P.T. H. Express (P&A) Elk Grove Village, Il

Illinois is an "at will" work state PTH you don't need cause to let someone go unless you violate your own company rules. Do you have a rule book when it comes to driving behavior and practices? Judging by your CSA score I think not.

Face it, your CSA score screams sub par company, some of the violations indicate that your co. is at least looking the other way when it comes to poor driving and unsafe eqp't.

Your co. is a bottom feeder sir, you have been trashing this industry and finally you and others like you are getting outed, cudos to FMCSA for this.

CSA score of 94.1% out of 100%...Shame on you.

 

As I said earlier....stop with the spin! You're digging that hole deeper!
Next thing we'll see is the BBB report!

That score is pretty sad isn't it! Makes me want to run right up and apply so I can sit at scale houses all day!

If they paid money to the drivers for every passed DOT inspection their score would look better!

 

Geeze you guys are harsh. The man came on and gave info about his company as well as an explanation, everything looks fine from where I sit.


Seems to me that the OP is a crybaby truck driver, it's not like we haven't seen a million of those before. If the OP can't come back and explain themselves in letters that you don't need a magnifying glass to read, I say they're a cry baby or a troll.

 

Well I don't believe they are being harsh at all. Check out the csa #'s. They have really bad csa #'s for a reason. They just don't put bad #'s on company for no reason.

 

Assuming PTH is the owner or at least an officer of the company blames the drivers for his high score when in fact it is PTH that is to blame as it is his/her ship. Judging from the violations either the drivers are coming in to the company with bad skills or they are acquiring them while employed there, the bottom line is PTH is responsible for their actions and has let the drivers (according to him/her) trash the CSA score, Who's running the show?

There are some violations that are more of a nuisance (lights inop, etc.) as things can happen while driving that the operator is unaware of, PTH's violations go much farther and judging by the amount of audits the co. has had I'd say the DOT recognizes this.

Read the violations Mackie it speaks for itself.

 

Well thats what I get for being lazy lol. I actually didn't even look at the violations and I briefly skimmed this thread. Shame on me

 

Ok to clear things up:
The name is Nataly, the position with the company is general manager and you can see my bio here : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=75486957&trk=tab_pro

Now that, that is out of the way, let me explain something else: None of my posts are to defend the company or our way of operation. I am not looking to hire drivers or O/O's from forums or any other places like this one. As I told the ppl who send me private massages I am not looking to hire drivers at this moment. My believes are that every one has the right to be unhappy with his/ hers employer but the reasons listed here are lies. The person who started this has no interest to even respond to any pm massage from me or any of the posts. It's easy to hide behind a NICK name and to write lies. Well as you can see I am not hiding behind a nick name and I am openly saying that the minute I find out the name of the person who started this post he will be contacted by our attorneys.
To all of you I can say that basing an opinion on the CSA score shows me your knowledge in this industry. It's true that we give way too many chances to our O/O's when they violate the requirements but a person has to be able to look from the other side and understand that with this bad economy sometimes they are barely making ends meet and sometimes they can't afford to make repairs asap, or try to drive as much as possible in order to make more money. Don;t get me wrong, I am far away from saying that that is acceptable, but we start by giving warnings before we trow some one out on the street. On every good inspection we give bonuses and on every bad one we charge and sadly sometimes that is not enough.
Any how, you all have the right to huff and puff but how many of you can honestly say that you never broke any rule while on the road, how many of you can say that you never got violations, and how many of you can say that you never disagreed with the violations the officer wrote on your report. Things are not always black and white but the fact that we have a satisfactory rating should show you that we are doing something right.

 

First of all I am not a Sir, read my previous post.
Second, Sir I have more rules than you have seen, O/O's and drivers joke that they are applying for NASA when they see the amount of papers they need to fill out in order to even get considered for employment with us.
Now lets talk about laws, since this is what I do for living I believe I have a bit more knowledge on the subject. It all depends on the structure of the company, on the way contracts are set up etc. In our case we have to comply with each state law under which category we fall, and that is one of them.
Now lets talk about how are we " and I quote :" trashing this industry "
Lets go to the basics, Sir do you even know what is the role of a carrier? Have you ever worked at a transportation company as something different than a driver? Do you know how a carrier is structured and what is the difference between a company with a 100 trucks and one with 10 000? And are you aware that when it comes to O/O's we have limited powers. And YES cudos to FMCSA for finally giving a chance to the transportation companies by changing the rules and finally sharing the responsibilities between the companies and the drivers.
And finally Sir, the point of this ridicules topic is not our safety score. Is the false accusations from a coward that is hiding behind a nick name. A person that has the full right to be unhappy but no right to accuse us of things we never did. No safety personnel in their right mind will ever tell a driver that is OK to falsify logs, fuel can not be deleted even if we want to because it shows on the web side from the fuel card issuing company and DOT inspectors are not stupid. And we never bounced any checks, because if we did I will know who this person is. Bottom line, I am far away from saying that we are perfect or the best company out there, but I will not tolerate such accusations. I've been asking for prove ever since this topic got posted and all I get is drivers huffing and puffing about CSA scores, which has nothing to do with the way we treat our O/O's or drivers. As a matter of fact what those CSA scores show, is that we give them way too many chances because they are based on their behavior on the roads, not ours in the office.

 

OK, chill out Nataly, The Sir is getting a little to tense and so are you. Most of the company cheerleaders or desk jocks we get are male so don't get your panties in that tight of a wad! He missed the "female" part way back at the front of the thread and he doesn't mean any disrespect from it. Ask any of the other female members who have been misidentified in TTR land!

You also have just about blown any "respect" any might have had when you talk about going after some broke arsed driver with a lawyer because your companies "good" name got hurt! About as usefull as those things on a boar hog!

TTR won't be of any help to you with any identity help as the OP more than likely has a WIFI account somewhere or a temporary internet account and finding him won't be worth your nice companies time or money! What do you think you'll get out of him? An I'm sorry? LOL, yeah, ok, he's sorry and still it won't help PTH's reputation any will it? Money? ROFLMFAOACGU! Please, if you do and actually win tell us if HIS check clears!

I'm now sitting here just getting a big kick out of how you have turned this into a personal vendetta type of thing and all from a Chicagoland company!

This is turning into another silly reality show! But heck some of us are bored half to death so keep going! This is actually getting almost good!

Darn, I can't remember my linkeden password!

In reply to the von Schiller quote: I am always amazed how people can look stupid, even if it is obvious that it is the way they want to look. Or even when it's not so obvious. There just is no cure! Life goes on and the pool deepens.

 

You are still getting this all wrong, going after this coward and lair is not about money, or clearing PTH's name. It's the principle of the matter. I don't need the forum's owner to tell me who he is or any of that. Sooner or later as you know i will find out who he is because this world is small and the word gets around.
There is no personal vendetta here, I am not the owner of the company to put any personal feelings in to this. But I know with how much BS we put up every day from drivers/ O'Os like this one. I know, how understanding every one in the office is trying to be every time they are at fault with the law, I know how much advances we give them every time they cry and when I read something like this it pisses me off. It shows me how greedy and ungrateful ppl can be. And don't get me wrong I don't fool my self that the world is collared pink and every one is nice and honest but I still believe they are good ppl out there.
For example, how would you feel, if you apply for a job and your previous employer writes a bunch of lies on your prev. emp. verification and you don't get hired because of it? ..., It's kind of like that .., bad mouthing. That is why I said earlier, every one has the right to be unhappy from their employer .., hell most of us are but no one has the right to lie like this. This is low..,