Beware Of These Trucking Companies
Companies are only listed here if they have some serious problems concerning drivers. I will only put a company here after the offense has been checked out and verified. The offending trucking company MUST have 100 trucks OR more to be listed.
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JB Hunt [Lowell, AR] JB Hunt does NOT pay drivers layover for sitting on weekends. If their drivers sit all 48 hours on the weekend away from his/her family, they don’t get a dime. |
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Many drivers have complained about CR England stating they do not pay their lease operators properly. Drivers have stated that they will rip you off. Beware if you lease onto CR England! I’ve personally heard bad news about CR England for years. |
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Werner Enterprises [Omaha, NE] Drivers have stated MANY safety concerns with Werner Enterprises. I have personally seen Werner drivers in orientation sitting for a week or even more waiting to get a truck after they are DONE. They have some SERIOUS problems. Click here for just ONE of their driver’s concerns. I’ve had many people complain to me about Werner. Werner Enterprises Rip Off Report |
Covenant Transport [Chattanooga, TN] Covenant Transport’s driver trainers have stated that instead of training the new drivers they will instead make the trainer run the truck as a team which could endanger a lot of people. Covenant Transport has a VERY bad reputation among MOST drivers and it is suggested NOT to work for them and especially not to be trained by them! They have such an enormous turnover that this is what they almost have to do to keep making any money. Covenant Rip Off Report |
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Eagle Motor Lines | Southern Cal [Birmingham, AL] Drivers have stated that Southern Cal Transport makes drivers falsify logs and violate hours of service rules. These drivers have also reported them to the DOT who have apparently done nothing. Drivers state that they DO have them recorded on tape telling them to run illegal. Driver was then FIRED because the boss caught him recording the illegal directives. |
Swift [Phoenix, AZ] In the recent few weeks I have had myriad drivers complain about this company. I do not know what is going on at Swift but many drivers say they have cheated them, ran shoddy equipment, blatantly told drivers to lie on logs, not reimbursed tolls, etc. Recently Swift has turned their trucks up to 65 mph to try and plug the hemorrhage of drivers leaving the company. Beware of dealing with this company. You are forewarned. Swift Transportation Rip Off Report UPDATE: Swift stock downgraded by analyst because of their treatment of drivers, company structure and low pay! more… |
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Moskowitz Motor Transportation [Plainfield, NJ] People have stated that this company stopped paying benefits, has poor equipment, does not deliver freight, doesn’t pay overtime and much more. Teamsters Strike The Deadbeat… Moskowitz Motor Transportation |
| US Xpress Enterprises [Chattanooga, TN] US Xpress Enterprises has had a few reports against them stating drivers were stranded, hung out to dry, etc… |
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I have seen this company literally run drivers into the ground! They consistently keep a bad reputation among drivers. A common joke when hearing of a trucker in the ditch is, “was it a Prime?”. The state of Wyoming is considered the “Prime truck burial ground” as so many of their trucks have been inserted into the ditch there. I suggest you think HARD before going to Prime Inc of Springfield, MO. |
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Ihad been working at Styline transportion for 7 years,but during the past 18 months it has went down hill.about 10 months ago they stop our retirement,quit paying layovers,cut our mileage pay back 4 cents a mile,cut holiday pay,cut hometime,and stated dispatch from 1700-2100 hrs at night and stand by your phone in which they don’t furnish.It’s time to bring in the teamsters for trucking.
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I’ve heard a few less than flattering comments about Crete Carriers. What about their sister company Shaffer?
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Just wondering, I am new to the trucking industry. See the bad companies and some I had on my short list, could you recommend any companies that truly take care of their drivers?
Thanks,
Dirk
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Prime in the last year implemented employ ment screening based on Body Mass Index. Any driver considering driving for Prime, Inc needs to realize, even if they hire on under the BMI, if during the course of employmenet you go over the BMI, Prime can fire you for failure to follow company policy. We all know where that leads. I seriously considered working for them but after thinking it over decided not having that charge on my DAC was more important than the job.
