celadon--how many miles per week???

I'd like to hear from celadon solo's and teams, how many miles per week are you getting? Thanks.

 

Ok, thank you. But what I'd really like to hear is actual week-by-week miles, from the drivers. I'd even like to hear from drivers other than celadon. I'm just curious to know if celadon really does have more "slow" periods than other companies?

 

Has anyone heard anything about celadon putting camera's inside the trucks??? We stopped for fuel in Arizona, while I got stuck pumping the fuel, hubby went to visit another celadon driver a few pumps over. When hubby told me that celadon is now putting camera's in the trucks, I asked "did you actually see the camera?" I didn't believe it. It's a black box on the window near the prepass, it as a light on it and an antannae. The driver said it has two camera's, one inside, and one outside. That's all I know about it.

 

This will probably be my last post regarding celadon. I sat down and figured out that in the last 3 months we'd been averaging about 4800 miles per week. For a team that is not good. Twice during August, celadon forced two solo drivers to give up there loads to us, need to keep the team barely moving.

When I finally made the decision to leave, celadon announced yet another take-over, something like a million more miles per month. Thought about hanging in, until some one pointed out that that equals an extra 250 miles per month per driver.

Celadon has a lot of wonderful people working there, I'm going to miss them, I will especially miss that volvo.

My advice to anyone considering celadon, is put on a celadon cap, walk into a terminal, pretend you belong and LISTEN to the drivers. Celadon USED to be a great company, with mostly happy drivers.

So, at the end of August we turned our volvo in, and moved on.

Life at the new company is so far so good.

1st paycheck almost $1100 before taxes (Friday to Tuesday, not a full week)

2nd pay check just over $2700 before taxes

3rd paycheck, just over $1500 (hit a deer, in shop for almost 3 days)

those numbers are total pay for a team, but just goes to show that money CAN be made out here! Just, unfortunately, not for very long at Celadon.

Good luck to all of you