Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

It could have something to do with your home location. When I was there, 1/4 of the drivers were from NC and they had a lot of freight headed that way so easy to get you home…
It has been 8 years since I worked there though…..

 

Its very different, they give you so many days per quarter and if you use them all before the end of the year, oh well your stuck on the road. I forget the number. Pay is lower too. I was making .62 in 22 here now its .53 per mile. They also switched from load planners by region to assigning each planner so many fleet managers.

Night dispatch is Stan in the evening (he's pretty good if you get ahold of him) and a call service in the AM. On the weekend its the call service all night and day. They're useless unless you need EFS for a lumper. Everything else requires them to reach out to someone at Magnum and good luck getting a call back. I got stuck at the Elk Grove Village yard last weekend because someone stuck a dummy load on me and never replaced it with an actual load. I called weekend dispatch when I figured out what was going on they said they would reach out to someone and get back with me and then I never heard a word back from them.

If you're a runner they can keep you mostly moving though you may wait 24 hours between delivery and your next load.

I've also noticed a lot of penny pinching that wasn't a thing when I was here last. Transit layover is gone, layover in general is harder to get unless your sitting without a load assignment for a day or more. They're really harping on getting maintenance done in house at Fargo, Coon Rapids and Lakeville. They also don't like calling out a road call if you can limp to a tire shop for tire issues. This one in particular doesn't bother me because I usually get service faster this way anyhow, but I figured it was worth noting. They also didn't buy any trucks or trailers this past year. That to me is a financial health red flag.

Freight Lanes seem more out and back than before. More Florida and mid Atlantic freight too. Been to Jersey more in the past few months than in the entire year when I was last here.

They also have Netradyne AI cameras now. The inside lense is set to AI only and doesn't save anything but the forward and lateral lenses do. The audio recording is also deactivated. My biggest problem with it is the way it nags you over cars cutting you off and thinks route signs are speed limit signs.

Honestly it just isn't the same company as I worked for a few years ago.

I will say my FM is great and the company still has some good points, its just not the company described in earlier comments anymore.

 

When I left in January '23 they were still a decent outfit. I got treated well there. I got stuck in Washington for 4 days over Christmas because the customer canceled the load and i got paid layover for all of it. Unfortunately that incident left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, and it was the final nail in the coffin in terms of pulling a reefer around.

Sad to hear things have gone downhill. That would explain why I saw my old truck still rolling around. That thing has to have well over 500k on it at this point

 

Magnum allows you 60 days of hometime for the year if I’m remembering correctly from orientation

 

Does that include paid vacation time? I sure hope not.

 

I don’t think so. That was just the cap they put on home time because they said people were abusing the system .