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Correct, JB Hunt does not pay layover on Weekends AND Holidays. In addition, you must be without a load for 24 hours before they will pay layover. As an example, I drove for JB Hunt for almost two years. All in all, their pay at the time offset their disadvantages. I picked up a load of sugar out of New Orleans and delivered it in Branford, CT on Friday morning at 8:00AM. I sat from Friday morning until Monday before getting a load. If Monday had been a holiday, I would have sat until Tuesday before getting a load and wouldn’t have been paid a dime for any of it. Obviously, miles driven through the week are a consideration. I was hostile after sitting three days without a load. When I finally got a load headed back home, I stopped by the house on the way to the terminal and unloaded all my stuff. I got to the terminal, dropped my load, then called my dispatcher and told him I had had all the fun I could stand and was turning my truck in. He begged me to stay on for two weeks and he would get my miles up. I told him I expected 2500 miles a week. That was in September 2007. I didn’t leave the company until January 2009 due to a temporary medical issue. So, giving full credit to my dispatcher, he got my miles up to 2500, or at least very close each week (within 25 miles) giving me the incentive to hang in there. Also, JB Hunt requires drivers to send in a daily safety message each and every morning by 10:00 AM. Yes, safety should lbe our focus while on the road but treating driver’s like children is very condescending as their idea is by sending in the safety message each day, it proves your mind is on safety. No, actually my mind was on throwing something down that would suffice so I could get on with my job. And it didn’t matter if it was right smack dab in the middle of your break, you were still required to send it.
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I am surprised the list of rip off trucking companies is so short.What surprises me more is that they continually steal their employees blind knowing that they can get away with it.Let’s see they have the money and the big lawyers and have no remorse for their actions.Where is the help for the truck drivers that spend so much of their lives on the road working for free and paying tolls and other expenses for million/billion dollar companies.I have been both an owner/operator and a company driver trying to figure out how to keep my equipment and money without being ripped off by these people.I am a huge advocate on a trucker strike and am proud to say that there has been times that I would sit rather than just drive for fuel money/free work for companies.I can also say that I have never been afraid to shut down for a strike regardless of where I am.I know this wouldn’t prove anything because there are so many drivers out there who are under the impression that they are making big money and it’s ok to only have 1 or possibly 2 good weeks in a month.Alot of the reason this occurs is that drivers don’t pay attention to their pay,their under the impression that that’s the way it should be ,or the best possible answer is they have a permanent adress inside their truckSure I know you have to take the good with the bad but when the work is the same and your good weeks go to just surviving the outrageous insurances that are, imposed on you and tolls,scale,tickets that your still expecting to be reimbursed. The trucking industry in general is crooked as hell and their are few if at all trucking companies that pay fairly.Hopefully someday the truck drivers will wake up and their will be resolve for those of us who have given so much for so little.A strike would be nice but until everyone is commited this will never work.
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Daphne Ball Reply:
January 27th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Amen Brother… I’ve been saying this ever since I’ve been with my husband, who comes from a family of truckers. That’s the problem with most situations, be it trucking or whatever. We sit back and let the industry, who is ultimately run by the government, do whatever the hell they want. All that ever gets done is complaining ! I say “put up or shut up!” All it would take is not even 1 week! Nobody has the balls!
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Mikki Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I have been in and around the trucking industry my whole life. Trucking has become one of the most belittled jobs in the world, yet the most needed. I understand regulations to a point, but who is regulating the employers who don’t pay for loads delivered, scales paid, tolls paid, lumpers paid and anything else that is needed for the Truckers to do their Job better. The main point of regulation is correct logging right! Well most Drivers would be logging correctly if they didn’t have to fight for every penny they are getting from the companies they work for. I have been told more than once that my Hubby hasn’t turned something in, or he didn’t do it right. Well I know he is, it is just a way for his company to get out of paying him for the money he is owed. Trucking Companies keep taking more of Drivers money and paying them less and expecting more! Without regard to the laws that are there to protect the Drivers, that is what they are there for. Not to protect the Trucking Companies pocket books. But go figure there is no one there for the Truckers yet again, just continued slamming about the way they are fighting to get paid an honest lving
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How can K+B Transport not be on the list, check out all the reports on ripoff and the truckers forum.
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SWIFT : A swift recruiter, Jill Gibson, told me 3 times that I was good to go to work for swift. I resigned my teaching job and attended orientation. After completing orientation they informed me that THEY OVERLOOKED something in my application and terminated me at the Greer, SC terminal. They left me with NO Job, NO Income, and most likely to lose everything I own. DON’T TRUST SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comway truck load: watch out for as well. You are made to run over your hours, your 11, 14 and 70. Forced to take load you don’t have the hours for. they will let you work week after week,but when you ask for home time after being out 4 to 7 weeks, your told it is not guarranteed. you don’t get your money back on all your tolls. and depending on the dispatcher you have you can be left out there without a load, if it’s a week-end forget it. Warning!!!!!!!!!! don’t have Preston as your dispatcher or be prepared to sit alot.!!!!!!!!!
