Help with a choice

@Gunner75 works at transport national. He seems to like it there and he pulls some interesting freight. IMO.

I work for Smokey Point Distrbuting, a sister company of lone star. They are a solid company that pulls a lot of interesting freight. They also pull a lot of general commodity/building materials. I’m not sure if the two “driver pools” mix much.

I don’t believe transport national hauls much, if any, building materials. For that reason I would chose them over lone star.

I enjoy the specialized side of the open deck segment. I don’t care for hauling shingles, lumber, and coils. Infact In 5+ years of driving, all open deck, I have hauled exactly one load of each. So it is possible to stay towards the specialized freight if you get on with the right company.

 

@SavageMuffin my first and most important question is this.

How far do you live from Zachary Louisiana? That is where our yard is down there. Personally i think Transport is a great company, i really wish I'd had come across these guys 3 years ago. But they are very thorough on their background checks, they will want an explanation on everything, they are also fairly strict on the distance from the yards as they want the trucks left at the yard while on home time. Sometimes they will make an exception like myself. I live 98 miles from our cincy yard. I'm one of only a few who takes ghee truck home. Overall we only have 57 trucks, counting owner ops. Loads are dispatched based on experience and you being comfortable. They don't push you, into things if you feel you aren't ready. We have guaranteed pay with anything earned over the guarantee being paid out at the end of the month. Safety bonuses are phenomenal at 1% of the gross revenue for each quarter, and the yearly bonus is 3% of your entire years safety bonus. Our top warning company guy last year made over 120k, but he hauls the biggest baddest #### we got. We can get hombre weekly, with no more than 2 to 3 weeks out, and 3 weeks requires the ceo and safety to agree to let you stay out after talking with you


I'm biased as I love transport, our insurance is great, if you got family, even better, health savings plan, 401k with company match. This really is a great company

 

If they will bring you on living that far away, then I'd say go for it, see if they namely Jeff will allow you to take the truck home with you. Sometimes youll be loaded, sometimes empty, many times bobtail.

Who was the recruiter you spoke with?

 

@SavageMuffin if you're honestly interested in transport, I how this helps to wet your pallet. This is this Friday's pay, I was out for 2 weeks. This is without safety bonus. The commission entry is everything I earned in January that was above my guaranteed pay.

 

She must be new as I don't know the name.