Smith Transport Company Spotlight | Trucking Answers
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2019
- Smith Transport in Roaring Spring, PA is up in the spotlight this week. Many astute viewers have written to me to have a Smith Transport review and to talk about the Smith Transport Equipment. You need one year of experience at Smith Transport. To drive for Smith Transport you also need a good driving record and to live basically east of I-35 without Florida. Did you know Smith Transport Tanker Division also exists? They do and if you live in West Virginia or Pennsylvania you call see about that. Orientation is paid with your own room at Smith Transport. Professionals do not share a hotel room. The Smith Transport equipment is excellent and everyone wants a long nosed Pete. They do not guarantee choice of truck but if you want a certain truck they will put you on a waiting list for it. They have different choices of hometime so call them to see if it suits you. At Smith Transport or anywhere, be sure to ask them questions to get the answers you want. Find a place you like and stay there. The driver treatment at Smith Transport is what amazed me. Everyone who wrote to me about them mentioned how good they were being treated. That is not something that I can say about all places. Is Smith Transport a good fit for you? Maybe. They are certainly worth a call if you are looking to make a change and have at least 1 year of experience.
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Roaring springs pa near altoona. Terminal in Atlanta and Indiana! Great place. By the way they also have regional accounts in the north east and Southeast with different pay schemes and if u live right there a shorthaul account. There are many dedicated accounts but they are small and not pushed like Walmart is. So essentially u have to know them to get on them. They'll fly u to orientation like the professional u r. I whole heartedly recommend this company.
Orientation in your own room. Imagine that!
@@TruckingAnswers and they fly you out
@@bobwilliams3502 I had a guy in orientation who had his wife with him as passenger right from the start she just stayed in the room Tuesday and Wednesday but was at the yard on Thursday when you got your truck I got know if she paid her own way to roaring spring pa or not
Please do a review on Tri Mac trucking... It's something going on there that's not right. Please check Tri Mac out South Carolina terminals.@@TruckingAnswers
Not giving up my little doggies.
Thank you for watching!
I miss your crap company of the week videos
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Same here
Ditto
There are no crap companies. Only companies that you need to consider things about.
The craps started to cry ....they had too much competition ...everyone needs to live they said.
Thank you sir for your video. The entire office, shop, and lots of drivers messaged us to let us know! So much excitement! We appreciate all you do.
Haha the man himself has arrived. This is kinda fun.
I have been with them for 13 yrs they treat me right and i get the job done in a quality manor and do what they expect of me.
do you hire driver out of southern California?
I thought of contacting them, but I have only 4 years experience, and I thought they required 5 years. Do they hire out of TN (Knoxville area) and LA? (Louisiana)!
Tony 5000 yes they do hire out of your area call 888 -go-smith for more details. Tell them truck#2654 sent you.
Orientation is a thousand ,hotel,and 3 meals. Just do orientation every week. 😂
LOL
Trucking Answers I watch all your vids. I am a Canadian trucker that crosses the border every week. Good content you have and positive outlook on trucking.
On the walmart account, they sent you down to maryland a lot with three stops, and it takes 2 hours for each place to unload you. When you're not going down there? You do make good money, but when you're going down there, it's a pretty bad week.
Great job Mark👍 I really appreciate what you do you are an asset to the trucking community.
Yes!!!!! These are my favorite type of vids!
Me to !
I work for Smith' and my weekly milage is between 3k and 3800 a week a 48cpm and we got bcbs ppo and more I fully recommend the company as well
Yea but 2800 is the average.
3800 is a long week. Yikes. 😴
@@TruckingAnswers the work is available why not running it I hate pulling over with time left makes me feel like iam waistng money and time
@@millionmiler I agree with you,I used too like 3500-4000 and wasn't happy if I didn't get it,then I got older and the miles got longer
@@willynaylor7356 I hear you but for now turn and burn plus the more I run the more loads I get offers and able to decline if I dont del like doing it
I'm the first person to let a scrap company have it. So let me say salute and hats off to Smith Transport!!!
The new health insurance sucks. And be sure to ask about our holiday pay. ( we don't have any!)
They do have a pet policy now and minimum guarantee pay of 1800 a week
You should do hurricane express
I hear they are real professional crooks!!
