Perkins Specialized Transportation, Inc. - Indianapolis, In.?

Man, someone pass the hip wadders..............it's gettin pretty deep in here!

A trucking company with 200 employees nears the size of Perkins.

So if you're so wonderful at managing a business of that size, which I think is HIGHLY suspect. Then you had no need to go work for Perkins. So why did you? I mean, afterall, you're supposedly Mr. Moneybags already anyway!
Next you'll be telling us that you have a million dollar 9axle trailer and a quarter million dollar truck, just sitting at home. Meanwhile, you decided to go through Perkins lease-purchase program!


Your credibility rapidly dwindles with every successive post you make.


BTW, what do you need a forensic accountant for?

The bottomline is, that if YOU accepted a load at a listed rate of pay. That is all YOU!
Regardless of what they're making off the load. If you didn't think it paid you enough money, then you should have turned it down.

 

Let me clear something up "RedHead", the eLog doesn't keep me straight, it helps me do my job better. My work day is busy and sometimes confusing and the last thing on my mind is that #### paper logbook. Most of the time I forget to grab it and jot down changes in my work day and by the end of the day I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out where I was and when.

With eLogs, the system stays current automatically during the work day without any input from me. I log in once in the beginning to activate the system, then at the end of the work day I log out to de-activate the system. If on the days my work schedule runs long, then I have a one-hour chirp to remind me that I'm approaching my 14-hr limit. That gives me more than enough time to find a place to shutdown. As for this big-brother mentality I keep hearing about, I like the monitoring feature because it logs duty changes, locations, mileage and if a customer wants to know where I am they just ping my truck. As for dispatching, the system knows how long I was at a customer location (sitting) so that they are properly and accurately charged for detention time. In addition I don't have the need to communicate by phone with dispatch because he knows where I am and what I'm doing, how much I've worked and how much time I've got to work.

Anyway I look at it, it's a plus for me. The benefits of having the system versus not having it are advantageous in so many ways that I can't begin to list them all here. The GPS tracking system has my butt covered so for those nut cases that like to fake call my DM and say I was doing something that I wasn't, he can tell them to take a flying leap.

As for having forced camera's or video equipment in the truck, no that isn't going to happen and if it ever becomes an issue, then NO-Bama and all those freaks in Washington D.C. can just shove my truck right up their own buttholes because I will not allow that type of equipment in my truck unless I install it and use it for my own personal information. You wanna see my YouTube video's fine but no one will ever have camera or video monitoring equipment in any truck I drive. If that ever happened, I'd photograph a picture of my butt and tape it to the camera lens. That's my thought on that subject. Data monitoring is okay but anything more is intrusion. That is why I don't have an office job or work in a factory. If someone wants to see my nut sack, all they have to do is ask and I'll be more than happy to drop trou and shove it in their face. There is a fine line in this business and I will never allow it to be crossed by anyone.

 

jab, you must have the newer qualcomm. I've got the older, omnitracs.

 

It is obvious by your use of marketing verbiage to promote and propagate the Perkins SCAM, you are no more than Perkins Office fodder! Please do yourself a favor and don't pretend you know what other people have done in the past, you might be surprised. All types of people drive some because they like it.

 

What?

Since when did spelling, sentence structure and proper grammar usage become marketing verbiage?
However, I do agree that some people drive because they actually like it. And this may come as a shocker to you, but some of them also actually have a college education.

I don't need more than my ten fingers to count how many times I've been in the actual office part of the building during my 3 years at Perkins. I'd hardly call that Office fodder because I don't like being up peoples' ### or under the thumb. Maybe you consider anyone that's in the office past orientation as being a brown-noser. I don't know.
What I do know, is that I have a nose for BS. And I smelled yours when you tried to pass it off on me, in the driver's lounge, not long after you started with the company.

Yes, that means we've met face to face before. And even though I didn't say anything then, I didn't believe your sack of lies and delusions of grandeur. You should try being more believable when bragging about yourself.


Look, I'm not telling anyone to come work here. I don't care either way unless it affects the quality of the loads I get.

People can read horror stories about EVERY single company out there. That's fine.
Most steering wheel holders out here have nothing to say unless they're talking negatively about someone or something.

I will reiterate what I've said before. I've been here for 3 years now and I'm making it. There are a bunch of truckers here..........making it.

Perkins isn't perfect. But what company is?

Lease-purchase isn't the best route to becoming an o/o. But to many, it's the only avenue.

I did a lot of research before coming here. I've had family in the trucking industry since the early 50s. I've heard about a lot of different scams in the industry. I've had some family get wrapped up in some of them, Like North American's scam on newbies (before they went bankrupt).

Perkins has one of the best l/p programs out there.

There's only one company that I would have chosen over Perkins. But there's a lot of complainers on that board too................balanced by plenty of guys that are making it there. They weren't interested in me and that's fine.
But I'm a realist and I believe the days of company loyalty to employees/contractors are gone. So my loyalty to Perkins lasts only until such time as I'm sure of something better.
That said, I have five years under my belt and only two companies. Obviously I'm cautious and don't jump ship on a whim.



Listen, there's only one perfect job out there and that's the one with your name on it.

However, then you have no one else to blame but yourself.


You're taking BIG chances with ANY lease-purchase program. What I'm saying, is that a guy's chances are probably better at Perkins.

 

I almost went with Perkins but decided against it. Why? Not because they are "evil scammers" but because of a discussion I had with the orientation instructor about how potential revenue lined up against my personal budget. What that all boils to is this; they were straight with me and I appreciate that. I have nothing negative to say about Perkins.
Be well all!
Mark
Driver by Choice, (Jones Express) I am out on road 15 days and spend the other half of the month working as an information systems technical adviser.

