pegasus transportation

Things have really gone downhill since the buyout
I've been there 7 yrs
Leaving very soon
Crst brought in new trucks that are bare bones. Not even a tractor air dump.
Anyone worth anything has jumped ship.
If you live in Louisville, want to get home a couple times a week, and be off part of the weekend, I guess it'd be OK.
You'll run Ford short hops.
Scramble 6 days to get 2800 miles in the Midwest.
The CPM is good, but not worth it.
No idling
No apu
3 minutes and truck shuts down
Even In traffic or at a light
Optimum idle
Truck turns on and off all night waking and shaking you
If it works
Governed at 68
Was a good CO. 10 years ago
A decent CO. 5 yrs ago
Now it's just crst

 

I can confirm everything you say. I planned to stay for a year, I lasted three weeks. Great cpm, but running short hops like a madman to get any miles. Just like you said the trucks suck. They promised me they are a separate company, but crst controls everything.

Operations manager is an ashclown. Ditto for the safety director. Don't even try to ask the daytime city dispatcher to let you in the office. He wouldn't notice you if you were blazing on fire while wearing a suicide vest. He was so rude to my wife, wanted to bash his face in. Like op says, stay away.

 

Unfortunately
I can deny none of this
Once upon a time....

 

I'm real glad I stopped here. Sounds like when Yellow bought out Jevic , and it was a slow residual agonizing death over 7 yrs.

 

Peg was a good co to me for 7 years.
Treated me right
Good people
Paid me really well
I only left because they lost my dedicated route and their open board lanes dont work for me.
If you live in Louisville you'll get there twice a week and the wknd.
But I don't live in Louisville.
They have a team operation, pharma, and blood plasma.
But their open board is almost all Ford.
Short hops in the midwest and southeast, then back.
They run new cascadias with opti idle.
All have fridge/freezers.
If you have any questions mssg me.
But yeah, they are now owned by crst.

 

My earlier post was too negative and unfair.
The last 5 yrs i was there i made 65k consistently and didn't work hard for it and had wknds off .
They have a really simple system which amounts to about 5 min of paperwork a week.
Dispatchers are decent
They do the per diem for you (63 bucks for every night out) which is nice.
I just thought i should mention some of the positives.
Peace out

 

Was wondering why they had dual reefers units years ago, you just answer it for me blood & plasma that is some serious stuff.

Only handful of companies could handle those shipments.

 

Crst bought em cuz they wanted Peg's pharma account
Drugs Are big bucks
On the blood loads, it's good money but you have to load the trucks at the blood banks.
Crst will find a way to screw it all up.
Ford hates crst and don't even want their trucks on Ford property.
Pegasus was a really good company but they done been sold down the river.
Celadon bought tango and closed it
Kllm bought ffe and ruined it
Heartland bought gordon, which was once a good co.
Now xpo is the old conway
15 yrs from now there will just be 4 big companies.
Welcome to globalization.

 

No globalization would be if a foreign company bought American companies or vice versa, but we get what your saying.

I hated Pegasus because as a team we weren't told of the bs that comes with hauling pharma before being hired. You have drive the beginning and ending 250 miles without stopping. You are responsible to guard the loads 24/7 which means one of the drivers has to stay up at all times and guard. We were also told to be vigilant of ms-13 and other gangs or criminals who would kidnap/high jack your truck. We had a code box on the truck in which you had to constantly enter a code to start the truck. All this extra responsibility, for little over average pay hauling regular freight.

We were promised this is a separate company, nothing to do with crst. But this is basically like driving for crst lol. I mean they had crst team drivers in orientation because they couldn't recruit veteran drivers. I was so embarrassed pulling a crst trailer.

The truck we were assigned was disgusting. We asked for a new mattress and they hesitantly gave us a piece of foam. Lol yes, a piece of foam. The mechanics were #######. If you need something mechanical, get ready to be on hold for 30+ min because you now have to call crst shop.

Some of the dispatchers were nice, others douches. Wayne and Brent on the dry side were very cool. Like I posted above, the operations manager was such a condescending ash hat and the safety manager was just a goof ball.

The only good thing I can say is if you live in Louisville you will get home all the time. Most trips go to Ohio, Mi, Il, and Mo and back. Other than that I would stay far away.

 

Lol
I had one of those mags for two years and didn't even haul pharma
God I hated that thing
I think crst has pulled them out.
Yep, that's why I never did pharma.
They track your every movement and sometimes you have an escort.
Brent CV and Wayne are both cool
The night and wknd dispatchers are actually better than the day dispatchers.
The shop was good but all the Pegasus people quit.
It's all crst now and they're ##*hats.
Most of the office people are gone and replaced with crst hires.
It was time to go.