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Originally Posted by Skywalker
I can tell you that CFI has less border freight than before, so getting "caught" in a Joplin/Laredo loop is highly unlikely. In the past couple of years I was in Laredo maybe 8 times, and even then I rarely even spent the night down there. Most of the time I just took the trailer to the terminal, dropped it and left within 2 hours or so.
Tire loads....haven't had one of them in over 2 years. That contract went by the wayside when the company raised the stop pay to $75 for the 3rd and subsequent stops.... the contract went to a "cheaper" company. The only tire loads that we pulled after that went from SC to Detroit and were unloaded by members of the UAW....not us.
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Like I said in my earlier post, these were a few of the negative things I'd heard about CFI back then, which was about two years ago. I also had a small issue with their pay, which was less than what Marten was paying at that time for the same level of experience. The final nail in the coffin for CFI as far as my working for them was that I was moving to WY from KS and while they were still more than willing to hire me, they would not make ANY promises as to home time. Worse yet, in order to go to work for them, they were going to require me to sign a paper stating I understood and agreed with that home time policy. Sorry, but signing a paper that, in essence, would have made me an indentured servant until they could/decided to get me home was simply unacceptable. Also, Marten did fly me to orientation and I would have had to drive myself or ride stinkhound with CFI. I appreciated their up front honesty, thanked them and went to work for Marten Transport. What I just stated is a perfect example of a great company that just simply did not fit an individuals needs. That doesn't make them a bad company, just a bad fit for one person at a certain time and certain place is all. :wink: