Keep away from KLLM! You've been warned!

I'm saddened to be looked at as a joke or to have the blame put on my husband who worked for KLLM and did everything according to the laws, followed instruction, and did everything to the best of his ability. I am new here and somehow 2 of my more detailed messages were lost. I'm getting the hang of this, so please be patient with me. I have posted a bit of a more detailed reply that I hope won't be laughed at or ridiculed. What KLLM is doing to their unsuspecting new drivers is a serious issue and one that should be taken seriously. I'm sure from the likes of what I've already seen on this forum, that what I say will be picked apart, scrutinized , and have made fun and light of. I am not taking the time to make others awre of this terrible company because I have nothing better to do or because my husband is a bad employee that want's to simply bash a good company due to his own short comings.
I simply want to help others before they get screwed like my husband did. Thank you for understanding and I hope that we helped someone keep away from this horrible company.

 

KLLM will say that you don't have to go into the lease/purchase program, BUT you'll be told that they're phasing out the company trucks. So they say that there is no work for company drivers. Therefore go into lease/purchase or sit there with no work at all.
They'll also convince you that it's better to go into the lease/purchase program because o/o's came refuse loads that they don't want. What they don't tell you is that if you refuse a load dispatch will tell you that if you refuse this load, that you'll sit there for a VERY long time with no dispatched jobs. So either take the load with hundreds of dead head miles (which you have to pay the fuel for) or sit in below zero temps for who knows how long.
Also they say that you'll get home time and holiday time. Good luck requesting home time because they'll do everything possible to give you jobs as far away from home as possible. Also holidays are a joke! They want you to give advanced notice that you want to take holiday time off and you do so. Once the holidays are close they'll conveniently not find the request.
All those great miles which they say you'll average is also a joke! At the start they'll give you a couple of decent runs, then suddenly you'll get tons of dead head miles (which YOU have to pay the fuel for) and plenty of switch outs! So at the end of the week you'll be lucky if you have enough to be able to pay any bills and buy canned foods to survive on....and that's BEFORE taxes!
As for taking your mandatory sleep time, that's impossible! They can see that you're in the sleeper and have driven all of your available hours. They even know where you are. But once you're asleep you'll get bombarded with qualcom messages and phone calls asking where you are, what your ETA is, on and on! Day dispatch (RICKY ALEXANDER) refuses to look at the the qualcom messages that took place during the night shift. If he did he would have all of his questions answered without having to wake up and hassle the driver. But his reasoning for this is "I can't take the time to look at what's going on with my drivers". BUT he'll have plenty of time to blow up the qualcom with messages and make phone calls!
Have a problem or a question? Each department will give you a different answer and each department tells you not to listen to the other departments! So no matter who you listen to, you'll be the one to get the blame at the end or end up more confused that you did at the start. You'll follow orders and still get blamed for following orders. Dispatch will give you loads which they KNOW will be late and B**ch you out because it's late! They'll tell you that you're getting a drop and hook (after you've dead headed hundreds of miles because your told that if you don't take the load, that you'll be sitting a VERY long time), therefore you'll have time to make it to the receiver, BUT once you get there you find out that it's a live load which takes hours, then you're the one to blame because it's late. And of course dispatch takes no blame for their own mess ups. BUT they'll tell the driver "you really botched this one up!". This is even after you made them aware of the situation well in advance.
And why do they make drivers pay weekly for crappy health insurance that they won't even get for 3 or 4 months? Where does that money go to if you're not even insured?
I have to wonder how many times a truck will be proudly driven home to be shown to different happy (for the time being) families, only to end up taken away from the hard working driver, and to go back to the yard for another sucker to make payments on it. Eventually this truck will be paid off and the only owner will be KLLM. And there's always a steady influx of new suckers every week.
These are very nasty people playing very nasty games with peoples lives. For KLLM it's a win win situation. For the driver it's a nightmare.