Hey NFI I'm calling you out.... why all the secrecy?

I bet you would have better luck if you call them.

 

What's this Bermuda Triangle you speak of.
NFI
Slow trucks
Average pay
Mostly regional and dedicated.
There just blah, I worked there. It's the one job I always
Seem to forget about

 

Could be worse. You could remember a job because it was awful!

 

I have a couple of friends that work there on the Lowe's dedicated account, one on the Nestle Water account, and one on Trader Joe's. All report the same thing, about the same as the dedicated side of any other carrier, except they maintain their equipment better than most. As always, it is a crap shoot if your local management is going to be competent and easy to work with, they say corporate leaves them alone which is better than most. As reported above, average pay, average benefits, most of their accounts are home every day, many with at least one weekend day off (typical schedule is Sun-Thur or Mon thru Fri). Knowing what my friends are like, and how they fit in there, if I had to go back to that type of employment NFI is a company I would look at.

 

It is like any other trucking job, the core people stick around but everyone else hops over to the next place the first time they don't get the route they want or when the seasonal downturn hits. The dedicated accounts usually have a bit more driver retention, but not much, I wholeheartedly believe it is in the nature of a truck driver to be a job hopper, after all we embrace a nomadic lifestyle!

As for Trader Joe's, my buddies don't particularly like that account, although they are working out of NE PA, so they go into NYC often, some retail deliveries are better than others. Stay away from the grocery store accounts, in general they are the most difficult of the dedicated type accounts. If you can get on the Lowe's or Home Depot accounts, they are easy peasy, drop/hook, loose appointment times, really good working conditions.

 

You say nomadic, I'd say unreliable and eventually unemployable (if that's a word), by any decent company. Talked to a guy recently that worked for 8 different companies in the past four years. Somehow he was surprised he couldn't get a job.

 

NFI runs dedicated for BIMBO bakeries around here. They share a warehouse with us. Equipment looks decent.