Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc. - East Dubuque, IL

JewelCG · Aug 8, 2015

Well 1700 a week is a high average, and not on 2000 miles a week for sure. More realistically it's 900 to 1400 a week, with 1200 a good average for 2800 miles.

I've worked for Hirschbach for over two years. I do make good money, but not 1700 every week. Don't we all wish that? I've had a couple of referrals too, and you don't get that 1500 all at once.

You can make decent money and we do have some #### nice benefits but I won't ######## anyone just to line my pocket. It's still trucking. We are still at the mercy of shippers and recievers. It's not all roses and candy canes. It is what you make of it, just like any other company. Some do really well, some couldn't make a paycheck to save their ###.

superflow · Aug 8, 2015

Sounds like a big waste of time putting an app in for this company

Gitaslife · Sep 4, 2015

I'm a current Hirschbach lease driver. Been here one month short of a year. I do average around 1400.00 per week take home, but like other people have commented about....that does not show taxes taken out and other driver paid expenses like scales, fluids, wiper blades etc.... So let's just say taxes are at 30%. That would be 420.00. So take home average now is 980.00. And then if you plan on owning the truck, you better be good at saving money or have excellent credit. Lease payoff is about 60,000.00 dollars. Even with that all said I'm very happy here. And yea. I've tried to recruit people, but it seems that the recruiters scare them all off. Idunno. Safe travels all......

A long way from Texas · Jan 26, 2016

Sounds to me like the husband was at fault, and hitting a bridge I would say you probably don't want the CD player back. Any how on e you put anything permeant in the truck it becomes there property. In the lease did it say who really owes the truck? If it is a lease like a car lease you don't get a dime. I would tell the ol' man to get a company driving job & maybe a dog to take along to keep him awake. Then I would get life insurance for the dog that way if he falls asleep again, maybe you can get some cash from the k9... Just a few thoughts

mudcat07 · Apr 19, 2017

ferchalks said: ↑

I am surprised actually to not find hirschbach mention before now in this thread.

My husband worked as a lease to own - independant contractor for hirschback in 2003 - 2004.

During the time her worked for them they deducted from his paychecks all costs of running the truck...fuel, tolls, maintnece even insurance. They deducted so much that he actually owed them money on every paycheck even though he was running well outside of his logs for weeks at a time.

Eventually the inevitable happened, he was running too hard for too long, trying to make enough money to actually bring some home to his family when he fell asleep behind the wheel and hit a bridge, totalling his truck and lucky to be alive.

Hirschbach terminated his lease and sent him home on a bus. He was told his personaly CD player would be removed from the truck and returned to him and that they would handle the insurance claims for him.

Well, two years later, we never recived the CD player (worth $400 and a gift from his mother) and we have discovered they did get an insurance payment for the truck in the amount of $24,999. A payment from insurance my husband was paying for for a truck my husband had paid over half of the price due. They never sent us a dime!

Yet they report to the IRS that they paid him over $59,000!!! Now we have to fight with the IRS to proove we never actually got any where near that amount.

We've contacted this company constantly over the past two years about the CDE player that was never returned, and were told to provide proof of the cost of the player ( we did) and they would send us a check to re-imburse for it (they did not). This company plays with people's lives, we lost everything trying to hold out until the truck was paid for and the day he'd start making money. They make you foot every bill that comes with the truck that is still technically thiers, and then when something goes wrong they fire you and keep all the insurance money, making a big profit.

Hirschbachis in Nebraska and we're in Pennsylvania, making it very hard to find an attorney that can help us do anything about our losses. How can a company file and insurance claim for a driver that no longer works for them, and then accept, sign and cash a check for almost 25k that has that driver's name on it?????

Beware Hirschbach They don't care if you have a family or your own obligations, as long as they can keep as much money as they can.

Lee Ferchalk
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ferchalks said: ↑

I am surprised actually to not find hirschbach mention before now in this thread.

My husband worked as a lease to own - independant contractor for hirschback in 2003 - 2004.

During the time her worked for them they deducted from his paychecks all costs of running the truck...fuel, tolls, maintnece even insurance. They deducted so much that he actually owed them money on every paycheck even though he was running well outside of his logs for weeks at a time.

Eventually the inevitable happened, he was running too hard for too long, trying to make enough money to actually bring some home to his family when he fell asleep behind the wheel and hit a bridge, totalling his truck and lucky to be alive.

Hirschbach terminated his lease and sent him home on a bus. He was told his personaly CD player would be removed from the truck and returned to him and that they would handle the insurance claims for him.

Well, two years later, we never recived the CD player (worth $400 and a gift from his mother) and we have discovered they did get an insurance payment for the truck in the amount of $24,999. A payment from insurance my husband was paying for for a truck my husband had paid over half of the price due. They never sent us a dime!

Yet they report to the IRS that they paid him over $59,000!!! Now we have to fight with the IRS to proove we never actually got any where near that amount.

We've contacted this company constantly over the past two years about the CDE player that was never returned, and were told to provide proof of the cost of the player ( we did) and they would send us a check to re-imburse for it (they did not). This company plays with people's lives, we lost everything trying to hold out until the truck was paid for and the day he'd start making money. They make you foot every bill that comes with the truck that is still technically thiers, and then when something goes wrong they fire you and keep all the insurance money, making a big profit.

Hirschbachis in Nebraska and we're in Pennsylvania, making it very hard to find an attorney that can help us do anything about our losses. How can a company file and insurance claim for a driver that no longer works for them, and then accept, sign and cash a check for almost 25k that has that driver's name on it?????

Beware Hirschbach They don't care if you have a family or your own obligations, as long as they can keep as much money as they can.

Lee Ferchalk
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