Holland Enterprise Mapleton North Dakota

TB John · Jan 8, 2026

Lonesome said: ↑

One reason they were prominently featured at a former leasing company we all know and loved.....
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Exactly!:Give people whst they want, a chance to be noticed if just for an instant!

Gearjammin' Penguin · Jan 8, 2026

bryan21384 said: ↑

Well...People dress how they dress. Doesn't bother me not one bit. What I make fun of is the fact that so many drivers try to make sure they fit every single prototype of a trucker, or whatever they visualize a trucker is. "You're not a real trucker if you don't look like this......"
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All I'm sayin' is real truckers don't wear flip flops! Shame on the mess!

snowlauncher · Jan 8, 2026

Gearjammin' Penguin said: ↑

All I'm sayin' is real truckers don't wear flip flops! Shame on the mess!
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There's not really too many jobs in the world where flip flops are considered suitable footwear. Not even in the white collar sector.
Lifeguards can wear them, I guess.

MACK E-6 · Jan 8, 2026

bryan21384 said: ↑

Well...People dress how they dress. Doesn't bother me not one bit. What I make fun of is the fact that so many drivers try to make sure they fit every single prototype of a trucker, or whatever they visualize a trucker is. "You're not a real trucker if you don't look like this......" Most of the drivers that complain about how drivers dress dont take their truck to wash but once a year if that. I don't know how a driver can complain about apparel when their truck looks like ####. To me, a clean truck is part of the appearance. Aluminum wheels shouldn't look the same as pavement.
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The truck I can understand if it isn’t one of those with the hand written signs and every body panel a different color.

But looking, dressing and presenting yourself like one of the walking disgraces commonly found at any Walmart at night when you’re supposed to be doing a job is pathetic, and having the gall to expect to be taken seriously in that circumstance is beyond disgusting.

hotrod1653 · Jan 8, 2026

Anonymousproxy said: ↑

I usually like the longer hauls because I get 2-4 days I can just get up and run my shift, and I get more regular sleep. I’ve always preferred having that since I started. Of course that’s with the understanding that there will be shorter runs to reposition where there is better freight or if it’s getting close to getting home.

I have overheard a few people complain of having nothing but shorter runs but then in the same breath claim how they don’t run at night, don’t run certain states, chronically late, even one saying they needed extra time because of “needing to relax” or sone other excuse. They’ve been pretty fair with me, once in a while I’ll get a messed up run or I have to swap and do a bit of “crazy running” to save a load that another driver screwed up.

the claim they make of having an average run length of 1500 miles is correct. That doesn’t mean drivers are going to have all long runs.

I think there’s more to the story of the few complaints I’ve seen. They’re not perfect, but they’ve been decent enough for me until the day I can retire.
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I did quite a few “rescue loads” when I worked there. I didn’t mind the short runs, most of the time, it let me collect the miles and help the company at the same time.

Almost all the time after I did a lot of them, I’d request a “34” because my hours sucked, and ended up with a 6 coast to coast, with enough time to get a 34.

I asked Brad one time why I got a lot of short runs back to back, he said it was because they knew I could be counted on to get them done and not complain.

hotrod1653 · Jan 8, 2026

TB John said: ↑

Don't forget pointy lug nut covers. You ain't truckin" for real 'till you got pointy lug nut covers.
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You REALLY ain’t a trucker unless you leased a truck from you, with @Lonesome doing the books for you.

MACK E-6 · Jan 8, 2026

hotrod1653 said: ↑

I did quite a few “rescue loads” when I worked there. I didn’t mind the short runs, most of the time, it let me collect the miles and help the company at the same time.

Almost all the time after I did a lot of them, I’d request a “34” because my hours sucked, and ended up with a 6 coast to coast, with enough time to get a 34.

I asked Brad one time why I got a lot of short runs back to back, he said it was because they knew I could be counted on to get them done and not complain.
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So in other words, because you actually do the job you’re paid to do without giving everybody else involved all kinds of grief, you get to be the one who gets ####ed every day.

That doormat treatment would be my sign to look for employment elsewhere.

MACK E-6 · Jan 8, 2026

snowlauncher said: ↑

There's not really too many jobs in the world where flip flops are considered suitable footwear. Not even in the white collar sector.
Lifeguards can wear them, I guess.
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It #### sure shouldn’t be considered suitable for our line of work. But this is what happens when you overly dumb down the job. You start attracting the degenerates and brain deads.

“Hey look. Trucks have automatic transmissions now. I can just waddle down to the freight terminal in my ghetto shower shoes and unwashed sweat pants down around my ### and get a trucking job”.

BeHereNow97 · Jan 8, 2026

Anonymousproxy said: ↑

I have overheard a few people complain of having nothing but shorter runs but then in the same breath claim how they don’t run at night, don’t run certain states, chronically late, even one saying they needed extra time because of “needing to relax” or sone other excuse.

I think there’s more to the story of the few complaints I’ve seen. They’re not perfect, but they’ve been decent enough for me until the day I can retire.
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The poster who was recently talking about low miles and short runs in this thread, I don't even think he was talking about Holland because his original post in this thread was a reply to a previous post from another poster about another company (I could be wrong maybe he was talking about Holland but I don't think he was).

That said though, what you're saying here as a driver for Holland (drivers claim to not run at night, only run certain states, etc etc), that doesn't apply to Holland, because Holland is forced dispatch. So if somebody wasn't getting miles at Holland, it's not because they "refuse to run nights or in certain states" because it's forced dispatch and you have no opportunity to pick and choose loads.

Meaning that the miles drivers get at forced dispatch companies, that's 100% on the companies and not the drivers.

Anyways like I said though, I don't even think that the recent poster speaking about short runs and low miles was even talking about Holland (I could be wrong though but that's my thoughts based on the old message he was replying to).

ClassAOldSchool · Jan 9, 2026

Why do drivers think its ok to refuse loads if they are a paid company driver?

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