Does anyone work for Keystone?

truckinusa · #1 (**permalink**) 08-28-2009, 08:07 AM

I'm wondering what its like working for Keystone. Im interested in any info about pay, benefits, etc. I applied with them a long time ago. They used to have dedicated operations with Best Buy stores.

Big Bill · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2009, 09:25 AM

Keystone will, from time to time, place ads in the paper, or on boards, just to see what's happening in the industry. Who's leaving who and for what reasons.

Basically, their trying to get the pulse of what's going on in a certain area or region. Why? Because the serve as a "dedicated house carrier" for the most part. Best Buy and other retailers are some of the main stream business.

They mainly slip-seat drivers and need drivers in spurts. I've seen their equipment and it's not all that bad, could be better. Their driver pool seems to be of the average rank-n-file people that service box stores. I haven't heard bad things about them, but the areas that they serve can be a tight fit for 48's.

Just be mindfull of pulling double pups, then using the retail's parking lot to do switching. By that I mean, pulling double pups into a lot, hook and unhook, spot'g one box, rehooking then moving on and doing said same somewhere else. I use to run accross a youngster doing that in a Long Island, NY strip mall doing that. He back'd up into a couple of shopping carts buried in the snow, drag'd them for about four miles before I could get him to pull over. Said he never saw them.(?)

That's about all I know about Keystone. Wish you the best.

Gonfercoffee · #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2009, 08:08 PM

Keystone, NRT,...Walsh trucking

I believe their benefits are from local 1964 of the ILA (longshoremen)
I was a member years ago and Walsh and NRT were big players in the union
(while I was a member btw the president of the union and his son the treasurer were murdered in the union office)

PFM · #4 (**permalink**) 08-29-2009, 12:31 PM

The Best Buy Keystone operation is not union - I drove for them for a few years out of Best Buy's DC in Nichols, NY. Pulled mostly 53s throughout the Mid-Atlantic/New England stores, but also ran out to OH and VA, and CA once or twice. Equipment was decent at the time, Freightliner Columbias and some Macks, and a couple of day cabs. Trailers are usually pretty good condition, except for the usual lease trailers. Doubles were pulled by one or two drivers down to smaller DCs in Jersey, where the NRT (union) city guys would take them into most of the boroughs.

Cerberus_Kelpie · #5 (**permalink**) 08-29-2009, 12:43 PM

If a Driver has EVER HAD A DWI, DUI, OUI, this Driver is not considered for employment. Ever means EVER regardless of age of occurrence.
I found this out last year BEFORE filling out an application at a division of NRI/Keystone in NC.

truckinusa · #6 (**permalink**) 08-30-2009, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Cerberus_Kelpie

If a Driver has EVER HAD A DWI, DUI, OUI, this Driver is not considered for employment. Ever means EVER regardless of age of occurrence.
I found this out last year BEFORE filling out an application at a division of NRI/Keystone in NC.

I'm not completely certain, but the only one that could possibly know this would be the police. Of course if you went to Canada you may run into problems if you didn't have a pardon.

None of these were my questions though! Interesting information for anyone else.