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I've been here for about six months so far. Want to go home on time after being over the road for months at a time? Nope. They have no problem with routing you 1000 miles in the opposite direction a day before you requested your home time. They do this on purpose to squeeze as many miles as they can out of you before you go home. But they fail to realize you won't have hours to make it home; leaving you stranded for days waiting for recaps. Try to speak your mind and they will threaten you with a write up. They will do this every time, and you have to call and basically argue with dispatch if you want to go home when you requested. Go ahead and try to call the HR department. They will laugh at you and side with dispatch every time. No one here is for the driver. Your home time is not important here. You could be 200 miles from your house the morning before home time and they will give you a route one state away from your house that will run you out of your 70 hour clock and you will be stuck waiting to get home. If you stay out for months at a time you will make good money here. But driver treatment here is horrible and not worth the higher pay. Regional drivers get home every weekend here, but the miles are so low you may as well work a local job instead. If home time is a concern, please stay away. Also, you have to have a place for both the truck and trailer when you go home. They will not let you bobtail home. Also, they have a huge referral bonus program worth around 5k. Why? Because they know it's a matter of time before new drivers catch on to all the negatives. If you come here, be prepared to never know when you need to be awake. You will finish a load and they won't send you a preplan and then expect you to stay awake all day long and drive all night making you awake for 24 hours. Incredible! How can they expect a driver to plan their sleep pattern when they have no load planned until the last minute? They will claim that they don't have freight that picks up earlier since you just slept (or vice versa). Then you call and complain to safety and all of a sudden there is a load that makes more safe sense. This is not a driver friendly company. They will send you a message every Tuesday morning comparing your dash cam records to the fleet average as if it's a competition.Yes, their dash cams are designed to snitch on you, the driver. They are not there to protect you in an accident. They will send you messages if you speed, go over a line in the road, etc. Too much micro managing. Save yourself a headache and find yourself a company that pays decent and treats you like a human and gets you home. There are a few happy drivers here that have dedicated accounts that get them home at predictable times with good miles. If you ask about dedicated accounts, they will lie to you and tell you they do not do dedicated. But they do. They lie about too many things here. Tread softly.

I moved to this company thinking that I will be making good money because of higher rate of cpm they pay compared to other companies but I was wrong, if you have family and looking for a decent pay check this place will do you no good
Team leaders and dispatchers are quitting this place all my fellow drivers who I met in orientation they quit some after a month others first week.
Something they don't tell you about and it might surprise you the second day of orientation that the company is actually owned by knight transportation 
But knight don't interfere with the management and that's true but they are trying there best to save money on every thing to keep knight happy and far from management.
The most important thing to the driver is the milage, if no milage no paycheck that's the main point.
They don't have miles and there work is by season when it's a high season which start from end of October and last until end of January they will fill the websites with bonuses and extra cents per miles which they will deduct it later if you decide to quit befor 90 days from the hiring day, rest of the year you will be spending more time in truck stops than over the road and your weekly milage will be 1600 or may be 1700 miles and from there you can do the math.
It might work for others but am not gonna be over the road for 500$ paycheck a week I rather find a local job sleep in my home every night. 
There costumers are nice and most of the loads drop and hook they do swapping as well, they run only the east coast.
Truck maintenance is horrible I give zero and don't dream of getting paid a penny if you broke down neither for layover, may be they do for others but never happened to me I broke down for 4 days nothing extra entered my pay check.
They have only 540 trucks and you might think you'll be treated good because of that but they will really treat you lower than a driver job posetion.
They have communication problems they might not answer the phones at all when you really need help neither reply you messages on Qualcomm.
One last thing they lost 50% of there annual loads because of FedEx, FedEx stopped using 53ft trailers and they are requiring doubles instead, so they are really suffering now.
Don't get fooled by the adds and bonuses 
It doesn't worth it you will waist your time.

Lots of drop & hook &  but good condition trailers. Loved THAT. 
  too short on time to meet all requirements unless your cutting corners on FMCSA post trips, pre trips, lantern fly inspections and everything else your supposed to do. 
  difficult to plan rest around. short trips for the most part. Be prepared for your loads to drop off repeatedly after you have pre tripped , planned and went to sleep. also be prepared to answer your phone and or accept your load while your in sleeper berth sleeping or you won’t have a load when you wake up from your supposed break. They refuse to do this differently. also be aware that after you wake up , you will be expected to be on call at any given time to accept a load which can be and often is 7-16 hrs later.
Expect forced recaps.
when they fly you to orientation prepare to pay for a bag or take only 1 small carry on.
You will be flown home for a total of 9 days. 2 allowed for travel . Which is great , but keep in mind  home time is not paid and the wage earned on a paycheck is not any more than anywhere else.
You must have permission to take a reset. even if you have informed them you are ill. 
don’t expect leniency for the learning curve at Barr-Nunn/pa  in the east coast. this is a do or die employment structure. Make no mistake about it.


They fire a lot of Drivers and they’ll fight you tooth and nail if you try to collect Unemployment compensation after getting fired !   Lots of sitting and delays, they didn’t like to deadhead me very far, they were cheap !! If a Shipper gets you a load hours late, HOURS LATE, you’re still expected to deliver on time, and you’re fired if you deliver late !! What ??   They didn’t want us to idle the trk to stay warm or cool. Their policy is ONLY idle if it’s 15 degrees or less, they’re ONLY worried about their precious diesel fuel freezing, NOT about the Driver!  They would check on the internet the temp. where u were if you were idling. If it was over 15 degrees, they would call you and warn you to shut the truck OFF ! Get a few of these calls and you were fired ! Many Drivers were fired for idling to stay warm or to stay cool !!  This was a cheap company, they’re BAD and they’re CHEAP !!  The terminal in Charlotte had NO shower, and when they closed at night or on the weekends, there was no bathroom to use, not even a Porta-potty!  CHEAP and selfish and BAD !!  They micro managed you and watched you like they were sitting in the jump seat, don’t work here, they don’t care about Drivers ! They fired me 10 days before X-Mas, Merry X-Mas you heartless, rotten creatures !   I hold a grudge and I never forget !   They got me home LATE, A LOT and I gave them WEEKS of notice when my next hometime was !

