opies transport

What did they tell you Rubberducky??

 

I worked in their shop probably 15 years ago. Trucks are
the best maintained I have ever seen. Dealer pays a
premium for his used trucks.


Only complaint I ever heard from drivers was they had
to lie on their logbooks a lot. Mainly because of having to go
to tank washes after pretty much every delivery. Sometimes
they would deliver in the evening and than sit at a tank wash
for hours during the night and next morning be sent to reload.
I assume they are on computer logs now so they may have
changed some of that.

Danny himself was a good man......his son was starting in the
company as a dispatcher.......I often wondered how he turned
out???? So often the kids end up destroying what the dad built.
Danny started the company himself from scratch. The location
he is in now is at least the third one. He started out in a small
space downtown-------than he built the shop northwest of town
where the Crown Farm Equipment place is now. That was Danny's
second location and when he out grew that he built the location
east of town where he is now.

 

@rcelmo , who are you driving for these days?

 

I do a local route.......garbage from the transfer station
to the landfill. Four loads a day and home every night......
pays decent. Equipment is crap, maintenance is even worse.......
but, home every night is hard to beat.

 

I quit turning wrenches late 2014 and drive for Old Dominion Freight now running p & d out here in Salina, KS. Still racing r/c?

 

I still race some....not as much as I used to.

 

ODFL is in OVERDRIVE in Memphis I hear. Lots of freight and upset drivers, but the pay is never the issue.

 

I didn't get around to calling them because I got a job offer from another company that I had put an app in with. Sorry I don't have any info for you.

 

@CP1995 - here's a thread on Opies. Pretty much what I've heard over the years; no complaints about the company.