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07-07-2007, 10:10 AM
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Please Help! Team Looking for New Company
This is a serious request for some help looking for a new company (team).
Okay, I'll try this again.
I posted awhile ago about us wanting to stay tanker and drive team. We are currently with JBK hauling helium. As far as that goes, the company is awesome. The pay is wonderful. They treat us good. BUT, we cannot have our dog and we miss her. We also are getting *very* bored running alot of the same routes over and over. It's become very much like a dedicated route. :-( B O R I N G
So, we thought we could go with a tanker company and be able to have our dog, but we see that ain't gonna happen.
So now we are thinking about going back to dry van or reefer van hauling, or perhaps learning this flatbed stuff if we can find a company to teach us. We have 3 yrs. We have a good record (no acc. no tickets). We run hard when we run. We take time off about every month or 6 wks.
The problem is, now we are making good money (.48 a mile plus extras and paid by the hub)....so......looking out there, it's kind of limited unless we want to take a pay cut which we do not.
We also don't want to have to drive 65 and we really do NOT want a freightliner or a volvo. We also want a smaller company. Smaller meaning not the red, green, blue, white (you know).....and preferably a company that only hires experienced drivers (no trainees).
We currently drive an International. Good truck. Perhaps a Peterbilt or a Kenworth next time? LOL
So I guess it's: NO freightliners/volvos. Let us have our pet. Good pay. Good miles. SMALL company. In our experience, the big guys suck. (personal opinion) No training companies.
Anyway, any suggestions from you guys out there? Open to any and all suggestions. We gotta make a change soon or I'll commit hari-kari. <lol just kidding>
We don't want much huh? LOL
Seriously, any help is appreciated.
We have been looking at Van Eerden.....Looked at TSMT but don't want to do all that government stuff....
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Smooth
http://www.teamonetransport.com/web/Dot_ViewCategory.asp?idcategory=108
Try them ???
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Thanks for the link.
Wow...their pay is low seems like, but other stuff seems good. I think we're spoiled. We are getting 48 cpm right now hub miles, plus all the extra pay involved. I wonder if *anyone* else out there can beat it...hmmmmm
But I see they do take pets so thats a plus.
Anyway, thanks.
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Re: Please Help! Team Looking for New Company
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Originally Posted by moonstrucker
This is a serious request for some help looking for a new company (team).
Okay, I'll try this again.
I posted awhile ago about us wanting to stay tanker and drive team. We are currently with JBK hauling helium. As far as that goes, the company is awesome. The pay is wonderful. They treat us good. BUT, we cannot have our dog and we miss her. We also are getting *very* bored running alot of the same routes over and over. It's become very much like a dedicated route. :-( B O R I N G
So, we thought we could go with a tanker company and be able to have our dog, but we see that ain't gonna happen.
So now we are thinking about going back to dry van or reefer van hauling, or perhaps learning this flatbed stuff if we can find a company to teach us. We have 3 yrs. We have a good record (no acc. no tickets). We run hard when we run. We take time off about every month or 6 wks.
The problem is, now we are making good money (.48 a mile plus extras and paid by the hub)....so......looking out there, it's kind of limited unless we want to take a pay cut which we do not.
We also don't want to have to drive 65 and we really do NOT want a freightliner or a volvo. We also want a smaller company. Smaller meaning not the red, green, blue, white (you know).....and preferably a company that only hires experienced drivers (no trainees).
We currently drive an International. Good truck. Perhaps a Peterbilt or a Kenworth next time? LOL
So I guess it's: NO freightliners/volvos. Let us have our pet. Good pay. Good miles. SMALL company. In our experience, the big guys suck. (personal opinion) No training companies.
Anyway, any suggestions from you guys out there? Open to any and all suggestions. We gotta make a change soon or I'll commit hari-kari. <lol just kidding>
We don't want much huh? LOL
Seriously, any help is appreciated.
We have been looking at Van Eerden.....Looked at TSMT but don't want to do all that government stuff....
Thanks!
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Let me get this straight.
And you want to give this all up because you can't take your dog with you, and your KINDA bored?
Please PM me with the qualification and the address of where your company is. I'll go work there, and you can go work....where-ever. :wink:
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I don't know if a company exists that meets all your criteria.
You have a pretty good gig going.
I can understand no Freightshakers; but Volvo?
Perhaps you can find a O/O with a Paccar who will allow you to keep a pet and work % of the load.
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Re: Please Help! Team Looking for New Company
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Originally Posted by moonstrucker
we cannot have our dog and we miss her.
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Yeah that was one of the biggest reasons I got out of OTR. Well, that and the low pay, BS, lies, exorbitant truckstop prices, lack of parking, free labor, hometime, DOT, Northeast, unpaid waiting, no overtime, etc etc etc...the list goes on and on and on.
I missed my dog alot. Now that I'm local, I'm able to take her for a walk every day.
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07-09-2007, 12:09 AM
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You wouldn't happen to be related to Chad, Brian Griffin or Col. Toon by chance???
Sorry
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Originally Posted by KATMANN
You wouldn't happen to be related to Chad, Brian Griffin or Col. Toon by chance???
Sorry
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Me sorry too, but I still had to laugh :lol: :lol:
No, they're serious, and I understand about the pup. Mine rode with me for over 5 years, and I was used to him being with me.... Can't carry him now, company doesn't permit it. He's at home with his sister..... But since I came back to chemical tankers, I'm home alot more often, and my pay is better and all is well with the world.
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do and even compromise....
As attached as I am to my pup....I won't give up what I have now.
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Have you ever thought of going O/O?? That way you can still work for that company and have your dog with you. It will be your truck, not theirs!
You could even try bedbugging.
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Originally Posted by fireman932003
Have you ever thought of going O/O?? That way you can still work for that company and have your dog with you. It will be your truck, not theirs!
You could even try bedbugging.
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If they were to stay with JBK...even as O/O's, or with just about any other tanker company.....the fact that they own the truck would be meaningless.
Chemical plants do not permit pets inside the gates, sneaking one it will get you thrown out. We are subject to being closely inspected including the inside of the cab to make sure there are no critters or riders....
Food Grade....another beast of its own.....FDA rules about critters on food processing plant grounds....
They would need to go to a different sector..... maybe like Fed-Ex ground pulling doubles or something else.
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