My new experience with Gordon Trucking, post-buyout

They ASSIGN your routing?

I've been thinking about going to Gordon (they offer better pay than a lot of other companies), but dunno if I want to deal with that. That's almost as bad as forced dispatch (does GTI do that?).

 

Fiberglass sleepers are radio-transparent. You can stick the antenna way up near the top.

Back when Wi-Fi was just arriving, and Flying J stated offering it, I found that I could park pretty much anywhere within a mile of their antenna and get line-of-sight from the antenna up at the top of my condo.

 

Gti is now heartland and yes it is forced dispatch even before heartland... most big companies are forced dispatch and have fuel and.route plans for you to follow..

 

I only ever worked for one company that did forced dispatch. If GTI is doing it (the recruiter said no when I asked), that's a deal-killer for me.

Just in case she was right, though, what are the reasons you left Gordon?

 

Number one reason was heartland... gordon is not gordon no matter what the recruiters.are telling you.. recruiters.are under pressure to fill all the empty seats left by all the drivers who have left.. I went from running between 12k and 13 k a month to 14k total for my last 2 months...

 

Yeah, I know about recruiters, but this is the first time I've had one actually flat-out lie.

I first started driving in 1975, then got away from it, came back a few years later, got away again . . .finally came back in 2001 and have pretty much been with it since then, but the outfit that I was with lost their prime contract and the ded run I was on, so I'm looking for a new company. It looks like I'm really glad I checked this out before taking GTI's offer -- the per mile looks really good, but I don't do forced dispatch.

For any of the young guys out there, let me mention that pay rates are where they were in the 1970s. Drivers are just meat in the seat to people who fly a desk and go home at 5 PM.

 

I've never gone by assigned routing. I put the fuel stops into my garmin and roll. Whether or not I follow it is beyond me. I don't ever pull them up. There's rules here that sometimes get broken and nobody says a thing. The routing is really a non issue. The eventual takeover from Iowa is. But that's a ways away right now. Maybe months. Maybe a year. It's coming no doubt.