Alabama Motor Express, Dothan AL. Welcome to Alabama Motor Express, Inc.

 

Actually I work there because I am home every weekend and can still bring home about $800 a week or so. I don't know how well the east coast does. As far as the recent felonies go I have never even been arrested. Maintenance, you can get a P.M. after as little 8,000 miles. For major repairs you actually have to leave your truck at the shop and drive a loaner. They do get tarps repaired, but most of the drivers are to lazy to go to the shop and exchange them, that is the problem with that. Also on the securement you just have to go the yard and get it, they have never even asked for the old straps that I was replacing. Once again the problem there is the drivers because all equipment stays on the trailer so they just leave for the next guy to deal with. They do have old equipment, but if a driver actually inspects his truck and writes up the problems repairs will be made.

 

Take it with a grain of salt but Heartland has a regional out of Jacksonville. They hire with 1 year experience. I don't know how the guys out of that terminal do on a regular basis. I've talked to some who did well and some who didn't do hardly anything. Just a thought. I did o.k. with 'em, but others haven't been so lucky.

Good luck finding a job. If you want to run OTR you might look at reefer companies that haul a lot of produce out of Florida. I know Stevens used to hire out of there and a couple others.

 

Well i don't and wouldn't work there,so everything i have said came right from yall's drivers mouth's.i have nothing to gain or lose by my comment's,just getting them from the driver's mouth's that i run with on a pretty consistent basis.

 

Ill fill out for Alabama Motor Express thanks orangetxguy.I'll have to think about cypress because evey time I saw there equipment it wasnt so good and I really dont need more problems in my life, I think that company would just add to it.Plus I dont have any flatbed experience. I would like to get with a reefer company but I'm not to pickey right now.

 

Don't know just where in North FL you are, but there's "SERVICE TRUCKING" in Eustes. East out of Leesburg on 44, take a left on CR-44 and you'll go right past them. Don't know if they're hiring, though.

 

I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you. These are probably the same drivers the mechanics were talking about. They park their truck on the READYLINE on Friday, leave the write up in the truck and gripe that their truck didn't get repaired before they left on Sunday. Their trucks are old and most aren't to pretty, but I personally haven't seen any that were not safe. My opinion is that most of the problem is our drivers.

 

Florida = cheap $$$ trucking jobs. Lots of freight going in, not much coming out besides loads that pay close to 0. Alot of outfits will simply deadhead you up to GA rather than haul a Florida load for nothing. Hard for OTR companies to get you home. Unless you can maybe hire-on with an LTL carrier or something but good luck with that. Most guys can't hack bottom of the board and they quit.

 

How do you "constitute a driving school"??

 

Hey i'm just saying it like it is advertised on the company website, they will factor in a driving school for experience, how much experience i don't know? I'm just giving the man the facts that i know.