Decker Truck Line reviews

COMMUNICATIONS: Communications are just awful here. Dispatch team doesn't answer calls or respond to messages, and it often leads drivers unexpectedly sitting for the weekend with no load, no plan, and plenty of hours on your 70. ■ ■ ■ ■ PAY & RESPECT: I can't tell you how many times I've thought about going back to washing dishes for better pay and more respect. It doesn't matter if you're a million miler or if it's your 1st day -- they treat you all like rookies, and you all earn the same pay. ■ ■ ■ ■ HOMETIME: Hometime is pretty standard for the industry (3 weeks out/3 days home, max 5 days home). If you have appointments (dentist, doctor, etc.) good luck getting there on time. ■ ■ ■ ■ EQUIPMENT: Surprisingly well-maintained equipment, but it's modded to kindergarten specs. Every day you'll get your doors blown off by a Swifty or Walmart, and sometimes even by a Prime or TMC. ■ ■ ■ ■ CULTURE: The company doesn't trust the drivers, and it shows. Driver facing cameras, and occasional (creepy) messages reminding you that it's a violation of company policy to cover them up at night when you're taking your 10hr break. (I'm not even joking. I'm pretty sure that's illegal (and possibly a civil rights violation), but they do warn that you can be fired for it. And since they make you sign an agreement during orientation saying that they gave you your company policy book and that you agree to the policies-- and then they never actually give you the policy book -- then you might have already agreed to it without realizing it.) ■ ■ ■ ■ TECH: They keep sending letters out talking about how great the compamy's doing, yet somehow they still can't afford to bring our pay into the 21st century, and they just announced they're going to keep running the ELDs that have been causing serious company-wide problems for the past year because they were outdated 2 years ago. ■ ■ ■ ■ SAFETY: Very safety-oriented, and I would be too if I had a CSA score that bad. They brag in orientation that many people in the office are former drivers with a current CDL. But what they don't tell is the last time the safety directer drove an 18 wheeler for a paycheck, cell phones hadn't been invented and there were less than 6 Billion people on the planet. They have no idea what it's really like out here these days, and so they enforce what I call 'submissive driving'. Defensive driving isn't good enough for Decker. You're expected to apologize for being cut off by distracted drivers. ■ ■ ■ ■ BOTTOM LINE: Yes, there are worse companies out there. If this is your 1st job, you'll learn how much this industry can $uck before you go find the good stuff. We all have to start somewhere. ■ If it's your 2nd chance, like if you just got released from prison or you got fired for rolling your last rig in a ditch, then I'm not going to talk you out of coming here. Honestly, I think that's the kind of driver they're looking for.

Don't waste your time Don't bend over for the Decker Pecker Decker Pecker trucking ....don't fall for their line of bull!!!!!!

Used to be a great company until the sun took over about a year and a half ago. He fired a lot of good people and hired in an awful COO who is ruining everything that was good.

Don’t even waste your time drivers they baby sit you too much liars the pay is too low miles are bad they got driver facing cameras watches you 24/7

Same as any other company. Trucks need fixed. All companies care about is making money. .than fixing trucks. You have to pay the company back for your orientation hotel, food and rental car.