Life at American Central Transport (ACT)

Thx for the response bigkid. Also I was wanting to know about the qualcomm. I saw you posted that Risinger had a rule where your logs had to match the qualcomm. Is ACT the same?

I haven't ran a qualcomm for years. In fact the last time I ran one was about 11 years ago when I drove for Swift and it was a nightmare with them. If it was a hot load they didn't care what the computer said but if I was in an area where the freight was slow or if I wanted to get home, then they would start throwing a fit saying my hours was up on the qualcomm.

I don't want to have this problem with another company. So how is ACT with theres?

 

i just hate the qualcomms. I started driving in 2001 and the big talk back then was that every truck and trucking company on the road was going to have to install them. Now I hear that in addition to that now every truck is going to have to install the electronic logs as well.

It's 2011 now and I haven't used a qualcomm since around '03. I've never used the electronic logs. I'm not looking forward to it either. I just found a local company i am thinking of leasing my truck onto. They have been in business for over 20 years and have never used qualcomm's or electronic logs. When I called I didn't speak to a recuiter. The owner of the company answered the phone and stayed on the phone until all my questions were answered.

I think the old days of an actual person instead of a computer running the company is going away very fast. I guess I'm looking for the old school trucking company. Thanks for the info.

 

bk, have you talked to any o/o that brought there own trucks to act, any feedback on that? thanks.

 

Fish , how's it going at SPCR

Pm me !!!

 

They had a points system for logs don't know if they still do or not. Glad to see its working out for you over there. They could never keep me busy enough but maybe things have changed.