International prostar tractor #9415. U S DOT #616877. CTQM 314963. Trailer # 150505. Going west on I-40 just west of Nashville TN on the 29th of November 2014, Ran me off the road, tailgating other drivers and driving dangerously. This crazy, mad driver is going to kill someone out here. Absolutely no excuse for putting people's lives in danger. You know he wouldn't want me to run his family off the road but he thinks it's ok for him to do it.
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Rookie company as well as all the desk jockeys safety a bunch of clowns 2 guys that claim they retired from ar dot and they would know there ass if you handed it to them in review PAM SUCKS BIG MONKEY BALLS
As a independent (power only) driver... This is by far the worst experience in the 10 years as a truck driver. They lie to you, they run you 500/ 600 mile runs, they talk to you in a rude manner, they send you to duplicate pick ups, poor communication skills and take FOREVER to answer the phone! They absolutely dont care! Terrible company to do business with. I will advise anyone not to work with pam transport. If management is reading this.... you all need reformed measures to have better dispatching and communications. I wonder how they treat their company drivers?!?! Next website... BBB, then their local/state Chamber of Commerce then ATA.... this is absolutely ridiculous and they should be held accountable!
After my upgrade, the beginning of my decent to hell. I did what was required of me to upgrade, but the pay is equal to someone working at Mcdonald. After all the tests, it was time to get a truck and pick up my teammate that was the plan. No, it did not happened like that. I had to wait two days for 2 mattresses for my truck, so no pay. While I was waiting for the mattresses, I talked to some drivers that work for PAM. On the first day, I talked to a guy who is a team driver. Well, he said" my teammate and I haven't been making any money. " He didn't give me exact amount, but in his tone, it didn't sound to good. On second day, I met a muck older guy. We talked. He said " on my first check, I made over 7 hundreds." " Well, that's uplifting" I told myself. I started to think positive until he added a ( but ) to his sentence. He continued saying " after my teammate quit, my paycheck has been $500, since then." He told me that he has been working for PAM about 3 months and was teaming for one week. I soon found out that $500 is only 3 hundreds something dollars after taxes and escrow deduction. "Oh yeah, escrow deduction." You can not afford to pay your own bills or even unable to feed your family on PAM pay; PAM will still take out escrow deduction from your already small " burgar flipping " paycheck. They will take $25 from your check a week until it equal $500, so you can pay for traffic tickets but, if they paid you what they promise then you can pay own damn tickets. After waiting for those mattresses, I got on road and haul some loads. After couple of days, I found out I didn't have a teammate and guess what. My checks were only $500 before taxes and escrow deduction. My checks was a joke, but I wasn't laughing. I was angry and sad. On road and far away from home, I fell in depression. The solo and teammate dispatcher not very helpfull and waste lot of your onduty and drive time. For example, either you are sitting long time for a load or driving around some where looking for an empty that they are not sure it is there. Well, I had to quit after 3 months working for PAM and I found much better place to work for. Here a after thought, you remember I waited for two days for those mattresses. Well, I was supposed to get layover paid for 2 days, but didn't. Being new to the job, I didn't know. This company looks ways to make off you, but doesn't find ways to make you money. The reasons why I wrote this review, because I am still angry with them not keeping their promise about pay, so I can take care of my family and sad because I very bad experienced with a greedy company. At least, I could share my ordeal with other. Hopefully, others don't make same mistake I did.
Do not do lease program with them it was the worst decision of my life. They give you trucks used by just starting out drivers and have more problems than its worth. I owe a huge bill to the shop and how much time its put me out of work. Im not the only one i ended up switching trucks and that did not help now im in the bind of if i walk they come at me with their lawyers or i just keep drowning. Either way i have nothing because of their sorry excuse of a lease program. They wont even work with me to resolve the issues
Not only do they lie about how much you make, they basically tell you they are going to screw you in orientation but it too late by that time. Then they will put you on a truck with a mentor whom most likely don't know as much as you do, or is extra rude to to you, THEN after you upgrade they will lie to you, will not move you and after you get a check for $300 or less AFTER upgrading they will discriminate against you and act as if they did nothing.
It's like any job in trucking, it's what you make it. Build a good relationship with your dm and you'll make good money and be home when you schedule it. The support staff are friendly and know their job. A good company to work for over all.
