on ice. Perform about the same in other conditions.

 

Be forewarned. Super Singles will break loose on wet pavement when you are under a heavy load, pulling a hard grade at slower speeds. I never noticed any troubles when pulling under "normal" conditions on wet pavement.

I attribute this to the HIGH torque generated by their current engines at lower RPM's. While others might lay the blame completely on the tires.

NOTE: I said "break loose" not hydroplane. The CAT engines produce about 1450 ft lbs of torque at 1300 rpm.

 

i was looking into cfi a week or 2 ago to sign on as a O/O until i started reading these other forums from cfi drivers, and the new pay package

here is the forum page
wwwcfidriverscom
you got to add the...... in there cause i only have 17 posts and cannot post links till 20 posts

but it should be good for the new rooks coming out of school tho. just at a drivers point of view if i was a company driver for them i would be hunting a new job at the end of the year... do to the new merger they had

 

If you are going on the road with your wife, I would probly not go with CFI. Those T600's are small cabs even with just a solo driver, but with your wife, man, I can hear the arguements now. Might I suggest Interstate Trucking? Big Volvo 780's. Cant beat it, no matter what anyone says.

 

you should hace when to crete

 

cfi not a good company for solos. you will sit waiting on "planners" and dispatch. nether of them care about the drivers out there. The company is alot of talk. been driven since sept 08 and have never seen a week over 2500 miles. but they will tell you "Ya you will average 3000" don't believe.

 

Anyone going to work for CFI/Conway Truck Load should do themselves a favor, and take a trip upstairs to the war room. If they still allow it.

Just stand behind the glass, and watch the screen scroll through it's functions. Eventually, "Target Fleet Average" will come up on one of the screens. And they will be able to spot the lies then.

When I first hired on, it was 10,400 per month. When I left, it was 9,600 per month. It may be less or more now.

In ether case, 2600 per week was the max when I started. 2400 per week was the new max when I left.

50 hours or less work per week...NO hometime. Equals 100 plus hours sitting in a terminal or truckstop.

Ask yourself

"Why isn't Conway advertising for LTL drivers?" and "Why are they only advertising (heavily) for OTR drivers?"