Continental Express Sidney Ohio

There are more minuses than pluses with this local company that have a few terminals around the South and South West.
The unions could do great things here if they were not over 100% on accidents with the CSA score and might be shut down soon.
Worked for them since spring on a few so called dedicated accounts but they really cannot be considered as such because it is a grab bag of what you will bring back. They insist you run OTR if your dedicated is not running which is again, a grab bag of crap. They expect the drivers to have no home lives, which in the 70s and 80s might have been fine but us younger drivers are not the old road dogs living in truck stops and cat houses.The pay is so so and off the dedicated it really sucks. The dispatchers do not listen to the drivers.
They also tell you when you hire in that if you leave without 5 days notice that they will deduct 100.00 for some fee but yet took 500.00 from my buddy and said it was the new rule that no one told him or I about. They waived mine as they informed me since he was the one they had it out for and hoped I would stay but understood that I would not do OTR.
In a nutshell just another crap company that while the maintenance is great, they treat the drivers like slaves to the grind then wonder why they have so many wrecking. They seem to use Craigslist as their advertising department if that tells you anything. I will be shocked if they survive the next round of the DOT coming in after their encounter this past spring.

 

My thinking is with their score and the DOT already having intervened that they will not be around long. The day they hit 100% and sent out a Qualcom message about it, they had two more accidents including one that involved a fatality.

 

I know of a great local company but is heavy on drivers right now, hoping they pick up and I can go over there and be done playing "Find the good company" and stay somewhere.

 

Do you ever stop kissing the rears of welfare trucking companies? I am starting to think you are a shill for CE, perhaps one of the other local welfare companies or a newbie who does not know any better.
That said, yes there are some good ones but CE is not one of them. Look at the record they have and the losers that keep kissing the rear of the idiots who run it. You mention ONE wreck...they are over 100% on accidents...not to mention fatalities.
As to unions, they have a time and place and many of these company drivers could benefit from them. I am not a big union guy but have enough sense to know that these companies are walking on drivers and some (like you) just keep bending over and saying "May I have another".
No they do not make a pill for what ails folks like you, your condition is quite terminal... it's called weakness.