I cannot say anything about Averitt but I can speak about Star.
The Covenant deal is beginning to suck. Our freight is off and my miles are down a little. I think a great deal of the problem is with our sales and customer service folks. I've had mosre issues with CS in the last 3 months than in the 18 months before. Stupid things like wrong appointment times but when you are 3 hours late at Lowes its just too bad.
At this point I'm looking to move on after 2 years but I realy like most of the folks there.
The Atlanta fleet is run by a fool who runs off more drivers than they can hire. He tried to bully me and I rolled up my window and drove off.
I'm getting about 2600-2700 miles per week running from Sunday night until Friday afternoon.
One of the biggest sore spots is new trucks, we havent seen any in almost a year and this week instead of condos about a dozen slick top Columbias showed up. Stripped down bare bones trucks. I'm glad my truck only have 190,000 on it.
Star has a lot of Nissan freight which is usually light and drop and hook. They have several other dedicated accounts.
Its a job, I get piad, when I find a better deal that fits what I want out of trucking I'll move. I'm not going to quit if I get mad. When I get screwed over I squawk to my boss, safety, or start up the chain. I got paid to sit at a DC because the customer service girl was stupid just because I made my point.
Keep looking, find what you like, take the job you weant not the job everyone thinks you should. You might want to haul manure to Chicago on a flatbed. LOL
HTS
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Why do so many truckers ride motorcycles? Is that the correct question or is it: Why do so many bikers drive trucks?
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