Quality Carriers, pull cheap freight, get fired for being sick

I didn't drive for Quality Carriers for very long. My time there was great at first but then turned bad. I started in July, 2014 and was terminated/resigned January, 2015. I got sick with the flu 2 days after Christmas. I went to the doctor when I realized I couldn't even drive 10 minutes without getting sick. Well I used my benefits to go to the doctor. Doc said it's the flu. I presented the paperwork from the doc to my terminal manager and my dispatcher. They said ok no problem, come back to work when you can. A week went by and still sick. They demanded the truck back to the yard or have the police come knocking on my door and slapped with abandoning a truck. Remind you, I was still sick at that point. So I toughed it up enough to drive back to the yard (3 and a half hours away) and dropped it. I alerted my dispatcher via text(which I still have) that I was dropping the truck off because I was still sick. No problem, call us when you feel better. I called today (Monday, 1/5/2015) to tell terminal manager I can roll. No answer, no return text, no return email, no return call. 4 hours later since I heard nothing I called my dispatcher when I was informed that they terminated me. When I asked why he responded that "I quit while under dispatch" now something you should know is Quality Carriers is a non-forced dispatch company. He said we spoke about a run to Memphis, TN and back. I told him via text and phone call I was still sick and could NOT accept the load. He said ok no problem. I never received a work order, BOL number, trip number, anything at all. I didn't even know the product or which trailer. I have all this saved in text messages. He said now my DAC will show "Quitting while under dispatch" and said since I live in a Right-to-work state it was their word against mine and that my text messages didn't matter. So now, 2 years into my career I have a quitting while under dispatch on my DAC because of those fine folks at corporate America. That's just one issue. The other issue is, the affiliate I drove for (QC is a franchise) told me my pay as a company driver was 25% loaded and $.40 a mile dead head. Well what they don't tell you is they prorate your pay to $.40 a mile, all miles, whenever you deadhead more than 100 miles a week. I had to bob tail 700 miles to pick up an empty one day then drag the empty another 1,000 miles back to the yard the next day. I only ran 1 load that week due to the amount of dead head. I received $.40 a mile for all miles that week as opposed to $.40 a mile for 1,700 miles and my 25% of the one load I ran. That added up to be $600 less than what my pay was supposed to be because they factored per diem, layover, detention, and a recovery in as well. So Quality Carriers is great if you only plan on working for them 2 or 3 months. Everything after that gets screwed up. They also had a driver sit in University Park, IL for 4 days, told him he would be compensated for the layover but paid him $0.00 on his pay check. The affiliate I drove for had 28 drivers and from July to now they have reduced the workforce from 28 to 17. They also terminated a guy for calling the safety department for refusing to take a tank that leaked due to a bad internal valve gasket. By the way, that trailer had sulfuric acid. They fired him and put the same thing on his DAC as mine. Last and certainly not least, terminal managers "edit" your pay sheets and short you and pay you how they deem fit. Hence the reason they went from 28 to 17 in from July to now. Keep that in mind if you ever decide to jump on the Quality Carriers wagon.