Best company out there. Majority of loads are preloaded/drop and hook, window appointments. They run a Florida-Texas-Pennsylvania triangle. High pay with weekly bonuses if you exceed 2400 miles that week. Best DM in the company is Thomas hands down. Home weekly or less if you want. Health insurance is through Florida BCBS, but BCBS isn t what it used to be because they don t treat drivers living outside of Florida state the same as Florida resident drivers. So take that for what it s worth, but it s not Ravens fault. Small company, but top notch.
Hope to hell other Raven drivers aren't like the one I saw in R4143 on the Washington Beltway Sunday Jan. 3. Serial tailgating is unsafe to begin with, but there is no way in hell a tractor trailer going 70mph can stop in an emergency when it is riding the back of sedans. One after another after another. Are Raven drivers so ill-informed that they don't realize 1) a truck requires several hundred more feet to stop than an auto, and 2) if it does collide, the chance of it killing auto passengers is extremely high? A loaded tractor trailer outweighs an auto by the same ratio as a grown man to a newborn infant, about 20 to one. A truck hitting an auto isn't like an ordinary auto crash - it's more like the driver stomping on the infant. Are the drivers simply callous or are they under so much pressure from management that risking others lives doesn't factor in for them?
Tell you something else: that kind of driving on a light-traffic Sunday is utterly inexcusable. It suggests either that the route and schedule was poorly planned or that the driver was in a big rush to catch an NFL game.
On top of that, it's unbelievable that the motor carrier industry would lobby for extended drivers hours. Do they really not give a s**t about others on the road?
I have no clue how these people are. But at 445 this morning one of their trucks used my front yard as a turn around. In process of doing this the driver ran over two of my over head canopies and since out was raining the truck left deep indentations the whole length of my yard. I would not have even given them the one star, but that was the lowest rating. Avoid then at all cost. FYI anyone at the company that is reading this I will be in contact after I get a price for fixing the yard, the canopies were $200 each.
Great company The miles are there and everyone is friendly. No bsing you with home time. Benefits are good too. Don't see any reason to ever leave. Thanks for the great job.
There could not be a better place to be a truck driver. You want miles, you get miles. Great Driver Managers really are concerned about you and your family. you get home when you are supposed to be. Great benefits, good pay, electronic logs, prepass, prepaid tolls.