Anyone have anything to say about Hogan

As a truck driver, your schedule changes with loads, but it can't change too much once you get started on your hours. There are times when you start out on a pretty normal schedule and by the end of the week you are runnin during the night and sleeping during the day. Sometimes you change your sleep schedule due to the area you are running, there are certain areas that don't have much parking and you have to stop pretty early to get a parking spot.

As for going to MTC and hearing from Hogan, you won't. They don't go to MTC and do all the meetings like Star and Werner. You will hear from Casey whether or not a company has accepted you or not. If you want to talk to someone, call them or go down there. They might have one of the brand new trucks that you won't drive for a while sitting around. That was quite a tease! My trainer had a brand new truck, and then I got my own! Big difference, but you will get newer and newer equipment as time goes on.

Feel free to ask any other questions!

 

thanks for the response. i do have more questions:
how are your miles with hogan? are you getting as much as you need?
do you get a lot of driver unload?
where do you park your truck on hometime? i know you are much farther from hogan "home" than i am.
as for me, i love the road trip. and for years i worked midnight shift. i prefer driving at night, except when there is good countryside to see on the trip. i am really looking forward to the on the road lifestyle. i just hope i can convince my honey to quit her job and just ride with me... i will just have to wait and see.
thanks again for all your help.

 

I get enough miles for me. I was a newbie fresh out of MTC. I get about 2700 a week now. It changes every week. I made bonus for miles for the first time. All I can say, is that I make almost as much as my husband and I both used to when we worked at Walmart.
I have NEVER unloaded a truck! There have been some places that I have had to hire a lumper, but Hogan has paid for it every time. Walmart DC's charge you 50.00 to unload their freight. I haven't figured that one out yet!
When I go home, I usually leave the truck on the yard in Earth City. I leave my car up there so that if I get thru the yard, I can go play if I want to! I like to get out of my truck whenever I can! If for some reason Chuck can get me a load thru the house, there is a small truckstop that I park my truck at, no one messes with anything there.

 

I worked for Hogan from 1/08 to 6/08. Hired in for the dedicated Sav A LOT account out of Austinburg,OH. I ran that account all winter here in the snow belt through the ice and snow in both NY and PA as well as OH snowbelts. As soon as the weather thawed out they pulled me and offered me a road job 2 weeks out or lay off. I took the Road job as my wife is pregnant and I had just gotten my health insurance. On the road I found myself getting a little over 2000 miles for the week and sitting a whole lot, Hogan gives all thier good mile runs to team drivers. I was charged 106.00 for them to hook up my power inverter, I was not allowed to the garage had to do it, I furnished all wiring and fuse as well as my inverter it took a half hour to hook up I stood there while he hooked it up, the holes were already in the truck! Hogans health insurance was expensive 110.00 per week for the premium for a family with dental and vision, bills from the baby started comming in and the insurance paid very little less than 40% of each bill we recieved for what I paid for the insurance I could have paid the bills myself and had money left over. I found them to be a rip off and would not recomend them to my worst enemy. I have been driving 15 years now, and am a hustler on the road for miles I do as needed Hogan did not produce the miles they gave them to thier teams. Also as far as the no night driving policy, thats BS I ran day and night at times they dont care they want what ever they give you to be hauled and arrive on time. They were infamous for leaving me sit a day and a half then dispatching me so I would run day and night to try to get some miles despite the layovers. Hogan Lies and thier insurance is a rip off thats the bottom line. Stay Clear

 

Does anyone know anything about Hogan?

 

He was a US Air Force Colonel during WWII. He was captured, and sent to Stalag 13, where he ran an underground sabatoge team from the prison camp.

You were talking of Colonel Hogan wern't you, or did you mean Hulk Hogan the wrestler?



If you are talking about a trucking company, I've never heard of them.

 

My brother worked for Hogan... his major beef was they liked keeping him out 6-10 weeks at a shot. He had a few other issues but lets just say I know my brother and leave it at that.

I know they put up with some of his crap that many smaller companies would have fired him for, right up till he got a DUI in one of their trucks, loaded with budweiser no less, last year.

Don't beleive #### about a fuel bonus. They pull a lot of heavy stuff, especially beer, over the eastern mountain ranges and the trucks are speced by book smart beancounters so they dont pull real well. The "Hall of fame" for fuel bonus awardees is almost entirely made up of dedicated drivers who pull light loads across the plains states and thats factored into what you as an OTR are expected to get for fuel mileage.

Oh, and hope you like auto's cause all their OTR trucks are automatics.

 

Loved this! Thanks . . . . from the wife of truckin along - - - I'm truckin along, too!

 

any thoughts.I was thinking of joining there dedicated division but still a little skeptical.Any prior drivers have info?