Always wondered about this company. I've received calls from their recruiters but never replied. Definitely looking into Smith. Thanks Mark!!🎃🐾🎃🐾🎃
You're welcome.
Dana i,ve been with them 13 yrs now there #1 in treatment and hometime and excellent equipment. Tell recruitment truck 2654 sent you.
@@sodbuster518able Thank you Bruce!! Will tell them you sent me!👍
Are u a trucker Dana?
It now pays some positions that pay 1,800 a week
Thanks for sharing information
You're welcome.
People obsess with cpm and forget that gross pay is what matters. Good video.
I already love this place.
I will respect their driver.
I would go there but I beam here 45 year's.
Thanks.
Sounds pretty good. Always wondered how they were. I'm happy with pohl transportation. Decent pay. No micromanaging. No driver facing cameras. Was home for a week and a half with a busted knee last week. Didn't bother me. Didn't worry bout bring them the truck. Just come back when your ready.
Always looked like a class outfit with the 379s, it's good to hear that they actually are.
Love the content on your videos. Sounds like a nice company to work for.
From what you said there definitely a company worth considering!
Thank you...........
I see your phone mounted to the parking lot pole in your shades
We use to call them Snuffy on the squawk box years ago from the Snuffy Smith cartoon.
That's crazy! i haven't seen that cartoon in forever lmao.
Keep up the good work Mark
Thank you
Bring back crap company of the week
Update the pay is now 50-65cpm depending on experience and ur scheduled days out, or 1800 guarantee on the flex fleet.
Call Smith and hit option 7 fir recruiting
This company is great
That sounds great!
There in Pa post to be really good company
Yes.
I don't have a year of experience, yet. I'll keep them in mind, though. I haven't heard anything bad about Smith Transport, either.
No one has ever written to me to say anything bad about them.
Call and ask for David dere
You will be running northeast!
Lol cry baby
Thank you
I love your ginger cat Macy. Ginger cats are very loyal and affectionate. surprised a cat would enjoy travel. Especially in a big truck.
Thank you! Gracie doesn't travel. She stays home and sleeps in one of numerous cat beds.
I’m local in Upstate NY now but if I were to go OTR or regional ever again they’d be on my short list.
You choose what truck you like to drive or they just give you whatever ?
Thanks for the inf..:)
The tank is brine division I run into them on our pad every once in awhile
Oilfield?
@@cementer4life yes oilfield.
I love kitties!!
I have two kitties. And bobo has his own bedroom with a full size bed. He takes naps on his bed when he wants to be alone.
could you do a review on a company called mountain valley express. its an ltl carrier in socal.
Ugh... I've had a rough month with Smith. They gave me an older truck to start with so 3 months in the engine blows up. I had to repo a truck that had APU and air pressure issues, then while waiting 4 days for that truck at a terminal I had to repo yet another truck but the interior smelt strongly of cigarette smoke and I had to drive it for 6+ hours and sleep in it for a bit. I couldn't stop coughing. I should be getting my 2nd truck back today, but most of my belongings are still in my first truck.
Also the dealer said the engine likely blew due to a recalled part that was never replaced. I forgot what it was exactly.
went down 10/11/19. still waiting for this mess to sort out.
My name is Patrick, I am from Ghana .Am a professional truck driver . I have been driving American trucks for the past twenty years . I have used trucks like Volvo with N 14 and 290 engines cat 3406.currently I am driving a freightliner cascadia with a Detroit sereise 60 engine. Sir if your company will employ me, l will pay for my air fare from Ghana to the USA to conduct a driving test.Thank you. This is my contact No 2330544040002.
Have heard a lot of good things about smith trucking.If I wasnt retired,Id pull for them.Old spoiled ligon owner op,20 years experience with a perfect driving record is hard to find.10 years ghost fleet exp,But I love retirement,And dont need the money.Thanks,but no thanks.
If the company treats you decently then the drivers will give them a good days work in return , it's not difficult to figure out .
I just wish they had a pet policy because I would be working there already if they did .
