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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aminal, post: 4001602, member: 129351&quot;]I work there. Depends on what you were told. Older equipment? Yes but it ain&#039;t all THAT bad and they&#039;ll either fix it up for you or let you choose another one. They give you a list on what&#039;s available and you go check them out and pick which one you want - so don&#039;t pick a crappy one. Pick the best and stay on them about upgrading and they will once they see you&#039;re gonna stay a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pay and benefits are OK. Not the best, not the worst. Think of them as kinda a marriage between a mega and a mom and pop. Some of the good and bad that just go with each wherever you go.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hometime is two weeks out and two days in. Been some weird sheiz going on with load planning until April 1 when I transferred to the Do It Best dedicated so I don&#039;t know if they got it worked out. There was a new guy they hired to be over it and he was supposed to be making some needed changes. Don&#039;t know how that worked out. A friend of mine that&#039;s a trainer and I talk every Friday and he said it was getting better. Still, it&#039;s OTR dry box so it is what it is. I got home pretty close to what it was supposed to be. Close enough for a big fleet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not the best but by far not the worst by a long shot and the people are real nice. Any mistakes in pay get fixed immediately. If something is bugging you about your truck or trailer they&#039;ll fix it. The company takes students. The equipment, especially landing gear takes some abuse, but they do fix it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Run you strictly legal on e-logs and they don&#039;t want you splitting sleeper berth unless it&#039;s a dire emergency and a super critical load will be late and they don&#039;t have anybody close enough to repower it.</p><p><br /></p><p>They didn&#039;t BS me about anything and they have done everything they said. Definitely no BS just to get you in. Might not be everything you expect but no BS lies. If they say the do it, they do. I liked that.</p><p><br /></p><p>They went through a whole big thing when They bought Gainey out and when that happens it takes 3-5 years to get the new company all adjusted and running like they want it to. I think they&#039;re in year 4 and coming along nicely. Still got a ways to go but they are doing the work and making the investments to get there. Takes time. It&#039;s kind one of those 2 steps forward and 1 step back things. Not making progress as fast as you want to but still making steady progress.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t complain. I might be going back to the OTR fleet if the money on this dedicated gig don&#039;t pick up pretty quick. Not looking forward to the UPS and FedEx overnight hot shot runs but hey. Gotta take the good with the bad and that&#039;s about all I&#039;m really not crazy about. They don&#039;t force NYC. They&#039;ll ask but it&#039;s totally no sweat and no consequences to say no. Same with turning down a load because of an HOS e-log issue. Apparently the load planners don&#039;t see a truck&#039;s HOS when they are assigning loads - they do that, not the DM&#039;s. Sometimes they&#039;ll give you a load you just can&#039;t run legally. Gotta turn it down and no you won&#039;t wind up with a crap load as punishment. Maybe because that&#039;s all they had from where you are but not as punishment. They don&#039;t do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Didn&#039;t sit a whole lot and if it was over a weekend they paid me. One of the last things they do at Orientation is bring out a pay agreement and have a private conversation explaining exactly what and how they will pay you and they put it in writing and they stick to it. No BS there either. I guess that&#039;s one of the things I really do like about them. They are nice. They treat you with respect. They don&#039;t BS you and when they make a mistake (payroll IS human) they bend over backwards to fix it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stuff I don&#039;t like pretty much goes with being OTR in a dry box fleet with a bigger company and it&#039;s everywhere you go. Just gotta deal with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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