You guys aint right! Keep it up lmao.
whatever Mr. "all is gonna end soon guy." your little fuel crisis and all that Iran pirate stuff
I think it's a good time to get this one back on the headline page.
Even though this tough economic storm is blowing hard and sinking ships all around us, the good ole USS Estes is still floating. Full steam ahead Captain Rob! :boat:
I still say if Rob will open a foodservice division, I will be all over it, I am still sending $100.00 per week to the terminal here, just to do my part ya know!! I love The Big E too!!!!!
Hey GT! good to hear from ya! If we start a grocery div. I'm gonna nominate you to run it. You know how to kick them groceries off bettern anybody!
I would do it!!! I would be proud to work for Big E Foodservice, I'd run a tight ship too, only the best in customer service!!!!
I LOVE GOOGLE. welcome and tell everyone at your barn about truckingboardsAs someone who just found these boards while doing a search for the big buy up of YRC property I'd like to make this my first post.
As someone who just found these boards while doing a search for the big buy up of YRC property I'd like to make this my first post.
I've been working for Big E for almost 12 years now and I have to say it is the best trucking job I've ever had. I started as a team driver and worked my way to the extra board, the green board, and finally my own run.
The company is laid back and I have all the freedom I need. If I need a day off no one questions it and I can freely take off whenever I need as long as I have someone to cover my run. (even if there is no one to cover it, they never complain) Back before the "big change" I never worked a Sunday in 7 years as someone was always wanting to work it and I often had Fridays off by letting a 3/2 laydown driver run it for extra cash on his Fridays off. No one ever *****ed at me or complained that I had too much time off. As the terminal manager used to say, "as long as it's covered, I don't care." What more could one ask for?
If one has a complaint they can just phone the head office and speak to one of the execs directly and THEY LISTEN and get things done more often than not. You do not even have to give your name if don't want to.
The trucks are well maintained and I never have to worry about "slip seating". Write it up and it's fixed immediately.
The pay is among the highest in the industry and where else could a truck driver make $60k+/year while only working from 8pm - 4 am (I have a short run and prefer it that way) and weekends off?
Others may beg to differ but, do your job, drive safe and legal and you'll have a great job for a long time as the company will never bother you. It may not be a utopia, but it is as close as I've come to a utopia on this planet.
I had a job like that too !! Family run and you could even talk to the owner when he came around at least twice a year. Then the family got out of the day to day things and turned it over to the bean counter boys that are running it today. Matter of fact they just sold Estes a few propertys.As someone who just found these boards while doing a search for the big buy up of YRC property I'd like to make this my first post.
I've been working for Big E for almost 12 years now and I have to say it is the best trucking job I've ever had. I started as a team driver and worked my way to the extra board, the green board, and finally my own run.
The company is laid back and I have all the freedom I need. If I need a day off no one questions it and I can freely take off whenever I need as long as I have someone to cover my run. (even if there is no one to cover it, they never complain) Back before the "big change" I never worked a Sunday in 7 years as someone was always wanting to work it and I often had Fridays off by letting a 3/2 laydown driver run it for extra cash on his Fridays off. No one ever *****ed at me or complained that I had too much time off. As the terminal manager used to say, "as long as it's covered, I don't care." What more could one ask for?
If one has a complaint they can just phone the head office and speak to one of the execs directly and THEY LISTEN and get things done more often than not. You do not even have to give your name if don't want to.
The trucks are well maintained and I never have to worry about "slip seating". Write it up and it's fixed immediately.
The pay is among the highest in the industry and where else could a truck driver make $60k+/year while only working from 8pm - 4 am (I have a short run and prefer it that way) and weekends off?
Others may beg to differ but, do your job, drive safe and legal and you'll have a great job for a long time as the company will never bother you. It may not be a utopia, but it is as close as I've come to a utopia on this planet.
As someone who just found these boards while doing a search for the big buy up of YRC property I'd like to make this my first post.
I've been working for Big E for almost 12 years now and I have to say it is the best trucking job I've ever had. I started as a team driver and worked my way to the extra board, the green board, and finally my own run.
The company is laid back and I have all the freedom I need. If I need a day off no one questions it and I can freely take off whenever I need as long as I have someone to cover my run. (even if there is no one to cover it, they never complain) Back before the "big change" I never worked a Sunday in 7 years as someone was always wanting to work it and I often had Fridays off by letting a 3/2 laydown driver run it for extra cash on his Fridays off. No one ever *****ed at me or complained that I had too much time off. As the terminal manager used to say, "as long as it's covered, I don't care." What more could one ask for?
If one has a complaint they can just phone the head office and speak to one of the execs directly and THEY LISTEN and get things done more often than not. You do not even have to give your name if don't want to.
The trucks are well maintained and I never have to worry about "slip seating". Write it up and it's fixed immediately.
The pay is among the highest in the industry and where else could a truck driver make $60k+/year while only working from 8pm - 4 am (I have a short run and prefer it that way) and weekends off?
Others may beg to differ but, do your job, drive safe and legal and you'll have a great job for a long time as the company will never bother you. It may not be a utopia, but it is as close as I've come to a utopia on this planet.
Hang in there BuzzBeez it will get better!!! this is a Great place to work!
INTOTHENOW said:Now this is a line I have heard for a long time, but the last 2 years or so things have been getting worse. We are down on freight, guys sittin home or get out on the road and sit for 24 hours at a time at terminals and etc. .
The ship is sinking that is all I am seeing. Drivers getting treated like crap, rude dispatchers, this new way of doing linehaul sucks, etc.
This is what a man thinks that has to run the road all week.