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Originally Posted by dieselgrl
This saddens me... I worked for them back in 2005 and they kept me running, kept their promises in regards to getting home, and if I ever had a question my driver manager took care of it no problem. It's a shame to hear they've gone this way.
It is a shame. I'm not sure that they are the cheapest company to work for, I did ok on the mileage pay, but they tried to nickel and dime you to death on everything else and refused to pay for things if there was the least reason to get out of it.
Example: I had a delivery on Long Island that was scheduled for 0900. I arrived at the customer at 0900 by my watch and walked up to the check-in, was told what door to back into, went back to my truck and sent my "here I am message" then put it into a door. I was at the customer for 6 hrs. Since they pay detention for anything over 2 hrs this would mean 4hrs paid right? Nope. Since my qualcomm message was sent at 0907 I was 7 minutes late for my appointment so wouldn't be getting any detention pay. I'm not kidding on this. If the dispatcher and her boss had ever driven a truck then they would have realized getting to a customer within 15 mins of the appointment time of 0900 on Long Island was pretty good and well withing the 1 hr leeway the customer allowed. To top it off I was at the customer so long they pulled my next load and I sat in a truckstop the next day waiting for a load. Did I mention that this delivery was the day before Thanksgiving and I sat T-Day in Bordentown?
Dickey crap like that is what I mean about the company going from a good place to work to one that didnt care about the drivers anymore. My only consolation is that Rick lost his shirt when he bought out my old company, the papermill next to it shut down and he had to close the terminal. Payback as far as I'm concerned.