ATS vs Paul Transportation?

When I joined ATS I made one structural mistake in my life, which is rare.

I joined ATS dry van. What I should have done was going specialized. One day I worked with two ATS trucks, one holding a Panzer IV aka Tiger and the other a T34 that was actually running condition near Aberdeen in Maryland. And taken from the ordnance museum there. I think Tiger went to Germany to the original facility that would know how to work on it and the T34 was some sort of a temporary loan. It was a interesting day to be sure.

The other structural mistake was accepting the keys to a tractor that only had one 145 gallon (135 usable) for OTR work. Most all the problems I have had since day one was related to either.

Out of fuel, how to get more fuel, when do I get fuel (Against logging, if you waited until after midnight logging paper becomes possible to reconcile with dispatch) and what do I have left before running out? Fuel fuel fuel. I lost upwards of two hours daily having to stop and get fuel up to 3 times day or waited until after midnight to legally have hours to fuel.

In those days back in the 90s they had a snooty culture where large cars and condos were reserved for just their select favorites in the fleet. The rest of us could not be bothered. I had condos before and after and frankly that attitude of pre-selecting favorites from the driver pool was not welcome.

Im not here to pick on ATS, I had some fun in my time with them. And the tiny 330 horse electronic first generation kitty under the hood took on a 21-24% out of Ethan Allen with hardwood products in the trailer loaded to 80000. She did good, Just needed about a hour to run it 3 miles up.

 

What does this long ridiculous post about ATS have to do with Paul transportation?

 

300 gallons a day meaning 24 to 30 hours is why.

That was the only truck I was issued in my life time where OTR was limited severely by one tank of fuel.

Most all my other OTR trucks are 335 gallons usable or so. Making it possible to do just one fuel stop coast to coast.

 

I will not engage in ditoo dinot ditoo thats BS.

What I DID do is explain my experience with ATS, ignoring Paul because I have no experience with same.

I leave it there. Anyone else wanna pick a fight is not the day for it will end up on a list. Or I end up tossed myself.

I didtoo explain to the OP what my ATS experience was like. All about fuel fuel and more fuel.

Edit, the large graphic is itself blocked as a element. It is unnecessarily pollute. Personally I am aware in certain situations that is not relevant. This would be one of them. I am finished with this thread.

Go to help people like the OP and see something like this out of left field, it does not reflect too well on TTR with OP thinking we are waspish and sniping. Taint so. The ignore list takes care of that and the mods clean up the rest.

 

Which company has the better sales pitch? If it were me, I would pick Paul. ATS is headquartered in Minnesota. I cant imagine getting a flatbed load up there in January

 

If you're not careful you'll have so many people on your IGNORE list that you won't see any posts at all.

I'm sure that many of your posts go un-read because you are on a lot of IGNORE lists as well.

As far as depending on the staff to clean things up, we do what we can. We can't be everywhere and sometimes things are overlooked. That's what the REPORT feature is for. One caution, using the REPORT for every little thing that disquiets you personally and isn't a violation of TTR rules wastes our time and yours.

 

Whatever happened to the days of running a spare 50 gallon sealed drum of fuel with a lift pump and hard line run from the trailer over the roof of the truck through a hole in the hood directly to the fuel rail?

One of the first questions to ask any company is how much fuel you can purchase per day. Anything under 300 gallons and I tell them no thanks.

 

I’d say it depends on your goals for the future. If you want to get into oversized loads and such maybe go with ATS and work up through their system.

 

Jesus man, 300 gallons of fuel per day? You driving 1800-2100 miles per day? Put 400 dollars on that fuel card and you should good for a whole day

 

Understand I'm talking about an R Model Mack with a 237 and a triplex transmission with 5.13 gears on offroad bias plys. 7 axles with a jeep pulling a mini-excavator over Cabbage, and 2 mpg is about normal. 300 gallons will get me back to Portland to some of the best unsweet tea known to man.

 

You da man





Dee Jay