Bye Bye Millis Transfer

Keen98's next trainee here. Hilarious typical dumb thread. Millis is / was a great starter company. Of course there are companies out there, such as yours loose_leafs, that pay more and have a few more miles (would be cool if you mentioned who they were for all us guys who just got sold out to Heartland). 90 mph is an interesting setting. I mean, do they even bother with a governor at speeds WELL over any limits? We can also fuel where ever we want and take our preferred route...however, we get nice bonuses for fueling where they say to fuel and we can always let routing know we want to go a different way and they'll set up solutions on that route. Again, great starter company for guys, and as you said, Keen98 is still pretty new in the industry compared to you. Just expressing appreciation for how Millis was a great entry company. I'm sure you can't school, train, and start from scratch with the company you are at right now.

Anyway, sucks that things are going to go sideways likely after the turn of the year.

 

True.

 

Heartless will get rid of those. At least they did when they bought Interstate.

They are making 20 cents on the dollar profit so there will probably be more kids taking golden parachutes that daddy provided them.. Heartless has lots of cash to fan in their face off the backs of their underpaid drivers.

 

I remember about 10 years ago, when Heartland raised their pay up to 50 cents per mile. I thought they might actually be a good company. And then I started hearing more and more about their terrible reputation. I guess sometimes you have to pay a little more than your competitors if you suck.

And by now most of the industry has caught up to them in pay, and I haven't heard about any big raises. So...it was a flashy move, and it worked on me temporarily.

 

Secret location that says the company is for sale, no. At least in most cases, these things are tightly held secrets. Many of these kinds of things start in places like industry conventions and the like where the upper most echelon rub elbows and share information. That leads to phone discussions, meetings, attorneys getting involved, and so forth. The process can take many months or years. And in lots of cases the deal falls through and the world keeps spinning, with no one ever being aware.

While all of the negotiating is going on behind the curtain, it is business as usual for the management team and the rest for all of the entities involved. Even the highest levels of management are left in the dark until the deal is done. There's no reason to broadcast a potential sale and there certainly wouldn't be a positive outcome from making an announcement before the deal is sealed.

Back to the Millis transfer....

 

It is surprising that it was kept under wraps so well. And we of course couldn't get a heads up as that would be a violation of trade law since Heartland is a publicly traded company.

 

Abilene's trucks got faster after the buyout.

 

How would you know were they're intentions are...