Anyone have any info on GP Transco???

Had a friend that drove for them..He liked them ok, reason he left is they require a minimum of a month out . Just know you will be running to and thru the Chicago area a lot.

 

Alex The Trucking Guy has a you tube channel and drives for GP. HIs email is on the channel under the About section.

 

Make GP Transco put you in contact with current working drivers doing the type of trucking you want to know about.
Make sure to look up their SAFER info
SAFER WEB - Select Company

 

Drove there for a year or so. Averaged around 2700 miles a week. LOTS of Chicagoland and upper Midwest and a decent amount of loads to PA and upstate NY. Lots of the loads are paper or appliances. Trucks are pretty nice and trailers are hit or miss, but decent overall. Besides Chicago, the lanes are easy, but almost felt regional at times which gets a little repetitive for the amount of time out they ask for. They missed my home time by a day 3 times out of the last 5, but before that, they were always on time. I don’t know if it was bad luck or a representation of them, but they didn’t deny me home time or anything crazy. They try to do 34’s on the weekend every week, so it can sometimes cut your potential miles down, but not worrying about recaps is nice. They used to be open fueling, only freightliners, any toll road, etc., but they started implementing planned fuel, no I-76, etc. as well as adding International tractors around the time I left. It’s understandable with how the market’s been lately, I guess.

After seeing some great and terrible carriers in my career since then, I’d say they’re a pretty safe bet. If you can put with the few downsides, they’re a consistent and solid carrier to work for. There’s better carriers, but there’s a lot worse out there, so they’re a safe bet if they fit your interests

 

Disguised as a good carrier but at the end of the day it's just another eastern European Chicago company. I hope you like having dispatchers in Lithuania or wherever halfway around the world.

 

Heard their dispatch is outsourced from out of USA so you may be calling customer service from Amazon! Check if this is accurate but I've heard this from a few drivers

 

I think they have some dispatch stationed in Colombia and Lithuania.

 

I worked for GP for 2 years I'll mostly agree with Thrashers comments.

I also averaged 2700 ish miles. They advertise 80 to 90k a year , I made 70k to 75k, I didn't run my clock down to 0 every day and sometimes leave couple hours on to get parked but I feel like I otherwise ran hard.

It got really repetitive at times. Many hauls were next day or day after loads, lots of brokered loads. Their main customers are Paper companies and appliance companies in the upper mid west. Some of them were annoying to deal with in terms of time consuming loads/unloads/not fun locations.

My main positives with gp:

- Pay was decent (for me. Some others did make 80K+ but God knows how long they stayed out, maybe they drive their clock to 0 every day and sleep at shippers/receivers, I personally couldn't live like that).

- I mainly worked with 2 dispatchers who are great and laid back and never micro manage. Some dispatchers I worked with, really not so great but my "permanent" 2 dispatchers I had for the majority of the time were great people. Large criticism I see is that they use a bunch of staff from Lithuania and other European countries. I think this is true but most of the people I met at HQ and my main dispatchers were super friendly and laid back.

- Good equipment. Good looking trucks imo, you don't see teal very often on tractors. I rarely had breakdowns or mainteance trailer or tractor maybe some of that is pure luck.

- First year, I got some gorgeous loads to Nevada, California, and the like. GP is commonly critiqued for being mid west regional but first year got at least few really good loads. Last year, maybe due to market going in the toilet, much more reliance on those unfortunate paper mills, recycling places, and appliance loads to funny places not really meant for modern semis.

Main negatives.

-- Wait times. GP outside of some of their dedicated customer locations might be 70 to 80 percent live load/unload. Some places we got sent to the wait times were horrendous. I regularly spent 10 to 15 hrs weekly at shippers and receivers which sucks. I did a lot of split shifts and it felt like you had to to conserve drive time due to all the waiting!!! Also resulted in incredibly long work days. A lot of the time I felt like whether I had a good or great week depended mightily on how much time I spent sitting at facilties. I was always totally wiped at the end of weeks. I NEEDED that 34 reset day purely based on how many hours I spent awake either waiting or working.

Overall I'd say GP was like a 7/10?? Some days it felt like a 6 and others it felt like 8 or 9. It's overall solid but it's lacking Drop and hooks, it's purely OTR unless you're a local Chicago driver, we got sent to some really screwball locations sometimes.

A little disclaimer. GP was my 2nd trucking company, I've only been with 3 total. I'm not some extremely well versed veteran that worked for 10 companies. So there's that.

My first company probably was 4 or 5 out of 10. So GP was leaps and bounds way better than that.

 

It Is mostly but I talked to real people every time, there really wasn't a crazy disconnect between them and the drivers for the most part. Aside from a few individuals that may have just been poor dispatchers or bad people skills. You find these people anywhere though, most of them seemed cool.