Day & Ross

i was s/b hwy 11 one sunday morning at the left turn at gravenhurst and laying on the road was a brake drum . fragments large pcs anyway on down the road i go stop at tim hortons oh look its a day&ross truck as im walking back to get a coffee i look at the tandems on the trailer well ive never seen a brake chamber smashed off bye broken brake drum but i think i have now . not knowing who was driving the day & ross truck but when i went out with my coffee and the truck was gone i could not beleave the driver went down the road in that condtion . i guess after seening that brake drum on the road that is a result of to many sets of shoes to that set of drums . maybe they dont make enough money to do a proper brake job .cheap freight poor equipment big company unhappy work enviroment . do you think the driver probly paid by hr told to put it in the wind with some vise grips on the supply line

 

I talked with an O/O one day in truck shop. Their rate package for o/o is one of the best among trucking companys as he told me.

 

I've been with Day and Ross for about a year. Really like the company, but the lanes coming out of the Maritimes are way too short. I like to go 2 weeks at a time, and they just can't seem to do it. Next week I am transferring to the Fastrax division for a dedicated run from Florenceville NB to Portage la Prairie MB.

 

Owned by McCain Foods, Best way I know to keep your shipping cost down is to own the trucks that haul your goods. Even better when you can haul other people stuff to pay for it. They have 2 dept. Full load and partial loads. No better or worse that alot of other outfits. Heard tell Fastrax is now a nonentity and it is all Day&Ross now,or soon to be. I imagine it is a cluster F*** right now with the merging of the two.

 

The guys in the fastrax specialized division do well.

 

Well JRP just know from some of the drivers I know that fastrax is no longer going to be a division it will all be under one set of people in the regional offices Day&Ross. Word is they do not even know yet how they are going to do it. Some of the offices dont have enough room as it is.