Southern Refrigerated Transport, Inc. - Texarkana, Ar.?

pilottravel2002 · Dec 20, 2011

unhappyotr said: ↑

I currently drive for SRT. STAY AWAY!!!! Odriver is correct. The recruiter told me when I called her that I would be making 35 1/2 cents (top pay by the way, woopee). I get to orientation and payroll comes down to talk to us...she says we'll be making 35 1/2 but SRT takes 3 cents per mile right off the top then splits it 20/12 for "per diem". I asked "where is the 3 cents goin", she said "I don't know. In other words you're making 32 1/2. Period! You also are "forced" into the per diem for the 1st 90 days. They tell you that you can opt out after 90 days. I prefer to play with the irs my own way by changing my W4 instead of taking their kind of "per diem".

The miles suck!!!! Plain and simple. You get a nice run to get you thru the weekend that doesn't deliver till Monday or Tuesday and payroll cut off is Sunday. If you have 1500 miles transfloed by Sunday then that's what you're getting paid for next week.

Their apps are always wrong. They'll tell u your appt is at say 0700 and you get there at 0701 and u tell the shipper/receiver "sorry for being late"...they'll tell u not a problem cause your appt isn't till 1015. Now that being said, what SRT dispatchers will tell you when you correct them and let them know you weren't truly late..."sorry, the system here says 0700 and then they "charge" you for being late.

They charge you if you don't send in your daily check call, if you don't drop a "clean" trailer, if your late for an appt and if you fart and many others. They have rules up the ying yang. I have never worked for such an anal company in my career. They micro manage the crap out of the company. The Qualcomm goes off constantly reminding us how to drive.

O and here's a good one, dispatchers have to get "approval" from the ops mgr to take a 34 restart. Excuse me???? I thought that it was MY decision to do that. I have been out here since orientation in October. I haven't gone home once, which is what I prefer but darn it I deserve to take a day and a half off once in a while if I feel like it!!!! I told them that and they told me that's what home time is for that if I have hrs to run then there are lds that need to be taken care of. What a crock!!!!!

I could go on and on but y'all get the point I hope. They could care less about you because there are more suckers around the corner scheduled for orientation next week. I would have walked out the door of orientation the minute they told us about that 3 cents per mile crap but I needed a job right then and there. I had been off work for about 4 mo and needed to get back on my feet. Anyway, I'm giving them the 90 days then opt out of "per diem" then I'll see how bad my miles really get at that point.
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WHY U DONT QUIT LONG TIME AGO????

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