Magnum Ltd. reviews

Excellent reefer company. Top notch equipment. All trucks have fridge, APU, and inverter. Little to none micromanagement. No New England, NY, California, south west. A lot of Midwest, Northwest, and South.

I'm a new driver. Within 8 months of working here I was making .50 per mile. Trucks are all blue Peterbilt. A couple trucks are different brand, but those are "experiments". Home time policy is basically go home as often as you want for as long as you want (within reason) and give 10 days notice prior. Very accommodating. New drivers to the industry start out at .36 per mile. Then we have performance pay, which is based on mileage, mpg, being on time, safety, tickets, etc. up to .50 cpm. You are reevaluated every 4 months. Hazmat is required and you get an extra .05 cpm on hazmat loads. In 8 months I've hauled 3 hazmat loads. I'm kept plenty busy. I averaged 3041 miles/week over my first 6 months.

Stay far away from this company speaking for local drivers in Illinois. Pay is terrible for a semi truck driver pay feels like I’m driving a box truck rather then a 53ft if you been with the company 6 plus years and a good lap dog you will see a decent pay check dispatchers communication is beyond terrible some of them won’t answer there phone after hours hotline is a joke takes three plus hours just to get funds to pay lumper fee maintenance on the trucks are poorly taken care of.your truck would have to completely shut down on you before they would do anything so your not making any money because your truck is down and they don’t have spare trucks for local drivers only OTR drivers which is mind blowing to me also I almost forgot they will not give you a load for weeks or months if your driver manager or Midwest dispatchers are mad with you so you would have to beg and call them everyday for a load which I think is unacceptable.

IF MAGNUM IS SO GOOD WHY HAVE THEY LOST ALL THE OWNER OPERATORS BUT TWO.They had a one time about 100

This is my Second review with Magnum LTD. I can’t say enough about how great this company has been. I’m coming up on my sixth year. I run OTR pretty hard staying out 4-8 weeks at a time but I can get off the road any time I desire and have never had an issue doing so. The equipment (1-3 yr old Peterbilts & Freightliners w/ APUs, Refrigerators, & inverters) miles, pay, culture and routes can’t be beat. I look at other companies on a regular basis but I haven’t been able to find a combination of attributes that beats this company. I’ve averaged (gross) $1817 / week this year (after three company wide raises my base pay is now .62/cpm) I’m set to hit 93k gross this year (base pay, bonuses, and ancillary pay; detention, layover, etc.) The best thing about this carrier are the customers we deal with most often. When I was with Prime, Inc I would consistently (20-30x/yr) sit at many meat and produce shippers that would have waiting times of 10-24 hrs. This still happens on a rare occasion (1-4x /yr) for me these days and if we have a receiver or shipper that does this with regularity then Magnum stops doing business with them. The areas we run are also a big plus (PNW, SE, East coast PA and below, South, and Midwest mainly). We never go to the SW (CA, AZ, NV, NM) or North of PA. The benefits are decent; 401k match, fair health and ancillary insurance, good PTO. The company staff (dispatch, driver managers, and maintenance) have always been great to work with and I rarely have issues. It helps that I treat people the way I want to be treated. Unless I hit the lottery or can find a similar or better gig paying 110k / yr plus I’m staying where I’m at.