We have EZPass/Prepass in all the trucks. Covers all toll roads except Oklahoma and Texas. I am constantly on toll roads running Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and so on and never once has anyone said a word to me about running the toll roads. Tolls are a cost of doing business, and BTC wants us to take the best route from point A to point B.
Regional fleets get you home most every weekend. I say most because when I was regional (as I will be again starting next week!) there were times unfortunately where I couldn't get home due to freight schedules and shipper or traffic delays. It happens, it's a fact of trucking. However, it doesn't happen often, and the company has ALWAYS been more than willing to work with me whenever home time was important to me. As in I have flat deadheaded home 500+ miles to get home with company blessing.
And no, the reason why home time is important to YOU is not an issue to the company, only the fact that you consider it important. BTC doesn't care that you need to be home for a holiday, a family event, or to catch opening day of a movie (I speak from personal experience on all of these examples). They only care about getting you home when you need to be home.
Honestly, I had a harder time getting decent freight on the weekends that I could run within my (sometimes severely) limited hours than I ever did in getting home regularly.
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This information is great. Really sounds like BTC has a good formula for taking care of the drivers. I'm wanting to get flatbed experience so weighing my options but BTC is def at the top of my list. One thing I'm lacking in my current employer is the ability to head out west and it sounds as if y'all head out there occasionally. I like to stay out for 3-4 weeks at a time so thinking mileage would be best but I'd really like to evaluate the percentage option too just as a primer for understanding different frieght lanes and how they pay.
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I do a lot of work for Billy, and spent a few months working the office side as Billy's assistant/apprentice. Billy is a gold mine of information, directions, and history of the trucking industry as a whole!
Billy still has his old rate books from before deregulation. Take a look through them sometime if you want to be really depressed! I did, and I can honestly say yhat rates today are WORSE than they were 30 years ago! I know, cause I saw the rates from 30 years ago in black and white!
Get Billy or Beamer rolling, and those old guys will talk the ears off a field of corn about what it was like out here back before Jimmy Carter. -
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What kind of money can an o/o make living in the Gulfport, MS area?
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That's with getting home every weekend.
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I realize this is an old thread but quick question for anyone at BTC. Do you guys only cover eastern half of the US? You see much freight heading west?
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Oh yeah... TWIC required?
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