Melton Truck Lines are crooks!(((((DONT GO THERE)))))

[Phantom433a]

So your saying all boat and car haulers run illegal? PAleeze....I've ran with a few parking lots in the last 22 years....guess what? I also call :dung: . Drivers willing to run illegal help the brokers keep the rates low for everyone. I run 4 loads a week from Vegas to Northern Az and I still make over 50k a year with weekends off. Just pray that you don't get into even the smallest accident and be illegal, hefty fines await those that are.

[coachman]

this guy reminds me of those IDIOT COAL HAULERS in eastern Ky, when they don't run legal and kill some one they are the first to claim I did not do anything wrong, not my fault. They run illegal and would not know how to run legal. Hell he is better off with some little independent owner.

[felix5oh]

he is better off with some little independent owner.

Your right about that! More money and less time spent lookin at the clock.




Sorry, i dont mean to put down ALL car and boat haulers. My log is always updated and is legal at any given time, just so you know. I get rid of fuel receipts and toll receipts every 5 hours.






Back to the subject=They took $530. from me and justified my not giving a 2 weeks notice.
Even if you add the miles and fuel usage from my last stop to the terminal it only comes to like $100. not $500.

[Twilight Flyer]

Say what you will TF, your one of them and i'm not listening.

That's obvious.

Keep feeding my post, you know you cant stop.

Why would I want to stop it? I'm not the one that abandoned the truck and I'm not the one that charged you the recovery money. That was all you and your company. I merely offered my opinion on WHY they hit you with the recovery and you were the one that decided to act like a doofus. Look at the replies you are getting on this thread? Whether the company was right or wrong, you haven't garnered any support from other posters.

Deep down you have to know that's not the right thing to do to a poor trucker. And if you do ,your scum.

I never stated whether it was right or wrong...I told you WHY they did it. What your opinion is of me is irrelevant and I certainly won't loose any sleep over it.

I got a job with another independant here in FL. And i do know how to run hard and i am very efficient. We'll just have to see what he's all about. Wont have to worry about a 14 hour clock. I can run my own log book like when i used to haul boats.

And when you have that big accident, what then?

[Jumbo]

He can run his own log book? Then why am I running Bob Johnson's from Clearwater, Florida. He didn't even leave me enough hours to get home.

[rgarthman1969]

And he said that he wasnt going to listen to TF. Now thats funny. He is mad at the world and he is going to bash anyone that offers him any help.

[coachman]

Like I said earlier he reminds me of a coal bucket driver, "NOT MY FAULT"
He is the one that dumped the truck. Acting like a little kid.

[feederfred]

Ah, another low wage "rookie".....I guess you just haven't fathomed the fact that multiple log books and so forth are no longer the rule, but the exception in the trucking industry....But, you will think everyone else on this board is wrong and you are the "original all that"...right up until you kill someone and then the real crying will begin...Perhaps you should re-think your "career" moves.

[felix5oh]

$530. does not equal miles traveled. The big companies are crooks. I could expect a charge but not $530. I DID NOT ABANDON THE TRUCK!



I already got a job with an independant in FL. I'll give you the updates.

[Twilight Flyer]

$530. does not equal miles traveled. The big companies are crooks. I could expect a charge but not $530. I DID NOT ABANDON THE TRUCK!

But that's just the thing. You did abandon it. If they charged you, then they consider it an abandonment and are charging you for the "recovery". Even if you left it at a terminal, if it wasn't the one they wanted it at, then they are going to charge you for whatever it takes to get the truck to the terminal they want it at and they are going to hit you with an abandonment.

Right or wrong doesn't matter here...that's what they did, whether you agree with it or not. It has nothing to do with me or with any other large company. It's between you and your company and I've provided the reasons as to why they did it. I'm not sure why this is so difficult to understand or why you feel that it's my fault or any other big companies fault.

[coachman]

TF forget it he will never admit that he abandoned his ride and will forever cry that the big companies screwed him out of his lil $530.00 while he deserved it. He is a wasted cause and not worth the sweat you expend trying to explain it to him. Time to push it aside and move on.

