Landforce (Victorville CA) STAY AWAY!

Terrible Equipment! Constant breakdowns.
Owners are cheap as hell and will keep you waiting sometimes days while they jerk around the poor vendor trying to service the truck. This has happened to me and several other drivers I work with.
One time they kept me down two days (over a weekend) then made me drive an un-roadworthy truck to another shop so they could save $100 on a repair. How much do you think I lost during those two days?

They will dock your pay on a whim. They just make up policies on the fly and dock you for it. My buddy got docked over $500 for getting plowed in at a rest area and needing a tow out during a snow storm.

How about this: an air line breaks in NYC. A professional repair truck shows up, calls Landforce in CA with a quote for authorization to proceed, the company says no - too expensive - we'll call someone else. Later (after guess-who sits around earning nothing while the idiots in CA struggle to save a nickel) a guy in a car shows up (not a service truck, a car), he mickey-mouse's the airline back together. It breaks an hour later on a bridge.

I don't think I pulled a legal load in months. Always a marker out, bad brakes, bad tires, overweight, no permits, etc. It's always something. Bunk heaters never work.


A completely amateur outfit! If you value your license and your CSA score - stay away!

 

No offense, but that comment is terribly naïve. When you are 2000 miles from home and they won’t fix your truck you have three options:
1- Pay for the repair yourself. You will NOT be reimbursed. I know, they refused to reimburse me for such a "no brainer" expense simply because the charge was “not authorized”.
2 -You can refuse to drive. This is called “abandonment under load” and is career suicide. No one will hire a driver who has done this.
3- You can drive with the defect.

I reported this whole situation to DOT and CHP. I asked them what a driver could do. They said a driver could volunteer for an inspection at any scale but that unfortunately, under the current system, there was no way for them to violate the company without points hitting the driver's CSA. In the end, DOT simply admitted the system was flawed.
As for leaving them, I did. Make sure you've been paid before you do though!
A driver I know left with pay still due and they did not pay his final check - pay and expenses over $6000,00. He
could sue them for it, but what lawyer will take a case for such a small amount? Small claims court – a joke!
The sleazy companies in this business have the game down. Drivers cannot win. You simply need to drive for a decent company or get screwed.

 

Who said I didn't PTI the truck before I left? Stuff breaks on the road. Especially when they do cheap shoddy maintenance in the yard. I've refused many a truck at the terminal. That's not the problem. The problem is when it craps out on the road and you're forced to drive it because they won't pay to fix it on the road.
These trucks break down 2000 miles out, just like the trip when the bunk heater worked for two days then broke in minus 10 degrees and they wouldn't fix it or pay for a motel room, just like the marker light that went out four days into my trip because there was bad wiring and they wanted it repaired at home, or the chunk that flew off the tire way across the country leaving rib showing and they wanted it fixed 1000 miles away, or the brake pressure valve that seized in the Midwest. These problems weren't there when I left the yard, pal.

I don't know who you're driving for that only has breakdowns in the yard. I'd like to work for them!