Risinger Bros Transport reviews

A company defiantly not to work for.

2500 Escow

46000# plus loads

Ratty trailers

And .95 cpm. For o/o

Need I say more???

I have some. My experience with them about 7-8 wks. total from time of talking to recruiting to leaving them after 4 weeks of driving because of heart surgery. I talked to Tonya in recruiting most of the time, and she was very nice, helpful, and honest. Keep in mind I had already done 2 lease purchase with other companys, the last was 2011-2013 for a small company. It was a 18 month lease purchase. I got my title exactly when supposed at end of 18 mos. I was having health issues at that time and seems no doctors could tell me what was going on sold I decided to take some time off. It ended up being heart blockage, had a double bypass, and was out of work for 7-8 mos during this time, so sold truck. I have over 10 yrs of otr experience, 6 yrs of that was with my own authority and booking my own loads with a car hauler. So after the heart bypass I went to Risinger in Jan. 2014. During my talks with them I asked Tonya if she would send me a breakdown of all cost and total pymt etc. She sent me one from the main boss, showing me breakdowns with all the numbers and based on 2300, 2500, and 2700 miles. Also the differences at 6.0 mpg, 6.3, and 6.5. That in itself impressed me, for one he did not exaggerate his numbers, they were conservative, most companys would send you something showing 3000 miles and 7.3 mpg. Second, most will not even send you the total breakdown with all numbers. So I took a one way rental car, which they reimbursed me for. They put you up in a nice room by yourself, breakfast in morning, they feed you pizza, sandwiches that were great for lunch. dough nuts, man, I gained 10 lbs during orientation. Always was some kind of cookies or sweets. Orientation was smooth and easy. I have never to a company that were as friendly and nice as Risinger was in orientation and the main boss, including the safety dept and main boss. Dispatch not as friendly, but no butt holes, you can just tell a big difference, and I have never been at a company that had real friendly dispatchers. Now before I go ant further, I am not here to debate L/P, nor any of the other stuff some of you seem to know a million times more about than anyone else, except you have never done it, amazes me of the experts of things they have never done. When I went you had the choice of old trucks or newer, keep in mind I had paid off a older used on my last L/p, putting away plenty of maint/escrow to cover repairs expected. So I signed up for a 07 Volvo, 800,000 miles. When I went out to look at truck, as soon as I raised the hood, I seen the turbo was leaking oil and probably bad. I went into the shop and talked to them, they looked at it and said we are sorry, you are right, we will fix it. Now I know some are going to get on here and blast this right off the bat, some of you perfect people. But most all companies are covered up, and cant always get to everything quickly, and they do make mistakes, it happens. So they put me up in the same hotel for a week, and paid me breakdown pay. The reason I chose the older truck was this. You give them .12 per mile in a non refundable escrow, but they will fix anything what so ever goes wrong, without a penny from your pocket. So I figure most anything that will go wrong on a 800,000 mile will go wrong in 18 mos. So after 18 mos I have a paid for truck that has most things repaired. After getting on the road, I only made 3 weeks of trips before having to stop. My miles were 2400, 1400, and 2600. The 1400 was missing 4 days of work. I had went in on thurs morning at the shop to get a brake that was dragging fixed. It was not done til fri nite, and dispatch kind of dropped the ball on finding me a load. After sleeping in my truck fri nite and waiting most of the day sat waiting on a load, I went over to the motel til mon. And no, I was not happy. Mon morning I had a talk with some people, and was given 750.00 plus rooms paid for. So to me I don't think you could ask for a better company to work for. They did everything possible to make things right. Also, when I had my heart surgery,dont worry about the truck, they would try to come get it when they could, and after healing come on back to work when I was ready. They did not charge me 1 penny to come get the truck, from Morton IL -Knoxville TN. I will be released Feb 1 to go back to work from neck surgery, and am actually considering them again if they will hire me again. I would really like to go somewhere that I can dispatch my own loads, but with my finances the way they are after 2yrs of health problems and hospital bills, not sure I can accomplish that. If you pick a used truck, you can expect repairs, but they will do it because you are paying the maint in. If it has not changed, you only have to pay .06 per mile if you lease a new one, and again before the know it alls jump on here about .06 for a new truck, that is covering your oil, tires, wipers, anything the truck has to have. They also have great fuel discounts, which you can pull up on there web site. I had just looked over all my numbers this morning when I was with them, my fuel for the 3 weeks I ran, Ilinois-Wi, Wi-Pa, Pa-Wi, Wi- Ga, Ga-Tn, my fuel cost me .38 per mile. I did not experience any of the heavy paper loads in that short time, but they do have them. Most of mine were 15k- 25k, the pa ld back to wi was 40k. All of this being said, I would say 80% of L/p people fail, it is not for everyone, you need experience, you need common sense, you need to be a hard worker, you need to be disciplined. And regarding anothers post on here about how bad this company is, if you are not smart enough to buy yourself a good set of battery and afraid to ask a driver to please jump you off, not only do you not need to do a L/P, you probably should not even be considering being a truck driver. Hopefully this helps, hopefully does not offend to many, and most of all, im not here to debate and argue, so please don't jump on here messing up this thread with arguments.

Well if anybody still reads this post my update for risinger is very good after truck payments and every thing else I'm bringing home around 1200 a week. Most all loads I've done are uline of course most of which have only weighed around 30,000 other loads like broker loads or some small companies loads have only been averaging 6,000 to 12,000 which is good because about 30 to 40 percent are these loads . I've hauled maybe 6 to 8 international paper loads all of which have been 40,000 to 42,000 and almost all are drop and hook and then uline is 100 percent drop and hook so about 08 percent of all loads are drop n hook. My on complaint which I can't really make right now is that the trucks do not have apu, winter has been fine with no idle because of bunk heater but summer is gonna suck ,gonna cost around 200 dollars a week to idle so final checks will probably be 900 to 1000 in summer. There fuel discount at pilot is 30 to 40 cents off a gallon which is good but there fsc sucks it's 3 cpm right now. But so far a really good company, they treat you like a business owner which you are and if you ever need help you got it and if you can't find help you can go straight to the top and find help there. Hope this helps any one who is thinking of going there.

run very fast faster than you can drive the truck, all lies about $200k yearly you'll be happy if you make 30k for the year over there and the other 170k goes in there pocket

they steal all the money from you a million unnecessary deductions weekly .10 a mile non refundable that's about $300 a week then $599.00 a week for a truck that you will never own

then they say you make 1.38 per mile while every load is about 45,000 pounds heading north. one thing I can guarantee over there is that you will make less than a company driver fresh out of school. you drive all over the country with heavy loads away from your family and your still broke at the end of the week.

and please don't take a day off they will hate you and you will be in the hole forever.

just trying to warn fellow drivers if you need to make money stay away from risinger brothers in Chicago

I am a risinger driver too.I have been with them 2 years and yes the some of the loads are heavy but they also have light loads.I have seen many drivers get their title from a lease purchase.risinger does pay well and you get raises with longevity.i just got 1200.00 safety bonus that i get every 3 months.i also got 500.00 christmas bonus.if your truck has a issue they will help you to get rolling.you do need to tell them not other drivers when you have a problem.they cant help you if they dont know what the problem is.

Risinger is in the process of starving me out..... this is supposed to be a no forced dispatch company... I refuse to run PA with the bad weather up there. so for last month my checks been around $300 I am currently looking for other employment shouldn't be hard to find with my excellent driving record. Never will I ever lease/purchase with anyone again.