We have been with Barr Nunn for almost 5years and this company is by far the best company we have ever worked for and we have been around the market place hauling everything from produce to phaumacuticals.you are not a number here.they give their drivers respect as well as trust in the judgements they make in bad weather(in case they want to stop).the hometime is excellent but if you have any tyoe of family emergencies they totally understand and will put that firat and get you home asap.the pay is outstanding which makes even the slowest week a profitable one and the safety department has your back when anything is wrong with their equipment .the other pluses are .it's 90percent drop and hook the 90 day  csa.bonuses are real and not controlled by fuel or mileage..detention pay is after 50 minutes of sitting and this is the only company we know of or worked for that gives you paid time off for the amount of miles you run.we are now in a mileage bracket that we earn  6 days of pto every 109k we run .I. addition to the pto day you get every 90 days with your csa bonus if you are clear of any citations or warnings..I can go on and on and on.but only you can make the decision to come and see for yourself..we will retire here..it's our home.dont take my word for it.come see for yourself.

My experience as a driver with this company has been fantastic! Although admittedly unusual for the trucking industry,  or any other industry for that matter,I have had a 100% positive experience. I've been with Barr-Nunn for just over two years now, and am happy with the pay, ($1500-$1800w/ bonuses/wk as a regional shift pay), the home-time (every week as promised), the equipment (I drive a 2017 Freightliner Cascadia that had less than 18000 miles on it when I was assigned it after completing orientation). Every driver I speak with on the job has had similar positive feedback to share. Support staff and management are the best. Now maybe I've been singled out by this company for some reason, or maybe it's just that rare exception to the general rule of "if it sounds too good...".By the way, no, I am not a recruiter, and Barr-Nunn did not pay me for this review. I am Bill Greenidge, and I drive truck 3210. Regardless of how good an opportunity is, there are always folks who somehow manage to figure a way to fail and find misery. That's my two cents. Best of luck.

I was hired here while going through chemo. They offered hometime every other week so, it fit my chemo schedule perfectly. While in orientation, they had me write a letter explaining my medical condition, as well as providing my doctors note releasing me for work (I was 39 years old at the time).
So, working here for 9 months was nothing short of a nightmare; 4 days without a load, dispatchers telling me to drive illegal, bad equipment. Anyways, at about my 9th month there and, 3 months before I was to be put on their medical insurance, I received a call from HR (from the same woman that had me write the note about having cancer), telling me that I never informed them about having cancer and I would be terminated the next time I took an extra day off due to chemo. It was then that dispatch started to refused to get me home for my chemo session which, was on normal hometime. Is was at this time I decided to leave on my own.
On the pay side, because of their long waits for a load, you can expect your pay checks to be between $400-$700 a week. This is just a bad company all around.

I’m sorry I’m so sick of negative comments about working for Barr-Nunn!iv been employed here for 3 yrs,I’m earning my stripes as a safe and 100%on time delivery driver!!people who only have been here for six months haven’t put there time in,This company is awesome as far as I’m concerned!We have been under lots of pressure due to covid that goes for management and drivers !They have a great pay package and great home time they might not get u home right away but within a day or two with great down time!!ppl who complain about this company are either refusing loads always crying about being home!!This is a transportation company.too many baby’s out here want there $ and home time if you can’t handle trucking many it’s time to do something different in your life except slam a great company!!if you want to truck this is the company do you have bad weeks yep but that’s life!!!barr-nunn has done a lot for me in short 3 yrs $$$new house everything else we work around Tnx Barr nunn hope to see real truckers come on board soon 

B/N is an excellent place to work.   1. They treat you as a person "not" a number! 2. The pay is at or near the top in the industry. The pay raises come quickly. I've received .07 cpm in raises in the last 20 months! 3. The practical pay scale is not hub miles but is very close to actual miles ran. I keep close track of the paid miles, empty and loaded, and compare them to the actual miles I ran. Last year my actual driving miles was, on average, 1.2 miles per load more, compared to my dispatched paid miles. 4. They run you 100% legal. 5. I get good miles, good pay and get home every weekend! 6. My home time is always more than 48hrs unless I specifically ask to head out earlier. 
I have enjoyed working at B/N for about 18 years.Last year I made just over 63K in 11 months of driving. I drove 109,600 paid miles. I cannot guarantee "your" paid miles, home time or bonuses. But, I didn't do anything that you couldn't do either.

If you like to drop and hook 99 percent of loads and stay loaded with very little lay overs and run legal,then this is the place for you. Barr-Nunn is a driver friendly company.I've been here since May this year I have 30 plus year experience and if I would choose I'd have no problem going to another company,but I am happy here and make a good pay check every week.I am an OTR driver and stay out 18 days and then go home,and load planners and fleet mangers do a great job getting me home,and don't call me till it's time to go out again.
        If you would so choose to work for Barr-nunn and I mean come here to work for that is what we do.we don't touch freight we haul freight and do a lot of night driving which to me is great,less traffic back ups on roadways.       By the way they also have regional drivers that are home weekly. And good equipment and like other companies our speed is 64 Mph and no New York City runs .So come join us if you want to work and not lay around in truck stops.                          Your brother in trucking.  M.Harris

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