Florida Beauty/Florida Beauty Express

You've spoken a lot of words here without really saying anything at all.

To try to format this post better for this forum, I will play the investigative journalist to try to figure out what the issues are.

Firstly, does the company operate under 2 names (Florida Beauty AND Florida Beauty Express) or just one of those? Where do they operate out of? When giving a negative review it seems important to get at least the name correct.

Okay, to your complaint:

You say to avoid them, as "they hire anybody". Are you implying they are not fussy with who they hire? Do they not do appropriate reference checks, check driver's abstracts and background searches? Or do you mean that they hire a lot of people that you wouldnt consider hiring? Can you sum up for us how their hiring affected your ability to succeed there?

Regarding drivers being sent home daily and there not being loads for drivers - is this a regional operation? Do you mean OTR drivers are sitting in truck stops waiting for loads and local drivers are sent home for lack of work?

You go on to say they overload their drivers because there are no dispatchers - are you talking about overweight loads or overworked drivers? Were you both overworked and underworked? What does dispatch have to do with what the shipper loads in your trailer?

If Your co-driver has a drivers license in your state, their English is passable to your state's standards. A team of drivers really doesn't need to interact a great deal, since it's not like you were training a driver. Please explain with some detail how your Spanish speaking co-driver prevented you from succeeding and what measures you took up with the company to be successful, along with their response.

Hopefully your answers provide some insight to other drivers who may be considering applying to this company.

 

https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Carrier/1097043/Overview.aspx

 

Don't be shy op.... We won't try to kiss you until the second date.... Unless provoked

 

Never heard of ".....,,,,,,," as being an issue with a trucking company. Outstanding narrative.

 

I think it's been "edited for television".....

 

I don't know what to say...that's just information overload...lol

 

It appears the user removed their complaints, so I will copy and paste what another driver posted about them on a different thread:

12.20.2014 #19
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Ok just to update you guys on whats going on at FBE.


My first week out on the road I left Miami on tuesday Nov. 25th on a load heading to California with my trainer. Got to Cali in 2 days and took a load heading to the north east. Had stops in NY, MA, NJ, and RI. After that we picked up a frozen food load in MA to come back home. Got back to Miami on Dec. 3rd early wednesday morning. The load didn't have to be delivered until thursday morning at 8AM so we got a release from that load, took it to the yard and went home. For my first week in trucking I would say it was a pretty decent week. Hardly sat around waiting to get a load to hit the road or to get unloaded at our stops. The truck was a 2013 Freightliner cascedia. Next week ill be in a new 2014 volvo 780. All of their trucks are automatic which I don't like but I guess thats where the future of trucking is headed. Also all the trucks are equipped with APU and inverters. Very comfortable. Now for the main thing everyone wants to hear. As a trainee you are paid 16 cents per mile, $7.50 for every stop and 10 cents per box unloaded off the trailer. For that first week at FBE my gross was $1703.30 and after deduction I took home a little over $1300. To me being fresh out of school that is not bad at all. FBE is not good on first impressions I'll say that but its not a bad deal comparing to how much you will make at other companies coming out of school. Another thing I like about FBE is they don't pressure to come to work. You can stay home as long as you want but you know if your not out here turning wheels, your not making any money.



Sounds like this new driver is doing pretty well, clearing $1300 his first week on the road.

 

LOL, their safety data is pathetic. Multiple "non english speaking driver" violations, 1 reckless driving, a few driving on suspended license or no CDL. Logging number are horrible. 127 truck 37 accidents

 

Welcome back!

Yep, their safety record pretty much blows:

https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Carrier/1097043/Overview.aspx

They are in a position to be audited for a few things, Driver Fitness, HOS Compliance and Unsafe Driving.

Out of curiosity though, you still haven't explained how any of that affected you.

Drivers are the first to stamp our feet and say how stupid the regulations are, and how unfair it is to be babysat by the government. But here you have a company that clearly doesn't care much about those rules and the drivers complain?

i'm not saying it was a good place to work, I've never worked there. I'm trying to encourage you to tell us what your experiences were instead of just summing it up. Tell us what happened and let us decide instead of just saying it was crap. Experiences like yours will help other drivers decide if it's worth it, and no offence, but people's opinions are almost worthless. The facts, not your evaluation of the facts.