Here's good news, as of last year they've raised pay to 65cpm and instituted a pet policy and generous rider policy from day1 out of orientation. Call now
Hi Mark, great content. Quick question: how can otr experience be verified that happened more than 10 years ago if the driver did not keep his/her paper logs?
Insurance Loss Runs.
@@bobrobert8358 Super. Thank you.
Your MVR follows you from one company to another. The info is there forever.
Thank you.
Sounds like Smith Transport has made it into the 21st century. I checked them out about 6 years ago, they were nothing special then.
Yea and pay has been raised to 65cpm
honestly if they could get rid of the governor's on the truck and quit limiting how much I can actually make in a day I'd probably give them a call. In all honestly they really don't sound like a bad outfit.
Anyone know anything about Kivi Bros. Trucking out of Duluth Mn. ?
BrownH2ORat I was wondering about them myself. A buddy wants to check them out. He hasn’t looked much into them yet
Hey Mark check out TSMT out of Joplin. 90% hazmat but best company Ive seen!
I have a video about them!
65 cents a mile is what a professional deserves , this 38 cents crap is like, Sorry boss can't drive your truck I have no gas money to put in my car to come to work!
I heard 48 cents a mile, not 38.
48 still isn't great, when you consider you live in a metal box never home, eat crap food , sit at the dock half the day with no pay , you work 70 hours a week and actually get paid for 55 hours .
@@kjk6717 like seriously. It's the biggest joke ever
Enjoy videos. Any info on Bulkmatic?
Do a dig on CFI transport America a tfi international company out of Canada ...would love to see what u dig up....I can attest you'll be blowing a lid lol
Hold on a run right now especially around Atlanta. And had a couple of thoughts today. What do you think about these truck stops that are mostly reserved parking spaces? In those few spaces that are free are usually in extremely bad positions or actually require you to back in off the wrong side of the truck? Do you think that's just a price gouge or is that something intentional. What do you think about those truck stops now that only have reserved parking?
Worked there made promises THEY DIDN'T KEEP, I WAS PAID 300 A FOR 2 WEEKS WORK ..........HAD 2 YRS EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO WORKING THERE, WAS PROMISED 1200........MAYBE THINGS HAVE CHANGED........GOOD LUCK GUYS✊
I hate walmart and sam's loads big pain. Dread when I have to do one. I'm glad it's not often.
Do a video on systems transport
It all sounds good. Would like to see a higher pay scale, but I guess you can’t have it all. What’s average yearly salary?
Payroll in house US EXpress
They are now part of Heartland!
I been there 3 years
Do one on warren
Sold.
I know the owner of Smith Transport and I live near the business
Awesome
It all sounds good. Would like to see a higher pay scale, but you can’t have it all.
As of may last year the pay scale is 50-65 cpm depending on experience and your fleet choice. Or an 1800 salary for flex fleet as well as a pet policy
They screwed me. I don't recommend. Sat alot and took orientation pay from me when i left. Never payed brother for driver referral. No breakdown at terminal. Worked there in 2014.
A lot can change in 5 years
In 2014 they did not have $1,000 orientation pay. In 2014 they did not have a driver referral bonus that's new. And 2014 is the year that we went employee-owned I believe
Yes orientation was around 500 then driver referral was 1k i was docked 500 and my brother was not paid the referral and recived a bill for 300 bucks for his orientation. Also took my stock away. You sucked then. I hope you learned from the mistakes because you do have nice trucks. People remember everything. I am only able to tell what i know. If you sent me a check for the mony i worked for i would have nothing to say.
Being treated like a professional is huge. Sounds like a great company.
What do you think about point dedicated sir
Reviews are mixed. They put virtually no good info online about their pay structure so a call would be necessary.
Trucking Answers thank you sir. Always have good info on videos
Thank you.
