TSI KANSAS Clay Center, KS

I worked for this company for 6 months. Their ads say no force dispatch and your bottom line is at heart, lies all lies. The so called safety director would tell me to fudge my logs to make a delivery time (at least 4 times a month). DOT violations on equipment would never get fixed but the papers would always get signed saying the violations were repaired. If a truck or trailer was past date on the annual inspection the owner would fill out a new form and sticker with out even inspecting the equipment! I pulled many trailers with the brake drums filled with grease that would not get repaired when reported. I once had a trailer with a broken air spring leaking air bad. I was told to buy a vicegrip and clamp off the line and take back roads around the scales all the way from Kansas to Pennsylvania and return. I was a really green driver and really didn't know this practice was wrong. I just thought this was trucking in general. The final straw was I had a tire with the wires showing and the owner and the safety guy told me to run it and it would make one more trip. The tire blew 40 miles from leaving the yard and did damage to the trailer. They wanted me to pay for repairs and I refused. I was fired for damaging company equipment and was told the driver is also to be the mechanic. Getting fired from there was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was making .25 a mile there now I am making .40 a mile. I am home every other weekend now, with them I spent weekends and holidays at a truck stop empty all the time. Also I would drive 3500 to 4000 a week but only get paid about 2500 of them, no I was not running out of route! Tolls also would never seem to get paid. I was a fool and very green and did not know this stuff was all wrong. Just wanted to warn all you drivers of this company. Don't be a fool like me and start your career here, your bottom line is not at heart. The ads also say they treat you like family, if my family treated me like they did I would dis-own them! This place a few months back even started pulling large wind blades. I can't believe the DOT and trucking industry allows them to do this or even drive on the road. They are a huge accident waiting to happen. Just remember the name and stay away, very unsafe. When I see one of their trucks behind me I pull over and let them by because I remember many times where the truck I was driving would barely stop.

 

Yeah my csa score is really messed up from the little time I worked there. I think KS and MO already know about them. The scales would always stop them when we would cross them. Then I always got an ### chewing for crossing a scale. I dont think there is any thing legally I can do about it. Like you said I operated the equipment that way and it and its just as much my fault. They like to hire guys who are new or dont care that way they can get away with doing stuff like that. Its a shame they have many ad's out there focused at veterans fresh from the military. A lot of them are just trying to start a new career and they do this crap to them. Not a good way to treat the folks who served our country. I have no documentation just a handbook full of contradictions they gave me when I hired on.

 

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Here is some TSI Kansas equipment!