CRST Malone (Flatbed Division) SUCKS!

SheepDog · Mar 13, 2014

I pray you have your own trailer Peanut21.....

zinita17601 · Mar 14, 2014

peanut 21 said: ↑

I just applied for crst Malone first owner operator job hope it work out I like that I can pick my own loads
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you in for the trip of your life,run brother run and dont look back.by the time you own that truck you already paid 4 times what its worth and probably you refinanced your house and divorced your wife cause you not putting food on the table.if you decide to do it anyway dont be dispatched out of rockport in.consider yourself warned.

gregbo · Mar 14, 2014

The first month will be a learning curve, confusing, frustrating. Get on the load board every day and do the math. Find the good paying lanes where you want to run and work with those agents. Do not let your driver manager dispatch you, find your own loads. Don't chase high dollar loads into areas where you'll layover, try to get booked out a day in advance. If you're doing the LP thing, keep your eyes open for a decent older truck you can buy or finance. I don't know if Malone's LP is better or worse than any other carrier but .12/mile into a giant slush fund on top of 325.00/week for the truck is a pretty tough nut. Best of luck.

peanut 21 said: ↑

I just applied for crst Malone first owner operator job hope it work out I like that I can pick my own loads
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peanut 21 · Mar 15, 2014

I own my truck just leasing with them

zinita17601 said: ↑

you in for the trip of your life,run brother run and dont look back.by the time you own that truck you already paid 4 times what its worth and probably you refinanced your house and divorced your wife cause you not putting food on the table.if you decide to do it anyway dont be dispatched out of rockport in.consider yourself warned.
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ChipW · Mar 29, 2014

I'm trying to figure out how zinita thinks I'll be paying 4 times what it's worth? 2010 truck for 32k. According to my payment schedule, I won't be paying any more than that. Granted, it's a high mileage truck, but at least it will be EPA legal for many years to come. My lease is only 23 months unless I do a 6 month finance on my balloon payment. Then it's 29 months. Still only 2.5 years to pay off.

Dominion Transportation · May 2, 2014

Have to go through Ky Qual, they are the fastest, rest are bs'ers also recruiter contractors as well...

crownking · May 8, 2014

Hey i read the info

and u seems to have everything down to the t
please call me urgently i need help
im getting into lease p and i surely need your wise advice so i dont make the wrong choice

please call me right away please 317-748-9321 king

truckfam said: ↑

We were in orientation with Malone. I said I could do the paperwork, run loads and work the phone, as my husband's business partner. I sat through orientation, read the manual - this is our business! I do paperwork and make calls, pay bills. I know how to drive the truck, but I'm better with money, paperwork and people.

We were turned on to an agent who pays in dollars per mile, not cents. We don't have to call an FM with Malone to ever get a load. We might have a really sweet deal. I will run the numbers beforehand and give Malone 3 weeks. Rest assured, I know they subsidize from drivers, on pennies. I keep books and I'm a cheap #####. I will call and argue to the ground for 50 cents, coming to us.

Out of all the drivers this past week, my husband was the only one referred as an OTR driver to a specific agent and encouraged to come for a meeting. We both will meet with him on Tuesday, because we ran out of time on Friday. I like the set up, so far.

When I was a kid, my dad's dispatcher was a family friend, as well. We stayed at her house, when we were in town. I hope we like this guy and he likes us.

My dad was with a company and a dispatcher for over 20 years. That's what I want.
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crownking · May 8, 2014

URGENT CALL ME PLEASE
Hey i read the info

and u seems to have everything down to the t
please call me urgently i need help
im getting into lease p and i surely need your wise advice so i dont make the wrong choice

