TSL - Transportation Specialists Limited

DO NOT fall for the BS from this company. I worked for the Kansas City yard. They have a CONSTANT ad looking for drivers (bad sign) on Careerbuilder and Craigslist.

Their driver turnover rate is HIGH!!!

They tell you that you can be home every night and run a 250 mile radius and make good money hauling containers.

After I drove to Omaha for a day of indoctrination...things were a "little different" than they had told me.

Pay starts at .25cpm...BUT DON'T GET DISCOURAGED BY THAT...because you make your money in the "extras"

Shag pay, Rail yard pay, lift pay, tag axle pay, live load/unload pay...blah, blah, blah.

50-60 hours a week later...I'm lucky to bring home $500/week because all of the "extras" never seemed to qualify.

Loads going to the rail seemed to not get billed a lot, so you had to bring them back to the yard. You don't get the extra pay, the local driver does the next day.

Live load/unload pay...only if it's within 200 miles (wtf?)...and guess what? they were all 210 miles +

After NUMEROUS discussions with my dispatcher (who quit shortly after I did) about long hours and crappy pay, I told him via Peoplenet..."DO NOT dispatch me again until we talk"

He ignored it, threw me another crappy load and went home for the day.

I finished my run and brought my truck back to the yard and cleaned it out, and emailed my resignation to him (that's the only way he responded half the time).

NOW a year later...of course they have on my DAC that I quit under dispatch. I've disputed it.

It's not that big of deal because all of my other info on my DAC is clean so it's a blip...but it's aggrivating as hell!!

If I can save another driver from their BS, it's worth it to me.