I'd rather be a slave to a company for 6 months than pay $5000 for a 2 week CDL school. At least with a company you are getting paid while...
First, every company is different. And choosing the right one depends largely on how you want to run. Heartland Express offers a high cpm but a...
Why pay for trucking school when there are several companies that offer free CDL school?
The point I'm trying to make, the whole basis for my original post, is to convey the message to new drivers that they WILL be taken advantage of...
This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm getting at! Companies try to convince us this stuff is a rarity in trucking but it happens a lot more often...
At my last company I was assigned to 1 dispatcher who I had a good rapport with. He was strait with me 99% of the time. But when given a crap...
I agree, now, but not everybody goes into this business knowing that they will be taken advantage of at every turn. That comes later. That...
Coast to Coast? Seriously? Since when did PTL start running west of El Paso? You sure paint a Rosy picture there Ugly!
Every company is different in how they do things, who does what, how responsibilities are divided between dispatchers, load planners, drivers,...
The last company I worked for, they made it nearly impossible to have a face to face sit down with a dispatcher. Their dispatchers worked off site...
Okay, its pretty obvious you're not a PTL OTR driver. But let me reply to your comments anyway. My biggest problem with PTL was that they did NOT...
Yes the company gets hit with points too. But the only time trucking companies care about their points is when their customers care about it. The...
Trucking companies spend a lot of time and money training dispatchers on how to talk to drivers, but almost nothing is invested toward teaching...
Here is what I did in a similar situation, and it worked. I was sent to do a drop & hook at a location 60 miles from the company terminal. When I...
You go right ahead and dive in. As the lawyer adage goes, "Anyone who represents himself has a fool for a client". And anyone who jumps into a...
I drove for Walbert for 9 months and they will give you more miles per week than any other company out there. This is a blessing and a curse. Its...
I worked for PTL in 2013 and I thought they were going under at that time. Here is my experience with PTL, and why I left. 1) They NEVER include...
