Good or bad/epes transport

[derek10]

Can someone tell me about epes transport out of greensboro, nc. The good the bad.

[Tired Trucker]

You won't get paid for all the miles you drive.
Empty out Friday at 1400 and wait around in a truckstop (if there's a truckstop around where you empty out) for 2-4 unpaid hours waiting for a load. Qualcom beeps with a 200 mile load that delivers Monday 0800....if you get any load at all with all this slow freight.
Out at least 2 weeks, roll the dice when you want to get home for 2-3 days...normal people get 4 days off every 10 days and only work 40 hours\week.
No overtime after 8\40 hours like all other blue-collar workers.
You'll be encouraged and expected to break federal law by fudging the logbook.
An OTR "weekend" = roll in Friday night/Saturday morning...leave out Sunday night.
No pay for fueling the company truck, breakdowns, inspecting company equipment, scaling loads, dealing with shippers/receivers, stuck in traffic, dropping/hooking trailers, 2 hours at every dock you bump, etc, etc, etc, etc...
Log 70, work 80-100, paid for 50 (on a good week).

Have I worked for Epes? No, but they're all the same...just different colored trucks.

Why are these OTR companies hiring when everyone else is laying off, cutting hours\pay, hiring freezes, etc in response to the recession\depression? Because these jobs suck and nobody wants them.

RUN AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[derek10]

Just checking, right now i'm driving combo for averitt express, but only driving 2 nights a week. Guess thats better than none at all. Name some decent companies around va. Thanks

[Orangetxguy]

You won't get paid for all the miles you drive.
Empty out Friday at 1400 and wait around in a truckstop (if there's a truckstop around where you empty out) for 2-4 unpaid hours waiting for a load. Qualcom beeps with a 200 mile load that delivers Monday 0800....if you get any load at all with all this slow freight.
Out at least 2 weeks, roll the dice when you want to get home for 2-3 days...normal people get 4 days off every 10 days and only work 40 hours\week.
No overtime after 8\40 hours like all other blue-collar workers.
You'll be encouraged and expected to break federal law by fudging the logbook.
An OTR "weekend" = roll in Friday night/Saturday morning...leave out Sunday night.
No pay for fueling the company truck, breakdowns, inspecting company equipment, scaling loads, dealing with shippers/receivers, stuck in traffic, dropping/hooking trailers, 2 hours at every dock you bump, etc, etc, etc, etc...
Log 70, work 80-100, paid for 50 (on a good week).

Have I worked for Epes? No, but they're all the same...just different colored trucks.

Why are these OTR companies hiring when everyone else is laying off, cutting hours\pay, hiring freezes, etc in response to the recession\depression? Because these jobs suck and nobody wants them.

RUN AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's BAAAAAAAAAACCCCCK!!!

Cold and Frosty...LozerJames..Mike Hunt!!


Derek...When reading this particular style poster(ing)....take it with a grain of salt. Maybe one of those salt blocks for cattle you can buy at the feedstore would work best.

Research postings by "ColdFrostyMug", LebronJames, and most recently Mike Hunt (just to name a few) so that you can get a good understanding of this guy's view of Over The Road driving and drivers.

[Useless]

He's BAAAAAAAAAACCCCCK!!!

Cold and Frosty...LozerJames..Mike Hunt!!


Derek...When reading this particular style poster(ing)....take it with a grain of salt. Maybe one of those salt blocks for cattle you can buy at the feedstore would work best.

Research postings by "ColdFrostyMug", LebronJames, and most recently Mike Hunt (just to name a few) so that you can get a good understanding of this guy's view of Over The Road driving and drivers.

Orangetxguy;

You hit the nail right on the head!! Why do they continue to allow that idiot to come back under one persona after another??

[GOOSEMAN]

Cuz he's a tooooooooool, has no real life and thinks he can come in here and get some kind of attention.

He probably never has driven a truck, most likely has his license revoked, so he sits on the forum all day to bad mouth everyone/thing else, so he can feel like a tough guy !

[zipy46]

I read the stuff about 'fudging' the logbook...thats going on as we speak in truck cabs all across

this nation....its nothing new.

(Its Doubtful any company verbally is encouraging this habit...its simply the position drivers are put in due to the nature of frieght movement)

The trick to it is...one must overcome thier fear of prison and hugh fines


Other than that...trucking is same as its ever been.
The highway looks the same regardless of whoz name is on the truck.

[Useless]

Cuz he's a tooooooooool, has no real life and thinks he can come in here and get some kind of attention.

He probably never has driven a truck, most likely has his license revoked, so he sits on the forum all day to bad mouth everyone/thing else, so he can feel like a tough guy !

Gooseman;

Based upon what he told us in the past, ColdFrostyMug/MikeHunt/TiredTrucker/GodOnlyKnowsWhoElse abandoned his truck when he drove OTR. He couldn't get an OTR job if he wanted one.

[GOOSEMAN]

Based upon what he told us in the past, ColdFrostyMug/MikeHunt/TiredTrucker/GodOnlyKnowsWhoElse abandoned his truck when he drove OTR. He couldn't get an OTR job if he wanted one.[/COLOR]

Amen ! How eay it to say "I walked away from the truck" , just so he can't prove with numbers, check stubs - etc..... that actually drives for a living, like the rest of us..

[Orangetxguy]

I read the stuff about 'fudging' the logbook...thats going on as we speak in truck cabs all across

this nation....its nothing new.

(Its Doubtful any company verbally is encouraging this habit...its simply the position drivers are put in due to the nature of frieght movement)

The trick to it is...one must overcome thier fear of prison and hugh fines


Other than that...trucking is same as its ever been.
The highway looks the same regardless of whoz name is on the truck.

