They're a foodservice hauler out of San Antonio. But they seem to have operations in parts of NM as well. I'm on the job hunt again since my nightly load count has gone down considerably at my current gig. Sysco in Albuquerque was a bust. So now I'm looking at these guys among others. No listings for ABQ, but they do seem to have a line-haul-ish thing in Austin. With the bicycle scene there, it seems to be one of the more appealing places to me in all of TX.
So apart from all of that, does anyone work, or know anyone that works with them?
What are the pay, hours, management like?
Seeing as how I've been at surprisingly kick-back places in the past, four years, I'd like to prep myself before going into a potentially, "tight-ship" environment.
Any advice on Labatt?
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by bentstrider83, Sep 10, 2016.
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No water or sand hauling in Carlsbad with your tanker ticket?
Austin sounds good, but the popularity is going to make it expensive. There's a list of cities where housing will be tighter going forward, Austin is on that list. Just saw a thread on here about the traffic around there.bentstrider83 Thanks this. -
Austin is gentrifying all the hippies out, so the scene is rapidly changing. Better make big I.T. money to afford a decent place there.
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I've been told about Carlsbad and for the lack of a better term, other "country bumpkin" communities with oil and other driving jobs out there. But with the years I've spent in Clovis and the years I've spent living too far away from the "hip, young, vibrant, night-life", being one single guy in an area full of either established families or old people is kind of driving me nuts. That and the high amount of non-work driving done on off-days tugs away at the sanity as well.
In addition, I've also tried to use my HAZMAT towards some fuel hauling outfits. But while my luck has been quite better with non HAZMAT haulers, none of the fuel haulers have even given me an inch. I'm still willing to bet that despite the four, going on five years of post-rollover experience I've achieved, they still want ten years between myself and that October-2007 rollover.
The wonderful people I have met in the Austin bicycle culture has been quite warm(never was into the car or Harley-Louder, Son cultures that dominate many smaller towns and the trucking profession itself). And while they've been encouraging me to come down and join them permanently despite career differences(the lone truck driver rolling with engineers, medical specialists, and other educated folks due to mutual interest in social, non-competitive bicycling), I'm all too aware of the gentrification hitting up the many, popular urban areas of the country to make a definitive move. I've tried starting my own, cruiser bicycle rides up in this area, but everyone else wants to turn it into a lycra-clad, TOUR-DE-WANNABE type of ride(political clash).
Eh, time to revert back to my other hobby of abandoned house/building/cemetery exploration.
Worst comes to worst with the "The River", I may just see about making a move back to Ruan here in town and shuttle trailers on an hourly basis again. Seeing as how there's a different manager there again and I got fired over a non-accident thing, I feel getting on back there shouldn't be so hard. Set 12 hour nights, and no dealing with a 200-mile crawl over ice when it hits during the winter. -
My company has 2 ex-Labatt pup trailers.
They are ####.
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They have a warehouse in Albuquerque. I don't see alot of their trucks in town. I made one delivery there. Everything from the ####### gate guard to lumpers, to paperwork was an absolute pain. Suspect union
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I'll try them out again some time. Like it was mentioned elsewhere earlier, it seems one has to already live in a particular city first before applying for some local driving work.
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