Tandem....good and bad

any recent info on tandem still a good company?

 

Weird about the big bucks. I just recently talked to a driver that had just started working for them for ........ .34 CPM which seems absurd for all the work that goes into flatbed work. 12-14 hundred a week seems far fetched........there needs to be some elaboration on their pay.

 

Pictak if you worked for them for 3 yrs and stop working in 1998 then how did you get a 1998 truck your 1 year? Just checking what you wrote.

 

That was ten years ago when the economy was in good shape.....most companies have tightened there purse strings over the last years or so.

 

i worked for tandem foe just over a year, first six months was fine, made good money avg gross about 1,100 a week and home weekends.about 7 months in getting home weekends was getting irreagular and started getting less miles. about 10 months geeting home was like pulling teeth and was averaging about 2,00o miles a week then 1800 and so on and was staying out weekends. there favorite thing was to give you a load on friday that delivered on monday and was just over 300 miles away.i called the main office in michigan city once and complainend, everything was good for 2 weeks and then de ja vu. i took my vacation an left while on vacation, took my truck back to the terminal turned in all issued equipment. they are refusing to pay me my vacation pay now. stating i didnt qualify for a paid vacation, everything i have says paid vacation after 1 year

 

Id guess it to be like this...

He started in 96. One year later is 97. The 98 trucks came out in 97. He quit in 98.

 

i worked for tandem transport for just over a year. no problems for my first 7 or 8 months, i was paid 42 cents a mile and was grossing about 1.100 a week. worked hard but not bad money.equipment was old but it ran ok. i was home useually late fri or early sat. then i started getting home late sat less miles. then started getting home every other weekend to once a month. miles steady dropping off and was not getting tarp pay regular.there favorite trick to keep u up north was to give you a load friday afternoon that delivered on monday and was only 250 to 300 miles away(i worked out of there Savannah Ga, Terminal).when i left i was lucky to get 1700 miles a week staying out weekends. i quit while on vacation. took my truck back to savannah and turned in all issued equipment, now there refusing me my vacation pay saying i didnt qualify. everything i have says paid vcation after 1 year. going to the labor board to file a complaint, hope it works

 

I drove for Tandem for about 7 months, lots of flatbed experience before that. Been off the road for a while, working in construction. If the money is there I'm thinking about a return. Left on good terms, also checking on Cypress.