Bolt Goat goes for the green with SAV Express

BennysPennys · Dec 31, 2021

It is a honor that your going to call your new thread Bolt Goat The TNI Come Back Kid!

bzinger · Dec 31, 2021

UturnGirl said: ↑

Here's the deal... the folks at SAV are really great folks. At issue for me was how their business operates.

Without going into too much detail, basically they have a couple of special accounts that provide steady freight. Everything else is brokered through CH Robinson. The result is, you go out from Minneapolis deliver and return with a brokered load. 95% is live load and unload. The delivered loads outgoing from MN are 50% to distribution centers and 50% to retailers. Those are some super fun docking encounters. Because the return loads are brokered through good old Cheap and Heavy, appointments are hilariously unreliable. Result? Sit, and sit and oh yeah, random cancelations. Although SAV honorably attemps to compensate for lost time, it is hair pulling frustration resulting in averaging 350 miles per day day in and day out with a rolling 70...forever... Further more, everything I've been given has been east and west. Life north of 80.

Now, the Minnesota part I knew about when I accepted the job. My bad. I also knew they were small so not a lot of drop and hook. Again, my bad. However, I was told I would be running north and south to Texas and back or Denver and back. Also, I used to do the rolling 70 until a couple of years ago, when I got spoiled by long runs 6 days a week and a 34 wherever I landed. Some people like the rolling 70, but I came to love the other.

Here is how SAV responded to my resignation:
SAV: We could put you on the Katy (Texas) run."
Me: !
Fact: they were giving the Texas runs to the guys who refused to accept the crap loads. I was getting them because I allowed it.

There were also my issues with the total absence of night or weekend support, which is aggravating for everyone, but not a game changer.
As for the CH Robinson return loads, they could not be helped and I get that.

SAV, once convinced I had already accepted offer to return to TNI irrevocably , stepped up to the plate like the genuinely classy good-hearted people they are. They forgave repayment of their hiring and orientation expenses and booked hotel, uber and return flight for me, to be repaid with my final check. I got hugs and handshakes and well wishes from everyone. I felt very emotional.

In summary, I can't say enough good about these guys. A lot of drivers would prefer the SAV model over TNI, especially if they lived up north. It is just not for me.

As for TNI, they got their kit together. Raised the pay and offered me the remaining portion of a 10k bonus (after deducting the $3500 they had already paid when I first signed on) and the Hooks terminal manager sent me a personal email saying, "Welcome Home". Also, all the changes in safety and terminals were only good stuff, so the shake up I felt coming turned out to not be a problem after all. (Failure to communicate guys)

My Daddy always told me changing jobs was changing bads.Every day at SAV I had to tell myself. S*ck it up, Buttercup. At TNI I only have to say that when I go for hometime. Hey! What's a 4 hour drive now and then when everything else is happiness?
After Christmas I will start a new thread,
TNI: The Prodigal Goat Returns.

Until then. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and best wishes for an amazing and prosperous New Year.
We love you, TTR family.
UturnGirl and Bolt Goat.
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I almost cried reading this post lol.

popcorn169 · Dec 31, 2021

You and goat going to put the link to the new thread?

88 Alpha · Dec 31, 2021

popcorn169 said: ↑

You and goat going to put the link to the new thread?
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If the goat doesn't, one of us from the staff will.

InTooDeep · Dec 31, 2021

Bolt Goat, the TNI Come Back Kid.
There it is

88 Alpha · Dec 31, 2021

I worked all day, didn't realize it had already started. Thanks @InTooDeep

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