Averitt | Rant !!
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I have had 6 in 7 weeks.One was a steer tire.Yes I do a pre-trip using a ballpeen and a air gage.
You will because after a casing has been capped a number of times, the casing is no good.
As for 2 tires in 450 dispatches...you are just lucky! You will feel the effects of this new tire change policy before yolu know it so don't file that problem (oh wait...opportunity) too far away.
Goodyears.......ARRRGH!....My GOD.... Bridgstone Steer tires are the INDUSTRY STANDARD.....I run 11700-12200 on the steers ALL the time, I have 100k on mine right now and they still look great. I've have never in over 2.5 millon miles EVER lost a Bridgstone Steer tire, I have NEVER lost a Virgin Bridgstone tire drive or trl to a blow out....I do check my trl tires every day and during stops and BEFORE I DROP IT. I've seen the new recap drv tire pattern...not impressive!
Southern Tire Mart was the vendor most used in the south. I see Wingfoot locations all over the place (Flying J is one example). Is this who we will visit if we are on the road?
I also am not impressed by the new drive cap tread pattern. One of them totally peeled the cap under pressure of a 28k load but the tire stayed aired up. Cheap is the AE norm!
My daycab "had" a set of fresh Goodyears on the steer. Even after having been balanced they shook so violently that I had them pulled off.
I also am not impressed by the new drive cap tread pattern. One of them totally peeled the cap under pressure of a 28k load but the tire stayed aired up. Cheap is the AE norm!
My daycab "had" a set of fresh Goodyears on the steer. Even after having been balanced they shook so violently that I had them pulled off.
I'm in that same boat with ya. I never look at what time I'm to arrive, I just get the paperwork and hit the road.
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Funny, we never heard about this! But with the terminal manager we have it doesn't surprise me one bit. $250 to be on time? Doesn't seem like for that little amount that it is THAT important to them.
We had a combo driver leave us and go to a competitor whose tractors are almost the same color red as ours with yellow lettering (you all know who I am referring to!). He started out making more cpm than he was topped out at here at AE (.425 per mi.) and will get increases over the next 18 months until he tops out at significantly more than $.50 per mile. They also get paid for drops and hooks, off route miles, etc. They also top out at 4 weeks vacation time. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
But "woe is me Averitt and their "times are tough, we aren't making any money, fuel prices are too high"...the list of whining excuses is endless. We as employees continue to clap like seals at every falsehood they shoot down the pike as we have no way to substantiate their ludicrous claims since AE is not publicly traded. We are lead to believe that we are supposed to believe everything that Richard K spews out.
Most of us have their number (I know full well that I do). Until the middle and upper levels of management are sent packing and we have some competent individuals that know what the hell they are doing (most likely as a result of a buyout), prepare to live with what you are getting currently. It will never ever change.
But "woe is me Averitt and their "times are tough, we aren't making any money, fuel prices are too high"...the list of whining excuses is endless. We as employees continue to clap like seals at every falsehood they shoot down the pike as we have no way to substantiate their ludicrous claims since AE is not publicly traded. We are lead to believe that we are supposed to believe everything that Richard K spews out.
Most of us have their number (I know full well that I do). Until the middle and upper levels of management are sent packing and we have some competent individuals that know what the hell they are doing (most likely as a result of a buyout), prepare to live with what you are getting currently. It will never ever change.
Reading the current edition of "The Pravda"...AE's propaganda rag and saw this paragraph in one of the fabricated stories.
For the last
eight-and-a-half years, David
has watched over outbound
operations while also serving
as a “freight firefighter,” as he
calls it.
Are you kidding me?
For the last
eight-and-a-half years, David
has watched over outbound
operations while also serving
as a “freight firefighter,” as he
calls it.
Are you kidding me?