Hey guys I just want to put this out there this is not the company to come too if you're not interested in running hard. Like we don't do the whole recap thing here too often, most weeks they want you to run hard 10 hours 11 hours every day and do a 34 on the weekend or something. you're going to get loads at 7 at night that are seven hundred miles and need to be delivered by 7 a.m. the day after tomorrow. that means you need to put down at least an hour to two hours that night and then run 650 miles or more that next day. It's not impossible it's easy the trucks run 68 miles an hourthey don't care what road you take to get there if their toes or not told as long as you get there on time. now there will be some times when it's not physically possible but it is damn sure possible to do 680 miles in one day. they've had a bunch of guys here lately joining that are too lazy and think that they can refuse loads here. Smith transport is forced dispatch. yeah that doesn't mean they won't accommodate you if there's a legitimate issue that you have and it doesn't mean they're going to force you into New York City but everywhere else that we run they expect you to go that means Maine that means Florida that means Texas and Iowa. if you can't run 10 hours a day can you really should not consider coming to Smith unless you're going to do a regional or dedicated account
Hey smuff your way underpaid. Wal-Mart drivers get .89 cpm ????
I can only speak for the Walmart account I worked there a year on that account. The favoritism an the low miles is why I left don’t let that $.65 a mile fool you.
D W exactly
What you one of the drivers who only worked 6 hour a day maybe you need to get your head out if your behind and work as expected instead if sitting in the drivers lounge if your truck is in the shop maybe get a loaner and run local till yours us fixed talking crap and if you keep telling your dm you dont wanna go to certain places and others do go to all areas and are willing to run the runs others do t want yes you can call it that a dm favors one driver over the driver whi complains oh I dont wanba go to. New England or NYC for example of course you wont get Miles so why bother with arguing with a driver about s load they most likely not gonna due anyway tests what you call non forced dispatch maybe you need to work for a company who forces the load on you stop complaining and work for as expected from you
Correction 65 cents per mile on the weekdays and 70 come on the weekends. The favoritism you speak of Sir is them simply giving loadsthat have the most miles to people who are more reliable because they are not allowed to have more than five service failures for the Walmart account per month without being fined heavily. There were a lot of people in my time on the Walmartwho were home every night in chose the only run one load or not work on the the weekends. the weekends are where you make all your money because you were getting 70 cents per mile. the easiest way to make money on the Walmart account is to always run two loads no matter what if you have the time do it. If they have a load they will give it to you if you ask. You have to be proactive they're not just going to give you a load. when you're halfway done with your first load and you know when you'll be back to the DC you're supposed to call them and say this is when I'll be back and I'll have this many hours what loads do you have that you can give me. they're not just going to hand it to you on a silver platter you actually have to work. And God help you if you're one of those people that only takes one load everyday cuz they just started firing those kind of people. The Walmart account is extremely high demanding because of the amount of stops each load has and the necessity for on-time delivery every time. if you are late for any reason that your fault they are not going to give you the good loads. And that's your fault for being late. You have to show them thatthey can trust you to get every load there on time if they call you for a favor do them the favor if you can. You can't just act like an entitled asshole and expect them to give you everything. I'm 24 and I was home at Walmart account for 3 months and I have pay stubs I made over $1,500 every week one week I made over$1,900. so those local guys who sat there and complained because they only got the low mile loads but they only wanted to take one load because they had a family they wanted to go home to that's your problem. the only way to make money on the Walmart account is to do at least two loads every day if possible. And yes you should absolutely be working on the The Weeknd. if you want two days off take to weekdays off because The Weeknd pays more. That's obvious
@@truckingjourneys AMEN
Wow your such bootlickers good little sheeple. Bah bah bah. I love blowing by your slow trucks and leaving smuff in the dust. I can do at least 7 more Miles per hour than smuff and still make mo money. I hate walmart loads big pain in the rear. All the corporate welfare they get???? Why ???? I try not to shop there coz they're destroying our country.
I worked there back in the middle 90's. At that time, they paid .13 per mile for deadhead. And Barry Smith's daughter was in charge of benefits. She was a real peach. I lived in New Jersey then, & she told me they didn't have enough drivers in NJ for them to bother taking out NJ income tax. I told her thank you & hung up. I was then fired for hanging up on the owner's daughter. If she is still there, I'd recommend against it.
bigdaddeo76 they still don’t take NJ tax out.
It's employee owned now
You customize company truck when it gets traded most stuff goes with the truckk
Schuster gives $100 for inspection and $20hr detention
yayyyyy more money = more roller weenies😂😋
Never thought of that, good point.
