Amerigas-PTI

I know your post is old but I'm going to reply anyway just in case someone else is wanting to know what kind of company PTI/Amerigas is to work for.

I thought they were a good company to work for, but now that has changed. The CEO (Byron) recently said "the bottom line is to make sure that the share holders have money in their pockets". Byron has stated that company drivers are going to have to haul paint, cement or asphalt in another region while outside carriers are going to haul LPG for PTI/Amerigas during the summer months. Worse than that, he is now allowing bids from outside carriers to haul LPG that will put some drivers out of a job. My RLM wouldn't return my emails or phone calls when I had a problem that I needed to discuss with them.

They have shown me that they don't really care for their drivers. They will lie to you just to make you happy. The pay is .405 cents per mile. $14.25 load pay and $14.37 unload pay. They pay you $85 per week to fuel your truck and do your inspections. They look for every excuse not to pay you all of your quarterly safety bonus. You won't get very many miles a day in the summer time. I was taking home $1200-$1400 net for two weeks work. The winter months are better at $1500-$2200 net every two weeks, but you will have to live in the truck all of the time. The truck is like a day cab with a casket tied to the back of it. There are no shelves or closets for your belongings. It's too small for almost anyone to live in. The truck has only one fuel tank which leaves you fueling sometimes twice a day (something they only pay you once per day to do). The company would rather sacrifice the drivers comfort and get more LPG gallons hauled so that they can make those share holders happy.

I wish I new what I know now when I applied to work for them. I would have moved on to somewhere else.

 

PTI is the most poorly operated outfit I have ever worked for.