I work at The Sygma Network

No it is not, every now and then you WILL dump a load, happens to all of us rampers

 

Congratulations on finding a good company to work for. I have to ask a few questions though. In order to pull in 300+ per day, how many hours do you have to work? Are you home each night? If not, how long are you out? How do you get a 3 hr lunch break? Are you paid for that time as well? Thanks.

 

Maybe union, maybe not. It would prove that for the most part, unions drivers are treated better. You don't see many of them on here complaining do you? Find me an otr company driver that pulls in 300 a day. That goes for anyone else. I am not union but I can get pretty close to that 300.

 

I turned an 1100 case route yesterday in 12.5 hrs, making $300 doing the same job for a different company. It may be far fetched, but its true. The work is absolute hard work though, you deserve every penny you earn.

 

now if they would just stop screwing with the trucking companies who deliver their product to them, but hten again, when they were Noble/Sysco they were no better

 

alright, I'm a regional otr driver, when we are busy I can easily pull in $300 per day, hell, I can do $400 in a day

 

The thread starter sounds as though it came directly from the company PR department! I worked for Sygma briefly when they first started up about 11 years ago. Sygma is a 'special division' of SYSCO, created at the time to take over the large and lucrative Wendy's account.

To be fair, a brand new startup will have teething problems but Sygma was a riot! A new manager was brought in on the exact day I left; heard things turned around and some order was created out of complete chaos.

I can't recall the name of the co. that lost the contract to Sygma at the moment but it shut its doors almost immediately once Sygma took over the Wendy's contract. A manager from that co. was used to initially startup the local operation; it was easy to see why his former employer lost the contract.

'Startup manager' brought along many of his former employees; I'll never forget the mayhem. Employees being arrested on the job for outstanding warrants and many so stoned they could barely stand up at times. As you can guess, many of these people were hired and retained for the wrong reasons despite qualifications and/or lack thereof.

I started prior to day one and left about 8 weeks later. We easily had at least a 200% turnover within that brief time frame. Most memorable was my 'trainer' who had been brought over from the previous, now defunct contractor. This guy was homeless at the time and had apparently just gotten out of jail. He had almost no trucking experience and an equal amount of food service experience. He had been a 'thug' or 'enforcer' for the manager apparently at the previous contractor.

Sygma was the first of two food service jobs I've held. The second I held for nearly two years until I was phoned at home and told not to set foot on the property again or I would be arrested for tresspassing.

I quickly came to the conclusion that food service was for people new to trucking and/or people with employment 'histories' as well as legal 'histories'. Good Luck at whatever you choose to do. Many good CDL jobs out there but one has to start somewhere. I started during the summer of 1974 working for a boat trailer manufacturer.

 

Ok the route I just came back on took my partner and I a little under 22 hours to run. I go out 3 times a week. 1 route is a short 12 hour route. My other two routes are mirror routes (meaning the exact same route and stops) that take my partner and I some where between 21-26 hours to run. My schedual is like this: I leave Sunday at 10pm and get back Monday 10 am. I leave Tuesday morning at 1230am and get back usually between 10pm that Tuesday night. I then go back out Friday night at 1230am and get back that very day around 10pm.

I have a 3-4hr break in my tuesday and friday routes because the stores I deliver to have a lock out time from 11am to 2 pm so we have to sit and wait until 2pm to start back rolling and yes we are paid down time for that at a rate of 22.35 an hour.

 

Just read other guy post. I am definitely no PR guy or gal. Maybe it was just your Sygma that was ######. I have good employment history but this is my first driving job. Everything isn't all sunshine there. The warehouse is a big mess. The turnover rate there is idk pretty low. Guys do come and go though. Some dudes think it should be their way or the highway and when a dispatcher asks them to do something they get ###### and throw a fit.

And some guys I work with have a maturity level of a 5 yr old.

The extra board is a b word because you HAVE to go out when they call you. I have my own dedicated routes so I don't have to accept any routes I don't have to and I don't. I just run my 3 routes do a good job and go home and they don't bother me unless a stupid customer thinks I've shorted them.

Customer service will then call my phone and even though I delivered it they will believe the customer and give them credit for it.

No ez job. Some can't hang.

 

$400 in a day? Really? I have looked at your pictures. It looks like you are an O/O pulling a container. I think he was referring to company drivers. Am I wrong?

Drive safe