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As some of you know, I moved over to bad Boyz from Crete back in March. So far, I am very glad I made the move.
As an introduction, at bad boy, all drivers earn $2+++/mile and are paid off of the hub for every mile turned. My miles have been really good so far. My last trip took 11 days and I turned 5431 miles and got paid for 4 stops. The stop pay is $30/stop. Altogether, my gross for the 11 days will be $4726.88.
Our trucks run 68 mph and there are no idle restrictions. Most of the trucks have some brand of diesel powered APU, except for some of the older ProStars which have a battery powered APU. My truck is a Freightliner Columbia that has 641k miles on it. It ain't the prettiest beast around, but it pulls good. I've had to call road service a couple times to fix an air leak and fix a brake problem but I can say I haven't lost any productive hours due to these issues.
One of the main reasons I came to Poly is because of their hometime policy. It's is unlike any other trucking company I have seen before. You are allowed up to 7 business days off at a time at the house. Notice I said business days. Saturdays and Sundays do not count as days off. It is possible to get home on a Friday and your first day off won't be until Monday. You could then spend the next 5 business days and the next weekend at home and still have the following Monday and Tuesday off. The only stipulation on this is that you average 2000 miles per week during the month. I have only had trouble getting home this last weekend. I didn't tell the outbound dispatcher soon enough that I wished to be home so I got stuck on a load going the wrong direction. They called today and I will be picking up a load in the morning going through the house that doesn't have a delivery appointment, so I can swing it by the house and take about 4 or 5 days off and then deliver the load.
I am still trying to learn the system here and I make mistakes, but so far, most of the people here try to help.
I will try to document here to the best of my abilities, my experience at Poly. If any other bad Boyz drivers want to join in, feel free my dispatcher is azuz.
Seasoned 22 year CDL driver here
When I completed school and agreed to sign with Pride they offered to fly me to their only terminal at Champagne IL or get me a rental car and reimburse me for gas. I chose to drive my own car with gas reimbursement for personal reasons.
They do not do the background checks, employment verification, or drug tests before you arrive which is kind of a negative, but in my class of 10 there were no problems with any of that and the trucks are our responsibility to bring or rent so that makes sense .
They put you up in an okay hotel about 10 minutes from the terminal. You get a room to yourself with free breakfast at the hotel. (They give you lunch all 3 days of the orientation. It was deli sandwiches the first 2 days and Dickey's BBQ the third day.) They have a shuttle pick you up the first morning of orientation then we drive the shuttle back to the hotel after that first day. We leave the keys at the front desk but we can borrow for anything we want to do until 930pm.
They have you get into town Monday, then orientation is Tuesday through Thursday from 8 AM to 4-4:30 PM with an hour break from 12PM to 1PM.
So the staff at bad Boyz is exceptionally nice and driver friendly I particularly like mike and terrell . They call it the bad Boyz way of helping the small guy and it seems to be contagious. It's easy to be nice to people when everyone is being super friendly to you. As an example, a woman who team drives with her fiancee was upstairs in the driver's lounge playing her XBOX. I chatted with her. Later she told me that I could stay after when my orientation was over to play her XBOX then just take her personal car to the hotel as long as I brought it back in the morning. People are crazy friendly here.
The first day of orientation is drug screens, new physicals, new DOT medical cards paid for by bad Boyz , and then road tests. The road tests are about 60 to 90 minutes long and done by everyone who doesn't need a trainer if ur equipment is ur own and not a rental . In our class we had 7 drivers with OTR experience who did the road test. It's basically just showing drivers how they want their equipment handled. 1 driver with 26 years of experience has no OTR experience so he just has to do a quick 50 hour eval with a trainer then he will road test and go solo.
Myself and one other student were fresh out of school so we must do a 100 hour super solo with a mentor followed by 200 hours of team driving with a mentor before we road test and go solo. Pay for everyone is $360 for the three days of orientation. Pay for trainees like myself is $450 a week during the super solo then $.15 a mile for all miles driven during the team driver phase.
When a trainee such as myself goes solo then I start at $.41 with some bonuses. The bonuses are:
$5000 signing bonus if you are in their service area, paid $200 a month for 24 months (last is $400)
$6000 tuition bonus, paid $125 a month
Mileage bonus: which is .5 cents, 1 cent, or 1.5 cents per mile for the whole month at the end if you have driven a certain amount of miles. The 1.5 cents if for 13k plus I believe and drivers tend to land in the 12.5k to 13k range.
MPG bonus which is set based on the truck. $30 for meeting the benchmark and $30 for every .1 MPG you beat the benchmark by. Paid monthly.
Produce loads is $30 for every dock bumped and $100 layover if you can't make every pick within your HOS.
$15 for bumping the dock on a non-produce load for every dock except the first and last.
Detention is $15/hour starting after you waited 2 hours and calculated in 15 minute increments.
Layover is $50/day for a full 24 hour period. Same for breakdown pay.
Bad things in regard to pay are:
Trainees just out of school don't sign a contract but must agree that after the 300 hour mentorship they will stay with bbtmsfor 6 months or pay a pro-rated $5000 depending on how much of the 6 months is remaining.
