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Post by glennw on Nov 18, 2003 22:10:57 GMT -5
I already have an offer and a start date with Halvor Lines in Superior, WI. But we had a recruiter from Gainey come through last week and their package is extremely competitive. The main differences are lifestyle things, the assurance of being able to bring the truck home, better insurance package for our needs, etc. I know Halvor is a good company, but I know little about Gainey. Does anybody have any experience with them?
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Post by kaptankarl on Jan 23, 2004 12:39:33 GMT -5
Glenn, I suggest taking a look at my reply to your other posting regarding Gainey, but to answer the above: 1. You don't get to take your tractor home - a guy in my orientation class lives about an hour and a half away from this yard here in GR, and he can't take his home at all. 2. My wife is an insurance agent, and I can assure you that their insurance package is not all it's cracked up to be. 3. I would suggest you stick with Halvor, since you know more about them... Gainey's "higher" pay isn't worth the stress and tension you will go thru to collect it, particularly if your family is in desperate need of it (per my other post, check it out).
The problem is that GTS actually was able to get me into training and out the door faster than anyone else I talked to when I graduated from CDL school. I had a couple of other offers that probably would have taken a week or week and a half longer to get on board with, but all things considered, the wait would have been better for me in the "long run". I am on the verge of having my house repossed, my mobile home community throwing us out, and after eight months of unemployment, this is the way the GTS payroll dept. treats it's people... "not our problem"...this from the "family" company! The only paycheck my wife received in the mail from them thru the entire month of December was a $100 slap in the face "holiday" pay check for Christmas... never mind the extra week of training I went thru that they haven't paid for yet, either.. They still owe me for another 4300 solo miles that I have been waiting a month for
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Post by truckertom on Jan 23, 2004 19:42:38 GMT -5
How are they getting away with it, were they leasing you a truck? I have gotten over the barrell with a few companies that are now out of business. It seems the snow job just leaves you cold!
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Post by kaptankarl on Jan 24, 2004 0:20:12 GMT -5
No, they weren't leasing me a truck...and if they were, I'd have been really shooting myself in the foot! The old Century Class S/T I was in for all of those three weeks had active faults popping up all over the board, shorts in the fusebox, a crack in the passenger windshield that is probably still growing longer and longer as we speak, unadjusted brakes, malfuntioning fuel sensors and guages... you name it. Now I know that we newbies are inevitably issued a p.o.s. to start with, but that is just ridiculous! I took that thing E/W thru West Virginia ONCE and swore I'll never go up and down those mountains in that thing again!! I was sweating bullets the whole time! As for the payroll thing, I don't know why in the world they are doing this to me - I left under what I understand are good terms... I returned my unit to the terminal in better shape than I left with, I wasn't under a load, and I didn't abandon the trailer I had anywhere; so I don't understand the runaround... What kills me is that Gainey has such an "oh so good" reputation as being the top paying company out there - which looks great on a recruiting form, but if you can't get your settlement on time, how is that such a great outfit to work for? I'm not that cold, really... I'll get my money in the mail next week, but I'll never move another load for them! I had an offer from NTB that I was afraid to take because all they do is regional and short hauls five days a week... but at least they pay their people! I know that these things happen, it just hurts when it happens to your own family. I love this business already and would rather not leave a company in less than a year's time, but they pushed me into this corner and I have no other choice.... This isn't something they adress in CDL school or in company training either..... maybe you just have to go thru it first!
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