Evan's Equipment Co. - Butler, In.?

I see them running the midwest a lot, but I have passed their yard and noted quite a bit of stuff parked there. But a few months back, they were having quite a sale on equipoment, I think I remember counting up about 30 trucks in the ad. So they may well be just updating equipment. Also, just looking at the yard is a n extremely poor indicator of anything. They could be running a lot of regional freight and the drivers are home for the weekend, they could have excess trucks because of sales and new ones coming in, etc. My employer has had many trucks sitting on our lot, and it's because we bought new ones. As the new ones are issued out, old ones come in, and then some of them are reissued, and olde still ones come in. Eventually they get sold, at a time determined by the financial people. So for the time being, the lot has plenty of empty trucks and it doesn't indicate anything except that trucks are parked there. Doesn't make us a bottom feeder company, just some folks that bought new trucks.

Same thing, go by on a Friday nite or Saturday, and the lot is full of daycabs. Why, because those are all local trucks that run Chicago and they are off for the weekend. Doing a "drive by shooting" of the parking lot is misleading and very foolish. And it will mislead you from a possible good company.

 

you think of fischer brothers out of fort wayne?

 

I do my "drive-bys" of terminals on the first morning of company orientations, usually around 7:30. Doing a drive by is a great way to tell what a company is like if he does it at the right time. Use your noodle, in other words.

If I do that drive-by on an orientation Monday and see 100 new hires going into a 5000-truck outfit, it means I'll keep on driving and probably won't ever go back there. And I'm sure if I look over the heads of the new hires and into the lot, I'll then see all the cleaned-outs left by last week's quitters. I'm no fool. I WILL be looking. Be sure you look, too.

Anyone who doesn't take a company's lot into consideration when researching a company is begging for a let-down. That person is probably wearing an "I'm a sucker" ballcap to boot.

Good luck, Flat.

 

Out of Butler, IN Have you heard anything about them good or bad ?

 

Evans in Butler, IN is a riff raff operation from the top down. I may post in detail at some point, but here I shall cut to the quik. Their DOT Rating is serious, they have a tremendous turn over, their equipment is trash (1,390,000 on the tractor they showed me), extremely filthy too. They monitor you literally minute by minute as the DOT is hot on them, and has been for quite sometime; I've never seen babysitting like this company does it. As I was leaving from orientation (before it was over) I felt such a relief. It was if I woke up and came to my senses, as if I had just climbed out of a hole I started digging the minute I walked in to check the place out. Fair warning boys and girls ... I almost forget to mention the 2 pages of fines you pay the company for various and sundry offences found only in company policy; including if you quit in the first 90 days ... fines and reimbursements follow.

 

we are no longer with them....they decided to make hubby wait ONE WEEK after daughter had an emergency operation to get him home......they can b a good operation if u stay on the good side of the safety manager.