Sergio Suarez

Review of PAM Transport

Absolutely horrible company. I left before they st...

Absolutely horrible company. I left before they starting making "postive" changes to stop the equally horrible retention rates. But this is my take.

65 MPH typical megacarrier.

Fleet spec uninteresting trucks.

Industry average hometime.

Industry average o/o rates (barely sustainable)

Industry average predatory lease program

Bulk of freight is randomly brokered trash, expect to pick up a resturant oven from some auction house in Los Angeles, than deliver it to a postage stamp kitchen you couldn't back a pickup truck into. If you arent doing that you are pulling auto parts from what's basically Mexico, to the "please shoot me" ghettos of Detroit and Chicago.

Idle policy, w/ EPUs but get ready to sweat.

Dispatch will change your appointment times so you sit at shippers (not be late) instead of sitting at truckstops.

They raised their pay, but the difference between 1 Penny A Mile and 2 Pam's is not much. Detention was like 25 bucks per driver or something? Breakdown pay barely covers a motel 6, rest is out of pocket.

When I got my CDL years ago the staff at this facility who tested you were bad teachers. Most testers at most yards sucked.

My mentor had 11 months experience and knewittle about driving outside of backing a trailer and sending arrival/Depart calls. Most mentors are ineffective.

The CDL school I went to (make no mistake it's just a shell company for PAM) also focused on quantity over quality. Hardly different then any other mega carrier who puts diapers on their new born drivers.

The only way I learned anything was through my codriver who had 25 years of experience.

ALL IN ALL this isnt that great of a company, most of the 1 star reviews resonate problems typical of any 300+ truck carrier. The 4 and 5 star reviews have never been to a real carrier that pays you a real pay check. Most of the people who like this company dont know what its like to be paid to go home. There are far, far better places than this. I literally used this to get a CDL and that was it, knowing about trucking now, I should have gone to college to get a class A instead, than be recruited into someone else. Do that. Dont goto pam who pays you in peanuts.