It's all about the flying j pizza breh
@@Hallahanify flying j or pilot pizza its good but only when its fresh
Man!!! Our they location in California
They sound like a good outfit. You bagged all over k&b and they: Fly you out to orientation, get you your own hotel room with free HOT breakfast, free lunch, 2 days of orientation and you get a $1,000 for orientation. They pay minimum 2500 miles at .50 or $1,250 a week for 6 months experience and more for experienced drivers. They pay $100 for each level of inspection so up to $300. How they compare on other things like trucks and home time are different fro. Smith but I'm all about the dollars. In a lot of reviews I read that they were a-holes but they must have changed something because I haven't, as of yet, experienced that. I went with a standard trans and the truck is speed limited at 65. If you want a brand new cascadia automatic it is 62/65. They have fridges in the trucks but the new cascadia's don't have cruise control when your headlights are on and they do mostly night driving. THEY HAVE NO CAMERA'S ON THE TRUCKS. I think they should be bumped from the crap company list and given another look. They seem like a viable option for guys willing to be out for 2 plus weeks at a time. I read a bunch of bad reviews and was worried about choosing them but so far they seem fair at the very least. First time the recruiter didn't lie to me. They were very upfront about the program at k&b.
you will find out the real k&b soon enough
@@JASONHJEFFERSON maybe
You must be a new driver
@@LockOutMen anybody who thinks driving 65 is great must be
@@JASONHJEFFERSON lol
70 cpm 💪👍
StayRad😎💪👍🔨⬇️
Always!
My company does 75 😎
Trucks governed to 65 mph :( , those truck create conjections, I drive trucks for 15 years see that often , my opinion should go with a flow of traffic
How do I inbox you?
Not definitely sure but thought they were bought out by US Xpress a few years ago. Kinda thought it was true because the quality of their equipment has gone way down over the years
No. Must be another company.
quality of who's equipment US Xpress or Smith?
No
brknbenjamin98 Ok. Guess I heard wrong, but their equipment looked much better years ago
Yes 51% of shares where bought out by us Express but after the founder of Smith transport saw how us Express was running smith into the ground he bought the shared back and now we esop and I think our equipment is better than 95% of companies out there
This is the Smith transport out of Pennsylvania
Yes
I use to work for Smith TRANSPORTATION. They had better equipment back then. There equipment now is stripped down
They Walmart account is a slip seat account.
That’s what they said when I called. 5/2 and 5/3
Yeah this guy left a lot of stuff out of this video. Smith over all is a good company. But I can only speak on the Walmart account.
Hey smuff can you stop clogging up the middle and hammer lanes? You hold me up. Love going fast by your trucks and leave you in the dust.
Mark, Check out this unbelievable truck driver video on you-tube ( Trucker quits job in epic way!!! Must watch)
They allow dogs
.45\mile? If these companies learn to pay people what their worth the roads will be safer
Be careful telling all these people to send you the deets. They might misunderstand you. There is no telling what you might find in your inbox.😂
What the kids say today lol
Lol
Ask for a pete, get an intertrashional :D lol
I'll be pissed if i ask for a Pete and get a Maxxforce trash engine.
I think any new driver under 2 yrs experience SHOULD have a camera.
I disagree I was barely getting tothousand miles a week average paycheck was between five and $650 I don’t mind showing any more my paystub if you don’t believe me
What account were you doing? or were you OTR?
He was likely southeast regional and heads up, if you complain alot they aren't going to do you want favors
@@truckingjourneys No I was OTR north east NYC everything
That's bullshit New York City and Jersey is forced I was in orientation and the man said that he told us if you didn't want to go those cities and go home so your wrong there buddy and there not that great of company
2nd
Silver.
OTR Sucks if you aint making
70cpm your better off Parking
it at Burger King.
Well good news, as of last year pay is 65cpm for two weeks out and they now have a day 1 pet and rider policy.
Do they hire felons
Lol first
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.45 cents a mile ain’t no money the Russian in Chicago paying .60 on all miles not that practical bull crap 💩 they got to do better how Americans let Foreigners pay they drivers better 🧐
1099???
Chicago company is only 1099 enjoy filing taxes I did it for a year owed its 15k and state 3k
Another crap company of the week