Furniture Row Express

I left thursday, and have racked up about 1700 miles... A great big problem is the shorting of miles... In 1703 miles I actually drove, FRE would have paid for 1774 while Celadon is willing to pay for about 1492 of them!!! This looks like a 10% pay hit... I recieved a KW that actually runs 65mph on cruise, and the only real issue centers around a governing feature that will limit the use of lower gears... This will be turned off, or I will not drive it on winter roads, as this will become a safety hazard... The office people are real friendly... My first load was dispatched to me about six hours after the pickup appointment!!! The second load was a drop and hook that included a damaged trailer... I never made the delivery, so they swapped me out for a third load... The KW got 7.2 mpg calculated from fueling info... Nice truck, although a bit smaller than the FRE one I had...

 

Cybergasm; They will need to adjust my pay, or this will likely be a deal killer... We were supposed to be income neutral on this... Furthermore, I was routed 981 miles, but they want to pay for only 905 of those miles... This is theft in my book (involentary servitude)... I don't have a problem with progressive shifting, but if I leave the tranny in a certain gear, I likely have a reason for doing so... On ice, this will be a safety threat... My 7.2 might have something to do with bucking a strong headwind for a number of miles with a heavy load of paper... I was impressed with the numbers at any rate... I have a shot at $1150 GUARANTEED a week hauling aerospace mostly utilizing the Conestoga tarp system out of my home area!!! I have hazmat, and oversize experience... Pulling a flat, step, or double drop would not be a big problem for me... I would get home often; I live about 50 miles from the aircraft factories...

 

who ever said barney was watching out for u guys?Mark worked his tail off for FRE,did three peoples jobs and he left with nothing.FRE didn't even offer him something in the warehouse.hows that for takeing care of someone.FRE closed because of management.there is a trucking company out of texas that started the same time as FRE and they now have 200 trucks and pay their drivers 47 cents per mile...oh well u all have new kw,s that barney never spent one dime on.i wish I had something better to say but it is what it is

 

All of the office personnel were done this way... I am not sure how well we were actually taken care of vs Celadon wanting to have enough familiar faces around to keep the contracts happy...

 

Mark sucked too...just sayin' if he was an effective manager he would have dealt with the problems, but no he blamed the drivers for everything, talk to most ex-FRE drivers and Marks name will always come up and not in a good way.He needed to deal with the situation in Omaha, and he waited too late and it ran the company into the ground.They had a poor business model and it lead to their demise,but we all ahve moved on to bigger and better things as we do in this industry.

 

You do realize that Mark was in charge of SAFETY and COMPLIANCE with a sprinkling of BOOK KEEPING (attempting to clean up Ruby's disaster) right? Just checking. The Omaha disaster was squarely on Bill's shoulders, and he failed miserably. As an outsider looking in I would have to say Mark did a pretty decent job, taking into account what he did and didn't have authority to do and how ham strung him and Scott were by Bill. Just sayin...

 

Mark was scheduling loads with the shippers as well, he wore way too many hats... I got along with Mark quite well... But yes, Mark was overwealmed... Management was quite understaffed...

 

u cant put it any better than that.i said for months before I left bill is ruining a good thing and then he brought scott in.the first thing he did was look on the internet and pulled up on how to run a trucking company.i guess he pulled up the wrong site.i did like tim and candy the other load planners they kept me happy or I would have left long before I did.new Albany was great also.i guess that leaves Denver as the only one that stunk it up