Gray Transportation-Waterloo

Come on Mitch. If your going to post a messenge, be honest. i dont see where you stated that you rear ended a truck in chicago and almost totalled out our truck. i also did not see where you posted that you were looking for another job because the state cancelled your daughters health insurance. we wrote you a letter for the state and they reply was that you made too much money with us. then you complain about miles but when your daughter doesnt have school because of the snow, you cant drive. if i posted anything false here, then please correct me. i expect i will not hear from you. dgray

 

This is a funny post. I guess you spend to much time watching what is posted about your company., to do something with all the junk trls you are pulling down the highway.. your trucks and trls are a joke..that i can tell..

 

Ya gotta admit that dgray has those 15 years but is that driving a truck or desk? You also have to admit Gray has taken some pretty hard hits in the bad company threads! So we all sing together the spin song? LOL!

Yeah I've sen their junk at Tyson plants and on the road,
I did Tyson dedicated for 2 years and even though they don't pay the detention time the company should out of their pocket as well you're their employee not Tyson's and if companies don't want to pay for your time why stay there if the moneys not.

So hey, DGray (sounds something like an owners name doesn't it?) why don't you sit your fat arse at your desk for oh say 34 hours and tell payroll to deduct that out of your "pay check or salary" and do this as many times or at the same times you have drivers sitting at a plant not making a cent in solidarity with them?

Yeah right what am I thinking? Like any company owner or CEO or owners son would take anything out of their pocket like they are doing to their drivers!

I know Tyson pays on average $2.45 a mile and according to that cheap web site of yours you pay a whopping $.29- $.34 cents per mile (Oh the $.34 is AFTER 7 years of dedicated work or is that experience before hiring? ROFLMFAO) and lets not mention the "bonuses" which if you sit at a Tyson plant once a week for over 24 hours just might be hard to get! So you're doing pretty well even after paying your over priced salary and then the rest of the bills. Why not park more trailers at the plants and actually increase your profits and your drivers pay? Or is that to far over your head or credit score needed to purchase the few more (one for each driver which according to the website is 125 but 75 would increase profits but a 27% margin but my calculus sucks and is off on the low side) to do this.)

Yes I'll get a spanking from the mods for talking to some loser CEO or owner like I do but 32 years in this business I know more than the usual driver does!

But the truth hurts doesn't it? And this craploa you companies keep spewing about the economy being down. Gray doesn't pull flat beds that I can see so you can't go that route as in trucking the biggest hit was building materials and only your dry van division if hauling primarily building materials took a hit!

Food did NOT take the hit that everyone thinks they did! No one stopped eating ( yes some did but not that much) and food suppliers and growers did NOT stop supplying! Cows did not stop reproducing the same as pigsd, hogs, chickens, vegetables and fruits!

All we had to do was look at the stock reports and that lie is out in the open! Look at new TRAILER sales and resales NOW and it really comes out more!

Get off those 1980's and 90's rates, pay your drivers and act like a REAL company and not a pimple on a fly's arse you do now!

 

Safety record seems to be a joke too

 

I laughed when i seen the pay also.....even more so all the extras they have added in to make it seem better...i guess by his math..my base of 42..with vacation,bonus,holiday,and insurance...has my about 52 cents a mile...lmao...what a joke

 

Gray hasnt been back to stand up for his company yet?

 

Naah! He stepped in it to deeply and found out that truckers might be getting their danglies back and standing up to Mo Rons!

Whats so funny about Gray is I did that dedicated route to NYC for 2 years every week with multi drops and every week my trailer was already loaded when I got there to pick it up, not to mention that my company was only half bigger than Gray but we kept enough MT's at several Tyson and other plants that none of our drivers had to set waiting for a stupid $2.45 a mile load wasting the tractor which apparently Gray hasn't figured out yet!

That's why I hit that nerve about a credit limit! maybe because they have no one there with the intelligence to do the math, no bank or loan agency will touch them. I also know that a lot of loan institutions especially those who do a lot of transportation loans look at sites like TTR and Ripoff Report to see what the talk is on a loan applicant! If they don't like what they see on the smaller companies then it's pretty much a killer! They want a company that doesn't have a revolving door or someone who has their money sitting around doing nothing! Then the companies own P&L's and other financial statements show they aren't worth the gamble.

As we all know that "if the wheels aren't turning you ain't earning!" Not having enough equipment with a load already on it waiting for the driver is a waste of your money!

Any idiot knows that the actual money maker for the company is not the dispatcher, LC or broker but the driver as not a red cent comes into that office until the driver backs into a dock puts, HIS signature on a BOL and then drives a few miles then backs the truck into another dock to deliver the load.

It does NOT take a dispatcher or a LC or a broker if the driver is a knowledgeable driver and can find a load himself and do what these wastes of money do! This takes several people right out of that chain of stupidity when a driver is treated like a second class person by those who don't know squat about sitting behind the wheel! Even companies owners children or owners who forgot what it's like!