america's service line

America's Service Line was startd by Tom McClone of Packerland fame. They are a division of America's Food Group / Green Bay Dressed Beef.

I was leased to Packerland back in "the good ole days" and was one of the very first trucks to lease on to ASL when they started it.

Tom, Keith, Kevin and everyone else in operations are real standup people. If I still lived in Wisconsin I wouldn't hesitate for a split second to go back with them either as an O/O or company driver. They took me from a one truck operation to 12 trucks at which time I got my own authority and went it alone and grew to 28 trucks at which time I sold my interest in the company and moved back home. I would have never got to where I was without them.

On the down side, if I ever decide to do the O/O thing again I will stick to ONE truck. The addition of 27 more only caused 27 more headaches. I felt like a day care director and I'm sure my wife who owned and operated a day care had less whining and crying from her children than I did from my drivers. I bought brand spanking new 379 Pete's with every imaginable option as well as all new 48X102 spead axle reefers and paid a minimum of $.10 per mile more than any other company running from Wisconsin to Cali. I paid 100% of thier health insurance and paid for 90% of the chrome and chicken lights for the trucks and the drivers still cried all the time.

Not making enough money (after taking $600 in advances every Saturday in Las Vegas or Reno) Not getting home enough (pissing around in the aformentioned Nevada for an extra day) Truck doesn't run fast enough (I thought 85 was way to fast) Crying about doing an LTL load that put $2000 a week in thier pocket and on and on and on.

Anyway enough on that, don't be afraid to give ASL a try, if you do your job and take the ocassional crappy load (every single company in the US has a few) you'll make above average wages and be treated like a true professional.

 

ASL is a top notch company.....