OK, SO WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE MYRIAD OF INJUSTICES BEING PERPERTRATED UPON THE AMERICAN TRUCK DRIVER, BUT WE SURE AS HELL CAN STOP THIS TYPE OF CRAP FROM HAPPENING.....BLAST SOUTHERN REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, SHAME THEM INTO MAKING A PUBLIC APOLOGY, AND CHANGING THEIR TACTICS! THIS HOLDS TRUE FOR ANY TRUCKING COMPANY WHO WOULD TREAT A LOYAL EMPLOYEE LIKE THIS!! I AM FREAKING FURIOUS ABOUT THIS!!!
http://www.komu.com/news/family-says-company-did-nothing-to-bring-deceased-trucker-home/
Southern Refrigerated Transport Driver Dies In Truck No Help
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After more than two weeks of uncertainty, Raymond White's family and friends were relieved to see a semi-truck with his remains inside pulling into the Sam's Club parking lot."I didn't think it was ever gonna happen," said Raymond's sister, Denise Mathis.
Raymond died of a heart attack at a resting station in New Mexico on July 14 while he was driving for the Southern Refrigerated Transport (SRT) trucking company.
White's girlfriend Cathy Rossi said she knew something was wrong when he didn't call her in the morning. She contacted SRT but she said they weren't responsive.
"I made a couple phone calls that day and they got kind of nasty with me on the phone," Rossi said. "They never called back. That's when I found the missing truck driver network on Facebook."
Rossi said she gave them the exact same information she gave to SRT and they worked with New Mexico Troopers who found White's body in his truck 12 hours later.
White's family said the company wouldn't transport his body or deliver his personal belongings without a cash payment, a cash payment that the family said they couldn't afford.
"Unfortunately it's a common situation," said Kerry Mullins, a secretary of the Trucker's Charity Inc. "Companies are going to protect themselves and say it's the family's responsibility. But when they said they would send his belongings to the family cash-on-delivery, that's when we said that was wrong and we stepped in."
White's family and friends teamed up for charity events with the organization and raised more than $2,000 to bring White's cremated body back.
Trucker Charity Inc. contacted multiple truckers who took White's remains in as extra cargo.
Three trucks, 2,730 miles and 15 days later, Raymond finished his last ride home. He had been a truck driver for 20 years.
"It saddens me because he ran ten, eleven hours a day," Mathis said. "But it's also so beautiful that he was able to bring all of these people together to help get him home."
Mullins said he is reaching out to lawmakers through the Owner Operator Independent Driver's Association to push trucking companies to take a more active role in finding missing drivers and supporting the families who have lost loved ones.
"Events like these happen hundreds of times a year," Mullins said. "It's unfair for these families to have to go it on their own."
KOMU 8 News tried to reach SRT multiple times for a comment but never received a response.
http://www.komu.com/news/family-says-company-did-nothing-to-bring-deceased-trucker-home/
UNREAL TERRIBLEWestern Sky, Third3y3guy, NJKatwoman and 7 others Thank this. -
That is horrible. Glad to see some people stepped up and helped get him back home. Company should be ashamed
stillwurkin, bama339, born&raisedintheusa and 1 other person Thank this. -
That is a total disgrace to these trucking companies, not that they needed much help. This really takes the cake!!
stillwurkin, bama339, born&raisedintheusa and 1 other person Thank this. -
I wiped them off my perspective employment list when I saw this.
stillwurkin, White_Knuckle_Newbie, Sojourn14 and 3 others Thank this. -
Kinda lets you know exactly where you stand. IF everyone quit SRT today they would be out of business tomorrow. There are tons of jobs out there. That we continue to put up with this sort of treatment is our own faults.
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What a scum bag way to not help out.
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Gotta give it to swift and the others for taking a roll in getting him home. May have been for publicity but at least they got the man home to his family, which srt should have done.
mje and gearjammer42 Thank this. -
Never saw a reason to make a driver from another. You do the Job, or You can't.
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