Ferguson Enterprises

Csdsm18 · Jul 10, 2020

Bump any info on Ferguson?

Pepper24 · Jul 10, 2020

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Well, Ferguson is easily the best trucking company I have ever worked for, hands down, bar none, there is no equal. I have worked for a lot of different companies - a lot of the big ones and many of the smallers ones, but finally found the one that I will retire from.

Ferguson owns one of the largest fleets of trucks in the U.S., but many don't know about them because this company owns it's own fleet in order to deliver the products it sells versus simply a trucking company with drivers that are dispatched to wherever/whoever/whenever to pick up and deliver any particular company's transportation needs.

First, the greatest thing of all is the benefits. I took 28 paid days off this year. Yes, I am paid by the hour, I go home every day, I don't work weekends - ever, I don't have to stay out for weeks at a time, missing my family and not really having any friends outside of the trucking industry. In other words, I have a life outside of trucking.

If a truck breaks down, I don't get hell over the phone from some geek in an office a thousand miles away who starts demanding to know "what you did to the truck to make it break down", or some other junk like that. I don't have to get numbers and go through all kinds of hell, I just call one particular person in our company who has been designated the person that will take care of such problems, he calls whoever needs to be called, the truck gets fixed, that's it.

Full medical; disability; good 401k. Management is superior, at least in the division I am working in. I don't have to sit in a truck all day long, I go to construction sites and make the deliveries and forge relationships with the contractors. Although many drivers would hate this aspect, I love it: I get to pull my own orders and load my own truck. I like this aspect because if there seems to be one problem truckers have - it's obesity and overweight brought on by the lack of physical activity. I only pull flatbed trailers, which guarantees physical activity even if I didn't load my own truck.

Also, in recent months, I have learned how to do counter sales, shipping/receiving, and a lot of other things that are necessary to learn to help run the business. I have not been promoted, yet I have been entrusted with all kinds of duties that are FAR from being "just a truckdriver". Again, some or even many drivers might not be attracted to that kind of thing, but I got sick of staying on the road and never leaving it a LONG time ago. It took me 5 jobs in local-only driving before I found this job, which for me is the "perfect" job, I have no intentions of leaving it.

Oh, my pay. 50k per year. That's somewhere in the middle. But remember, I'm home EVERY day, at about 4:00pm. I don't work weekends, they aren't opened on weekends, and I don't WANT them to be, at least not the Waterworks division. I have no stresses about "when am I EVER going to get home". I received fully 5 bonuses this year from the company, LARGE bonuses at that.

I've worked for Werner; J.B. Hunt and several other companies, I've done my time on the road, I can say I've found the perfect job.
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$50.000 a year and your relying on large bonus to make $50.000 so your weekly amount you make must be around $800 I’m guessing.I don’t know about Ferguson other then they advertise in Charlotte area a lot for Driver’s always seemed like a bad sign to me.

Csdsm18 · Jul 10, 2020

yea I seen that but that was back in 08. The one by me is local union but only getting like 40hrs a week at 25hr. I mean the benefits are great but I just don't know.
QUOTE="Pepper24, post: 10437427, member: 180790"]$50.000 a year and your relying on large bonus to make $50.000 so your weekly amount you make must be around $800 I’m guessing.I don’t know about Ferguson other then they advertise in Charlotte area a lot for Driver’s always seemed like a bad sign to me.[/QUOTE]

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