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RookieJ1987 · Feb 7, 2016

Dogals right foot said: ↑

This is a old thread but they STILL use Freightliner Cascadia's..DD13,10 speed.
They have small bunks but really aren't that bad..I ran regional with no issues.
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Are their trucks governed? Im planning to move back to Philly from this hellhole in Florida..

Dogals right foot · Feb 12, 2016

RookieJ1987 said: ↑

Are their trucks governed? Im planning to move back to Philly from this hellhole in Florida..
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Yes they're governed..65 mph.

RookieJ1987 · Feb 12, 2016

Dogals right foot said: ↑

Yes they're governed..65 mph.
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65 is good! Man i just wish i was up there right now.

RookieJ1987 · Feb 20, 2016

RookieJ1987 said: ↑

65 is good! Man i just wish i was up there right now.
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How's their hometime? I spoke to Kathy out of the Newark DE Terminal. She told i had to be out 3 to 4 nights a week. I dont mind as long as the money is good and i could a 34 at the house..

Dogals right foot · Feb 20, 2016

Yeah I know Kathy and Doug the terminal manager.
They tell you out right that YOU are going to sleep in the truck..after all it has a sleeper.
Doug likes to get his drivers home for the weekend so you should be fine.
Just remember stuff happens and you may get stuck out.
Money wise it's up to you.
I ran Canada and that made a HUGE difference in my check.
They aren't a bad outfit..not perfect but what company is?

RookieJ1987 · Feb 20, 2016

Dogals right foot said: ↑

Yeah I know Kathy and Doug the terminal manager.
They tell you out right that YOU are going to sleep in the truck..after all it has a sleeper.
Doug likes to get his drivers home for the weekend so you should be fine.
Just remember stuff happens and you may get stuck out.
Money wise it's up to you.
I ran Canada and that made a HUGE difference in my check.
They aren't a bad outfit..not perfect but what company is?
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There aint none really lol! But I'm really fed up with the van side of trucking. I yanked a tanker last summer for a diffrent carrier and loved it.

Lalito.1234 · Mar 3, 2016

how much is owner operator pay?

RookieJ1987 · Mar 27, 2016

Kathy wanna set me up for orientation for Apr 4th in Newark, De. I gotta get a physical first. i hope they dont flag me for that sleep study scam at their clinic.

RookieJ1987 · Apr 15, 2016

Truck-N-Tech said: ↑

Just to clarify a few things for people reading this thread.

Here's a little background on me:
Started driving for Foodliner in August, 2005. By January of 2006, I was the top money earner in the Langhorne, PA terminal. I did local running, hitting New York twice a night, at $150 a pop. Even though I took 10 weeks off, 9 of which were not paid, in 2008, I still grossed $71,000.00 I would do my 10 runs to NY, and maybe 1 load every other Saturday. I was terminated by Foodliner in September of 2010. Within my 5 years there, I got an award for what they call a "PERFECT YEAR", the last 4 years in a row. I also had 5 years safe driving, having never so much as scratched a mirror on my truck, EVER!

First of all, DriverJoe is correct about not breaking the guarantee, in all cases except if you get put on one of their rare, high paying accounts. I was grossing over $1,800 a week, but I was 1 of only 3 drivers who were making more than the $1,000 a week guarantee. The other 2 drivers doing better than the guarantee were grossing around $1,100 a week. Breaking the guarantee is possible, so Driver Joe is not 100% correct, but unless you get lucky enough to get put on some special account, what he said is correct.

Dogals Right Foot's attitude about drivers not fitting in, being the reason they are not doing well, is an out and out false statement. Most of the drivers that I worked with were great, hard working men. They did everything that was asked of them, and never complained.For all their hard work and dedication, they were rewarded with being held down to making the Guarantee each week.

If you are wondering why Foodliner would terminate me, if I was as great of a driver as I say, well......
I got fired for what I wrote right here on this very website. I was talking about things going bad at Foodliner, and that I would have to start looking around for something else. I was heartbroken more than angry, since my time at Foodliner was the best 5 years I ever had in a truck. I posted words to that effect at about 9 Am, and got a phone call at 9 PM that same day, telling me to clean out my truck. I was fired.

I asked Frank DiStillio to point out a single word of what I wrote that was not true, and he could not. He said it was about my negative attitude toward the company, not if what I wrote was true or not.

The guy who ratted me out to Foodliner was named "HOGBOY" on this website. The way he wrote, and general phrases he used were amazingly similar to Dogals Right Foot. HogBoy was a company plant, put in here to debunk negative comments made about Foodliner. It seems to me that either HOGBOY is back, under a different name, or we have someone trained the same way, to pick up the ball where HOGBOY left it, to run with it.

If anyone doubts what I write here, I will give full disclosure. My Name is Jim Smith. I have hair down to my belt. Ask about me at the Langhorne Terminal, and they will remember me. Even a couple guys who I did not get along with, told me I was given a raw deal, but that's not the point. The point is that Foodliner will lure you in with the promise of big money, only to hold you back from making it later.

If anyone wants to say I didn't fit in, or didn't want to sleep in a truck, they are fools. If they want to challenge my work ethic, they are also fools. I was their most productive, highest paid driver when I was fired, all because I wrote openly and honestly about the company here on the Trucker's report. Even after I was fired, I didn't "CRY" about anything. I moved on to bigger and better things. I just don't want to see some new people get caught up in the lies and poor treatment they will be subject to, in most cases, at Foodliner.
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So Hogboy and Dougals are the same person?

Dogals right foot · Apr 15, 2016

No I'm not Hogboy.
Christ not this again..I don't even work there anymore.
That's what I get for getting involved.
Figure it out for yourself.

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