How is Millis Transfer as a company?

i have heard lots of good about millis, almost went there for their school but I couldnt afford to have no pay for 3 weeks.

other than that any millis driver i talked to was happy there.

I hear they run lots of BEER

 

They are an ok company. Thats about all i can say. The one bad rap would be that they run a crap load of miller beer which is horrible sometimes cuz you have to have a bulkhead set up in the front of the trlr. The problem comes when someone else puts the bulkhead 2 far from the front and makes it impossible to make it legal. lol. pain in the buttocks. Not to mention sometimes when they throw a row of kegs on the back of the trlr its hard to secure them correctly cuz of the way the dock men load it. I usually have to stack them myself to get it right. When you pick up in wisconsin its not bad at all but those jokers in ohio plant always screw it up costing you time. But what can you do eh.

 

I have watched several loads of beer be unloaded at the Trenton terminal due to the bulkhead in the wrong spot, they do it rather quickly and not that time consuming.

 

Drove for them in the late 90's lets just say the trucks they had then were ToP of the line NOT THE POS STRIPPED FLEET MODELS THEY ARE NOW. We used to have every option KW could put into the trucks. The last one I looked in I cringed. Also here is what yo will haul Glass Beer Pallets Papers scrap Paper Beer and if you are lucky MORE BEER. If you like running HEAVY go company if you want miles I could think of better companies for you.

 

Curious about this bulkhead thing, I picked up a load a the coors plant in VA last week, and I was maxed out on my gross, but nothing was done to my trailer.

 

Coors uses a standard size pallet IIRC been a couple years since I pulled out of that place. However Budwiper and Miller uses a Smaller pallet like 32X30 and you have to bulkhead the SOB's or you will be nose heavy with no way to get it off. And if those SOB's are not set right you can be in a world of hurt. Trenton loaded my last load wrong load of kegs on a presealed trailer that had Loadlocks and everything in it. I got to the reciever and then headed in to turn my truck in. She ended up in the bodyshop I had taken a rail for a bulkhead through the nose of the trailer and it had punched a hole in the back of my T2000 man they were mad at me. Then they saw that the load was set up for 5 feet Bulkhead setting yet the Trailer had been loaded at a 7 foot setting and I had picked up the trailer PRRESEALED.

 

You know i drive for millis and i have never had a problem with a bulkhead. Yes sometimes you have to stretch the trailer tandems out a little but have never had a problem getting it legal.

 

I drove for Millis 3 years, never had a problem. Like any job or company once you learn the ropes they are a good company and treated me very well. I drove 128K first year, 132K second year, and 141K on the third year.

Mark

 

Mark:
Thanks for posting your 3 year mileage results. Over that same period, what was your approximate ratio of home time?
Thanks, GD