please call me right away please 317-748-9321 king

Harold196 said: ↑

Hello All...
I have just sat here at my home , here in ND and read all the post about Malone... There are a few things that i agree with, but most i do not...
I SPENT 5 YEARS with Malone... and before the ecomony went deep south , I did really well with Malone... For 3 years strait i averaged to my truck between $170,000 to $200,00 in gross revenue ...
The last 2 years was very bare and i have to admit that , but its just the truth...
(and by the way... i own my own truck and its not painted gold either )
Out of all the agents of CRST MALONE... I enjoyed working with Gene and Debbie Wolfe out of Atlanta, GA... They helped make me a lot of Money, Then you Have Mark there in Tenn. He also had great freight that paid in DOLLARS...
Yes I do agree that for the most part the AGENTS that own several trucks... As an O/O You will sit and the agents will cherry pick the loads and put the best loads on thier personal trucks... I know this to be very , very true...and i am not going to mention any names....
But getting back to me.... I just flat out refused to haul any cheap freight what so ever....my moto has always been ... leave the cheap freight on the shippers docks or yards.... its not going on my truck... I have dead headed my truck 2,000 miles and it did not bother me one bit.... i can and do write 100 percent of the dead head off my taxes...
I have sit out in Ontario, CA for 3 weeks , at the T/A east... But when i left there i had a $2.75 a mile load on my trailer going all the way to Boston... When i unloaded i hung around for a couple of days , there was nothing up there but cheap freight , so i just dead headed back to South Carolina... no Problem...and loaded back out for Sheila there also in NC. Another $2.25 a mile load with $75.00 stop pay...
Now Lets get back to Malone...Anytime I needed anything all i did was just call B'ham, if i wanted cash it was there within 10 minutes... if i needed 10 brand new Goodyear tires, I called the Presedent... Shepard.. No Problem... If I boroke down and needed something , no problem... I got my truck fixed and i was on my way... No Problem.....
Now i know that you are reading this and saying to yourself... this guy is just full of it ! RIGHT ! ! but the simple fact is, when Mr Sheperd pulled up my Financials for the past years.... he saw that i always made money and my Revenue to the truck, i always was usually in the top 10 percent of the companys owner operaters....I did leave Malone this past Febuary and simply parked my truck... Why ... our ecomony now is in the tolit for the most part... Every trucking company's out there has lowered their freight rates, fuel surcharges and the day to day expenses on the truck has risen... we all know this... I dont care if its Landstar , mercer, or joe blow down the street...the fact is that the flatbed, stepdeck and heavy haul freight has dropped in price, simple math... there is just less freight to haul with all the layoff and plant closing's over 10 million unemployeed in our country today...Anytime that there is 10 times the availabe trucks to a load ratio... the rates is always going to drop...

Now today being 12/19/09... I want to wish you all a very wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year...
Please take care and Be Careful of there on our highways and byways....

Harold
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crownking · May 8, 2014

Hey i read the info

and u seems to have everything down to the t
please call me urgently i need help
im getting into lease p and i surely need your wise advice so i dont make the wrong choice

please call me right away please 317-748-9321 king

Chiricahua said: ↑

Nice story. My biggest problem when I was there was I was told how drivers like you existed but I could never find one. I talked to as many Malone drivers as I could so that I could learn the system but none were happy. Not a one. I know about the deadhead. I would find loads on the Internet and they (The Agents) didn't want to post them for me. That's when I learned that they couldn't turn down Landstar or CH Robinson loads or Trinity. You see you didn't have to deadhead so far, cause LS or CH or trinity always had loads in those areas. It was part of Malones system to force to pull their cheap loads.
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crownking · May 8, 2014

Hey i read the info

and u seems to have everything down to the t
please call me urgently i need help
im getting into lease p and i surely need your wise advice so i dont make the wrong choice

please call me right away please 317-748-9321 king

601_superman said: ↑

Just A Comment On Every Thing That's Been Said Up 2 Now I Also Had My T200 Leased On # Malone Truckin Out Of B'Ham. Chiricahua U Wil Not Find Ny O/OP From Malone 2 Talk Wit U Cause There Not Parked # The Truck Stops Their Out Driving The Ones That Have Time $ Talkin R The Ones Not Makin Money Cause They Sit # Truck Stops Wen They Shud Be Getting The Loads On Time. An Also, Harold196 i agree Wit U I Made The Same Amount But Did It In 9 Mos. Out Of Twelve. An They R Still The Company Of Choice All u Need 2 Do Is Get 2 No Debbie An Gene Out Of ATL The Lady In Jacksonville, The Guy In Witchata Ks And The Guy In Los Angelos CA Once U Do rite By Debbie An Gene They'll Hook U up Wit Da People To Be Successfull But My Advice Is If They Offer U A Load Always Ask 4 More Cause U Can get It Jus Ask High So U have Room 2 Get Wer U Need 2 B. 1 Last thing Don't Eva Tell Them Ur Gonna Do SUmtin An Be Late Always B Der Early. Like I Said The Ones Dat R Doing Great Don't Spend Time Sitting Unles They R Empty An If They R Empty It's By Choice Not By Force. If U Treat It Like A Job U Will Fail I Can Go On An ON But I Want. If I Can Help Jus Contact Me. Dats How I Learned An Owner Help Me An Showed Me The Way.
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