Is Tenold Transportation as good as it sounds?

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  1. Tam_Tam

    Tam_Tam Light Load Member

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    No one knows what the real story is like other drivers .

    Looking at ideas for moving from a lease operator contract to a percentage based contract.

    I've heard of Tenold but don't know if they are as advertised.

    I am trying to get the love and enjoyment back for owning after the large company abuse/harassment/micromanagement of late
    AND because
    we didn't get into ownership to provide maintenance/cost savings for a selfish giant who won't take NO for an answer. (PS. Stick your turnpikes! You want the profit, you eat the cost :biggrin_25516:)

    Alberta based Team highway, Canada Only, North or Western Provinces preferred.
    Is Tenold a good place? Any suggestions?
     
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  3. Allan M

    Allan M Medium Load Member

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    I was leased to them from January to October of 2002.
    This was before Mullen bought them so I don't know how much has changed.
    Very nice people to work with but the one thing that made me crazy was being paid on percentage of revenue and not finding out how much you made until pay day. They get around telling you the rates on the loads up front by including a photo copy of the actual invoice that they send to the customer which is legal. I see by your profile that you pull dry van and only want to run Canada. At the time that I was there with my flatbed a friend of mine was also leased on with a dry van and had to license for all states as well as Canada and seemed to haul mostly broker freight.
    Things may have changed a lot since then but having been with Mullen for 7 years prior to Tenold I doubt that the atmosphere at Tenold is as laid back now as it was when I was there.
     
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  4. Tam_Tam

    Tam_Tam Light Load Member

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    Allan, do you prefer mileage over percentage?
    I've never done percentage but so many say it's so much better.
    We can't go state-side so that eliminates so much for us. I did see that there was a Canada Only position and most likely because Mullen bought them.
    I agree that there has been a huge change with company attitudes in general, so you're most likely right about the laid-back atmosphere maybe not being there :(

    Hooray for the OBR .. ..(no boo, really boo)
     
  5. Allan M

    Allan M Medium Load Member

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    No I don't. If most people on mileage pay knew what the rates were on the freight that they are hauling they would get very angry. The trucking companies that are paying on mileage are not doing so for your benefit. I moved from Alberta to South Carolina in 2004 so I'm not really current on what other possibilities you may have other than Robfam.
    Only problem there is that the work is very seasonal but everything is team all winter there.
     
  6. Tam_Tam

    Tam_Tam Light Load Member

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    Thank you very much. I had an idea about LTL because I used to bill in the offices when I was pretty young. Back then an LTL would net about $11,000 from Edmonton to Winnipeg.
    I know because we're north and we usually are SB empty that the way up pays for us both ways of travel and that the backhaul that sucks our fuel is pure profit for them, for which they will kick us a couple of hundred bucks.
    North freight is pretty heftily charged but I haven't seen those numbers.
    The current place is quite demanding for the costs we are saving and I know that my billed back registration, plates and insurance (cargo+truck) are the same cost as own authority. Only the fuel is low for us, the work is steady and we don't pay the IFTA.
    When they use hired power/tractor services those guys are paid easily 40 percent above our rates.
    The current rules being enforced (our unit must be driven like a company truck, re:speed, answer for rapid decelerations, extra computer punching like OS+D claims or off/load manifesting, no right to refuse or be bullied) are there to save them but cost us (longer time to do same piece work, reports to fill, extra clerking duties to replace administration, higher profiting load factors for them costing us more fuel).
    These large faceless companies do not deserve it all off of our sweat and heartache!
    Thanks, Allan!
     
  7. Allan M

    Allan M Medium Load Member

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    With LTL rates like that I can understand why they wouldn't want to pay you on percentage of revenue...lol
    I used to run Yellowknife weekly for Macleods Hardware Stores and then for a while teaming at Robfam but I am too light of a sleeper to do that on interstates let alone up north.
     
  8. nate980

    nate980 Road Train Member

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    Friends dad works there pulling a step deck and has a picker truck. He really likes it and works when he wants and makes great money, home every weekend. He's out of there surrey office though.
     
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