**warning do not work for hub group trucking**

Dallas might not be bad but Harrisburg sure is. My settlement has been wrong every week for the past three months. Then as bad-luck pointed out, they promised a rate increase but they worked it in such a way that ultimately it's a decrease.

 

I'm with HGT myself. Iv been on the OTR Highway Division since I started here, make good money over here. I just recently purchased a daycab and going to try the intermodal division out of Atlanta to be home every night as I have a little one on the way soon!! Got a good driver/Mechanic lined up to drive my OTR truck so hopefully it all works out... Of not there's plenty other companies looking for drivers!!!

 

I'm currently a Hub Group Trucking company driver, with any job there comes communication. Yes it is INTERMODAL work but we do NOT take the containers that is overweight. You have to send the proper message to dispatch which you probably did NOT do. If the load is nose was heavy, we take it to a secondary place where it can be fix and let dispatch know. Common sense tell you if the load is too heavy, DO NOT pull it from the beginning. Some people just don't have common sense. As far the lease program, that's old news. They have a new system with all the trucks that were leased, they paid all the trucks off and no more lease purchase program. The company is paying the drivers to rent their trucks. You didn't stay there long enough. As far as a 3% raise, never heard of it but, they do pay safety bonuses when you are a good driver they reward you with generous pay. I haven't seen the rates lowered. I never had a problem with any of my settlements. I you do have a problem, all you had to do was call payroll and they will fix it and it will be on your next pay period. 12 - 14 hours a day is nothing when you set your own schedule. Do the math!!!! The dispatch is easy to get a whole to, who were you trying to call? There is a 100% of getting in contact to dispatch. You must got tired of typing on the qual com in the truck. The management was great. Are you sure you worked for The Hub Group?

 

.....wait a minute ! , so if the load is too heavy ,the driver pulls it to another warehouse to have them reload it ? ....the OP didn't mention that part
So after the driver goes through the procedure of having the 43k pound load re worked ,he can drag that mother across the mountins to it's destination
The OP also forgot to mention that payroll would promptly take care of weekly settlements ( see if you catch us next week ) ....the L/P trucks are paid off so the company pays the driver to rent their equipment ? ....3% increase to the driving force is better for pulling those fuel sucker loads across mountin ranges .....maybe HUB is not such a bad company after all

 

Hub group is cutting very corner they can, right now in the Midwest they are only hiring company drivers. 35% of all the O/O's had left. Payroll dept is a disaster, good luck getting paid for the runs you do. If you getting pass that, how you have pull they rail road junk chassis. At least 65% of all the chassis you pull, DOT will put you out of service, they are horrible maintained and the DOT knows it.

 

ehehehe I love going to the comtrak yard with my empties and watch the drivers fight for it because they have loads to pick up but no good chassis to haul it! I rotate chassis so I can have one in good condition in my yard at all times!

 

Comtrak/HGT is no longer a go to carrier, well at least in California they are not. Stay away!!

 

Wow, absolutely not my experience there. I always made the load work or returned to shipper. If load is to heavy at rail , don't pull it.
I worked everyday, usually 2-3 loads a day. I averaged 3,000 miles a week. My checks were $3-$3700 a week. Home almost every night. They have loaned me 10's if thousands of $ for repairs . Yes, they don't answer the phone, yes , loads are heavy. Chassis generally suck. But , I am capable of making them road legal , usually in less than 1/2 hour .
There is probably very few companies where you can be home every night and make that kind of many. Most of the drivers here that don't make it are lazy ##### anyway, and they are better off elsewhere .
My thanks and deepest gratitude to hubgroup trucking / comtrak , working there I have been able to buy a house, payoff my truck, have 3 kids and couldn't ask for anything more , pulling containers in and out of Chicago everyday....Thanks Hub Group.

 

Much of the weight issues with container boxes can be resolved with a hefty permit of sufficient weight capacity.

I carried a permit in the truck's permit book allowing me to take 100K anywhere in Md and VA at any time. But some of the boxes approached 140K which happens to be just about the max weight before failure in at least one DOT scale I wrecked. It could have been a 155K box, but no one will know without counting out the entire contents of it and adding up the weights of each. In that situation the 100K permit is useless. And tickets are written for thousands of dollars against the company. There is no point in writing against me because at 21, you do not have that kind of money. (And results in a bench warrent, arrest etc etc etc...)

It's a given containers will always be over something. But the biggest thing is you obey what the maximums are printed on the doors for gross weight in the box. Never load it beyond that weight because if a crane at the dock gets a hold of it and it's too heavy it could be dropped or even topple the thing all over the ship or worse backwards onto the dock and kill people.

I am not involved in container work anymore, have not been for decades for reasons other than weights. mainly when you run a box to norfolk and then sit all day waiting on a return order to Baltimore, without a sleeper berth or hotel. then falling asleep as you return to Baltimore way outside your hours 30 hours after you have left to go the previous day, it's not safe as far as I am concerned. When I resigned from Port East, I specifically wrote to them to put sleeper trucks on that work, to at least protect people from driving while over tired.