The Anderson Lease thread - redux.

ratchaburi thailand Yes.
My wife and I live there.
Just west of Bangkok about 50 miles.
Nice and quiet.
When I want to party we head to the beach resort of Pattaya.

Glad you had a good Thanksgiving and spend time at home

 

yeah Pattaya Beach, what memories, been their a time or two, last time was the middle 90's, always a great time, of course i was in the Navy , I spent a life time in the Navy

 

Hi Skeeter, well you being a former squid then you probaly went down to soi 6. AKA soi sex. Haha. Hope you did'nt find out the hard way about the Katoys. lol.

You need to go back if you ever get the chance. Fun place.

 

LOL, had a couple of bootcamps that got humbled by them we tried to tell them, but none the less LOL. I'm looking into ATS, flatbed side, been talking to a recruiter by the name of Mike Ames, I think thats his last name, seems as thought it takes awhile to get your first paycheck on the L/O side anyway, read about that on another thread, take care

 

Hope it works out in your choice.
Things are kinda goofy with freight right now.
Came to Houston to get a ld. and it's on hold.

That and some other big moves.
Do not know any of the recruiters.
Well keep us posted

 

Will do, appreciate ya , stay safe

 

Miie Ames is the recruiter I delt with a year ago. He is OK. I still have a bunch of his cards.

I'm not sure what you mean by having to wait awhile for your first paycheck. Usually, you are dispatched on the Thursday of Orrientation. That isn't much time before your Settlement Paperwork has to be in, but assuming you deliver your load by 2200 Sunday, that Settlement will be deposited in your account the next Thursday. More realistically, you will deliver the next week and have one, two or even three loads on your Settlement. You won't have a truck payment for two weeks, so you should receive money.

My advice is to hit the road running. Don't go home. Ask to be run hard for a couple of weeks, so you do not fall behind once those truck payments start coming out of your Settlements. Get ahead of the power curve and you will do fine.

 

I just completed by first year with ATS. It had its ups and downs. I stayed, so maybe it was mostly ups. There are still some things that bother me, namely the inefficiencies in the system. I lost so much money the first year because office personel cannot do their jobs. Don't get me wrong, I made a lot of money, but I could have made more.

Usually, they do not have a "real" dispatcher working on the weekend or nights. If you happen to be sitting on the weekend without a load, SOL! That just doesn't make any sense to me.

I lucked out this weekend. I was dispatched on a load, hauling our trailers down to our yard in Dallas. It worked out that I could make it before the 2200 cutoff for settlements. Barely, not really enough time to turn anything in, so I turned it in earlier in the day. Anyway, I happened to ask weekend dispatch something and my own dispatcher happened to be in on the weekend. I, immediately, told her I was delivering on Sunday evening and were there any loads lying arround. You say that to weekend dispatch and they don't even look, they just say no. They may not be able to dispatch, I don't know. I got five offers and took the best, or what I thought was best. There were some good ones in there. Sometimes you luck out.

I have had a "05 Pete for the past year and it has treated me right. I have had some work done to it because I decided I wanted to buy this truck. I've been OK with any money I invested in maintainence. I signed up for the Capitol Lease Program. Because my truck has over 600K they would only do the lease for one year. I put 5K down, $3,200.00 bonus for completing my first lease and $1,800.00 of my own money. No payments for the first two weeks then 50 weekly payments of $298.00 with a $1,000.00 buyout at the end. In one year I own the truck. My payments even went down $102.00 per week. I am going to double up on payments and have this truck paid off in six months or less.

I got it up to DOT standards, not that much was wrong with it, got brand new four drives and two steers the remaing drives are in pretty good shape, managed to talk them into exchanging two of my weels that didn't match, got my Qualcomm replaced with a Drivertech. At my own expense I had it converted to a 13 Speed.

Freight is picking up, or seems to be. This last week, even sitting in Canada for a 34 hours restart, I grossed over $5,300.00. My last settlement wasn't high grossing, but I netted over $1,600.00. Sometimes it pays to work smarter, not harder!

 

I was reading some other threads about drivers at ATS, said he didnt get paid for 3 weeks , what ever that was about , but anyway, your posts in here have been helpfull, keep on trucking and please keep us posted thanx