My Sammons experience

WMGUY · Oct 14, 2012

well $500 of that was a PM, DOT, and Winsheild.

the rest was air leaks, 2 air manifolds, several fittings, and the TCS light was on... mostly labor as usual

WMGUY · Oct 16, 2012

View attachment 37499 well got that load of dust delivered on monday, first to williston get a call nonono we need that in belfield all is good we pay you the extra money ok cool i get to belfeild and monday morning just about to head to the rig to unload i get a call nonono we need that at our yard in watford city no worry we pay for the extra miles.. called the agent and got a confirmation on that they did pay me from kootneani id to williston to belfield to watford city.

all is good there, got a call from Matt hey there is a OS crane part load in shelby ummm that is a 500 mile bounce he said lets come up with a number plus permits so we did and got paid for the bounce got here last night, well it is really windy today so no load today, but got my permits lined up

according to the weather wind is suppose to die down around midnight so should get loaded tomorrow and fly to wisconsin to unload and hopefully get something out of there to stay busy, plan to stay in the middle region and get home for trick or treat day with the kiddo's

im looking at possibly financing my truck out through a bank or my credit union and get a fixed payment and hopefully take some more money home but all in all things are going ok for now

milskired · Oct 18, 2012

Where at in WI? If your SW WI area, JD has a plant thre in Dubuque IA.

southbuckeye80 · Nov 2, 2012

Milskired, Sammons is a JD Carrier, we get loads from Dubuque IA and Waterloo IA.

Doulos · Nov 19, 2012

I had someone tell me that Sammons does not offer their Lease program anymore. Is this true?

Sammonsrecruiter · Nov 20, 2012

We still have our lease purchase program. We don't have plans on stopping as long as we continue to have people paying off and happy in the program.

Doulos · Nov 21, 2012

I hate to keep coming back with these questions, but I'm very interested in Sammons and though I don't qualify now I have a plan worked out to get the necessary experience to qualify. I'd hate to go through that and find out it was for nothing. I spoke to another driver who told me that he just spoke to a recruiter from Sammons. This was our most recent conversation.

He said:

"Sammons wants a clean dac, mvr, credit, 36 months flatbed, and your take home pay is roughly $500 per week on a 4 year truck loan."
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I said:

"Not that I want this thread to turn into this discussion, but where did you get that info. It conflicts with everything I've found about them. In fact, they don't even have a set term on the lease of the truck. It could be 2 years or it could be 4. It depends on the truck, how you run and breakdowns as well as other expenses. All they ask is that you keep making progress on the loan but will help you out in tough months. Your income comes out first before expenses. Below is what I found as far as requirements.

This is from their site:

Sammons Trucking is a 48 state flatbed/stepdeck/RGN carrier. Basic requirements are:

150,000 verifiable OTR miles

Acceptable MVR

No more than three moving violations in one year or a total of five moving violations in the last three years. No more than one chargeable/preventable accident in the previous 12 months or two in the previous five years. No serious traffic violations in the last three years.

One year of flatbed experience in the last three years

For the owner-operator Sammons has trailers available to be leased. Check into our Lease Purchase Program.

As far as the income goes, you receive 26% of 75% of the line haul before expenses come out. This means that in order to only make $500 in a week with a very achievable $1.90 per mile, you would have to run less than 1350 miles. Are you sure we're talking about the same company?

(Correction, I just noticed you said "take home" pay, so when you account for roughly standard deductions it would be less than 1600 miles)"
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He said:

"I talked to a recruiter. Today. Not off the websight. And expenses come out before ypu get paid. Your paycheck is whats leftover."
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WMGUY · Nov 21, 2012

read through this thread you will see you will always take money home if you are working...

avg for me was 2700 a month paid on a 1099 you never go negative ever on take home money... you can go backwards on the loan its self due to maintence

Doulos · Nov 22, 2012

NWMAXI said: ↑

read through this thread you will see you will always take money home if you are working...

avg for me was 2700 a month paid on a 1099 you never go negative ever on take home money... you can go backwards on the loan its self due to maintence
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I did read the thread and found it informative. It is where I got most of my info initially. I just wanted to make sure that everything I heard was still correct for new hires and that I had not misunderstood anything. I don't want to call BS on another driver without being sure my own facts are in order.

hup · Nov 22, 2012

Why not just call Sammons and ask them yourself?

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