Pride Transport

I agree with you., however not everyone is blessed enough to own their own truck to enjoy the freedom of not having to deal with company policy's.

I would like to ask anyone that has a problem with these camera's.
Do you think the sales agent in a department store is having their freedom ripped from them?
Do you think the ATM you just used to withdraw your money is having your freedom ripped from you?
Do you think the overpass you just went under w/ the DOT Traffic camera is having your freedom ripped from you?

The fact is, today's world is filled with camera's. You might be fortunate enough to drive with one not in your truck, but the reality is you have more camera's watching your truck go down the road, getting gas, ect. than you know.

Just Food for thought.

 

There are many threads where we could go on and on regarding the camera's and E-Logs.
I respect your opinion, however when your a "Newbie" your options are limited and you gotta do what you gotta do. Not saying Pride is a Newbie company by any means, but some people just don't have an issue with them. To those that do, I respect your opinion and wish you the best of luck. Finding a good company that doesn't have them or getting the financing to own your own truck isn't easy.

I agree also .35 isn't the best in the world, and I have really looked at other companies that I am eligible for and that pay more. For example Raven Transport. I could go right now and start at .43 CPM, but Pride treats me with respect, gives me great equipment, great miles, paying off my CDL School, Sign On Bonus, Home when I ask, Detention without even asking, ect. I'm not saying the company is the best in the Industry, but it has sure met my expectations and have stayed true to every word they have told me. My CPM might not be the best but to have a company that I can trust and count on means a lot more to me at this point in time.

For the month of October I took home almost $3,500 (After Taxes). That was with 6 days of home time.
Sure for some of you O/O and experienced drivers that is chump change. For my level I am comfortable with that, and appreciate Pride for giving me the opportunity to drive for them.

 

11/7 - Trip Update:

P/U Date - Time
11/6/15 0900
Sunnyvale, TX
Live Load (Detention - Not loaded until 1:15pm)

Stop 1 Date/Time
11/9/15 1545
Corinne, UT

Stop 2 Date/Time
11/10/15 1845
Mccarran, NV

Total Miles - 2004
Extra Pay - $15 extra stop
Detention Pay - $33
Total Pay: $749.40

I arrived at the shipper at 11/5 and slept on the property. Docked and was loaded 4:15 hours later. Detention Paid. Once loaded I started Pre-Trip and started my clock. Drove little over 560 miles and made it close to Moriarty, NM. The load has so much time on it, I stopped in Albuquerque to spend the Day and night with my family. Got to ABQ 11/7-11am, leaving 11/8-11am. 646 miles from Stop 1.
2004 miles and $749.40 not bad for 4/5 days and 1 day home time.

 

So here is the deal. The company has about 20 or so trucks with cameras installed right now for testing.
They have not made any final decisions if they are going to fully install them on all trucks or not.
Certain trucks were given the cameras due to their safety records with the company. Others were just randomly chosen. After reading the post it sounds like driver was specifically chosen to have one installed.

DOT Warning's and not finding Pre-Trip Cash Tags (Which by the way are worth $ when found and turned in)
was probably a really good reason why this driver has one in his truck. His dig against Steve and voting for the Best Fleet to drive for was unjust. Steve sent out ONE message over the Message System giving everyone a heads up and vote if they like. By no means is he going around begging people to vote. Ha-Ha!

Sounds like someone is just really Salty...

I love the part where he says - "Then they added a ton of safety features to the new freightliner cascadias, no touch brake, lane departure warning and the driver cameras." Implying that Pride has specifically asked for these.
Besides the Camera's. These are 2016 OEM Equipment and come from Freightliner like this.
https://www.freightlinertrucks.com/Trucks/Detroit-Inside/Safety/

On July 13th this driver made a posting regarding the Safety Director also:
"is there a way to delete a post you made? central refrigerated is actually decent, i might go back to central since i don't like the safety lady Rachel here at Pride Transport"

Wonder if he had a problem with Central Refer as well. Looks like he has gotten to know Safety real well. I am starting to see a pattern here...

 

Great day except for the ####ing dear that jumped out in front of me in coloroado. A few mile's later I see this huge object in the middle of the road, threw on my flashers slowed down and it was one of the biggest dear I have ever seen. Off to the shoulder was 4 more. Looked like they were all a family. Blew my air horn 5-6 time and he turned around and they all started back across th field.

I made it to my terminal in Salt Lake city. Drove just shy of 600 miles (597). Turned in my trip pack envelope for the load I dropped in Texas and will be paid tomorrow for that.

I am 50 miles from my delivery and doesn't deliver till 1545. Plan for tomorrow will be to get up semi early and throw my truck in the PM lane to be serviced and then she will get a bath from the truck wash people here. My truck was just serviced but I like to throw it in the PM lane everytime I'm at the terminal.

After my delivery appt. I will make my way down to NV for the final delivery. It's only 500 or so miles. So I plan on splitting the miles, 300-400 tomorrow. 100-200 on the 10th. I deliver to a Walmart DC and I can gauruntee they won't take me early so no point in making it in one day.

Let's see how much detention time I rack up with delivering to 2 Walmart DC's shall we?

 

If the time comes I will weigh my options. As of now, I'm loving where I am at.