Anyone have any info on American National Logistics?

Brother drives for them. Pay is .34-.36/mi. Currently have about 60 trucks. Reefers and Dry Box. Some O/O.
He runs 2800-3200 mi. a week. Freight slow right now. Mostly midwest/southeast/Northeast. Some CA.
They have constant ads in paper for drivers and dispatchers. Have problems keeping shop people. Nite shift goes home at 11, then you are on your own til day shift comes in.

 

Hiring pay is between .32 and .36 for Company Drivers and Teams Pay is .42 per mile paid to the truck. Currently have about 75 trucks. Reefers and Dry Box. Some O/O. On average drivers are getting 2800-3200 miles a week. OTR / Regional / Local in Dallas & Houston. 24 hour dispatch and getting new trucks quarterly. We are getting electronic logs in Jan 2014. Always looking for drivers

 

I find it hilarious that last year someone from this company bumped this topic only to say they are paying less than what they did in 2009. Have two friends working there and they are making .36 cpm. I was getting that in 2011 when I spent about 8 months with them. Decent miles but of course they offered all kinds of accessory pay and you had to fight tooth and nail to get it. It's a revolving door at that place because quite frankly who in their right mind would work for slave wages?

Seriously ANL bump this topic again in two years to say you're still paying 2009 wages.

ELOGS, 65 mph trucks, and slave wages, of course you're always looking for drivers...and you always will be.

 

I've worked for American National for 6 years. It's a trucking company like any other. There's good & bad. It's a small company (less then 100 trucks) with 1 terminal 30 miles east of downtown Dallas. It started as a brokering company then expanded to trucking. Since about 2011, the company got a national contract with a bottled water company & business exploded. The company had to hire local & regional drivers & had to buy new trucks & trailers. Its been hectic for the past couple of years while the company grew.
I'm an otr driver, 39cpm. We have Volvos or Cascadias (they tried Petes & KWs but they kept breaking down). Im in an older Volvo (2014). It has EZ Pass & Prepass. The truck does 65 mph & has e logs since last year. Despite complaints of drivers about e logs, I haven't lost any money. People will always find a way around them.
There is 1 otr dispatcher & 1 local dispatcher with some support people. There is 1 shop with 5 mechanics. Its not a meganational company. You can get anything done by just talking with people.
As otr I go out to Chicago, California or NE, then get a load back. It works for me. I make $52,000 a year. Its straight pay. No no fuel or safety bonus system to try to meet. Health insurance is good for single driver but expensive for family.
I have no idea about pay or work schedule for local or regional drivers. I just know that we have more business then drivets to handle it.

 

The company was a good small company where everyone felt like family but that's changed dramatically. A new management team has come in and implemented policies such as fining drivers for even the smallest infraction, or forcing drivers to waste their time (up to two hours) in a safety lane inspection. The idea itself isn't horrible but if you happen to get there when the shop is at lunch or otherwise engaged you are going to wait. The dispatch policy seems to be to get you as far away from the terminal as possible before mandating a 34 hour restart. They dispatch illegal runs always trying to push the drivers to the edge. I think the worst part is that they will repeatedly call you until you answer when your on a ten hour break. When in the office I actually heard one of the dispatchers being told to keep calling a driver although the dispatcher had just said he was sure the guy was sleeping. It turned out the guy had logged out of his elog at 1 am and run until 4 am. (14 total hours of driving). And management was demanding that dispatch keep calling the guy until he answered at 8 a.m. Because they were worried about a "time sensitive" load.
It's really sad to see what's become of ANL. The new managers, a couple of young brothers named John and Bradley Delgado, really have zero clue. All of us are hoping the company owner realizes this before they run the company into the ground or run the drivers who have remained off.

 

That's a shame to hear. Unfortunately, ANL, like all other van/reefer companies are of the low wage revolving door business model.

When I quit several years ago there were only a handful of drivers on elogs. We absolutely killed ourselves to bring home $800 to $1000 per week. There is just no way those numbers are attainable with ANL on elogs, on a weekly basis.

I was deeply saddened to learn of Tony's passing. I really enjoyed working there when he ran the show. I was one of about a dozen drivers that according to Tony, could do no wrong. We really worked hard for that company and Tony appreciated our efforts.

I would recommend ANL to one of those weirdos that live full time in the truck. You just aren't going to get quality planned time off there and no, that is not "just truckin"

I wish all in the ANL family the best. Just thankful I'm not one of them anymore.