[rgarthman1969]

Hey TF. Remember what he said. He is not going to listen to you. LMAO So you are wasteing your time on him. :twisted: He must not be dealing with a full deck :shock: becasue he had no response to all of the other comments that was said. But all jokes aside. I do wish him the BOL. :wink:

[OKtrucker]

Just my 2 cents worth:
In May 2001 I decided to join Melton. Went through their orientation in Tulsa and 4 days later was a ssigned a truck. First load went to New Jersey with air conditioners for a new Target, Second load was pipe to Houma La. I decided that flat bed was not for me so I quit. I did ask where they wanted the truck and they sent me to go load somewhere in New Orleans, I told the dispatcher I was not taking the load that I quit, where do you want the truck taken. He again sent a message for the load, I then asked him if I were to just quit and did not want to "abandon" the truck where would he advise me to take it. His response: Well, if you were to quit, the truck would need to come to Tulsa so we could prep it for the next driver, now here is your load assignment.

I told him I quit again and would be on my way to Tulsa.

That qual-com went off for the next 12 hours, they were pissed.

I say all that to say this, on my DAC they reported "driver quit under load" I could appreciated that. I was told later that anytime a driver quits the truck needs to be brought back to Tulsa. That is why they did not report it abandoned.
Incidently, they did keep my paycheck to settle the orientation, bus ticket, advance etc. No biggie, the company was fair to me, I just did not like flatbeds.

[coachman]

Got a bit snippy did they? I found out if you comply with them you lose very little, you can always get DAC records fixed.

[movinit]

He runs illegal, but calls it "making Money" and he OBVIOUSLY has a huge bad attitude I think Melton is better off with out him. To bad he won't quit trucking because he is what makes all of us look bad; when he plows into a school bus or stopped cars because he is 6-8 hours over his 14 then we will all pay because more legislation will be created against ALL of us.

Stop trying to reason with him, because you can't fix stupid!

[Phantom433a]

Stop trying to reason with him, because you can't fix stupid!

Yes you can Movinit, but its illegal as well. :wink:

[felix5oh]

No big trucking company cares if your flagged to go home, they have new drivers every week. It's like a Pez dispenser of drivers that get mad and endup quitting less than 6 months into it. The first 3 monthe i was getting about 2000 miles but even at full mile pay and tarp pay, it still was not as good as when i was with the boats.



Never did care what a knucklehead's opinion is, i'm just putting it out there for you to view.

[Uturn2001]

it still was not as good as when i was with the boats.

Specialized freight almost always pays better than general freight does.




FYI to all the newbies reading this thread: As TF has been trying to point out, just because you take a truck to a terminal when you quit, even if it is the same terminal you picked the truck up at, does not automatically mean that you have returned the truck to the proper terminal. To avoid abandonment charges take the truck back to the location the company specifies and get a "receipt" for the truck when you turn it in.

[Phantom433a]

You say the truck was in perfect condition.....was that better than what it was when you got it? How about travel to the offices for orientation, did you pay that or did they? Did the have someplace for you to stay while going through orientation? If not, who paid for the motel?

[jasons]

Well from my past experiences of large OTR company's, they will try to screw you over when you quit even if you returned the truck to the right terminal. Examples from my experiences. They will keep dispatching you after you quit even after a 2 week notice so they can put load abandonment on your DAC.
Put accidents on your DAC that never happened. Another company made me sit in Memphis for 4 days before they dispatched my final load, while about 10 drivers from the same company got loaded and sent back to my home terminal. Charge for cleaning or parts missing from truck. And now if I quit this new company I just started they want to charge me for my employee handbooks, those little JJ Keller books they handout, motel, fuel, camera, map book, etc. Only truck drivers will put up with this crap. No other occupation that I have worked at charged me for orientation materials and employee handbooks. I guess this should be a good sign that they have a high turnover rate.