Frozen Food Express FFE Lisa or American Eagle

well . i was going to lease my truck on with them went to dallas and after 2 hours i left. they will charge you for everything. if you have a load and it does not del for a couple of days you have 2 choices, 1. you can wait until time to del meaning you get to the customers and have to hire a lumper to unload you, oh and ffe does not pay lumber fees. or 2. you can drop the load in the yard and grab another one. butttt. you will be charged 75.00 for the one you dropped and 75.00 for the one you pickup thats not counting all of the other stuff they get you for. if you have your own truck they will not pass it on the inspection until you get a theft deterrent system which the will be glad to sell you. just check and ask more questions before you go call them. i do not know how the company driver do with them

 

I trained with FFE, and have a friend who I went through CDL school with who is driving with American Eagle. He's happy with AE, its about 99% no-touch, whereas during my training with FFE, it was about 50% touch! Of course, both of my trainers were running LTL primarily.

Given my druthers, I'd go with either AE or Lisa over FFE, simply because of the crap inherent in dealing frequently with grocery warehouses, something that reefers have to do a LOT.

I can't say anything about the lease-purchase program.

 

Listen to bikerdad, wharehouses are the worst, worst places to deliver. Mark my words, I will never pull a reefer.

 

Pulling a reefer isn't the problem, dry vans go to grocery warehouses as well.

FFE is the problem. I don't normally talk about companies I haven't driven for, but this is a company I can speak about via family experience. My mother decided she wanted to become a truck driver, and through her first couple years of finding here way, FFE was a company she ended up at.

Driver unloads were not uncommon at the time, and lumpers were not always available. FFE would agree to pull freight anywhere, they didn't give a #### about what the driver had to deal with.

I found myself at home a couple times when my Mom was in the area to unload, and I found myself being the lumper that she hired. Not the way I planned on spending my day or two at home, but I would be ###### if my mom was going to unload freight.

Didn't take long, and she was on her way to another company, with the strict instructions by me to tell whoever said she had to unload something to kiss her ###. Several years later, she still drives, but she doesn't unload anything, which is how it should be.

 

Please, does anyone have any info on this company? I can't find them listed anywhere, and they are recruiting me. I had a terrible experience with PTL, and I don't want tomake another mistake. Help!!!!

 

Never heard of them, where did you find them, or sould I say they find you? where in TX? What do they pull?
I'll see if I can find anything but they sound like a small outfit and you don't usually find muchon forums about small co's

 

I found one listing that said FFE Transportation and AMerican Eagle Lines. So it looks like this may be a small fleet owner with a few trucks leased to FFE. The other entries I see had them listed at either 1-10 employees or 10-100 employees so I would assume he has around 10 trucks.

Research FFE and see what you find n this forum. They are a refridgerated carrier but I don't now much about them.