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cjwatson1972
Nov 10, 2014
Their good people, just some tricks to dealing with some....
allis327
Nov 25, 2014
Triple Crown is the only road railer fleet out there. It was a joint venture between Conrail and NS and now that Conrail is gone it's all NS.
sedain
Dec 8, 2011
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was out of Fort Worth terminal, but they call it the Dallas terminal. My
friends that are still there tell me it's gotten worse. They ding you for over
speed on "your" truck, ding you "breaking", (which friends
have said it's just when a car pulls out in front of you and you hit your
brakes), you'll have to have a talk with safety. Also if you put
"your" truck in the shop for any reason, even when you are paying the
bill, you have to call and report it to Road Service. As one driver said, he
was treated better, and had more freedom when he was a company driver for
another company. In the last two weeks I've talked to 5 people that said they
were going to quit. The only difference between a company driver and a TCS
driver is the TCS driver gets to pay truck expenses and tax out of his own
pocket. Average gross reported to me is between $1500 and $2000.
I talked to a driver on Saturday that said it's slow, but he's not going
anywhere. He got 2 contracts and 156 miles for the day, but he's at home almost
every night. The detention is almost automatic, if you are at a S/R for two
hours, you get an extra $20, three hours an additional $30, after four hours it
goes to $40 an hour. Not many companies match that detention pay policy.
But your maintenance cost will be about double of an OTR truck. It usually runs
about 7 cpm more than an OTR job, and steer tires seldom make it over 75,000
miles, which OTR can see upwards of 200,000. Drives also get about half the
mileage as it's mainly city work in rock yards, lots of bumper pins and nails
in the yards. TCS will not pay for tires ruined in their yard. Also as most of
your miles are run in the city, your fuel mileage will be worse as well.