Quality Carriers/R. Wayne Bost Trucking/ Wilmington, NC

I couldn't find a review on this company before I got tangled up with them so i'm here to help you out. I went to orientation (first mistake) the "instructor" made an issue out of a statement I made about truck drivers driving in the hammer lane of a three lane doing 60 mph when the granny lane was open. This was his "Claim to fame," all of a sudden out of all the things we were talking about to find out if I was an "Offensive Driver!" We were just standing around talking about different things that is annoying on the road. Basically he was a cut off turd with the "Little Man" syndrome, constantly pulling out his knife telling a guy that had been there before that he could cut him up??? Morron! So anyway I go through all the hoops, get up at 12:00 a.m. to go train for the day etc. etc. So my third week counting orientation on that Friday after I had left to go home miles from the terminal I get a call, It's A Load!! Phttt. So I go back to the terminal to inspect this truck. This is where it really got interesting. First of all the truck looked as if it had been risen from the junk yard. But whatever i'll give it the benefit of a doubt. I begin my inspection, couldn't tell about oil leaks but i'm sure where ever they pulled it from there was a pile of oil on the ground underneath. The headlights had water in them. I raised the hood hoping a swarm of bees wouldn't come out and right away I noticed the belt was chauffed. So I continued my inspecton. The power steering pump was leaking and nearly out of fluid. No big deal I could keep adding ps fluid. So after completeing my inspection I crank the dinosaur to see what was chauffing the belt and not to my suprise the a/c compressor was jumping around which was causing the chauffing. Ok, they can fix this. So in my need to work I climbed in the truck to back it out of the spot and the accellerator stuck, however hard you pushed it that's where it stayed. Now i'm getting a little aggrivated. So let's take it down the road.... When I got to the gate the brakes went all the way to the floor, barely stopping the truck. So maybe they just need loosening up? Not so, I drove it about 1/2 mile down the road and had to keep tapping the accellerator to unstick it and the brakes still going to the floor making it hard to stop. This was bob-tail, could you imagine a 50 thousand pound tank behind it? So I called the terminal manager and told him the condition of the truck. He replied, "I drove it and it was fine!" "I can have a mechanic come out and fix it!" I asked if he had anything that worked a little better, something made in this century? He says, there's two day cabs sitting on the fence I could take. Now I was supposed to be OTR mind you. And I had driven one of these day cabs in the beginning for my qualifying run. It also was a HEAP! The air horn sounded like a muffled muel giving birth and when I pumped the brakes down the alarm wouldn't even sound and they had a guy using this pile for local runs. His claim is he offered me two other trucks (which were day cabs) to do an OTR job. He got it in his head that I expected a brand new truck because apparently the other people I rode with told him what I had said about the heaps he had sitting around and the heap I did my pre-run in. He called the other day and I'm pretty sure he had a conference call going on with one of the owners because he wouldn't give me a chance to speak, he just kept lieing about the "Two other trucks I could have chose from," when I only had keys for the one sleeper. The second week I was there I didn't even get to work the following Monday because no one knew what was going on. QC in general may not be a bad company to work for but they are going to take that LIARS word over yours. If you ask me, I think he needs to buy some trucks and if he don't want to put beginner Tank Drivers in a new truck, at least give them a safe truck!

 

Yeh, I talked to a guy that worked for QDI and he said he made good money and loved his job. I think that's why they came up with QDI because these cheap ___ affilliate owners were giving them a bad name. This guy needs his lights punched out, I can't believe they have such a morron as a terminal manager! What an idiot!

 

Well there's no real way to check the mechanical part until the truck is moving. You're supposed to be satisfied that you have 1/2" of pad and the air builds up with no leaks in the lines....And how do you check a jake brake w/o rolling? I don't think you know much about truck inspections PERIOD! And by the way I knew the brakes were weak before I took off, was just trying to give the losers a benefit of a doubt. I hardly believe you been driving for 5 years. By the way I didn't accept it, that's what pissed the idiot off. And if you can't drive a truck without an engine brake you sure wouldn't have made it in the "ole days."

 

We were standing around outside talking about things that are aggrivation on the road like people cutting you off etc. I just mentioned the fact of how people with 62 mile/hour trucks would get in the hammer lane and just ride on a 3-lane when the 3rd lane has truck restrictions on it. I said it isn't like there aren't signs that says slower traffic keep right. His reply was, "there's no such thing." And he went and got some kind of book that proved him wrong and it pissed him off while crippling his little man ego. They're a joke from their trainer right into the yard esp. their "terminal manager!"