CDL School student looking for recommendations for companies to apply to

You are brand new to this industry. I've never driven for Freymiller, but NEITHER HAVE YOU. I HAVE, however, been driving for many years. I don't give a rats tush who you go with, but I read bad reviews on this company and wanted to present this to you. If you go with them, go ahead. I don't care if you drive for Swift.

Like someone once told me, the good reviews are possibly paid for by the company and are fake, but the bad ones have merit. The company doesn't want bad reviews out there, so read those with an extra eye of attention.

The review I posted on here did not just rant against FM. He, or she, gave details that I didn't know if you knew or not. You're new, you may think a company charging you for load locks is normal. You might think that getting charged to go off route is normal. I have a lot of driving experience for multiple companies and I know this is not the case. If you want to buy your companies load locks, have at it. I really could care less. Good luck. Tell us what it's like to buy your company their load locks. I've always wanted to know what that was like.

I can't recommend any reefer companies because reefers have kept me up at night and caused me to drive tired. I've never heard good reviews of many reefer companies. I never claimed to recommend anyone, but if someone comes on here and says they like a company that I've heard awful things about I'm going to bring it up. You can take it with a grain of salt or grain of sand. I don't care. I can promise you 90% of people here are recommending companies THEY never drove for. So be aware of that.

 

I'd like to know how that works. Considering if you drop and hook a sealed trailer with your load locks in it they are gone forever. And if all you do is live load live unload you're going to get tired of that real fast. You also won't make many miles.

Don't get tricked by "long miles" on runs if you have to do a live load and live unload on each end. I've done 1200 mile runs that took 3 days, a half day to load, 2 days to run, half day to unload. 400 miles a day is nothing to write home about. But 1200 mile runs are good advertisement for the company.

 

If you're required to drop a sealed trailer with load locks inside, the company knows this and will give you instructions about that. I know, I did refrigerated freight for 18 years. You won't be charged for load locks in that situation.
Detention pay is paid for live loads and unloads. You're paid an amount just for the stop, then after that detention pay kicks in. If refrigerated companies are so bad, there wouldn't be truckers that make a career out of it.
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Freymiller

• Stop pay
• Guaranteed detention, layover and breakdown pay

 

I went to a refrigerated warehouse one time and there was a pile of load locks near the dock where I was unloading.
I ask the warehouse worker why they were there. He said drivers forget them when they leave, so we just throw them in a pile. He said take them if you want them. I loaded all of them in my trailer and took them to our terminal, because we were short on load locks. Within a week they were all gone. One of our own drivers took them and sold them somewhere. After that. the company kept them locked up and drivers had to sign for them if they needed any.

 

Flatbed drivers have responsibilities also. I've done flatbed for a short while.
Those drivers have to keep up with their working inventory, which is chains, binders, straps, tarps, cheater bars.
All that stuff is expensive. Have to keep constant check on it. Companies are aware that sometime they hire a driver that tries to sell that stuff, then claim it was stolen. Very few drivers do that, but it's something companies have to think about.

 

Freymiller has been around for a long time, best of luck to you!

 

I've also looked into Freymiller, researched them and spoke with a recruiter. From everything I see and talking to the recruiter, it sounds like a pretty good company. I also joined the Freymiller facebook page and have communicated with the other drivers. They all seem to be content.

Always look at negative views with eyes wide open. You can tell by the person's writing that it may not be the company as much as it could very well the person writing the review.

Someone writing a review on hearsay only, who has no personal experience with that company is not something I would take as gospel. In this business, attitude is everything. If you have a positive attitude on life, you have good self confidence in who you are, things in general will go a lot smoother no matter where you end up.

Every step in the future is all about experience. If you are new to driving then the first couple of years are going to be a challenge. Have fun with your decisions, have a positive attitude knowing that no matter what, things will get easier and better with time invested.

You're going to hear more bad then good with almost every company, that's just the way people are. Truck driving is a very frustrating job, it takes a lot of patience and a lot of deep breaths. I've driven refer for over 4 years and I liked it. The hours suck, the weather is not always in your favor, traffic and other drivers out there (truck drivers included) will try to ruin your day... every day!

Just like anything else, you're going to hear more negative about something then you are good. That's just the way people are. They can be disgruntled beings, even if they won the lottery, they'll find something negative about that. Some people are just not happy, so they're just looking for an excuse to lash out, and what better way to do so then the internet.