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System Transport - Spokane, WA

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by Jubal3, Apr 25, 2015.

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  1. Oct 10, 2015 #101
    Sneakerfix

    Sneakerfix Heavy Load Member

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    That's normal for CAnada I know a few guys that stopped going due to deadheading out and the wait at the border.

    I guess it's all in your dispatcher because they never keep me waiting for a load. Yesterday I dead headed from Santa Rosa without a load but 10mins I had a load
     
    Sneakerfix, Oct 10, 2015
    Sneakerfix, Oct 10, 2015
    #101
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  3. Oct 10, 2015 #102
    Jubal3

    Jubal3 Heavy Load Member

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    I've had three times waiting on a load. Twice for about 4 hours when I unloaded at 0'dark 30, the other was all day in Dallas, where there just wasn't even a decent brokered load to be had.

    You get paid to deadhead. I refuse to move unless I have a dispatch unless I have enough faith in dispatch to know it will work out. With the current crew, it always has and I've had dispatch and thus pay all the way. Sititting really stinks, but it's gonna happen. Sounds like it happened to you Ruger, more than it had any business doing. Were you on green fleet with E and J dispatching?
     
    Jubal3, Oct 10, 2015
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  4. Oct 10, 2015 #103
    Rugerfan

    Rugerfan Road Train Member

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    This was after I was off that fleet. I was the first guy to start pulling a conestoga hauling aluminum out of city of Commerce for Kaiser up north. It was great at first and I was home every weekend and it didn't count against my hometime. plus I never had to tarp but eventually it got to the point of sitting really long periods of time. Another time I sat in Chehalis at the Loves for 24 hours waiting for a reload south.
     
    Rugerfan, Oct 10, 2015
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  5. Oct 10, 2015 #104
    fargonaz

    fargonaz Road Train Member

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    Try unloading early AM in Plaster City and having a preplan for W. LA that delivers the next afternoon... All this when I was supposed to be home the previous week. Can't spit without hitting a System OO in Plaster City.

    I know sht happens, but that was as close to quitting as I've come so far. Been rainbows and unicorns since then though.
     
    fargonaz, Oct 10, 2015
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  7. Oct 10, 2015 #105
    Sneakerfix

    Sneakerfix Heavy Load Member

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    I thought I saw all the OO at plaster city same thing at USG in Glendale
     
    Sneakerfix, Oct 10, 2015
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  8. Oct 10, 2015 #106
    mitmaks

    mitmaks Road Train Member

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    OO get treated well at System. They even posted a couple vids on System facebook page. They didn't find company driver to do a vid yet lol.
    Its only thing that pretty much keeps me here, wanting to become OO, just saving up for my own truck.
    Talk about OO's, every time Im in Bloomington yard theres half a dozen OO trucks in there I havent seen before
     
    mitmaks, Oct 10, 2015
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  9. Oct 10, 2015 #107
    Sneakerfix

    Sneakerfix Heavy Load Member

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    That's my goal also even thinking about the lease program they have but haven't looked into it
     
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  10. Oct 10, 2015 #108
    mitmaks

    mitmaks Road Train Member

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    If you want to pay for a truck thats not yours and by the time its paid off (if you ever pay it off) it needs engine overhaul, etc. then lease is a great idea.
     
    mitmaks, Oct 10, 2015
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  11. Oct 10, 2015 #109
    Sneakerfix

    Sneakerfix Heavy Load Member

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    That could happen on a used truck also I would never by a new one. I talked to one OO that was on the lease he paid it off in 3 years with out a balloon
     
    Sneakerfix, Oct 10, 2015
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  12. Oct 11, 2015 #110
    mitmaks

    mitmaks Road Train Member

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    Yeah, but how much did he pay extra for that truck? 15-20K at 18%, unless they've lowered their interest rate, which I doubt.
     
    mitmaks, Oct 11, 2015
    mitmaks, Oct 11, 2015
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