BEWARE!Universal Am-Can,Mason Dixon

You bought a 09 tractor with a million miles on it and someone leased you on?
That should have told you something right there!
You bought an old POS truck and had no operating capital, especially after a divorce for the breakdown you knew was going to happen? If you didn't think this POS wouldn't then you're spending to much time in the mountains of CA.

Sorry sixdog, but this is not the place for hugs and shoulders!

I have no idea how long it's been since you were an O/O but it's been a while since any company "loaned" an O/O money unless the O/O had an escrow account. Now these fleece deals will be glad to "loan" you money! Minus the vasoline.

If this company did short you why didn't you catch it on your statements when you got them? Did you not look at them? or was the check good enough?

And as for the company trying to get THEIR freight delivered I can see that after it's 3 weeks late? This is almost something you see on comedy central!

If you're such a, as you put it, "top producer" where is the savings account you should have been depositing to, to cover another breakdown of that almost 10 year old and million plus mile truck? Do you think it's going to hold together another 50,000 with no trips to a shop?

I think you need to get a CPA to handle your money as somewhere you're dropping the ball. And really get rid of that old POS and try for something newer or go company and save before you try to be an O/O again. Times changed and well so do you. This sounds too much like living pay check to pay check and throwing the statements on the floor.

 

Everything you are saying sounds like blaming someone else for your problems. Maybe YOU didn't do enough research before leasing on. Maybe YOU had personal problems. Maybe YOU paid too much for an old truck. Maybe YOU didn't set aside enough to cover a breakdown. My take...you should not be an independent contractor because you are unable to manage your affairs. Being an ind cont means taking care of maintenance, and managing your cash flow to operate a successful business.

 

sitting in a truckstop listening to two drivers talking now theres something new.

If you need to be bailed out to fufill your contract then you should not be entering into a contract to provide a service. Nothing to do with the SILVER spoon and no it is not the OLD SCHOOL WAY, unless your talking SHARE CROPPING , or MINING and always in dedt to the COMPANY STORE. .

 

It blows my mind that companies even do advances anymore. If I was broke that bad I wouldnt leave the house. Come on man you bought a truck and now you are complaining because your customer wont help fix your truck. I bet you think the government should pay your house payment to.
If you are leased on to a company they ARE your customer period. If you dont understand that your not going to make it. They dont owe you anything.

 

That point about advances Im not talking about special circumstances. I understand things happen and a guy needs some quick cash for a couple of days and needs to eat. I have seen guys advance $100 week in week out. No need for that.

 

You can always exercise Plan B then sixdogs...get your own authority and insurance, kick down doors, get your own customers, collect your own receiveables and become a millionare like Matty Maroon from Mason Dixon!

 

Not to hijack...but how is Mason Dixon to lease on with?