Current Employee
- Apr 19, 2021
I run Laredo to Greer and back. Go home. Disp pissed I go home weekly. He tells me he can’t make money off me running one week out. So here we go..disp doesn’t communicate properly. If u call about your pay or a pay related issue no one answers the phone. And no calls back either to address your issue EVER. Take mileage from you behind ur back. Talk at you not to you. Force dispatch. And your payin for the Qualcomm at $7 a week. Watch your money...they float that too. Short settlements happen and guess what...we don’t answer phones. I shocked this place is part of NFI now and it’s worse.
Pros
I own the truck and drive it.
Equipment and Maintenance
No Rating
Current Employee
- Mar 22, 2019
They can't keep drivers - OTR driver and keep getting short local runs back and forth to Charlotte in the middle of rush hour - doesn't matter if you drive day or night. Sometimes you will end your night with still 5 or 6 hours left on the clock. LOW PAY!!! 0.40 mile with less than a year, 0.42 mile for someone with 3 + years exp. Miles are low each week, unless you get lucky but that's only maybe once or twice a month vs on a regular basis. Also only pay zip code to zip code and so if you track your miles - you drive approx. 400 miles per week for FREE! So far this year if things don't pick up I'll lucky make 10,000 dollars! Other drivers say they will be lucky if they make $20,000! Looks like they lost another great account Lowes, already lost John Deere - transitioning out - all because they won't repair their trailers or take too long to pick up trailers - Companies like EPES is swooping in and since G&P is ripe for the picking they are taking them out. Night dispatchers are a joke - so is the SHOP, that's if they answer the phone. They will call and tell you your truck is ready only for you to drive or make your way over to the SHOP or the INTERNATIONAL dealer only to find out the truck is not ready - Communication sucks! Also then tell you to go home and wait for a call - supposedly no day cab trucks available for you to use - been out of work almost a week several times - can't pay my rent on that! Then if you complain they don't care and say well you could have driven a day cab and your scratching your head like WHAT???? you guys said there were no day cabs available. Will screw you over in a heartbeat with shop, detention ect pay.... Trailers are in serious need of being taken to the graveyard - drivers don't get paid without a fight to take things to the shop so they don't report problems and just leave it for another driver. Also will tell me I am going to be home every weekend and instead you will get stuck out sometimes only an hour from home but because you work the full 14 hours and 70 hour shift per week you have to wait until after a 10- hour break to make it home, or risk HOS violation even with personal conveyance if it will let you use it. Then you finally get home and have to sleep most of the day instead of spending time with your family and then as soon as the 34 hour rest is up back out again just to do it all over again - NO WORK LIFE BALANCE!
Pros
There are no pro's - used to be but not anymore.
Cons
LOW Pay
LOW MILES
WORK FOR FREE
CRAPPY EQUIPMENT
DISPATCHERS play around too much
NIGHT DISPATCH never knows what is going on
POOR COMMUNICATION
SHOP MECHANICS - I don't know where they got their certification because they will "fix" the truck only to have it break down before you barely get out of the SHOP.
HOME TIME is negative stars
Equipment and Maintenance
Former Employee
- Nov 24, 2018
They have ex-cons like William Kirkpatrick using their trucking business to traffic drugs. They don't do thorough background or social media checks
Equipment and Maintenance
Current Employee
- Jun 24, 2017
...been o/ op and company driver 7 yrs. They lost most of BMW . mm you sit in Laredo plus now it takes 3 days to get their. terrible planners you Do local deliveries for 25 bucks and it can take hours to get unloaded
14 hrs a day 70 hrs a week only 34 hrs off for peanuts
Cons
Dispatch terrible. Greer sc garage terrible.. big turnover .. they will jerk you around until you quit don't drive for this greedy company they've lost all their good accounts .I sat every holiday in Laredo TX for 7 years.
owner ops beware you'll go bankrupt
Equipment and Maintenance
Current Employee
- May 19, 2017
Don't be an owner op with truck payments they only pay 88 com plus F's you will go bankrupt...company drivers dispatch will send email to payroll to deduct money from your check and not even mention to you why their doing it....use to be a good company freight up n down good miles one week out of the month go home couple days. A week stay out as long as you like saftey Dept is good people Greer SC shop is a joke nite dispatch is a comedy act all the good people in charge retired or quit new dispatchers think a computer is all you need to deliver a load and drivers should run by their schedule not considering traffic breakdowns etc you will work 14 hrs only get 30 minute break and work 70 hours but if you get 2500 miles your lucky....
Pros
Texas fleet is the best regional sux
Cons
They will svrew you over in a heartbeat
Equipment and Maintenance