Foodliner, DBA, Gless Bros, Blue Grass Ia.

I try to put a minimum of 10k a year in regardless of earnings. My last job used a profit sharing approach with an unknown formula for determining their contribution. I think my best year I got $1,800 from them or less than 2%. As I said earlier an instant 35% return on investment is nothing to sneeze at.

I will however concede my annoyance at the one year delay for them to get moving. It is rather like their vacation plan which also doesn't seem to fit a company that only hires experience.

I keep coming back to the fact that I work 10-15 less hours a week yet make as much or slightly more than I did before.

On another note I will be taking a break from bailing out the Questliner Waterloo drivers/pud pullers to spend some quality time bailing out the Foodliner crowd. Gotta drag a Foodliner trailer from Chicago out to New Hampshire(Which I am sure is lovely this time of year).

 

I got the company propaganda report in the mail with my check. It showed how they are supposedly having a hard time negotiating favorable rates. I know for a fact that I am pulling loads that are paying around $3 a mile. Of course this is only 1 way, but the latest is that they want us to pull loads on the way back. They are ADM loads. I'm sure these are paying at least $2 a mile. These people aren't hurting. They could pay a bit better and contribute to a man's retirement. They do have profit sharing. I'm sure they will cry poor though when the time comes to pay out. There is a 7 year vesting schedule for that.

 

Huh? You scaled in? I pulled to that stop sign and waited for the light to change like a putz. After a few minutes of futility I rolled it up on the scale. Still not a soul around and now I am staring at the sign that says "No getting out on scale". Finally see a guy waving at me from amoung the tanks so I hop out (I am not a good little communist) and he tells me I gotta back off the scale and on around the corner to the unload spot. Seems on my day someone had screwed a different pooch somewhere else in the tank farm. Place was a friggin' joke.

I asked about the light and scale when I was leaving and got told "We don't scale aqua loads"

 

Don't belittle the lab guy. That white coat cost him four semesters at the local community college.

 

do they reimburse you????

 

They don't pay for wait time unless it exceeds 2 hours. I'm not sure this is with every company they own, but I bet it is.

 

You get paid for the unload and the suit up so it isn't a total loss.

On another note I took a foodliner load out to NH and didn't find out till the way back that it should pay .44 a mile. Apparently there is a four cent bump for doing another terminals work. Down right decent of them. The unload was a disaster with me being stuck there for 7.5 hours. I had one truck ahead of me an the most unmotivated fellow handling the unload. They were only taking half the tank at a time with a gap of a bit over an hour between each unloading stint. Ah well at least it was a really nice time of year to be out there.