Say it ain't so!!! Please...PLEASE....Tell me I see a road differently than another guy does!!!

[zipy46]

Thank you for logging in Zipy46

.... I take everything back

[scythe08]

Amen ! How eay it to say "I walked away from the truck" , just so he can't prove with numbers, check stubs - etc..... that actually drives for a living, like the rest of us..

From what I understood, I think he is/was an LTL driver. But for the life of me I can't remember who he worked for. With Some LTL you do get paid for darn near everythng you do, just got to put up with a ton of crap to get a decent spot.

[Tired Trucker]

Cuz he's a tooooooooool, has no real life and thinks he can come in here and get some kind of attention.

He probably never has driven a truck, most likely has his license revoked, so he sits on the forum all day to bad mouth everyone/thing else, so he can feel like a tough guy !

Then show me anything about my original post in this thead that's untrue.

Trouble is, I'm right and that's what makes you guys pissed off.

OTR trucking is nothing but labor racketeering. Why you people work so many hours for what the job pays is beyond me.

[jd112488]

hey bonehead, yeah you...lbj,cfm,coolio,mike hunt. WHY DO YOU WORK 2 JOBS FOR 60 GRAND A YEAR??? i only have to work one and that is only 9 hours a day. why don't you go get a life, you know a girlfriend or something to occupy your time. the same useless dribble is an old tired record. you add nothing to these discussions except that YOU hate otr...yeah we get it. now could we move on??

[Orangetxguy]

Then show me anything about my original post in this thead that's untrue.

Trouble is, I'm right and that's what makes you guys pissed off.

OTR trucking is nothing but labor racketeering. Why you people work so many hours for what the job pays is beyond me.

The only thing that pi$$es me off, is that YOU target the drivers...not the Carriers.

Like JD suggested...change your tune...the delivery has gotten old.

[Mr. Ford95]

Because not every outfit is like you say CFM. You had a bad experience and so you believe they are all the same. Here's a newsflash for you, some local outfits, OTR or LTL ain't no better yet you tell everyone they are. I know of 2 locally to me that are worse off than going OTR with CR England.

I know a guy who chooses to stay out for 2 months or more at a time. He teams with his wife as a bedbugger for Wal-Mart and together are making well over $150K. Everything they do, they get paid for or the company pays for it with the company issued credit card they were given. If the person they are moving isn't ready or they get to the destination before the family, Wal-Mart puts them in a hotel and not a little 1 star one, a 4 to 5 star one if available in that area along with a rental car. Granted this is Wal-Mart but ya, your full of it that it's EVERY OTR company that treats you like dirt.

[Double R]

Because not every outfit is like you say CFM. You had a bad experience and so you believe they are all the same. Here's a newsflash for you, some local outfits, OTR or LTL ain't no better yet you tell everyone they are. I know of 2 locally to me that are worse off than going OTR with CR England.

I know a guy who chooses to stay out for 2 months or more at a time. He teams with his wife as a bedbugger for Wal-Mart and together are making well over $150K. Everything they do, they get paid for or the company pays for it with the company issued credit card they were given. If the person they are moving isn't ready or they get to the destination before the family, Wal-Mart puts them in a hotel and not a little 1 star one, a 4 to 5 star one if available in that area along with a rental car. Granted this is Wal-Mart but ya, your full of it that it's EVERY OTR company that treats you like dirt.

There is no perfect job or perfect company. What makes a perfect job or company by one may not be the same for another.

[GMAN]

You won't get paid for all the miles you drive.
Empty out Friday at 1400 and wait around in a truckstop (if there's a truckstop around where you empty out) for 2-4 unpaid hours waiting for a load. Qualcom beeps with a 200 mile load that delivers Monday 0800....if you get any load at all with all this slow freight.
Out at least 2 weeks, roll the dice when you want to get home for 2-3 days...normal people get 4 days off every 10 days and only work 40 hours\week.
No overtime after 8\40 hours like all other blue-collar workers.
You'll be encouraged and expected to break federal law by fudging the logbook.
An OTR "weekend" = roll in Friday night/Saturday morning...leave out Sunday night.
No pay for fueling the company truck, breakdowns, inspecting company equipment, scaling loads, dealing with shippers/receivers, stuck in traffic, dropping/hooking trailers, 2 hours at every dock you bump, etc, etc, etc, etc...
Log 70, work 80-100, paid for 50 (on a good week).

Have I worked for Epes? No, but they're all the same...just different colored trucks.

Why are these OTR companies hiring when everyone else is laying off, cutting hours\pay, hiring freezes, etc in response to the recession\depression? Because these jobs suck and nobody wants them.

RUN AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You attack this company and make general statements about drivers that are not necessarily true. As far as I know Epes is a good company. If you have personal knowledge about a specific company you wish to share, fine. We are not going to tolerate anyone who wants to come onto this forum and berate and belittle those who earn their living in trucking. This country would come to a screeching halt in a matter of days if truckers didn't do their jobs. Most carrier's want their drivers to run compliant. To make a blanket statement about carriers and otr drivers whom you have no knowledge is reckless and has no place on this forum. If all you can do is put down this industry then you should pack up your verbal trash and take it somewhere else.

[Rev.Vassago]

Thank you to those of you who quickly pointed out who this was, and to those who reported it.

[Double R]

Tired Trucker

BANNED

Thank you to those of you who quickly pointed out who this was, and to those who reported it.

A few more posts and he would have busted himself. He sounds like a broken record. Within ten posts he's back to the same old song and dance no matter what name he uses.



Thank you MODs for getting rid of this useless poster.

until next time. wonder what the next name will be.