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I am just curious I need cash like every other driver in the freight industry

Very true statement there driver!

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Celadon ....
I thought I was stepping up to a better company... hah hah on me, I was told to bring 7 days worth of clothes "we'll get you right back home on your 1st load to get your stuff" so I drove myself down to Indy on a Sunday and checked into my "room" on site started orientation the next morning and was finished 2 days later, but there were no trucks at this time , so we need you all to come back in the morning... at 7am we were asked for 10 people to transport new truck to Richmond VA -5 trucks , and Greensboro NC- 5 trucks, no trucks were available for assignment in a class of 63 people the other 53 would have to wait there to be "assigned" so I raised my hand and was picked to deliver a new truck to Richmond,, be back at noon to get the trucks and codes,,, no codes at noon...be back here at 4pm and we'll get you rolling...
the 10 of us that rasied our hands got the trucks at 4pm with the codes to start them while doing my pre-trip I noticed that the License plate of the truck didn't match the registration , so off I go to permits who are gone for the day now, so the lead Mech. get it for me , I walk back to the truck and noticed it was the wrong truck Registration , go back , and i am told to wait until morning...
So now it is Friday morning we get the paperwork all squared away, and I login the quallcomm and wait for a load to Richmond VA, after 3 hours of waiting I login stating I am going into the terminal building for lunch... 30 minutes later when I return to the truck there is messages waiting on the qualcomm they assigned me a load to MN and took it off me while I was eating, when I called my DM he told me just wait he'd get something for me... all afternoon I waited ,called twice was told "I'm working on it" by the DM... I finally login and leave a message I am going back inside will head out in the morning. OK.... I login Saturday morning at 06:00am ready to go, and wait , have lunch, and wait and wait... i go back inside have diner go back upstairs I find out there is me and one of the other 10 guys still here, plus most of the 53 others, Sunday I am told , wait until monday... Monday I finally get to move I bobtail up to Lafayette IN pick up a brand new trailer # wabash trailers go back down to Brownsburg IN and drop it there and pick up a load there headed to Dallas TX, I headed out and made it there 4 hrs early on Wednesday morning. Drop and hook and I was sent a load down in Waco TX headed up to MA which I was to drop in Richmond VA and pickup my permanent truck there.. Woohoo..
Off I go to Waco I show up 6 hours early and the good poeple there take me early and I get to Drop and hook again.. Off I go back up, then East bound and down... into LA almost to Monroe.. then off to GA , then to VA and finally Richmond... then next morning , I am 5 and 1/2 hours early on Saturday.. drop the trailer and drive around the yard looking for MY truck, 3 trips around the yard , I don't see it no one in the shop, no one in the office, so I call Indy, "sorry we can't help you, you'll have to wait until Monday" so I wait all weekend , with no laundry facilities in the terminal I am start to get low on clean clothes, to find out on Monday that they had changed trucks on me, no message sent to me, no phone calls, and no word left at the gaurdshack there in Richmond... my new truck had been there all weekend,, So I transfered my almost all dirty clothes to the new truck and logged in to the qualcomm for a load assignment to get me home to pickup the rest of my stuff, got a load # about 10am to pickup an hour south at 11pm so I called to see if I could pick up early, and was told call back after 4:30PM that load is on 2nd shifts roster.. I called back and was told oh yeah come on down it is one of the 1st orders we are going to pull, I checked in at 5:45pm on site dropped my trailer and waited next to my "being Loaded" trailer , at 10:45pm I get the BOL and the seal , I drove back to Richmond and called it a night, left at 06:00 the next morning headed to Grand Rapids MI, I made it 670 mile to the other side of Akron OH and the truck started dying I was doing 25mph with the flashers going I limped it to the TA up the road in Lodi, OH. to change the fuel filter per breakdown,, didn't help TA said something is wrong with the electrical.. I called it in breakdown needs the load transfered off to tow you to a dealership in Cleaveland OH so I sit in this TA with a truck which now doesn't idle in the snow for 22 hrs until the swap shows up Wednesday afternoon about 6 pm and the tow truck about an hour later I get to the frieghtliner shop and gather most of my stuff and headed to the only Comcheck friendly hotel the RedRoof inn and am told get an room and call us when the dealership knows something...
this is Easter weekend... I sat there and had to order out for 8 days while I was told oh yeah get the room another day , your truck should be finished soon:tomorrow:in a day or so ,, ect... finally I got a phone call from my new DM , seems my old DM was fired and she was wondering if I still worked for Celadon because he had wrote down I quit back when the truck was towed... I called a cab went and got my other stuff from the truck which was not even being worked on and went to the Cleaveland airport , rented a car and drove home to Michigan, still haven't received the last check from Richmond to the breakdown... Celadon is a joke... I drove a total of 6 days (3041 miles) out of 25 with the company.... it took me about 4 months to get that last check, no breakdown pay , no toll road reimbursment, I luckly saved all my paperwork (Driver logs,comcheck stubs,hotel receipts...ect)including their scanning cover sheet , I had to scan it all to them at a Pilot TS to get them to even cut the check

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You had a bad experience with them. Unfortunately. It happens with all companies, not just this one. There are people that have gone through training with some of the others, and are still waiting for their first truck.

Apparently you have found a company that suits you better now. My hubby is relatively happy with them so far, with the exception that his truck is near the turn in time, which of course means things start going wrong (Murphy's Law).

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Yeah I found a company that is better for me, maybe I went through what I went through at Celadon to find this job I have now, got 600 miles last night coming back from my 2+ days of hometime this week, it has worked out very good so far with NTB... I still have the air valve lock I have been meaning to return on one of my trips though Indy, but it always seems when I am going through there it is a hot load/very small time window, or it is 2 am on a Sunday night and I won't get my money back from it then. I would rather hand it in to them in person, then spend more of my money on Celadon by mailing it to them... ????

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Glad to hear you found a company that works for you! That's the thing about this industry, a company that fits one person isn't necessarily going to fit the next person.

Mailing those air cuff locks could be a bit pricey too, if they have any weight to them. I've never actually picked up the one my hubby has, as he usually already has it in place when I pick him up when he comes home.

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I'll get it there some way some how one of these days, maybe tonight, picking up a load here in Saint Louis MO going back to Dayton that is a drop and hook... I.E. big time window, I think I'll just stop and be done with it once and for all. well best of luck toyou and your Husband , may he be safe in his travels and both of you blessed in life.

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Safe travels and blessed life to you to driver! Keep that shiney side up!

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I was told they do Canada, I'm sure it's rare to get sent there.But, can you request to stay out of there? I never been there and ain't looking to go there.

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You don't have to go to Canada. That is one thing that you can opt out of.

My hubby can't because he was a naughty boy years ago, and got a couple DUI's.

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