Tribe express, tribe transport??

Funny, according to Julie in recruiting 3 weeks IS mandatory!

Also you say you get 1 day for every 7 days out? So how is it you go home every 14 days for 3 days at a time?

I have no axe to grind with Tribe, it is what it is. I spent 14 years running a month or more at a time but Julie told me twice that 3 weeks is indeed mandatory. Bottom line is its always good to hear from happy drivers.

 

I was told 3 weeks also. I think it depends on what lanes you're near. There is another BM starting orientation Monday that was told home every 12-14 days but he lives closer to a couple of major customers than I do.

 

Am I in bizarro world? Im hearing great company,39 cpm and 3 weeks out in the descriptions. Sorry but great pay nowadays is 55cpm or more. 3 weeks out? No wonder they have shiny trucks. They are screwing the drivers. Yes they treat you great. You are making them very very rich

 

Oh and 6 cents per diem is not good. If you take full pay and take per diem for every day out at end of year you get 58 per day. Even if you average 600 milesa day that's only 36 dollars a day

 

Take it for what it is i spoke with a guy that is there terminal manger he said it 12-14 depending on where you live im in western Massachusetts so there is a lot of customers we haul in & out of pay every one starts @.39 but with bonus pays ie. Safty, clean inspection, performance it's higher plus raises are done by performance. New guy's get 13-14 Pete's unless you really luck out and get a 16 kw.

 

I am doing some research on Tribe and the one thing i found is that driver annual salary is about $38.000, i am not sure how accurate this is, can anyone perhaps that drives for them maybe answer this.

 

I think when tribe starts giving out the newer trucks coming out of oriantation and not the 13 - 14 with 650,000 plus miles they are having a lot of breakdowns with faily new drivers not a good first immprestion I know they will have completely new fleet by June . there pay is not the best but they are all nice and its a good solid company

 

Hey roadhammer, I am over here in Southeastern Mass myself. Cape area. No A license yet, but once I get it, they're on my "short list" after I gain some experience. Seems like the "not so bad" halfway decent company's want experience. Staying away from C.R. England though. Glad to hear about some positive reviews and that I could run out to Nevada too!? Wow! How about driver facing cameras?

 

Very High Employee Turnover Throughout Company
Office (Current Employee), Gainvesville, Ga – August 18, 2016
Pros: New(ish) trucks with satellite TV to make your waiting around easier
Cons: Even more than I've listed in the description.

I worked there as a driver manager/dispatcher. The amount of turnover is the highest I've seen of any company. The place is understaffed by design so every person in the office is overworked which leads to low moral and burnout. The company chews through employees at such a rate I'm surprised theyre still in business. For drivers you will basically make a loop from PA to IL to GA and maybe FL and a handful of runs to TX. They are moving heavily into Pharmaceuticals transport and most of the runs are very short 300ish miles. Driver pay will average between $800 to $1200 per week pre-tax and a few make up to $1600 but that's not the norm. Not worth spending your life in a truck for an average of $1000 per week farting around on their repetitive runs. They don't have a shop (mechanics work outside in the sun/cold) and their "terminal" is the size of a McDonalds parking lot with a dirt lot connected where you might be able to get one of the few parking spots. If you get there on the weekend expect to park in the employee area and then having all the cars overflowing into the street with a shuffle 2 hours into the work week to straighten the mess. This is an almost weekly occurrence. Since they don't have a shop expect to have your truck serviced/repaired on the road and don't expect to get paid for sitting. If you are broken for 24 hours you get a total pay of $93 per day. Chicken feed. Expect your scale tickets, hotel (when broken down) and other various expenses out of your pocket to not be reimbursed on your check. Because the pay cycle is 2 weeks out you have to be a hawk to catch it and complain to your driver manager to get it put on the next check. Fight for your money, fight for a better load because you're sick of the same runs, fight to make it west of the Mississippi river.... get ready to fight, you will need the spirit of Sitting Bull to make it in that Tribe. The office workers hate their jobs, work like slaves, and when one slight issue comes up expect to be called up to see Matt (Joy's husband who runs the place) and treated like a child in front of everyone. He will sit there wasting your time asking, "Why why why?" in a manner that a teenager can see is unproductive, a waste of time, and moral killing. So you have no parking and have to park on the street, fine, Joy will let you know that you can't park there and will get a ticket from the Sheriff but still there's no other place to park!!! The place is running by the seat of their pants. The load planners are stretched thin to get everything covered they don't have time to look for swaps to help get drivers home so that falls to the driver managers to figure it out. Getting drivers home comes down to your driver manager and his effort and other drivers to get you there. Many times there just aren't options. Expect to miss appointments, promises, etc. If you're an office worker they will force you to work weekends by putting names in a hat and drawing... because they are understaffed as mentioned previously. They could not buy just 2 or 3 trucks and instead invest in personnel in key areas such as load planning or driver managers, customer service (who have the highest turnover) but instead... just let things ride the way they are. I've seen drivers lose their credit rating and fall behind on bills after working there, I've seen almost all the driver managers have to work weekends constantly to keep their heads above water, and I've seen the maintenance side of things boil over constantly because they think 3 people in that department is enough to handle 200+ trucks in a timely manner in getting repairs. Having a driver wait 4 hours just to get a bill paid (because they are busy juggling everything else) is unacceptable to everyone except Matt and Joy. When you first get hired, expect Matt to shake your hand and smile but after that, expect to only go through your driver manager and good luck if you get someone that likes you enough to care about you personally. Your time there will depend on that person, and that's a dice roll. Average time working there (except for a few upper management) is between 6 months to 3 years being very long. The place is a meat grinder, with a culture that I don't see changing for years to come. Just know that going in and you will not stress so much during your single year working there. I'm starting a new job, should've never went here to begin with. Beware.

 

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