Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

I'm assuming that they want all their maintenence done in-house? Seems like a lot of the shop horror stories could be alleviated by a TA/Petro, Loves, Speedco, etc if they didn't, right?

 

Possibly but Poly is set in its ways. It's easier to just go with the flow when it comes to the shop.

 

Do they hire new graduates or need experience? Fishing around for a Company myself.

 

1 year experience needed.

 

Poly only had 1 year of APUs (dynasys) in the Prostar era. Everything else is EPU, as in Electric Power Unit. (Battery powered a/c with diesel fueled bunk heater). That's the only thing I liked about the Maxxfarce powered Prostar I had there...the a/c did a decent job keeping it cool as long as I kept the insulated window shades up and the curtains pulled shut. The bunk heater was the water heater type, not the airtronics air heater. Put out a more even warmth thru the trucks heater core rather than a seperate duct.

and those are 579's I do believe. Wider cabs than the old style Pete, but depending on how it's spec'd, less storge than the single bunk Prostars, but more than Poly's old 33## double bunk that had the aftermarket junk a/c setup on the back wall(can't remember the name of it). All in all not a bad truck...not as high quality of Petes of the past, but waaaaaaay better than any International

 

EPU are just electric ac/heat units.

Those are wide body Petes.

 

Solution is to keep a form of personal
transportation there in GP . Drop your
truck off and take a break.

We have people that live as far away as
Ohio , Ga and the Carolinas that exercise
this option .

That shop is the #1 reason drivers quit Poly

 

any word on what the oil change intervals will b on new trks? anyone know what they are for those trks with cummins? assuming theyr cummins

 

What is their policy on snow/chaining up? Do they insist on getting the load delivered, or are they ok with drivers choosing whether or not to drive thru poor conditions?

 

SAFETY FIRST at all times,
and we recently started using
snow socks