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After sitting for three days at the terminal, you will get a load that has to go from the Amarillo, TX area to the Little Rock, AR area.  This particular delivery should take less than one day.  However, you will have two days to make the delivery - and most of the time the receiver will NOT take the delivery early.

Wait time is not paid without special permission from management - and that is like pulling teeth without Novocaine.  If you have to go pick up a load from Mexico, good luck.  I delivered the trailer to the shipper, who took the trailer across the border on day one.  On day two it was loaded.  On day three the trailer was returned.  I was able to reset my hours, but I was not paid for the time I was sitting.

Dispatch will not pay attention to requests for time off.  Unless you "force" the issue, they will not give you the requested time off.

On a good note, however, if your route will take you within 100 miles of your home and you have the time to do so, they will let you go home for a day or so instead of delivering early and having to sit at the shipper or receiver.

They will tell you up front that you're making .29¢ per mile.  Then, during orientation, they tell you that you're actually making .26¢ per mile, with .03¢ per mile per diem.  You don't have a choice but to participate in the per diem program.  You do the math...  In the short run, this equates to less taxes being taken out of your check.  However, IN THE LONG RUN, this equates to LESS money for the DRIVER!!!  Not to mention that it is less money going toward your Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare benefits that you will desperately need later in life.  It also counts as less money for income should you want to get a bank loan for any reason

Indian River Transport hauls food grade products.
This means they pick up and deliver to dairies.
If you have never been to a dairy, here is the breakdown.
You arrive and wait several hours for them to take a sample from your tank, then you go park, anywhere from 8 to 14 hours later they come and get you to unload, 4 hours later you are unloaded, then they wash your tank, 2 hours later you are ready to leave.
You drive anywhere they send you and you wait 4 to 8 hours to get loaded, if you are overweight it is milk and they will tell you to run with it and they will pay the fines.
The people in Winter Haven are super nice people and the equipment you drive is good safe equipment and if you do not mind working hundreds of hours and not getting paid for it then this is the company for you.
Back in the 1930s companies treated employees like this and the Teamsters were born.
You simply cannot treat modern truck drivers in this manner and expect them to keep driving for you.
Modern companies give a shipper or a receiver 2 hours and then charge them for detention.
I do not believe that while I was sitting at a dairy in Michigan waiting to get loaded for 20 hours that Indian River Transport did not get compensated for their truck sitting there all that time.
I do know that I did not receive one penny for waiting that day or the numerous others that I waited, and that is why I left Indian River Transport on good terms after cleaning my nice truck out and handing my keys to the nice people in the office.
I hated to leave but I simply could not stay.

Typical day at work not having the proper tools needed for the job . Management always mad. I've learned if I ever called out for work for serious reason I still get in trouble while others be missing days of work or coming into work hours late all the time with same excuses and still working for the company.  In the work place everyone in Tankwash is overworked, underpaid, and tired of working six days a week. Top of that we have to work six days just to make our 40hrs because they cut hours. How am I supposed to survive?? Might as well get another job working five days guaranteed 40 hrs and have my two days off. Hardest part of the job is trying to keep employees because they can never keep anyone. The generations today is not going to work six days a week regardless how much you pay. People has families and lives. The employees who are currently working for Tankwash are the only ones keeping the company up it's feet! Everyone else they hire don't last for days and it's a waist of time and hiring. The enjoyable part will be to work five days a week Mon-Fri  8-10 hours with better pay and weekends off to rest and spend time with family. Indian River will most likely will be able to keep employees. Once again the workers for Tankwash are tired!  So this all needs to be looked into and make it better for the workers of Tankwash it will definitely make our lives better. Without us no business will be made. 

I'm honestly only in trucking temporarily until I transition to another career, as planned.  I came to IRT hoping for better pay.  My previous company was a starter company so they didn't pay well, IRT came through on that front.  What I find hard to process is how downright horrible the communication is at this company.  The office staff seem like they hate their lives and incapable of doing simple things like taking notes on a pending problem, or just leaving a message for someone who's not currently available.  I've had simple situations that is end up having to explain to 5 different people because they don't communicate.  And I come from an office background, so it's beyond my understanding how these things are so difficult for them.

They keep you running for the most part, but don't get stuck at a shipper for too long, or need your truck fixed because guess what?  They're not paying you detention or breakdown pay, if they do, it's probably because you had to fight tooth and nail for it and most certainly giving yourself a bad reputation among the staff as being difficult to work with.  I know they have some labor litigation in the courts right now, which is possibly related to their unwillingness to pay what's owed to their drivers in detention pay.  

In all honesty, I'm using them just like they're using me.  Once I've reached my goal, I'm gone.