All drivers must pay for their own rental truck or mileage overage from the company (can't use own) and the company will reimburse u if ur reasonable . These range from $400-$500 for that
The $500 dog deposit is not refundable but you can transfer it to a different truck as long as your truck is reasonably clean.
Anyways the second and third days of orientation are typical. Security, HR, paperwork, . They watch the videos in their orientation playlist on their YouTube channel. The 3rd day drivers who don't need a mentor meet their fleet managers and figure all of that out.
After orientation, so Friday now, all 7 experienced OTR drivers got seated in their trucks. They all got Freightliners though the company does have non cdl dudes with rentals of 26 and 16 sand sprinter vans u can rent . They ranged from 2016 (the oldest the company has - getting phased out) to 2019s. Autos and manuals. They won't put anyone in a manual who doesn't want one but they did ask for volunteers. The trucks are really beautiful and well maintained. They install DirectTV for free for you and they install the mount for free, but you must buy your TV and I believe you must buy the mount. Then they charge $60 a month for DirectTV. They have a scale for that which decreases the cost to you and if you are out there driving then that ends up being free.
The driver who needed the 50 hour eval and us 2 trainees all got a hold of our mentors on Thursday to come pick us up. The other 2 people's mentors will be here Monday and mine will be here on Saturday. All 10 of us got our hotel stay increased to Monday though.
Anyways, that's basically the orientation experience here. Everybody I talk to is getting a ton of miles, not having maintenance issues, and just very happy here. I'll write more about how the mentorship goes and how the solo driving later goes if anyone is interested.
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As an ex-employee of Bad Boyz Trucking, I wanted to post a public thank-you to them for giving me my start in the trucking industry.
When I started trucking industry, it was as a summer job. I was a college student, and I had three months between the end of the Spring semester and the beginning of the Fall semester to go trucking. I told Harold Ioves about this, and they were perfectly happy with that arrangement. Suffice it to say many trucking companies would not have bothered training such a short-term employee. But they did!
I showed up at their yard in Elk Grove, IL with a fresh CDL and trucking school diploma. They hired me, put me through an orientation and put me on the road with a trainer, Freddie.
Freddie taught me everything the school didn't; not only driving, but how to use the Qualcomm, how to deal with shippers and receivers, law enforcement and so on and so forth. When he turned me loose and I got my own truck, the worries I'd had about how to handle myself on the road had evaporated.
Harold gave me a nice Kenworth, they took care of me when I had problems, and they gave me good miles and good runs. I had a great time driving for them, and when I left, it was only because I had to be back in Texas for the start of the Fall semester. I fully intended to go back to Harold Ives the following summer.
Unfortunately, by the time that summer rolled around, bad Boyz trucking had been bought out by a big company. I'd left Harold Ives on good term and thus made it into the bad boys system as a driver eligible for re-hire, and Covenant did agree to the same "summer job" terms that I'd had with bad boyz. So I hired on with them, and I got a pretty decent dispatcher there. But between my interactions with Covenant's Breakdown, Payroll and Human Resources departments, it was clear from day one that they could have used a lesson or two from Mr. Ives on how to run a company. Since then, I'm out of college; I'm now working in the IT field as a network engineer.
It's sad that there are bad reviews on bad Boyz at all, but every so often, I still come across that muscle hat logo on a trailer somewhere. It makes me remember what to me will always be the good ole' days.
Thank you, bad Boyz, for giving me my start in the trucking industry!
on my first load and good experience
Is it a perfect job? No, but it works pretty nicely for me.
Home on my style and they put up the money 55 to 60 hours a week, assigned truck or rental, day shift, solid equipment that's well maintained, excellent relationship with dispatch, T, and shop.
I run gas, dry bulk, and chemical, so when one gets thin, I'm able to keep making money consistently.
I'm not formally a trainer, but I do help train new folks coming in on gas and dry bulk.
Watching New drivers grow into solid gas haulers is very fulfilling.
Yes, theyy hire straight from school, but only accredited schools.. Not totally sure what that means, but that's above my pay grade anyway.
bad boy has gone way above and beyond in taking care of me through my time with them.
Support through major surgeries, loss of family members, my team has been rock solid for me the whole way thru...
I'm happy to talk with you about it, should you have questions or are curious about getting into gas hauling.
To me, it's as easy money as it gets in trucking.
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When I finally met him it turned out he was not the person he said he was he was a completely older man not the 20 something year old he said he was and was super creepy and pretty much told me he was doing this to find himself a sugar baby. LADIES BEWARE HE TARGETS GULLIBLE GIRLS WHO ARE IN TOUGH TIMES AND PROMISED THEM A BUNCH OF MONEY AND TRAVEL. None of his companies are even real.
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At they want to double brokerage loads and run their rental truck with owner operators MC. When I point it out to the company that brokers don’t book loads unless the company’s logo on the trucks and trailer. They hide behind a agency and that target former employees with MC contacts only to use for their own advantage. Then they have the audacity to file legal fraudulent, embezzlement charges without signed agreements or NDA or non compete forms. Honestly, Stay away from these bad boys, you make more money working at a local restaurant.