Koch vs Central Oregon

I deleted a few posts here when this thread turned political.
Please keep the political comments out of the main forum. If you really want to talk politics use the Political forum.

 

There is really no comparison between Koch and cotc. When you call cotc with a problem, whoever you speak with may have 10 other problems they are dealing with at that exact moment, but you would never know it. They treat you like yours is the only problem and you are their only driver. And for all this tarp talk, that may be an issue at other companies, but at cotc I have never needed help from a fellow driver and not received it. Not once. Not when it was -10 with a -45 wind chill. Not when it was 115 in Phoenix.

I was having an issue with my tarps and two other drivers stopped on the shoulder and helped retarp my load. 14 feet tall and very awkwardly shaped. It was 12 degrees with 50mph gusts in Wyoming.

After working at cotc, even the companies I tried after swift seem like swift. Something gets ####ed up with a load or a shipper is taking their sweet ### time, Koch will tell you thats trucking. Cotc will call the shipper and tell them you pull you to the head of the line and get you loaded or youre leaving.

And it is absolutely nothing for cotc to cancel a contract with major customers for wasting time. As a matter of policy they won't let any one customer comprise more than 10% of their business, because they dont want to be beholden.

Tell in ya... Y'all can be worried about tarping all you want. I went and filed my taxes today, still covered in tarp grime and wearing high viz. The lady doing my taxes looked at me like I was straight trash until she saw what I made this year and she saw what I put into retirement this year and saw 18,000 tax free dollars on my w2 from the per diem. I thought she was about to come sit on my side of the desk next to me.

People who work at cotc are proud to work there. And they are some of the highest paid and best treated drivers on the road. It shouldn't even be a debate.

I wasnt even in the top 10% of pay either. I went home all the #### time.

 

Dang sounds like cotc is where it’s at

 

I spoke to one of the COTC drivers that was waiting on his glass load the other day. He said he is on salary pay, so detention and layover are irrelevant to him. I don't know if this is a unique pay system for glass haulers at COTC or if they're switching to that system company wide. He said, the only thing that affects his pay is hometime because they deduct a day's wages from his salary pay for every day he is home.

 

I’m sorry to hear that been working here at COTC for about a year. It’s not a true salary kinda like a tier system everything is included. They tell you you’ll average 2800 to 3200 a week they mean it! That’s 1525 to 1750 gross pay. Keep in mind they pay for insurance and have a 100% match up to 4% 401k and loyalty pay which first year is 1 cpm goes. To 3cpm after 3 years people are making over 71k to up to 90k here say average is probably 78k first year they don’t lie here what recruiter tells you is the truth they truly have a care for their drivers and it’s always the driver first then the truck. Just a great company