Cassens Transport reviews

How often you are home is a direct result of the type of terminal operation you are working out of. If you are based out of a railhead, the traffic is generally local to out around 200-300 miles. They would run local and shortline type of trips. Home every night or day if they run local slipseat and maybe out 1 or 2 nights a week on shortline. Or work from an assembly plant and you could be out all week. Or they may do round robin type dispatch where you load from your home domicile deliver, go into another terminal load/deliver, go into a 3rd terminal load toward home/deliver.
Keep in mind, in a union barn, seniority prevails. The bottom drivers get what is left over. I know in this age of entitlement that may seem like a tough pill to swallow, however a new driver has to suck it up and pay their dues so to speak.

Q: So cassens has some sleeper trucks then? Or do they put you up in a hotel all the time?

A: Any Cassens trucks I see in Ontario are always parked in the Hotels... I see them in Oshawa,Ont all the time at the hotel not far from my house... I have also seen them in other hotels as well... Most of time that I see them they have 2-3 guys parked in the hotel... I have yet to see any cassens sleeper trucks....

Working out of Detroit you are "probably" going to be running short or local for a while. Even when you run the road you probably won't be gone more than a couple nights at a time, once you learn the job and can load and unload in a reasonable amount of time. In my opinion the worst case would be working night slip seat and having to drive back and forth to the Detroit area daily and working at night. You should ask them if this is what you will be doing, just in case that type of schedule isn't for you. Some terminals there are senior drivers who like working nights and pick these jobs and other terminals they have to force the bottom drivers to fill those spots because nobody wants them.

Good luck to you. Cassens is a solid company. Stick with it and you will not regret it. There will be a day or two that you think about packing it in, don't worry about it. All of a sudden it all "clicks" and you never look back. Carhauling gets into your blood.

If your driving record is clean and you don't change jobs every year most good companies will train you. 

I recommend Cassens in Smyrna.

If you're in the Nashville area I'd go with Cassens. There in need of 5-6 drivers.

Smyrna doesn't have junk equipment. There one of the best shops we have. And even there dispatch has good paying traffic.

Cassens is the last traditional family owned Auto Carrier left. They have survived as a family entity thru many down economy trends including the last one in 2008 that put the rest on the skids. They must be doing something right don't you think?