It is a blessing, go home take a few days calm down and make some phone calls you finished training with Trans Am so possibly that will help you with new employer. A lesson learned the hard way, the trucking bussiness will chew you up and spit you out, but only if you let it.

Originally Posted by Lspilot82

Idk man. My mom bought me a plane ticket back to Florida, I leave KC at 1:50pm and arrive in Tampa at 7:34...I guess I'm just going to get online and just fill out a ton of apps and see whats out there. I'm pretty sure I'll get something pretty quick...at least I hope so. Hows Panther?

Make phone calls, talk to the person, and then fill out the app, that way the recruitor will hopefully have it forwarded to them instead of going with hundreds of other online apps. Its called working around the system. Getting in through the back door, get your minds out of the gutter lol. Be sure and thank your mom for getting you home, but if you are gonna do this you gotta be able to take care of yourself. Good luck and keep us posted.

I would recommend Schneider, JB Hunt , Werner, or another big company. Why ? Get a year in , they will have relatively stable miles and freight. You'll drive all over creation and they will be able to keep you as busy as you want to be. Go play in the snow all winter long. I would recommend the I-80 and I-70 corridor. Be flexible with your hometime. You can take it wherever you like. Squeeze every mile you can out of whatever company you go with. If you really want to own a truck save up a little $ and go buy one on your own terms. Then look at a respectable company to pull their trailers.

Originally Posted by Mdbluecrab

Something isn't kosher with this story. Sounds like the driver agreed to do a lease before being trained and when training was over and he saw the truck he was getting, had a change of heart.
I could be wrong but until he tells the full story of what happened, that's how it looks.

Why blame the driver? He knew Trans Am was going to rip him off and ran like hell. Too bad more people don't run away from these scams.

I would walk away from some b.s like that too. It just kills me the way some of these companies bully drivers like that. It's just not right

They aren't the only ones that do that many will ask if you want to LP or have considered LP in orentation, when you test out after being with a trainer if you still don't want LP then you wait for a truck. Shaddy, yes but all to common.

its basically 1 big scam down in olathe.. if you say you want to be company they send you home and never call back... if you lease... get ready to make .84 cents a mile and absorb ALL COSTS.

Curious as to where this guy is these days.