No thanks.

 

Florilli is a small company with 224 trucks according to their website.
Too many times these small companies expect drivers to run big miles.

They also expect the driver to adapt, overcome and improvise.

Good or Bad, Right or Wrong there are still alot of companies out there like this and they will try to get you to "get along with the program" or they run you off.

You should have done better research before going to work for them. I apply the general rule the bigger and faster the trucks means the faster the dispatch too. Sometimes working for a bigger company with slower trucks is a good thing especially if you want to always cry about the log book.....now don't get me wrong running legal is the right thing to do, but some of these companies run fast and loose with the rules. Either way sounds like they did you a favor.........find a good company to run for ther are alot of them out there.

 

After I left Florilli I went to Millis transfer and straved my butt off. Then I went to Earl Henderson Trucking and loved it. The difference between Florilli and Henderson is at Florilli the owner has NEVER driven a truck and none of the senior mangers have either. However at Henderson the owner of the company is a former O/O the head of Operations is the founders son and he started off in the shop and worked his way up to were he is. Also at Henderson they truely care about the drivers when I devloped Epilepsy in September of 2000 they actually paid for all the hotel rooms my now ex wife and my parents incurred while I was in teh hospital in Reno NV plus paid for all the meals that were needed for my folks and ex wife. The kicker is my parents gas was even paid for by Henderson for coming out to get me no questions asked.

I have a funny feeling Florilli would have said YOYO and do not let the door hit you in the a$$. Henderson pays a full time employee whose job is to make sure the drivers are happy you have any probelms you go to him and he will go over and thru anyone needed to fix them. I still can call him today and he knows who I am almost 7 years later and we are still friends. And get this Henderson and Florilli are about the same size yet their turnover rates are very different I know in the time I was at Henderson I barely moved up the board yet at Florilli when I left after 16 months I went from 220th to 16 on the board what does that tell you.

 

According to the Florilli website the owner/ceo Murry Fitzer was a driver/OO from 1982-1986

 

For your information Maury Fitzer is a farmer that got into trucking because of a blizzard and talked to a trucker who wanted to buy a truck but did not have the cash to buy it. He bought the truck for the guy the trucker DROVE it for him til the driver got tired of being stiffed for pay. Here is how Maury rewards his top driver his handle is Bullwinklle I doubt he is still there now He had a show truck that was company owned including a 80th Anniversry Utiltiy Trailer complete with extra lights and a 70 inch sleeper pete the old style one. His truck was the only one with no governer on it. His truck broke down in Denver and Maury decided to SELL THE WHOLE THING out from under him. Is that how you treat your #1 driver.

 

Well at JB the top driver gets the same as the 15,000th driver , a freightliner .

As far as truck abandonment goes , if you leave your truck in a weigh station it won't be on your DAC and the company can't charge you anything for the abandonment as long as the DOT inspects it and there are tractor violations .

 

Wish I'd have researched the no abandonment on the scales for faulty equipment when we were with that last joke of a company.........they are still running that mess, so many here are right on the money with no matter what you put up with from a place they wash their hands and replace ya..........Gotta make sure all is right with whatever company you go with and if it's not get to a good one ASAP!!!

 

Boy I just love how all you drivers make it out to be his fault when i have been repeating the facts it wasn't. For example one he got a load going to MN so he started his day, well they ended up pulling that load and he waited till almost 5pm to get another thus counting towards his day. Traffic doesn't help matters when you are en route either. You mean to tell me YOU GUYS are NEVER late no matter what?? And if you are late is it your fault? Come on man, things happen out on there and these WEREN'T his fault. How can he be blamed for another driver being late when he KNEW for a fact he couldn't deliver the load on time he did everything according to policy they wanted him to do. Contact dispatch, not his fault they couldn't do anything. So quit bashing my hubby because he was late 4 times of which weren't HIS fault end of story!

 

He did contact dispatch every time, They kept making excuses saying we can't do anything it's too late, when in fact they had 4-5 hrs before delivery time to DO something about it. When your 14 hr clock runs that's it, and Yes he knows how to plan but like I said before shit happens. This is the first time he's been late do hrs running out, traffic, getting sick and another driver being late on a sawp. I mean come on you guys are acting like he just let it him happen, yes he wanted to be late all them times. Whatever I thought this board would be helpful on the abandonment part but instead you guys are all ripping apart my post disscusing that he was late, that's all you care about it seems is that he was late.

I've been explaining what happened but no one cares, goodbye done finished will never make another post on here again. And IT even states in their logbook that they are not suppose to abandon you. They did and plus took all his money on his last check. Abandonment is against the law! How can you account for a tractor trailer going off the road? Or a driver wanting to do a u-turn on I-80? There's only so much you can account for before you start your day!

 

I dont think they were blaming your husband. I think they were just helping him understand that there are ways to not be late. Yes, there are many drivers out there who are never late on loads. I think everyone just has a hard time believing that he couldnt have done something not to be late at least some of those 4 times. Whether it be, not stopping to pee, not stopping for showers, not stopping to eat, planning better....ect.
I dont drive a truck, but its a lot like me being late for work. There might be a huge 10 car pileup and I might be stuck in traffic and have to call in late to work. Its not my fault someone else had a wreck. But im still going to get in trouble for being late. And it is my fault I didnt leave earlier or didnt check the traffic before hand. If by some coincidence, I get stuck in traffic 5 days in a row and I am late those days. Im going to be fired. Im not going to be able to tell my boss, "its not my fault there were wrecks". The point is that, people need to quit passing the blame and accept a little personal responsibility for their own situations. Pointing fingers and passing the blame isnt going to help your hubby find another job. Service failures are still service failures no matter what the reason. If you get too many of them, you are going to be canned no matter what reason you can come up with.