Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

We're on the same page. Drivers who manage their income well and build savings don't need to throw a hissy fit every time they have a slow week or get dispatched on a short run.

 

"The story concerns a Hare who ridicules a slow-moving Tortoise. Tired of the Hare's arrogant behavior, the Tortoise challenges him to a race..."

(Old fable, ..circa 600 BC)

 

Blah,blah,blah.
It's the best OTR job in the country.
And 2nd place ain't even close.
That's all that matters.

Nobody can match are:
Paycheck's,
Hometime,
And freedom.
All three together. Not just one of them.
Nobody.

There giving away money to any driver that wants it.

The only problem with poly are the old drivers.
They've forgotten what the the real world trucking is.
They long since forget they used to work twice
As hard for half the money.

I would fire everyone of them that's been here
Over 5 years and complains about anything.
They can reapply after a year in the real world.
Then they'll appreciate how freaking easy we got it.

As far as drivers quitting because they're sitting,
Good riddance. That's their problem.
Good luck at joe shmow's transportation, with a
Camera in your face and your 4 days off a month.

And don't forget to follow their routing around
The toll roads.
And fuel where they tell you to and how many
Gallons your allowed to get.
Takes you 1100 miles to do a trip and they pay
You for 975. Lol.

They screw you on every load.
Like I said good riddance.
I'll take all this easy money.

Driver: I don't go to Chicago, I'll sit.
Driver: I don't go to the northeast, I'll sit.
Driver: I don't go anywhere north in the winter, I'll sit.
Driver: I don't do any multiple stop loads, I'll sit.

Driver: poly sucks, to much sitting, they don't
Have any freight.
I'm quitting and going to bozo trucking.

Bunch of clowns these guys.
Good riddance to all of them.
When outbound calls I grab something and go.
And I go everywhere, that's what they pay us for.
At the end of the week all the loads pay good.

Every one of these clowns that I know that quit,
All came back 6 months later.
Begging to be let back in.
It's the same reason why drivers who left
Poly that are on this site can't let it go.
They know the deal, their pride won't let them admit it.

I've never looked back or cared about a company
when I left a job.
If your a real driver and want to make real money
Poly is looking for you.
All you half of drivers don't waste your time.
You'll just be pissed off that you can't run back
And forth to Miami twice a week.

Then you'll end up quitting because the company
Doesn't have any freight.
Even though they got 500 loaded trailers going all over the country, sitting At all the terminals combined.
But you don't want any of those.

Well I'm here to tell ya, I'll take them.
Me and a bunch of guys/ gals here will run them
All day long.
I don't even know what to do with all the cash
They keep giving me.
But I'm not turning any of it down.

 

I stay out just past 4 weeks at a time , run everywhere ( even NW in winter , i use the
snow socks ) ... take 5 to 7 days off ... then go out and do it again
Generally 10,000 miles or more per outing

No complaints

 

Because nobody gets nowhere near as much
Time off as we do at poly.
Not even close.
If you tell them they won't believe you.
I don't bother telling anybody about this company
Anymore.
Nobody believes me anyway, so F them.
I haven't spent 10 minutes looking for a job
In the 4 years I been here.

 

Just came across an old post I wrote on a Marten FB page back on tax day in 2011 about a payroll policy Poly had back then. Does it still exist? The post is a little wordy (sorry, it's my Achilles heel), but I'm going to paste the whole thing so everyone understands exactly what I was talking about. Here it is:

"The driver pay setup at Poly has an unusual twist to it that's taken some getting used to. We all know how Marten (and most any trucking co. out there) demands that trips be scanned or sent right away. Strangely enough, in an indirect way, Poly does the opposite: drivers are actually incentivized to DELAY turning trips in.

Poly doesn't use trip scanning or Trip Pak boxes...trips can only be turned in by hand at one of Poly's four terminals in Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis. They pay drivers $30 for every stop (pickup or delivery) while out on the road, with the following exception: anytime a driver turns trips in at a terminal other than their home terminal, the driver does not receive any stop pay for their next two stops. Put another way, every time a driver gets through a non-home terminal, it pays them $60 to NOT turn trips in.

I left my home terminal (Las Vegas) on March 18th and haven't gotten back through there yet, so I've got a month's worth of trips stored up. Been through Dallas twice and Minneapolis once during this time, too. My next load goes from OR to PA with a non-appt./FCFS delivery (very sweet), so it'll still be awhile before I'm back in Vegas. Some drivers prefer to sacrifice that $60 in order to avoid huge paychecks. Not me - I'm taking that extra $60 every time."

 

Poly wants you to turn in your paperwork asap. If that means it takes you a month to get back to your home terminal then thats that. Most other companies trip ends when you deliver your load. Poly trips do not end until you get back to a poly plant to get another load therefore you cant scan in a half completed trip.

Poly now pays $30 per drop after the 1st one. So you would be giving up $30 now not $60. Its not even worth thinking about for $30 in my opinion. I understand theres maybe 10-15 times a year where this could happen and thats $300-$450 you're missing out on but you're really not.

 

Most of us don't do OTR trucking to go home, we do it to make money. If I were at Poly I would have to run over 140k miles to earn what I did last year where I am at, and I ran less than 120k miles last year.

 

Thank you for the informative reply. After the 1st one is better than after the 2nd, but I still think the policy should be changed to after the 0th drop (in other words all drops), because the only rational ways to connect pay with when trips get turned in are (1) penalize drivers for delays, or (2) reward them for quickness. I recognize we're talking about small potatoes here in a field of abundance, so like, who cares, but that's all the more reason they should just change the policy. Poly is the best-run trucking company I've ever driven for, so I'm a little surprised they haven't yet.

 

I think i agree lol. That would be the only way for poly to start letting us scan in trips after a delivery. Making a new trip # for the backhaul wouldn't be an issue but not logical unless you got paid for every drop.