Dealing with a shady recruiter

Discussion in 'Celadon' started by Jeremy102077, Dec 21, 2014.

  1. Jeremy102077

    Jeremy102077 Light Load Member

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    So I'm looking at changing companies soon, and Celadon is on my short list of a handful or so that I'm considering. Not quite at the top, but they're on there, since they want to offer me western regional (dry van), whereas my preference is for OTR (dry). However, I suspect I might be dealing with a recruiter who's perhaps blatantly lying to me over the phone, just to try to get me in through the door. I asked him if they allow pets on company trucks, he told me yes, no weight restrictions, but no aggressive breeds. And since he says they can only offer me western regional/11 western, I asked him what their chaining policy is. I'm pretty sure he played dumb with me here, because he didn't want to openly tell me that they want their drivers to chain up and keep on moving in unsafe conditions. So he told me "I'm not sure, don't have that information. Might want to ask your dispatcher". Which, when he says that, all I hear is "hey I don't really want to tell you, so why not just come into orientation, get hired on so I can collect my bonus off you, then when that chaining issue you brought up comes into play, that will be yours and your dispatchers headache to deal with". Fast forward to today, and I was browsing on their site, found the driver FAQ section. I noticed the question about a pet policy plainly states 'Company drivers are not allowed to have pets in their trucks. Lease purchase are allowed pets'. So I'm hoping that the information on their site is just outdated. Either that, or there's one thing that he has already plainly lied to me about. Didn't see anything there stating their chaining policy. So I'm just wondering if anybody could tell me one way or another, maybe anybody in particular who has recently started with Celadon, where they know these policies to currently stand, on the company side.
    I've been to a few companies, and every time I start a job search, talk to recruiters, my one biggest pet peeves with them is when they lie to me. I've been around the block enough to know that there is no perfect company that has everything I'm looking for, and every policy set just how I would want to set it myself, if I were in charge. So for me, it's always a matter of choosing the company that brings the most to the table for me, or picking the lesser evil, as another way of looking at it. So recruiters, please...just don't effing lie to me, just for the sake of telling me what you think I want to hear. Let me hear what the company really is all about, and what I can honestly expect, so that I can make the best decision for me. I understand that your job is to bring me through those doors for orientation. But nobody likes to take a one or more day long bus trip to orientation, only to find that they've been lied to, and what they were offered over the phone isn't really the case.
     
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  3. lasvegasmover

    lasvegasmover Bobtail Member

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    i have them on my long list... of companies not to go to mega recruiters makes congress look honest
     
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  4. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Call the safety department about chaning policy; the recruiter won't know.
     
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  5. Knucklehead619

    Knucklehead619 Medium Load Member

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    Wait... so you're saying a recruiter LIED to you? :biggrin_2555:
     
  6. bigdogpile

    bigdogpile Road Train Member

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    If you cant chain up and roll maybe you should drive a school bus..
     
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  7. Air Breeze

    Air Breeze Heavy Load Member

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    You sound like a supertrucker to me. Does insulting people you don't even know make you think your better than them?
     
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  8. Roadrealtor

    Roadrealtor Road Train Member

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    Wait a minute, you want OTR but all they are offering is regional? Something wrong with that picture right there. Never saw a mega that didn't have an otr position open. Regional usually offered to drivers that have been there for a while. Something stinks here is it Celedon or the OP?

    But, if you don't want to do what they are offering, who cares what the recruiter says...
     
  9. bigdogpile

    bigdogpile Road Train Member

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    .Hey Air, that statement wasn't meant to be an insult..What makes you think " they make you chain up and keep on moving is unsafe"?..it is always "unsafe" to out on the road ..but really if your gonna run western states and you shut er down everytime its snowing because its "unsafe"..might as well take the winter off
     
  10. brsims

    brsims Road Train Member

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    Bigdogpile has a point (and yes, it did hurt to say that). Winters out there are hard and brutal, especially in the mountains, and if you aren't willing to "throw iron" then both you and the company are goinng to lose a lot of money.

    I refuse to chain, I don't even carry them on my truck. But....I don't run out in the area where they are required, either. If it's bad enough around here to require chains, I need to get my happy tailfeathers off the road until the saltshakers have had a chance to get the roads cleaned off.
     
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  11. Air Breeze

    Air Breeze Heavy Load Member

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