Tango is wrong avoid them

Glad your husband found a better company.

 

Truly a horrible story. Probably a few more details, but, hey, we don't need them, right?

Sorry, I should just shut up, but there are always these stories where "the company" does terrible things "to" the driver.

Sometimes you, as the driver, have to kind of, sort of, keep track of things. Like knowing if you have health insurance and "stuff" like that.

I'll go away now.

 

I was uhhh...KINDA...uhhh THINKING...the same like THING.

I'm with you going away far far away.

 

Tango is just like any other greed stricken trucking company where the driver is always last.

 

Tango is no longer the great driver friendly company that it once was with great incentives and bonuses. Now they are just stricken with lies and deception. They advertise "dedicated means home weekends" (with dedicated routes that don't even exist) in order to get you into their orientation class. Once you go through orientation and they get you into a truck, that is when they spring the truth on you, and the only thing dedicated is the driver behind the wheel of their truck. You can find their false advertising on indeed.com and Tango's own website.
Their only bonus is an unachievable goal of 10K miles per month (like the driver controls his dispatch) and less than 40% idle time for the month (they don't have APU's), in order to receive a bonus of 4 cpm. The less than 40% idle time per month might be an achievable goal in the winter with some extra blankets, but not during the rest of the year when it heats up outside and you need to run the A/C in order to get sleep, or when you get stuck waiting to load/unload.
Basically top pay is .38 cpm and that is all you will get from Tango. Family better not be important to you because when you put in for days off, they will usually get you home two days later than you requested.


SINGLE PERSON:
If you like only making no more than .38 cpm and staying OTR, then this isn't a bad company. You will get 2000 to 2500 miles per week in their 64.7 mph truck.

FAMILY PERSON:
If you like making no more than .38 cpm and seldom going home to see your family and friends, or when you do your always a couple of days late for that birthday party or whatever, then by all means Tango is right for you. If your spouse is offered insurance where they work then you can't get them insurance at Tango. If you believe their current dedicated route advertising (home every weekend), then you will be greatly disappointed in Tango because it is nothing more than false advertising. These are just the facts.


FYI:
Companies with such hiring practices as Tango's know this website exists. They have people that work in their offices that come in here (pose as drivers) and accuse drivers of making false claims and then talk about what a great company (whichever company it might be) their company is to work for and how one bad experience from a driver shouldn't sway you into not working for them. They even go as far as to blame the driver for the company's ruthless practices. Beware of this if you see positive posts after mine about Tango from anyone that has a family that they like to be able to see more than once per month.

 

I just see a typical trucking company in your description. They have dedicated and home run fleet which is home every weekend. I have a few friends on it.

Maybe you should look in to a career change.

 

Obviously, the driver filled out an application for the insurance, and Tango told him it was being processed. We all know how slow the carriers are with paperwork - getting paid back for tolls, reimbursements, blah-blah. Company employees put you off, over and over again. So what are ya donna do? "It's in the works." Yeah, right. So he's working, and the whole thing turns into a routine. "Gee, honey, ask them about the insurance, next time you're in the office..." "Dang, honey, I forgot to ask." Then the guy gets sick and lands in the hospital. Blaming the victim on this forum became tiresome years ago. But some get their daily-fix-jollies handing out put-downs. BabyPhat needs donations instead.

 

Shills don't last long here.

I know many smaller companies that have done U-turns. Either they were bought out or try to mock the big companies to survive. I personally worked for three of them. It seems you find a good thing and it doesn't last forever.

 

I find your comment offensive as I have been driving a truck for a very long time. Another career isn't going to happen. I have worked mostly in the LPG, gasoline, hazardous materials bulk hauling and even hauled a lot of heavy equipment, so freight is a new experience to me. However, When I answer an ad for a dedicated route, home weekends, then that is what I expect. My daughter has cancer so I need to be home as often as possible but still be able to earn a living.
The "home run fleet" is regional but not dedicated. The home run fleet is required to give Tango one weekend a month (company policy). I also know that Tango has shuttle jobs, but not where I live. If your friends have a dedicated route to the same customers every day on a schedule then they must have worked at Tango for some time now or live in a remote area where Tango has more regular freight (like Coushatta or Hodge Louisiana).
I'm just explaining what happened to me and many other people that went to their orientation. I know of seven other people that were in orientation with me that have quit because they were made to work OTR or on the home run fleet, instead of the dedicated route that they applied for. I only posted the facts and nothing else. I was being as nice as possible about my experience. While Tango may be right for some people it isn't right for anyone that answers their dedicated route ads.