Buske Lines?

[BigAl9393]

Im thinking about applying with Buske, does anybody have any good or bad feedback about this company? Thanks in advance. Al

[Jackrabbit379]

My gosh! I didnt know that they were still around. Reckon so. They are out of somewhere in Nebraska. I used to see their trucks all the time, but I havent seen any of them in a coons age.

[Uturn2001]

Buske is out of Litchfield, IL and Edwardsville, IL. Main terminal is in Litchfield and the main office in Edwardsville.

I worked for them for a while a few years ago. My advice is to run, not walk away from them.

The dispatchers will push you to run illegal all the time. The safety department does nothing but whine about it, but in the end they give way to operations.

If you get sick and have to take some time off they will come and get your truck and try top charge you with abandonment.

They also will try to charge you for every nick, ding, scrape on your truck. They will also try to charge you for blow outs, etc.

If you quit prior to 90 days they will charge you for your drug test and physical.

You can completely expect to make 3-4 Canada runs per month. They haul lots of JIT freight and go into major panic mode if they even think you are not an hour ahead of schedule.

Anytime your truck needs any type of service you can fully expect to spend at least one full day in the shop, and then they expect you to do an overnight JIT run.

Anything else you want to know?

[Smooth]

Buske is out of Litchfield, IL and Edwardsville, IL. Main terminal is in Litchfield and the main office in Edwardsville.

I worked for them for a while a few years ago. My advice is to run, not walk away from them.

The dispatchers will push you to run illegal all the time. The safety department does nothing but whine about it, but in the end they give way to operations.

If you get sick and have to take some time off they will come and get your truck and try top charge you with abandonment.

They also will try to charge you for every nick, ding, scrape on your truck. They will also try to charge you for blow outs, etc.

If you quit prior to 90 days they will charge you for your drug test and physical.

You can completely expect to make 3-4 Canada runs per month. They haul lots of JIT freight and go into major panic mode if they even think you are not an hour ahead of schedule.

Anytime your truck needs any type of service you can fully expect to spend at least one full day in the shop, and then they expect you to do an overnight JIT run.

Anything else you want to know?

Wow , where do I sign up ?

[Jackrabbit379]

Yeah, what is their hometime? :P

They are the trucks that have the different colors on their trailers, right? I used to think that they were Brach's candy when I was a kid.

[Highwayman]

Buske is out of Litchfield, IL and Edwardsville, IL. Main terminal is in Litchfield and the main office in Edwardsville.

I worked for them for a while a few years ago. My advice is to run, not walk away from them.

The dispatchers will push you to run illegal all the time. The safety department does nothing but whine about it, but in the end they give way to operations.

If you get sick and have to take some time off they will come and get your truck and try top charge you with abandonment.

They also will try to charge you for every nick, ding, scrape on your truck. They will also try to charge you for blow outs, etc.

If you quit prior to 90 days they will charge you for your drug test and physical.

You can completely expect to make 3-4 Canada runs per month. They haul lots of JIT freight and go into major panic mode if they even think you are not an hour ahead of schedule.

Anytime your truck needs any type of service you can fully expect to spend at least one full day in the shop, and then they expect you to do an overnight JIT run.

Anything else you want to know?

Sounds about right - I drove for these clowns a decade ago. I'd be surprised if much has changed since then.

[Orangetxguy]

Saw this earlier....http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/...BDaGqQ379v24cA

By EMILY FREDRIX, AP Business Writer
Fri Mar 23, 2:23 AM ET



Federal prosecutors have forced a retired Ford Motor Co. manager to hand over nearly $660,000 he amassed in what they called a kickback scheme with trucking companies that generated millions over several years.

No criminal charges have been filed against John K. Perry, former manager of material planning and logistics at Ford's assembly plant in St. Louis, but a civil lawsuit U.S. Attorney Steven M. Biskupic filed this week in Milwaukee federal court says authorities seized about $660,000 Perry had in a brokerage account.

The scheme, the filing said, involved two trucking companies, one of which had ties to a similar multimillion dollar scheme involving Milton E. Morris, a former transportation director for consumer products giant S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.

No criminal charges have been filed against Morris, either.

Civil suits like the one against Perry are customary to preserve assets either in conjunction with a criminal case or before such a case is filed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Campbell would not say whether authorities are pursuing criminal charges against Perry but said the filings also notify victims who lost money in such schemes.

"We intend to forfeit this money and make it available to the victims of the fraud scheme," he said.

Marcey Evans, a spokeswoman for Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford, said the automaker was looking into the matter and could not yet comment.

The court documents say Perry retired from Ford in 2004. In efforts to reach Perry for comment, no phone number for him could be found, and the documents did not list any lawyers.

The civil suit was filed in Milwaukee because some of the payments Buske made to Morris were in nearby Racine, the filings said.

The documents show the Perry and Morris cases are linked through kickbacks received from Edwardsville, Ill.-based trucking company Buske Lines and its president and chief executive, Tom Buske. Buske also has not been charged, and messages left for him at the company's headquarters were not immediately returned Thursday.

Perry and Morris knowingly approved false and inflated transportation invoices that Buske submitted, and they also steered contracts to Buske, the documents said.

Morris told investigators in June that he steered extra business to a Buske subsidiary from 2000 to 2004, and Buske then overcharged S.C. Johnson, court documents say.

Morris said he approved the inflated invoices, and for every $300,000 in profit Buske made, Morris was paid $80,000. Morris got about $4.1 million, with Buske giving Morris money at lunch meetings, on golf courses or in hotel rooms, according to the filings.

The documents also said Buske conspired with Perry, and as in the other scheme, Buske sent Perry inflated invoices for transportation contracts and storage sites with Ford and gave him kickbacks. In all, $2.4 million was transferred from Buske's bank account to Perry's between 2001 and 2004, the filings said.

Buske even paid about $131,000 to build an addition to the Perrys' home in Lake St. Louis, Mo., and $350,000 toward their purchase of a home in Breckenridge, Colo., Perry's ex-wife, Tamara Perry, told investigators.

Perry also conspired with St. Louis-based Syms Trucking to steer contracts, and from 2001 to 2003, Syms paid $720,000 to a fake company controlled by Perry, the filings said. No telephone listing could be found for a trucking business named Syms in the St. Louis area.

Government investigators believe that in all, Perry transferred $680,000 in money connected to the schemes into his brokerage account, which was seized in late January and is now in the custody of the Internal Revenue Service.

Perry's $1,769 monthly pension checks from Ford could not have funded the transfers he made to the account, investigators wrote.

Authorities were tipped to the scheme by Racine-based S.C. Johnson in October 2004. The company, makers of products like Windex and Ziploc, told investigators it was overpaying trucking carriers by as much as $1 million a month when the scheme was discovered. Morris was fired shortly afterward.

S.C. Johnson sued Morris, Buske and his companies, and others, in a case that is set to go to a jury trial next January.

The company would not comment because of the lawsuit, spokeswoman Kelly Semrau said. Morris' lawyer in Milwaukee, Steve Kohn, declined to comment.

A Wachovia broker, John C. Burch, pleaded guilty to laundering money for Morris in October.

......Maybe good reason to stay away :?: :?: :?:

[Highwayman]

I knew that guy was a crook. Explains why he was never at the company HQ, always on some trip, and wearing fancy suits and driving a flashy car.