united road

Where do you live first of all, and will you be driving a daycab or sleeper truck? Daycabs either return to home base daily or get a motel every night. Sleepers are allowed a motel every other night. The drivers I have talked to both owner ops and company drivers say easy to work for, keep logs legal and don't damage the vehicles. They seem to have loads all over the country.

 

United Road here in my area, which by the way we have ships coming in frequently and rail as well, United Road is CONSTANTLY hiring. To me, the says, "stay away".

There is PMTG (I think is the name) they are in MI i think?? Might be a better choice, you go to their home terminal for about 2 weeks for training. They have open and closed trailers. I qualified a few years back, but I could not leave for the 2 week period.

http://www.pmtghome.com/

These people haul the high end cars. and most likely many others as well. I see them all the time at BMW, Mercedes, Volvo dealers.

 

I have worked for united road for 3 years. I love hauling cars and so long as I drive a truck it's really all I want to do. It is truck east coast drivers get the day cab and have to stay in hotels, sometimes dirty hotels. I prefer a sleeper myself but those are only givin to the owner ops and that entails a whole new ball game. United road however is beginning to become rather arrogant about the lifestyle choices of its drivers. It's very angering to put up with their gradual encroachments on the drivers personal choices. That said I refuse to leave the company until they show their full ###, because job hopping isn't for me and the other big names in the business have similar business models and ultimately would end up being a draw to go work for... If you want to haul cars try to find a smaller company to work with with between 25 and 100 trucks. They seem to be more versatile in the loads they chase after and the atmosphere is a bit free'er to live as you choose. With one obviouse catch, don't damage the cars. All that said united road is a good company and they have pretty good benefits. And a couple individuals in management are also truck drivers that allways boosts the respect level.