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Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Chi Town Steers, Oct 3, 2024.

  1. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    You might also investigate Nationwide Express, Titan Transfer in Shelbyville, TN. Nationwide I have personal experience with many years ago. Titan's reputation is run hard, run some more. I never worked there. Big G is another Company. I never worked for them, my brother did, many years ago. They run/ran hard. They run up and down I-81 back and forth and back and forth, plus going other places. All of these companies have good equipment and shops on site. I don't know how they feel about a driver living in the truck. Ask them.
     
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  3. ElmerFudpucker

    ElmerFudpucker Road Train Member

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    It was not 111 this past week.
     
  4. Chi Town Steers

    Chi Town Steers Road Train Member

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    Inside the truck it was on the dash
     
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  5. rollin coal

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    I was at Nationwide from 2000 thru to 2011. Million+ mile safe driver there. Back then they were about 130 tractors and a couple of hundred, maybe 300 dry vans. A regional operation home for a 34 hour reset on the weekend. More recently they just have roll offs and end dumps hauling recycled, home daily off weekends jobs. In fact they don't even exist anymore. The Coffey's sold them to a company called Jones Logistics a couple of years ago.


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  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I forgot about Nationwide switching over to roll-offs & warehousing. I didn't know about Jones buying them. Yeah I was there in the 90s when the Coffeys were running the place. Loved my dispatcher. The yard was still gravel.

    I then worked for Goggin Truck Lines. Goggin was TN's oldest truck lin. They had a model A looking truck with wagon wheels in the building. They started with horses. I really loved them. OD bought them. Now just the warehousing & cold storage remains if them. Both companies were fair & honest with me.

    Thanks for the update.
     
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  7. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    Nationwide always had warehousing. I guess they still warehouse the new glass bottles for Jack Daniel's in Shelbyville and the toilet paper/paper towels for Kimberly Clark in Loudon? Not sure what they did with the Statesville warehouse. I did well there and they were/are good people.

    Yeah I remember Goggin. Like you say they're doing cold chain now. Probably not a bad outfit to work for either.
     
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  8. 4wayflashers

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    While it’s pretty muffed up they wont get your AC fixed. If you can get them to route you to the Midwest or anywhere north of the mason dixon line it should be much more tolerable weather.

    It wont be long before their preferred drivers will all be heading south for the winter anyway. That’s how it was at the mega I was at anyway.

    Whatever you do stay out of Florida/ Tampa when hurricane Milton rips across florida.

    If youre living in the truck maybe take hometime in Wisconsin or Maine or somewhere less hot. You’ll probably need a jacket.

    Just thinking out of the box but ideally you would get your AC fixed or probably better find a better company but AC season is nearly over for most of the country.

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  9. Ex-Trucker Alex

    Ex-Trucker Alex Road Train Member

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    A QUITTING FEE??? BWAWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, man, that's a GREAT joke! That WAS a joke, right? RIGHT???
     
  10. sukhumvit

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    I wonder if Chi Town Steers made it thru another day ....

    I certainly appreciate him giving us the 411 on working for such a crappy company .
     
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