You are really hit if you disagree with him on anything.
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swift is just as bad as the others they keep blamming me for low milage i.,m out here 7 days a week go home maybe 2 or 3 times a year .i take everyload i can get and they are still on my bavck saying i,m not running enough i run my logs and loads legal swift wonts me to do things there way if i do them there way i,m not legal if i do things the dot way i get jumped on . there always on drivers cases treet them like there dogs or in prision or the army basic trinning they dont listen to the drivers they talk cripe and you have nothing to say when you try to say something they tell you they dont wont to here it and everything you say is a lye.i,v been with swift 4 and 1/2 years would leve before they fire me but where do i find a company that will work with the driver not against them. and let me run legal with out all the abuse. swift dont cair about the drivers all they cair about is the all mighty doller
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Wing Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
James,I feel for ya and all the other truckers,no matter who you drive for. Swift runs continuous ads
for “New” truck drivers,i.e., for their schools,as they make money supplying for the truck diving ( yes)schools. Some companies have 400% churn. Imagine 65 drivers a day!…….. Most of the large companies,as mentioned on the Wall Of Shame on this website, are bottom feeders or becoming so,very rapidly. I put in an application,3 times for Swift,here in Denver and the recruiter told me I had a job,and that was a lie. No accidents/dui/speeding tickets,ever. Always on time and gave the government a legal logbook,no out of services ,ever,always passed the drug screens and even took four in one day for a 4 state consortium. Been a skateboarder,dry van,refer,boom truck,doubles,rockies,turnpike doubles,UPS doubles and triples(Christmas extra),LTL,both local and OTR,U.S.Mail. Sent 50 pages with old DVR’s/DAC reports/resume,chain of custody copies of DOT drug screens(I have been required to take over seventy in 32 years),I am 6′2″ tall ,weigh 200 pounds,did a 300 # lift/push/pull/flexibility test and passed a-ok with med card and drug screen. TX and TSA class a endorsement,and paperwork to prove it. The app went to my brother-in -law’s company,which I KNOW FOR A FACT ,doesn’t run legal,and no company does(even Werner w/legalized falsification of logs by the DOT). I was told I couldn’t be qualified,even if I paid my own way to the job. So,my point is feel good you have a job,and keep reporting. It lets out some of the hot air you don’t need to keep bottled,just like a hot tire,ready to blow. No need to ruin your health over a truck. If you think I’m kiddin’,go the fmcsa site online,HOS Rules,page seven,see a picture of me in 1994 being road tested by under cover DOT officers who audited my boss. They actually
liked my logbooks and after the roadtes in a flat top fld120/flatbed,I was asked to go to work for “them”. I’m the guy in the blue flannel shirt/black hat with two oncoming trucks filling the windshield in the pix.Hand on the stick and the wheel. Can’t pay to find a job,been out over a year,just paid 16.50 to what I’m startin’ to believe is a scam recruiter,as he wanted to check my Hirerite,etc. Same Jobs on his site,for weeks,and he has said he has 700 ‘good available drivers.Huh?
Allow God and God Will Allow,
Wing
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i had a mis print that was Conway not Comway
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i dont see anything about werner trucking here it was my worst experiance ever when i went over the road with them a a team driver the pay aws a student is a shame the way the co. is set up the teacher !!! gets all the money and pushes you to drive until you fall asleep at the wheel practaly and they take advantage of you as a student by not stoping for showers enough running non stop with out getting any exersize or a chance to eat a meal and in my experiance i was in the ill. area and i was notifyed that there was a death in the family they sent me to elpaso texas i complained but the trainer bullshited me and said i would get home in time to make the wake but i couldnt i was to far away to make it back i had to rent a car to get home from ill. and didnt get erembursed for the rental or at least the bus ticket they were suposed to give me to get home . maby werner should take some time to look at their program the trainers are taking advantage of the students an they no it
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I use to drive for Prime, I would drive my hours and get to my drop, my fleet manager wanted me to take my 10 hour break while I was taking my 10hr break, I could not get it thru her head that was illegal, she told me just to back up my logs and keep my mouth shut. I told her I would not do it and she would only get me 1500 miles a week, so I turned my truck in and told her where she could stick the truck.
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Tommy Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
OOPS, wanted me to do my drop while taking my 10 hr break
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Well after reading ALL the comments I think I’ll just stay where I’m at. Because going OTR sounds like a real nightmare.Driving local seems to be the best.
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