[greaterbaatezu]

The company is being groomed to be sold off in my opinion, and therefor is not a stable place to work. Also, as they are desperate to "save money" on medical expenses and payroll at all costs, they are scraping together any excuse they can to fire any driver who has moderate to high medical expenses and/or will not accept their per diem package (now up to 14 cents of your overall pay). I am a victim of this. I have been driving for almost four years, made my rookie "bump and scrape mistakes" early and have been incident free for three years. I even got a three year safety award from them, right before they fired me. Now, they are smearing me on my DAC report with some very damaging and VERY vague/misleading statements, which are preventing me from finding work while I go through the EXTREMELY tedious process of disputing their claims.

Thier advertisments say "prestige has wings". Believe me, there's NO prestige in starvation.

They expect the best, but they don't pay the best... or treat you the best...

[greaterbaatezu]

Reason for termination: violation of company policy regarding: Overall unsatisfactory job performance. Got popped on I94 wb in southern WI 400 lbs over axle on the drives. Shipper scale shows me legal, Illinois scale on US 41 nb out of Chicago area gave me the green light. Load was too light (less than 42,000 lbs) to get reimbursed for a CAT scale. Due to alleged overaxle weight, I was pulled in for a level one DOT inspection (which lasted for an hour and a half) and was made forty minutes late for delivery instead of being there with bells on. I have had a grand total (in my own recollection) of 5 service failures in nearly 4 years. Of which, only 2 were entirely my own fault. The other three stemmed from circumstances beyond my control. (see above example)

[Syncrosonix]

somebody at the knight orientation had the same problem. marten blackballed him. he had several safety awards, and marten put some (bullchit) safety violation down on his dac, and knight ended up dismissing him from orientation. i felt sorry for him, too, because he didn't/doesn't seem like the kind of guy to purposely piss somebody off.

[zipy46]

The Blue Bird of Happiness strikes once again.

Used to work there...it was a pretty weird place.

.... high turnover as I remember it.

But man...I love those freakin APU's !!

[zipy46]

Its worth remembering that this industry actually

does eat its young.

[avc]

The industry needs a national union like hogs need slop, drivers will be getting the shaft until there is a national strike and all truckers honor it to get a union going.

[Syncrosonix]

Originally Posted by zipy46

Its worth remembering that this industry actually

does eat its young.

the world's a vampire. she eats her kids.

[avc]

If the jobs suck, conditions are bad, then truckers themselves are at fault for it, they can organize and shut this disaster down, and all of you should get moving on the movement now.

I just saw a kid driving for Werner yesterday, he looked like he just got out of high school yesterday, that is the future unless the drivers organize a union, if you don't like it, they will replace you with a 19 year old kid !!!!

These things should not be !!!! issedoff:

[zipy46]

Originally Posted by avc

If the jobs suck, conditions are bad, then truckers themselves are at fault for it, they can organize and shut this disaster down, and all of you should get moving on the movement now.

I just saw a kid driving for Werner yesterday, he looked like he just got out of high school yesterday, that is the future unless the drivers organize a union, if you don't like it, they will replace you with a 19 year old kid !!!!

These things should not be !!!! issedoff:

I have noticed that cash and commerce are the real dictators of the world.

Unions seem to have worn out their con game over time.

[avc]

As long as there are people like you around drivers will be working for pennies instead of dollars in addition to sitting back and letting Mexicans take all your jobs down the road.