My new career with Superior Carriers begins!

Glad to here your training is going well. Keep us posted.

Your friend may need to call the corporate office on this one. I could not find anything on the web site about it. I would think if he passed the background check for the hazmat then maybe it won't be a problem hiring on. But that is just me thinking out loud.

Seems like things vary terminal to terminal around here so it is hard to answer your question.

 

No problem. Glad you are enjoying the thread. I try and keep it real. Most days are good but there are some bad ones. They can't all be zingers! There are times I just want to get on here and vent really bad but I don't want to come off as negative or as having a bad attitude. Overall Superior is a good company to work for. But it is trucking and there are some things that you just can't take out of trucking and would be the same no matter who you worked for.

 

Last week I ran out of Winder up to Greensboro NC and made a Monday morning delivery. Tank washed in Wilmington NC where they had a load on the yard for me going to Oxford AL. Ran that over and delivered it last Wednesday morning. I knew when I saw on the travel order to call Morrow terminal I was doomed, haha. They did not have any runs for me and I got put on the dreaded waiting list. Fortunately they had some local work for me the rest of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday which help salvage my check.

This week has been pretty good so far. I did the same load going out Sunday night to Greensboro NC for a Monday am delivery. Tank washed right down the road from the delivery and High Point had a pre-loaded trailer waiting for me so I grabbed it and got an hour up the road before I had to stop. Took it the rest of the way Tuesday to Bowling Green and delivered it Wednesday morning at 8 am. Got tank washed to Cincinnati where I spent the night that night. Got an empty trailer Thursday morning and live loaded right up the street and headed for Green Bay WI. Got all the way up there and parked it last night about 30 miles from the delivery. Got up this morning early and got the load off by 9:15 am and was tank washed to Markham IL.

Got off the clock around 2:30 pm. Doing a reset right now in the company hotel.. Gotta go down to Memphis on Sunday and grab a dedicated trailer and bring it back to Markham on Monday. I figure they will probably have a load for me by the time I get back to Markham, fingers crossed.

 

One of the manufacturing places I was running dedicated freight to (Indiana), their business has slowed wayyyyyyy down and they are not getting the loads they were. They went from 3-4 loads a week down to 1-2 per week but mostly just 1 load. The other place, Virginia, has the normal slow down going on for this time of year so that is no surprise.

There is one guy out of our terminal that is pretty much the main dedicated driver for those accounts. So when things slowed down he has priority over that stuff since he has been doing it for the last 7-8 years. Sucks for me because that was working perfect for me and my situation. If it picks back up next year I should be back on it. Not holding my breath though given the state of the economy.