Well after playing the waiting game with swift for two forms to get approved, my hubby got a call from Wenger and was already pre-approved. Swift was waiting for a release form from a former employer and another form that we NEVER had to worry about before. He starts orientation next Tuesday in Iowa. Fed up with waiting for swift he decided to go with these guys. It's mostly east coast but that's ok we already know it from Jb Hunt lol. We will post how it goes.

 

Maybe he could somehow help the process with the new company. Find out if you guys can get the release from the previous employer and have it in hand when he goes in.

I know that they do have to verify ALL employment and times of unemployment for the last three years as per federal regulations.

My husband needed to have unemployment information from the state of Washington as just the 1040's were not acceptable.

I would make certain that this will not be a problem with the new company. Try to find out exactly what they need.

Good luck!

Goin Fer It's Wife

 

It's just taking them too long she finally got the one from wil-trans but is waiting on a release from the doctor when he had a medical issue this past feb for national distributors. And we have never had to deal with this before. So he decided we can't wait any longer and he called her today to tell them we're going with another company. Thanks, we need a lot of good luck these days lol

 

Maybe you could have his new company call Wil trans early and explain how long it took them to get the information they needed at Swift and I would call the doctor and get the release and have it in hand just in case. This will help get things rolling if they require the same things. It is better to be safe than sorry.

I know I wanted to make certain that my husband had EVERYTHING he needed for May Trucking. We had read that to many times people were sent home from orientation because they could not confirm employment, unemployment or get the necessary documentation. Having three children and we were not in the financial position were we could deal with any time lapses from school and going to work.

Keep us updated! I hope it works out for you.

Goin Fer It's Wife

 

Thanks, well it's been good so far with evry other company he went to orientation. This is the first time we've ever come across this. The cool thing is, I get to go to orientation with him. And we already have a place to park the truck when we get home.

 

Sevlow, you say its been good at all of the other orientations. How many orientations?? Just curious. How come nobody is hiring him if things are going well at these orientations?? Your right though, it does seem pretty cool that you've been able to go with him to these things. I've never seen that on this board before. It costs the companys money just to bring in a " prospective " driver. Gotta cost more when they allow their spouses to come along. Buuuuuutttt, I've been surprised before.

 

There was 2 other orientations, Jb Hunt and Knight. Yes I was suprise to, I'm soo excited I can't wait!

 

Our first week with Wenger:

Orientation was great for hubby. Their orientation is paid which is $100. Tuesday was the first day. Which consisited of road test, drug screen. Wednesday was paperwork ALL day, meeting your fleet manager and getting your truck. Thursday was Smith System test and quall comm review. They g ive you $20 for Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Thursday you get $10. And you get the rest once you're dispatched which is $50. Of course they tried giving us this piece of crap 2001 international. The seats were so disgusting I didn't even want to sit on them.

So I told hubby to keep on his recruiter. Because he promised over the phone and when we got there that we would have an '04 or '05. Well by the end of the day on Thursday he finally came through and got us an '04. It's pretty sweet looking. All decked out in chrome, has some nice graphics on it as well. And pretty clean inside, it was from a husband and wife team. The hotel was nice. We stayed at the howard Johnson there in Davenport and got a company van to cruise around in all week. The only thing about internationals is the sleeper berth is to short! And the clutch fan has a very annoying whistle!

We were suppose to be home on Friday but didn't get home till late Saturday night. We got our dispatch Thursday saying our load would be ready at 6am. Well Purina didn't even have a trailor for us! So we went to hook up to an empty to take over to the shipper. Ended up getting stuck in the yard and had to be pulled out. So we get pulled out and the trailor needs a tire. So we went and had breakfest while waiting for it to be repaired. I believe the yard guy took our trailor to the purina lot to get loaded. We get to the other purina lot and it's not ready would take like 3 hours to load it. We were running on 3 hours sleep mind you. After getting up at 5am thinking we had to pickup at 6am. So after all the bull crap, weasting a whole day. We decided to stay another night and sleep in the truck to get a feel for her. It's not bad just more noisy than a freightliner. Our first delivery is in Livonia, MI, 40 mins from our house.

I will keep you all posted on how things go with this company. They are small and I'm REALLY hoping the miles are there for us this time. Their beni's are ick, but they are working on getting better ones.

 

Well our first three weeks with Wenger has been alright I suppose. Not really what we were expecting. Their fleet runs 2001-2006 internationals. First we were promised an '04 international and they gave us an 01 that was NASTY inside. We waited and pushed for a better truck. Finally got one which is an '04. It's not bad, we had to have some work done to it. We ran from Livonia, MI to Bedford, PA, to Binghamton, NY. We thought there was a problem with the turbo but there wasn't so our load got repowered cause we were at the international shop all day. The original load was suppose to be bedford, pa to johnstown, NY to lewiston, Maine.

so after everything was ok, we went to Walton, NY Kraft down to Norcross Kraft in Atlanta, GA. They thought we stole our trailor because we were checked into the system then the guard tells us to go get fuel for the refeer. You need 3/4 fuel for kraft. On our way to get fuel a guy pulls in front of us and slams his breaks on and gets out saying he's going to call the police if we don't return to kraft. MY husband told him he needed to get fuel. We found out a lot about this company from it's drivers while being out there. But still kept going. After atlanta we went back to davenport and got stuck there all weekend of the 18th because they said they had a load for us to go back to detroit with but it got all screwed up. But we at least got paid $45 a day after Friday. We were there till Tuesday.

Tuesday we ran from Musctatine, IA to fremont, OH and back all week. We were suppose to be home on the 24th but got home on the 25th at 1:30am. Our dispatcher is kind of a smart ass. Why do we always get these kind of dispachters? Anyway there is no night time dispatch, no prepass for scales cause the owner is to cheap to spend $30 for it. The shop people are ok, I would say there is only 2 nice guys there so far. The other day my husband noticed chunks of rubber missing from his steer tire, we were in Minooka, IL. The shop guy wanted him to drive either 50 miles or 10 miles to the nearest shop. My husdband I'm not going anywhere send someone out here now! The shop guy gave him a major attitude swore at him and was upset because he had to send someone out to fix a tire.

They also make you sign a paper during orientation statting that if you leave before six months they will make you pay for everything! Including: Hotel, bus ticket, drug screen physical, toll cards, orientation pay and any other expenses the company had to pay for you. The miles I hope are going to get better. Our pre-prass still isn't working after they reset twice. So we are leaving tomorrow to go to Freemont, Oh then back to Muscatine, IA, the terminal is 22 miles away. Hopefully we can get a new one so we can stop taking pay advances!

Sorry for the long post but I hope this helps provide some info for people looking at small companies. Be VERY careful, if they have to doctor up your app, then run away!

 

Sounds like 3 weeks of garbage . Have you tried barr-nunn ? You live in a perfect area for them and they get you home every weekend .