CDL Class A, XT, OTR Class 8 Truck Driver
FAA Certificated Pilot, ASEL
BS, Public Administration, Summa ### Laude, Central Michigan University
Graduate Certificate Information Resources Management (IRM), Central Michigan University
Two class away from finishing my Master of Science in Administration (MSA) at Central Michigan
Elected to Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Eta Chapter at Belmont University

Perhaps having the "IRM" letters after my name makes me a good candidate for "office fodder," Yes?

 

The trucking industry today is in a sad state of affairs. Twenty-six years ago when I entered this field it was by choice and it was my calling. I followed in the footsteps of my father and who knows besides him. I grew up in a semi-truck which was my schooling into professional driving and diesel mechanics. Like many a trucker in my time and before me, unless you worked for Roadway or CF, you had to know everything about your rig because when there was trouble on the road you got your toolbox out and worked on the problem.

Fast forward to today's trucking industry it's a whole different game. In today's world of trucking there is still a few who have the true calling to the driving side of the business but those numbers are very few. Now we have persons who are forced into this business against their will, and those who are in the business because there are no other options. Now there is a mentality that "anyone can do this job" and therefore we have an influx of steering wheel holders who know nothing about what makes a truck and for that matter, most don't even know how to raise the hood.

What I see today through my windshield to the world is a huge disgrace and all the stupid things I see everyday take place make me wanna exit this business because I now fear for my life. Even with highly sophisticated equipment that we now have, I still see drivers in one of two modes, either pushing the envelope or those who are afraid of the equipment. Not many drivers today care about the fitness of their equipment and only have the "turnkey" mentality whereas all they know how to do is jump in the equipment, turn the key and run. Second most disturbing is lack of proper driving knowledge, knowledge of the equipment, knowledge of the road and mostly knowledge of rules and regulations that are in place to keep this industry and the persons who share the road with us safe. Accidents are up substantially due to one primary cause, following to close. In addition to this is improper lane change and passing. What I see a lot of is this "I don't care" mentality, I just want to get from point "A" to point "B" any way I can regardless of who gets in the way. These last three things has me the most worried now and in the frame of mind that maybe I don't want to be in this business anymore because chances are now 50/50 that I might not get to come home one day.

When I hear some drivers say "well I have a college degree" well guess what, it doesn't mean a #### thing when your sole task is to pilot an 80,000# rig down the highway. All that is really necessary is common sense but most people don't possess those attributes. The main reason some over educated person might be piloting such equipment is because they can't get a job in their respected fields of training and was forced into the trucking industry which is now the lowest a person can go on the totem pole even further down the list from a job at a fast food joint. Our industry has been reduced to nothing and now we have a lot of people who don't want to be here and do not possess the proper qualifications other than they can hold a steering wheel. Sometimes I'm afraid to tell people what I do for a living because some persons with a college degree undercut my profession and now I drive for next to nothing because someone with a college degree found a way to move freight cheaper and even now the driver and his wages are no longer a part of the equation. This happens all across the land no matter which carrier you drive for or are leased too.

Even with my work ethics and business know how, it really doesn't serve me very well when I know there is someone else attempting to cut my throat to take away what I have earned in this business. As I tell the customer, yes you can get anyone to haul your product cheaper (or for almost nothing) but you will never get the level of personal service that I offer, so the choice is theirs. To prove that point I allowed that customer to try another carrier and would you know it, the first truck out had a major incident costing the customer a lot.

My big thing now is not so much worry about what the cut throats are doing but more so watching what I do to make sure I don't loose my business to someone less qualified than myself and to someone with the "I don't care" mentality. It's not Perkins or any other carrier for that matter that will hurt my bottom line, it's me. Perkins gives me the tools I need to perform my business and it's up to me to effectively put to use those tools of the trade to expert use. For those individuals that didn't make it here it was not Perkins loss, it was yours. Bash the company all you want but there are those of us who are making it here and those of us who are successfully using the lease purchase program. What it boils down to is, a looser is still a looser no matter what carrier they work for.

 

Perkins Logistics & Specialized Transportation "Office Fodder Damge Control" Fools no one!

 

Perkins Office Fodder doing damage control, if you make money there how come you have drivers leaving trucks all over the country? I love the 97% bad safety rating on the D.O.T. safe stat also ! What a scam what do you make $0.10 an hour and think your buying a old worn out truck. Haa Haa now I know how your getting screwed!

 

OK, jab...pretty long winded aye? Yes I have a college degree and common sense. Just a little FYI...advanced education and common sense are not mutually exclusive. What's more, I have before, and I am currently working in the field for which I was educated. I am both an IT/IS Technical Advisor and OTR Truck Driver (now O/O)!!!!I have had a successful career in the IS/IT field as a permanent employee at various corporations, doing part-time work at others, and as an independent contract programmer/analyst under my own company name;Talus Crown Enterprises, Inc. My making the decision to run a truck part-time and work in the computer field part-time is my "dream" scenario so to speak, and it is all MY CHOICE!!!! Yes, having a college education does have something to do with running a truck, or for that matter any other business; I actually learned something other than beer drinking and partying in college; accounting and business come to mind, and these things do apply to trucking or any other industry. I am not saying one needs a college education to be successful but it doesn't hurt. The bottom line is this! I did not put all that stuff out there to brag or put myself on a pedestal; I did to show that I am in the truck because I chose to be there! YES IT IS MY CHOICE; that means nobody has pigeon-holed me into this or any other business.