Would I recommend this company? Total Transport of MS

"NO"
I have worked for them for 1.5 years and they'll leave you sitting, And cheat you out of your money. they were recently bought out {80% of company}By US Express, And they have been on a steady down hill turn since then.
they pay home mover guide mileage and the insurance is out ragious. Next week is my last week with them. I was hired for dedicated and have been running otr for them since the end of december,.

 

I mentioned above about total cheating you out of your money,
here's what happened, about 8 months ago I bought a Mini. Schnauzer, and got him trained for riding in the truck, Never had any problems with him, Then Total changes there pet policy and it now cost you $ 50. per week till you reach $500.00. Thats not that bad of a problem.
The problem is that its not a deposit.They charge you the five bills and you don't get nothing back.
About two weeks ago, They sent me a message on the qualcom that I would be picking up a load 45 miles from our terminal. it was supposed to be ready friday at 1400, I finaly get the load sat around 530pm..26 hour's of my time wasted. If they would have told me that it would be ready saturday evening, I could have planned my time. The same thing happened to another driver there the next weekend,
I must admit the whole time I have been working for total the dispatcher's have treated me good and I enjoyed working there, Untill I came off my dedicated run, Maybe I'm just spoiled...

 

I'm glad they are taking care of you, I know several driver's that just recently quit from lack of miles and to much sitting around. If I'm going to be out on the road, I have to make the miles so I can take care of the home front and the bill collector. If There are taking care of you, Keep on doing what your doing, and I wish you well.

 

I think the way the pet policy is set up,, When you have a pet on the truck,,They charge you the five hundred dollar's , If your dog messes up the truck, They charge you for the damages out of the five hundred dollars. Then you they take out the fee's . and re charge you the difference of the cost so that you are back up to five hundred dollar's.
While I was there they had one guy that had a pit bull and the dog was left in the truck and destroyed a seat in one of the trucks.
There was another driver that would lay down the puppy pads and his dog's would crap on the pads. He went into the shop and the mechanic's refused to work on the inside of his truck because of the smell. I can understand why a company would charge a pet deposit. But can't understand how they can justifi taking someone's money and not giving it back. There's alot of driver's that have pets that keep the inside of the truck well maintained with the dog living in there. Just my two cents.. Good subject, This one needs to be on the main page.Tom