Central Valley trucking company specializing in hauling dry freight, winery and food grade related products. Located in the agriculturally rich land of Stockton in the Central Valley of California, Cherokee Freight Lines provides a complete trucking service, maintaining a fleet of more than 300 trucks. Family owned and operated, the early roots of Cherokee Freight Lines were in transporting winery-related products, and they have now grown to become a national, diversified carrier of food grade commodities, and are a kosher certified hauler.
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Cherokee Freight Lines is a family-owned and operated business located in Stockton, California, with a commitment to providing quality service. The CFL Team is backed by decades of experienced, true grit, determination and the innate ability to diversify - to move with and be a part of the evolution of trucking.
Cherokee Freight Lines provides a complete trucking service specializing in food grade equipment including kosher certified hauling. With a fleet of trucks numbering more than 300, they offer a broad range of services that include:. With a reputation of cost-efficient, sanitary and timely delivery of food commodities, Cherokee Freight Lines continues to build their impressive fleet of trucks -ranging from Dry Freight to Food Grade Liquids, to Sugar Pneumatics and Wine Tanks to name a few.Cherokee's 24-hour dispatch service and GPS Monitoring is efficient and effective in securing the safe and on-time delivery of products.
The Safety Program has defined policies for reporting collisions and moving violations, restricting alcohol and drug use and more. Safety Department - Planning & Prevention Program: It is our mission to make safety a priority at Cherokee Freight Lines. We recognize and understand the value in putting our energy and focus into maintaining safety procedures and requirements to ensure the safety of our employees, our customers, the products we haul, as well as the general public.We have a dedicated Planning and Prevention Program to aid us in the prevention of incidents and potential accidents.
Reviews (8)
Mario Asceves
Apr 08, 2022
Mark Bahlke
Jan 24, 2022
Jim Sprott
Aug 03, 2021
Be here for 24 years and not planning on going anywhere anytime soon. After nearly 25 years at Cherokee I turned in my keys. I've enjoyed my time with the company. But went your wife of 30 years tells you it time to stay home. You make the plans to retire. They told me I was always welcome to work in the summer or winter. All I had to do is call, they'd bring a truck to me.
The key to working for the company is do what your payed to do. You do your job, take care of your equipment. You make sure you load the load correctly. And deliver the load on time and correctly and don't leave a mess. Accidents happen, but stay and clean it up. That doing your job, and this company will respect you for doing it that way. One other thing, don't ever lie to them or steal from them.
If you would like something for your truck asked to buy it. You'll be surprised they may just give it to you. Be respectful to them and they will respect you. If they don't respect you they can't trust you. They are in some ways OLD school. They respect and trust the driver that does his job. If you screw up, tell the truth. You'll lose part of your safe bonus but you won't be fired.
That's OLD school, look them in the eye and tell them you screw up. There was a couple times I stood in the safety office and told them I'd screwed up. They thanked me for being honest and told me they'd talk about it. Never did I fear of being fired. They respected me for being honest. That's the key for working for Cherokee. This will be the last post for Cherokee. Have a safe trip and we'll see you down the road.
The key to working for the company is do what your payed to do. You do your job, take care of your equipment. You make sure you load the load correctly. And deliver the load on time and correctly and don't leave a mess. Accidents happen, but stay and clean it up. That doing your job, and this company will respect you for doing it that way. One other thing, don't ever lie to them or steal from them.
If you would like something for your truck asked to buy it. You'll be surprised they may just give it to you. Be respectful to them and they will respect you. If they don't respect you they can't trust you. They are in some ways OLD school. They respect and trust the driver that does his job. If you screw up, tell the truth. You'll lose part of your safe bonus but you won't be fired.
That's OLD school, look them in the eye and tell them you screw up. There was a couple times I stood in the safety office and told them I'd screwed up. They thanked me for being honest and told me they'd talk about it. Never did I fear of being fired. They respected me for being honest. That's the key for working for Cherokee. This will be the last post for Cherokee. Have a safe trip and we'll see you down the road.
Karen Beidleman
Apr 24, 2021
Gregg Gorman
Jan 03, 2021
Walter Singh
Feb 04, 2018
Todd Wright
Jan 14, 2018
I called to discuss them moving some products for us. The lady who answered asked one question and after my brief response she hung up on me without allowing me to ask any follow up questions. I tried getting another question, but she didn't care. Certainly not a carrier I would want to service my freight.
Robert Maxim
Nov 18, 2013
I worked for Cherokee seasonally, dropping and hooking grapes trailers at Bronco Wine Company. 80 hours a week, excellent experience. The road test wasn't too difficult; hook up to a set of doubles, drive around, make sure you don't kill pedestrians or maul down parked cars; don't take out the light pole, don't MISS A GEAR ON AN OVERPASS, then drive back around the block, drop your trailer. Cherokee gives new drivers a chance to prove themselves and stay local while they do it.
If you're a truck school graduate, hit them up around June before the grape crush starts. Here's a hint: you'll make 3x more money here than you will at the stupid little bottom feeder company like Swift, or Werner. Opportunity for full-time employment if you do well in the grape season. TAKE IT. They're a union outfit and that means excellent job stability with an excellent, well-respected company.
If you're a truck school graduate, hit them up around June before the grape crush starts. Here's a hint: you'll make 3x more money here than you will at the stupid little bottom feeder company like Swift, or Werner. Opportunity for full-time employment if you do well in the grape season. TAKE IT. They're a union outfit and that means excellent job stability with an excellent, well-respected company.
