Why do you like the company you drive for?

I wont state where I work,but Ill tell you that I am a local driver and I work intermodal. They treat the drivers and office people well. They dont force dispatch and even dont mind if you work part time. They pay well and keep us rolling.

 

My boss lets me do whatever I like.

 

I’ve done a variety of jobs, linehaul, long haul, LTL, local, drayage, reefers and vans.

Currently hauling a reefer, as a team.

I love:

Knowing what day I’ll be home (7 day trips, so leave on a Sunday and return the following the Sunday).

Freedom to take up to 5 days off for every 7 day stretch.

Freedom to take a few weeks off as long as truck is making good miles for the few preceding months.

Great pay (we share .62 per mile, plus other bonuses amounting to an extra .08 per mile). Miles above 10,800 in a 2 week period are paid at $.84 (“overtime”, I guess)

Predictable earnings

No contact from the company except preplans coming through the satellite. Occasionally a road condition update (we run a lot of Eastern Canada and are based in Atlantic Canada)

They give us $500 per year to spend on uniforms, so I’m not ruining my clothes in the truck anymore. Added bonus: when I walk on a dock now, no one asks me if I’m lost.

Great benefits, paid by the company. 5% match on my RRSP ( Canadian equivalent of a 401K), so 10% of my salary each year is being invested for retirement and I only pay 5%.

Good equipment. All trucks are 2015 or newer, single’s have APU, all have inverters with shore power.

Best of all: opportunities to advance out of the truck, or into other parts of the business. We have guys who haul two 53’; do local work; courier work; shunt work; run the triangle to New England up to Ontario back o the maritimes, teams doing what we do (2x a week to SC from Nova Scotia). I’m hoping to make my way into safety or recruiting at some point soon, as I have a university degree plus a decade and well over 2m verified miles accident free.

 

I like the company I work for because my boss is the greatest guy to work for in the world and me and him are on the same page about everything.

 

Because$$$$...oh and a steady stream of new trucks!

 

Ha ha, same here.

 

I work for a company called Davidson Brothers. It's a small company in Bellefonte, Pa. They're just big enough to have some stability (around 30 trucks) but small enough that it's tight knit.

Making around 70,000 a year every year since I started in 2013 and good benefits. Really old trucks and trailers but if you can deal with that it's a great place to work.

 

Never would have thought May operated like that.
I thought they were just another run of the mill mega.
You never know.

 

I like the outfit im hooked on to because I have steady, predictable work and am home weekends and swing by home every other day.. Im able to stay in relatively good shape by working MY ### off instead of being a lazy truck potato and wearing my truck out for nothing. I pull a nice conestoga for a non gouging percentage - and the owner is very smart, resourceful, and has his hands on everything. Small company with strong family values, mutual respect, and transparency. His company trucks are sweet and command a second (or 3rd) look. And mine gets the lions share of what it brings in.