first tanker interview tomorrow. Martin Transport

No particular order but here are some, just off the top of my head. It would be easier to tell you what he liked about the company, but since you asked:

- Those Macks are small and no inverters or APUs

- Most of the trailers were in need of repair (though when brought to the attention of the terminal shop, it got fixed pretty quickly)

- Pay was constantly messed up (but fixed when he brought it to the payroll person at the terminal)

- The terminal had less than 10 drivers and they played favorites. Theodore has a couple of runs where they use a flatbed to haul gas cylinders to customers and bring the empty cylinders back. Those have to be chained down. The one female driver never had to do those runs (said those chains were too heavy). There were a lot of short runs (15 miles, it paid $45, but you could only get 3 in per day due to delays at the shipper or receiver, and he got stuck doing those quite often

- In Theodore, there is a variety of trailers (regular stainless trailer, acid trailer, sulphur trailers, propane trailer, the aforementioned flatbeds, etc) and it seemed like none of them ever had the correct equipment on them, so he would always have to go by the terminal to get what was needed. Of course, this cost time on the 14.

- Every. Single. Time. a driver from another terminal dropped a trailer at the Theodore yard, there were issues with the load. Every. Single. Time.

- He hired on to haul propane (LP) on a dedicated run. The trainer for the LP trailer was busy doing something else the week he started so he trained on the sulphur trailers. Big mistake. Since he was trained on sulphur, he did more sulphur loads than anything else and NEVER got to do LP.

- Speaking of LP, if you intend to haul LP in Louisiana, you have to go to Louisiana to get certified on hauling it in the state. Just one more certification and waste of time. Yes, he got certified, but it didn't help him.

(This won't apply to you because you will run out of Kilgore anyway). You are told in orientation to contact Kilgore for dispatch. The Theodore terminal manager told him to forget that. If he wanted to work out of Theodore, he would have to call the Theodore manager for the load information (the terminal managers control the loads from their terminals. When he would take a load to Chicago, he knew he would most likely head right back to Mobile (without pay) but he would have to call the Theodore terminal manager just in case the plans changed and he may have to go in a different direction. As I said, you won't have to deal with this because you will be dispatched from Kilgore anyway.

I'm sure there are other things he didn't like but nothing else is coming to me right now. As you can see, it looks like his issues were terminal problems (except the truck size) and not company issues.