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hey newbies looking for a company that will hire anyone out of florida. Thinking of signing on with a company called windyhill out of eustis fl. Any info would helpful

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unsure where Largo is I know that being down here in Ft. Lauderdale Swift,Schneider,FFE will all hire me.
If you are north of th I-4 corridor you can add Werner to that list and I believe Covenant.

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I live in ft myers fl. I responded to an ad in our local newspaper placed by windyhill trucking. I spoke on the phone to a man. this was about a year ago. here's what impressed me. I got my cdl about 7 years ago. I never drove after i got out of truck school. this man was willing to hire me sight unseen over the telephone and put me with a trainer. I still may call them back. please let me know what you find out. also will you email me their phone number and address. I lost them. charliemcc@hotmail.com If i remember correctly, they haul flowers.

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Yes I believe they haul plants and flowers.
aman
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From their website:
Windy Hill Trucking
P.O. Box 839 Marshfield, Wisconsin 54449
Phone: 715-384-3137 Fax: 715-387-4753
Toll-Free: 1-800-864-3404 (Ray Larson)
Toll-Free Outside Florida: 1-800-227-0020 (Vivian Reinwand)
Good luck.

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Thanks for the heads up. Am interested in the chance for starting with a small company.
Whistlepunk

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I've never heard of them. If they haul plants be prepared for some work. Most if not all loads are driver tailgate. Meaning you will have to bring all the plants to the end of the trailer and they will take them from there. Some plant loads also require a deck. Lots of work and exercise. They will load an area of the floor then build a deck above it then more floor and more deck until it's loaded. You get to tailgate the load and take down the deck as you go. Some trailers are built for it so I'm told. Mine is not and sounds like to much work.
Depending on how they pay either by the mile or percentage it could be OK. I wouldn't mind percentage with drop pay. Whatever it is be sure to find out if they pay for stops and unloading. Plants usually have far more time unloading with lots of stops than they do miles. Having 30 or so stops is not unusual. At least not with some brokers I've talked to.
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of all who threaten it"

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"....it's the freedom, the open road ahead of you. It's seeing the beautiful American landscape. That's why I drive truck...."
Anonymous driver
I just looked at their web page and saw the above quote. Night before last I spent a little over 2 hours in Washington DC rush hour traffic try to get on 95 south and out of there. I was definatly looking for the "open road" ahead of me. Hahahaha
By the way do you like snow, lots and lots of snow. If so Wisconsin is sure to provide you with it.
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of all who threaten it"

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sound like a LOT of work to me!

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I did that for about 4 days running for Temp agency assignment for Stansel [truckin for Jesus] out of Palm Harbor FL. Ran Team hauling cases of cut flowers, floor loaded floor to ceiling.
I forget how many stops, is was awhile back, ran FL to upstate NY, day and night drops. You have to be in good shape, nothing heavy, but a lot of walking and bending. Your back has to be in shape for it. We had keys and alarm codes to all the nurseries so their was no waiting at all. You got in and out as fast as you can unload and bring the flowers into the cooler.
There was no money in it for the driver, at least at Stansel, to make it worth while.
The plant hauls are not too bad, you can only fit so many plants. I did plant hauls out of Plant City FL on daily runs local for a nursery on a straight truck. That was for a temp agency too. They only paid $8.00 hr. on that assignment but it was just to fill in for their company drivers on vacation for a week. At the end of the day I was filthy dirty from head to toe from hand unloading those plants. At least I was home to take a shower. Handling the cut flower cases was a lot cleaner work than those dam plants.
I hear some of those plant runs, you have to wait, sometimes quite a while at places like Wal Mart and Home depot etc. I like to know what Windy hill pays their experienced drivers to haul plants. They don't say on their web site. Only trainee pay at 300 wk.
There is another FL company that hauls flowers Arminelli [spelling incorrect?] I don't if Stansel or Arminelli are still in business.
[This message was edited by dak1 on December 21, 2002 at 16:20.]

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Armellini is still in business

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Most of those companies don't pay enough. That other team driver for Stansel worked for them for 5 years. He told me he grossed $500.00 a week and he thought that was good money. ?????? Working around the clock for 5 days and 500 gross, didn't sound like good money too me.
The temp agency was paying me more money than he made on that team run.