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Post by OOmad on Aug 16, 2011 17:16:26 GMT -5
Past week or two I`ve seen a couple of rough looking volvos with duct taped signs on them that said "green fuel transport".Think it also said Portsmouth.Who is this new company and where did they come from?Anybody know?Just curious.
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Post by GreenFueldreaming on Oct 1, 2011 21:15:56 GMT -5
Green Fuel has been around as long as any of these companies here in VA. If you get a chance to ask one of the owner ops pulling with a Green Fuel placard on his truck how he is doing he will tell you very well my friend very well . This company has trucks lined up begging to pull with a Green Fuel placard. Green Fuel Transport , Inc is located in Suffolk . Get on the list I have been trying for a while now.
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Post by OOmad on Oct 8, 2011 9:54:55 GMT -5
Checked them out on fmsca site.Can`t believe for one second that anybody would be on a waiting list.Ha !Vehicle Out of service 71.4% of the time.If you own this company I can`t understand why you`d let guys run their trucks in this condition.Figured from your post you must own this company.If so-sounds like you are lying so that you can join the rest of the lying-ass scumbags operating in our area.You do realize who is gonna get sued when one of your guys runs over somebody with the junk you let them work,don`t you??Come on man,shape up and do it right!Not dogging Green Fuel Transport,the facts speak for themselves.Last years MCS-150 listed just 155,584 miles for your entire fleet.Waiting list?  ?lol |
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Post by GreenFueldreaming on Oct 8, 2011 21:03:30 GMT -5
No , I don"t own the company and dude I feel a little jealousy coming from your tone . Regardless of Green Fuel"s FMCSA rating , that is probably brought on by the large majority of the oop"s out here dodging the trooper"s I don"t know why. I am sure it"s hard to baby sit grown men . You need to think about the 155,584 for the entire fleet remark because the most profitable accounts are within 25 miles of NIT and APM , some are closer than that . You don"t have to travel far out here to make good money . I know of an account Green Fuel has that is 4 miles from APM . That is why Green Fuel has a waiting list so before you start dogging a company out here get the real facts before you start typing away. I sit in the port"s just like you every day , that is unless you are not an oop. That is the question ?
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Post by findthatmoney on Oct 8, 2011 21:56:50 GMT -5
Thats true I could see where it could be tough controlling oop's that are telling you one thing and doing another. Local work that is steady is the best and if it pays good , man you can't go wrong . My truck is straight , I might call him and help get his FMCA rating up .
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Post by rjones56 on Oct 9, 2011 8:53:10 GMT -5
I dont know as I believe that,either.Some of the local trucks are pretty ragged looking so I guess G.F.T could be doing local work.The MCS-150 filed in September claims 5 trucks which breaks down -31,000 miles each.Would local work pay for every mile you put on your truck?I know even with the peanuts I make keeping my truck safe is a priority,so its hard for me to understand why the moneys so good and the scores so bad.I`ve seen a couple of their trucks with paper placards ducttaped to them.Trucks I`ve seen look rough and dirty,which for us road drivers is a DOT magnet.I have 35 years trucking,blaming your O/Os-especially in a 5 truck operation,doesn`t fly with me.With that size operation it would be very easy(and necessary!) to keep an eye on O/Os and their equipment.If they don`t listen then call the next one on your waitin list.Looking at FMSCA data may or may not give a good read on a companies profitability,but I`m pretty d**ned sure G.F.T isn`t on the clock while the DOT is crawling all over their trucks.I don`t think the O.P. is jealous,nor dogging anybody.Wonder how many of the 5 trucks are company owned?This day and age its very hard to make a living.If I were the owner of this company I would personally be talking to my O/Os and ensuring that they are doing all they could to help improve "our" score before we are put out of business,OR find someone who will.In the meantime the rest of us will try to be behind the G.F.T truck when it gets to the scales.
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Post by Pilotman on Oct 9, 2011 16:22:43 GMT -5
Anyone remember OT, Oil Transport? WOW. the junk they had & the idiots they hired back in the seventies. Today the insurance companies are hammer down looking at those big fat CSA scores. Not only that but leasing to a company with bad score card & the DOT is gonna be keeping an extra keen eye for anyone with that placard on the door. Not me folks. I don't like big brother grouping me with a bunch of misfits who can't keep their equipment up to par.
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Post by Henry P on Oct 9, 2011 18:35:39 GMT -5
Yeah I remember Oil Transport. Red tractors, mostly cab over Macks. I used to pull for O'Boyle Tank Lines hauling cement and chemicals. That's when trucking used to pay decent d**n money. Even the container loads out of Norfolk paid well. Everything was mounted ready to go with good brakes, tires, lights. Very few problems with any chassis and workers respected each other better at the docks. The freight rates today these agents want you to work for are disgusting. There were a whole lot less drivers behind the wheel of a semi back then willing to work for peasant wages. This also was a professional middle class job but those days are long gone.
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