Alan Ritchey, Inc

Soo, you wait until they lay you off to start a AR thread of how good they were to you?

 

Alan Ritchey, hauling U S mail was the best job that I ever had during my 62 years in the transportation business. And, I personally agree with you about what happened to the mail busioness. I was laid off, along with several other drivers, because the post office gave the route to freight brokers. I cannot speak enough in favor of Alan Ritchey, first class on every front, top equipment, super dispatchers and never a pay issue. Let me add one more thing, Alan Ritchey hired me when I was 86 years, how many more companies would hire an "old man"?? While I was there, Ritchey installed driver facing cameras, I kept driving and behaving like I had done over the years, never changed any habits, NEVER HEARD A WORD FROM SAFETY!!

 

Same goes to when I was at 10 Roads Express hauling mail in I-70 mountains...good pay...$40/hr plus $50 a day for driving through mountains.

 

Wow completely different than my experience running out of the Southgate USPS, covering the southwest like Vegas, utah, az. The trucks were always well past a million miles, never clean but not horrible, never had the correct keys always had to jimmy the key to get it to work, The reason I left there was I had urn to work and was told they fired for not delivering the last dispat, did not like giving ch to Vegasa kidney stone which put me in the hospital, called them let them know I was empty and leaving the tractor in the South Gate Yard (motel/hotel parking lot). And that was headed to the hospital, when I was released from the Hospital to let Richard know when I could return to work I was informed that they terminated me for not delivering the next load to vegas, that I had never been dispatched on. Place was very demanding on the loads never gave us enough time togo home between loads, I was suppose to be a local driver, no more than 5 hours out and 5 hours back. They had a motel they used for drivers out of Utah, but local drivers were not able to use them.

 

With 10 Roads?

 

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as hired by 10 then I saw the motel in Bakersfield they use, and told them where to park the truck, I would not have put anyone into that dump. So that was that. I worked for Alan Richie out of City of Bell, same thing at a motel, but it was clean and I never stayed there I would park at USPS Bell in the lot waiting for the next load to be ready. DOnuts and pizza will get you decent benefits from shppers