Out Of MI???

I didn't know that; but isn't Equity more of an OTR outfit?

 

Yes, but they USED to haul out-and-back. I used to get home sometimes twice a week and weekends, but that was more than 10 years ago.

 

Equity is more of an OTR now, have to friends that drive for them and they dont get home mush and not much home time.

I didnt know Vans and Equity were owned by the same guy, definatly better equip at Equity.

 

If your really interested in working for a smaller company out of Michigan I know a couple that hire inexperienced drivers like me and yourself. I will be road testing for my CDL this Friday and have a pre-hire with a company out of Perry Michigan called Transfleet Web address is transfleet.com. Also NTB Trucking (ntbtrk.com) out of [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Byron Center, Michigan hires new drivers. Both are decent companies to work for from what I've heard from friends that haul for them. [/FONT]

 

I get the disrespect thing from some of my colleagues... I dont even need the Swift logo. I am different to them (being the only woman), and I think I might make them feel insecure? Most of my colleagues are wonderful, but just a few try to make my life miserable.
I would just develop a thick skin and soldier through it until your year is up. There are going to be idiots wherever you go...

 

where # in MI..outside of kalamazoo MI in mattawan there is ralph moyle inc...70 or so trucks good co.

 

No fear... I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, pay your dues for TWO YEARS at Swift. You'll be able to go anywhere you want after that. Short of a miracle, no company is gonna be any better than Swift if you only have 6 weeks under your belt... and I, for one, would not even think about hiring you if you quit after six weeks.

As for NTB, if you get along just fine on absolutely no sleep, go ahead and drive for them--they'll run the piss out of you. You'll be out three days making 650,297 drops at Meijer stores all over MI, OH and IN. Then you'll come home for 24 hours (or usually less) where you'll be in a coma until it's time to go back in and do it again. I drove for them back in '95-'97... maybe they've changed by now but I kinda doubt it... their SafeStat score was 94 last I checked.

One positive thing about them, at least back then... they had really good insurance including dental.

Edit: Ahh crap... just realized I responded to a crusty old thread. My bad.

 

I also drove for NTB for a little over 8 years starting in 1995 and I never had all the problems you did. Yes, you deliver to a lot of stores but except for a few reefer loads, they were all drop and hook. Also, quite a few of the backhauls were D&H.

They did change the way they did home time. Instead of getting home for 24 hours every third day, they went to 5 out and 2 home and the home time was a minimum of 48 hours.

Since it's a shorthaul operation, you do bump docks a lot. The last 9 months I was there, I had a bid run that got me home daily with weekends off. Each day I would bump a dock at least 4 times but it was no big deal.

I agree they did have very good and affordable insurance.

Shorthaul isn't for everyone but I liked it or wouldn't have stayed that long. I only left because I retired.