Work for this company two months and they they let me go saying I didn't tell them about my case but I did and they said I don't have to put it on my application. But two months later they said they have to let me go because I didn't put it on my application, but than they took my last check...
Our first load did not go quite as well as hoped, but I feel like they made up for it. We took a load knowing the driver could not make the pick up appointment and would be a work in. They called over and were told he would be loaded asap. I let them know if they give any issue about it being 2-3 hours for a door we would have to leave. I cannot risk the next lane as it's a direct customer. Our driver arrived, and two trucks were being reworked in the docks. Our driver was told 2-3 hours, so we had to go. That shipper called our driver 3 hours later for a door, but he had already checked back out. NOT ideal, but we knew it was a risk. They still issued a TONU, and without a doubt I would love to do business with them again to get off to a better start.
Pam transportation, they are doing very bad discrimination. Specially minority group. Be careful if you are a black , women or Muslim expect discrimination that's what happened to me and many of my friends.
Wish I could go -1. I was with this company for a year and they tried to let me go so I'll have to pay the contract off with 2wks left. 2ND with you driving with a teammate when your team is not permanently tan they blame his accidents on you. W/o caring of what they are doing to your career. 3rd they under pay and over work you with no concern of you going home. The sad thing about this is I wasn't going to say nothing about this until it's messing with me getting hired in my home town where my kids are. And they DON'T CARE.. YOU ARE JUST A DRIVER ID TO THEM...
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.
I'll give Pam a five-star because a friend of mine is a now a owner operator for Pam and they got some beautiful trucks the only thing bad about the thing of having the truck which is a 2019 they need to turn them up a little bit they only go like 68 miles an hour most speed limits on the freeway is between 7075 so I think they need to turn the trucks up
It was a pretty decent place to work. Outside of one instructor (Andy) at Tontitown, everyone was great. Well, everyone except my "mentor" (I preferred to call him my "dementor" because he sucked all the happiness from your very existence) was great. They have an excellent support team if you ever need it. They pay on time. The DM we had (Sam) always, always gave us miles, and she had a sense of humor. Most of the other drivers were helpful to newcomers and told you where to get good food when you were stuck in Laredo. Overall, they're pretty good.
As a contracted student for PAM Transport I've had enough problems where I'll say never again with team driving and I can pay $5,995 off through tuition reimbursement And some of my paychecks, I've seen trailers where DOT can literally put them out of service but anyway, everyone is different but 3 months you learn very fast and decide whether it's worth it or NOT I'm making more money solo with Tankers where as a Team I make $500-1300, I'm getting that solo and then some Team driving is too much trouble don't kill yourself if you don't have to.
Liars, they claim you will make $700 to $800 a week. The most I made was $375 max. My partner rode broke a zero paycheck. Who do that. We couldn't afford to keep working for Pam. Felt like a bum on a bus/truck
I have been more then impressed with the staff going out of their way to assist and make my job a lot easier with my recent break down. It is great to know there are so many which wish me to succeed.
IF YOU SEE A PAM TRUCK, GET FAR AWAY! I POSTED 2 PICTURES OF A PAM TRUCK OUT OF TONTITOWN AND IT'S BECAUSE HE RODE MY ASS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE. THEN, PASSED ME AND CUT ME OFF. I MADE THIS VIDEO AND SCREEN SHOT THE TRAILER PLATE AND THE CAB ID ... IT WAS AUGUST 30, 2017 ON 24W NASHVILLE.
The pay is low, but overall it's possibly the best first year company to drive for. They train your right so you're prepared for any situation you may come across. The office is full of good, friendly, and very helpful Desk jockeys.
This company is definitely for new drivers because experienced drivers would never go for the things this company puts you through. They lie about everything from job duties, pay,routes,miles,training etc. The recruiters tell you whatever to get you in. Do yourself a favor either get it in writing or find another company! Plus the pay is between $0.34-0.38 per mile. Doo-Doo pay plus they cancel loads on you which effects your pay! Unorganized company. They couldn t even find my truck they assigned me it took them 5 hours to locate it.
Don t work here. They will take advantage of u. There lease is bullying. They put u in a lease truck and will make u want to quit. This s the worst company in America
PAM Fort Wayne local division sucks. No one knows how to communicate. One dispatcher will write you up for doing something another dispatcher told you to do. Everyone there is a joke. I hear they're shutting it down before Christmas anyway so good luck local drivers.
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