I always admit responsibility. Failing to do so is wasting life's lessons. I read a few bad reports about McLeod on here but they were a couple years old. I thought that back when the bottom fell out anybody, including myself, might have some problems...
I worked for McLeod one month. It ended Friday (06/17/2011) with me calling a taxi, taking what I could save of my stuff to UPS and then myself to the bus station. I never thought I would do that...
First, McLeod seems to specialize in hauling super-heavy freight. Myself, I guess I'm old-school. I believe that anything over 44 stone is unsafe, as a general rule. Their trucks run 64 mph and are castrated, right up to the hair follicles. Mine was better than most but still it would barely move, under all that weight!
A typical trip with McLeod is 250-350 miles and takes an entire day to complete. Meanwhile you're handing your own money out the driver's window, like there's no tomorrow. Any legitimate company has EZ-PASS, but not this outfit. And, of course, you find yourself running through the toolies, trying not to pay tolls, which is exactly what they want, but do not say...
Late Thursday night I picked up 626 - an older trailer - from Lafayette, In. It looked ok. When I began moving it I noticed it did not want to stop. Just poor brakes, in general.
Next day I delivered somewhere around I-39 and I-88 area, in Illinois. Next load was supposed to be a whopping 45 stone! I said no, the brakes are not good enough to haul that. First my dispatcher, Josh Bell, then some jackas* that goes by Jason tried their level best to force me to take that load, when they knew very well my trailer had bad brakes.
They finally realized I mean what I say. So they gave me some freight from Coca-Cola, in Des Plains. The qual-com said it weighed 22,000 something. Ok... tired of arguing. After I loaded it, the BILLS said 41,000 something. So did the cat scale.
That really pissed me off. I know they know that if I have a wreck and somebody gets hurt they will inspect that truck and when they find the bad brakes I will go to prison for reckless endangerment...
On the way to that load the brakes on the trailer were locking up and the wheels were hopping. After loading the brakes were screaming, like banshees! Sounded like they were right in the cab with me. Oil on the brake linings. No doubt of it.
Next morning I delivered that stuff in Toledo. Called in. I was hot, buddy. I offered to move that junk through the house and bring it to them on Monday, so they could fix it. I stuck my neck out by doing that. I could still get pulled around back...
No. Pick up more freight. I told them about the wheel hopping and screaming brakes and they said, why didn't you tell us? I went off!
Then I refused to break the law, by moving a trailer that would not pass the PTI. They kept badgering me to take it to a repair place and I kept telling them that, after the way they had done me, I was not about to donate my time working for them for free or stick my neck out, by moving a trailer that was out of service. I put the tag on it and left it, right in Coca-Cola's dock.
The end of it was calling a taxi, and making my way home on the bus. I had no other choice! They threatened to DAC me and say I abandoned a truck, and all that. Now I'm DACing them.
If you want to find yourself in a similar situation, all you need to do is go to work for McLeod Express in Decatur, Il.
Something needs to be done about this. I wonder how many people are hurt or killed... But in the United Police States, where money talks and bull*hit walks, it never will be.
Be all that as it may, brothers, don't be their fall guy. REFUSE to move faulty equipment! If you lose your job, oh well. You'll still be alive and free... without the killing of some little kid on your conscience.
McLeod - a new, all time low
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