IM ELIGIBLE FOR REHIRE!!! Does this sound like a good plan?

Let's be clear here. Roehl didn't fire you for not disclosing two not at fault wrecks. Roehl fired you for filing a workman's comp claim. They used the "lying on application" as a legal excuse to do it.
Do you really want to work for such a company? Also think of it this way. In 6 months you'll have 10 months in, At that point only need 2 more months before just about every trucking company in the world will hire you. No need to go back to a crappy comapny when so much is available.

 

What makes the Dollar accounts so bad is the high likelihood of having a preventable accident (I have skills, but I wouldn't want to back a 53 foot trailer up to a Dollar Store's front door on a daily basis) AND a high likelihood of getting personally hurt dealing with the totes/rolltainers. Adding insult to injury, in the end the pay isn't much more than system guys doing no touch freight.

If you're looking at GP regional, look at Schneider as well. Compare pay packages and see which looks better. It's the same customer with basically the same loads.

 

located many times in tiny strip malls, or stand alone buildings in the tiniest of parking lots.

you can never be there when there aren't any cars in the parking lot.

the parking lots gets snow plowed and maybe de-iced if the contractor show's up before you get there.

some deliveries may be "street" deliveries

don't always expect any help unloading

i have always seen loads of trash loaded into the rollaway cages, making them heavier then the actual products ever were.

you will work like a mad dog, and the pay just ain't worth it......

 

I own a small diverse fleet, nothing big but I have trucks leased to other companies. I won't get into the other reasons, but needless to say, the trucks and drivers start with a new company next week.

 

I have gone back to 5 previous employers. I quit all those companies twice. I used to give benefit of the doubt’s and second chances. How young and naive I once was lol.

 

I would only do a dollar store account if I wanted the physical workout. You have to be great at backing and patient when the stores are open and customers are in the lot. You also have to deal with the incompetent employees that won’t help you do or move anything regardless if they are supposed to or not.

Ever walk through a Dollar General that didn’t have the aisles clogged with rolltainers from the previous delivery? The backroom is also packed with them. And here you come trying to deliver more. It’s not worth the hassle.

Family Dollar and Dollar tree use rollers and you touch EVERY box. And again you wait on the employees on the other end to take the stuff off the rollers. At least with DG you can work at your own pace. But still sucks.