I worked the West Coast Regional. Almost all I 5 and US 97. Live in Fresno, CA. Stayed out 3 weeks then took 3 or 4 days off. Never had a problem. If you were ahead of schedule and could swing by house on your run it was never an issue. I started at .36 mile and .09 was per diem. Its more money in your pocket. They pay by book miles not hub which is how most companies do. Benefits were ok for the driver but expensive when you add family members. Did a lot of empty miles, many times I would unload in Industry, CA and head up to Prosser, WA to wash out then load. It all pays the same! I worked there before E-Logs, these should help their CSA scores and get rid of the "outlaws" who ran multiple books. I did a few times in order to make exrtra money. You will sit at shippers and recievers this is a tanker job! You are at plants that shut down for maintenance or other issues, its part of being a food grade tanker yanker. Dispatch was always fair, but I didn't complain, pick up and deliver on time and they will leave you alone. They never micro managed me, qual-comm hardly ever went off. I may go back to work for them after I have some needed knee surgery. You will always have newer equipment when you run out of the Turlock yard due to CA being so hard on us out there.
Good luck and keep the black side rolling.

Absolutely the worst! The only turnover worse than the driver turnover is the office turnover! They change policies to avoid paying employees bonuses. They lie to drivers and office staff and will leave you to the wolves if anything goes wrong. Management micromanages so badly. You can never get them on the phone or a response to an email. You are expected to work 7 days a week whenever they call you and dont get anything for it. Not even a thank you. Safety is a joke! They do not always comply with FMCSA or DOT regs. They ask drivers to run illegally and will edit logs for them. Very rude on the phones and in person. 

They have the "Boys Club" and they are given power like god over everything even if they have no clue. They  fire and rehire family repeatedly. They scream, curse and riducule each other in the office in front of everyone! It is so hostile! Management seems to think they can get away with it because people are to scared to sue.

They pay what appears to be good loaded miles but bad pay for empty miles. They dont tell you half your miles are empty! Dispatchers tend to have no clue how to run a truck, never answer phones and then blame you if anything goes wrong. They lie about appointment times and then you sit for hours! Not 2 or 3 but 8 to 12 hours. Oh and you dont get paid detention! 

Run! Run away fast!

Dispatch rarely does what they say they will. The appt times listed on the Qualcomm are rarely correct. You will be on e-logs. You will waste many days at shippers and receivers because once you're finally done getting loaded/unloaded you won't have time left on your 14 to do anything else that day, and you won't get a dime for all that waiting because there is no detention pay. Lots of short loads, very few with good miles. Trucks are brand new and the terminals are well maintained, and you would think with all the money they spend they would take some of it and start paying the drivers for more than just miles, but that is not the case. Management rides around in Cadillacs and Range Rovers while those of us who make all of the money that paid for those luxury cars are killing outselves while averaging $600 a week before taxes. The planners and customer service people are not allowed to turn down any loads offered to them by customers, and anyone who does will be fired. If someone advises the customers that their loads will be late because we don't have enough trucks to cover even half of them, that person will be fired also. It doesn't make any difference how nice or new your truck is when you're only making enough to get by.

I currently work here best trucking company I've worked for. Been here seen 2020. My advice to new drivers work with them they work with you. Stay out 3 months then take off 10 to 12 days. That makes them happy and you will be as well. Have to be willing to make sacrifices. They are a very good company to work for, just got to show them you are willing to run the tires off the truck. Its not forced dispatch, but don't put limits on them, so you don't limit on yourself. I look at it like the job got to get done ✔️ We got to keep accounts, keeping accounts, mean we keep the revenue coming, you and everyone in office happy. They hustle the loads we put in the miles and get the job done. Company is very easy to work with. They don't have you as a number. Its a job and it's got to get done. Don't make things difficult for them and they won't make it difficult for you. Let's get it clear to who ever reads this, company did not pay me or ask for a review from me. Its straight from my personal experience here at IRT.

I have been driving for this company for six years...I have no complaints...I haul milk out of Clovis,N.M. to where it is going. I live in Missouri...I get home when I need to..All I do is drive the truck..I don't touch anything on the tank in loading or unloading.I don't argue with someone on a price to be unloaded,unload myself,or listen to my CB to be called to a door.....I check in ,go back to my truck,and they will come and get me when they are ready for me.Wait times at dairies can be long at times...And no,I don't get paid to sit..It happens,but rarely.But that's trucking....
My pay varies with the miles,but I make good money...Yes,I have a bad week now and then,but I don't refuse to take a load...
It takes time to learn the system and your dispatcher to learn you,so give it time...In time you will be saying::: "If it has a flat floor or swinging doors,I don't want anything to do with it".
Ladies,this is a job for you...You just drive the truck...We have many women drivers...

Best trucking job I've ever had. They leave you alone. No micro management like most companies. Tankers are soo much easier to park and back, nothing like 53ft trailer, vision along side of rig is much better,you just have to get used to the surge, after a while you learn how to drive to minimize it.Never had a problem with pay or being dead headed hundreds of miles to pick-up next load or for home time. All deadhead miles paid same as loaded. Good management and dispatchers, they have your back and value your efforts. I worked for years in this industry and at some of the big name outfits and I honestly can say Indian River really is all around the best, always kept their word to get me home, payed me what I was due, and the communications was really at a minimum most times just simple e-mail instructions, normally the same customers and routes over and over.

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