First express rapes drivers wallets.

Provide some details. When you make claims like this, give some specific details so that other drivers can review and comment. This is the best way to get a discussion thread moving and going and it will help other drivers that may be interested in applying at First Express...

 

So is Kroger their "bread & butter account? Are you a Local Driver, Regional/Dedicated Driver or an OTR Driver? That does sound discouraging for scratching a trailer and being "fined" by the company for it. Some of our trailers are dropped and they have the nice lights that run the length of the trailer top and bottom. The lights on top are moulded into the lip so to speak but the bottom lights are exposed and often time scraped off as another driver comes into the drop area and rubs the trailer from one end to the other because their not the best backer up er LOL. There are still a lot of places out here with difficult backing and I'm guessing its going to continue to be a problem as many are now considering longer and heavier trailers.

I'm not making any excuses for this company but I would like to offer this about your first post and your remark about the cars (the price of the cars) these two individuals have or drive. Some people think an automobile is their single biggest purchase and they want to make a statement with it and perhaps the excess of it (the car), but if you walked thru the main office of the company I work for you'd see some really nice cars and trucks in there but I don't think there better than me or their stealing money from me to have these types of automobiles. I make sure I get paid for what I've done. I don't agree with a company garnishing your wages for nonsense stuff that naturally occur in the daily movement of business. I also think that many companies, unfortunate as it is, structure their pay systems so that you and I as the driver are always working for the little that they offer and the owners/stake-holders continually grow their bank accounts. I guess thats how capitalism works and for now it's the best system we have.

I would like to read some more "specific" instances from you were you've found First Express to be in the wrong. I ask this again as I've said, to enlighten other drivers that maybe considering employment with this company and to also allow an opportunity for current or former drivers to agree or disagree with your statements. This is truely a benefit for future employees as appossed to former ones. Hopefully as this tread tears on, people will be kind!

 

Let's see here, you screw up some ones equipment but it is not your fault.

You lack responsibility and make a load late, they fine you. Dispatcher is a prick but you screwed up, got it.

If you still have a job you are lucky, sounds to me they are doing you a favor.

 

lol sounds like keystone freight here in NJ. owner owns a 10.2 million dollar mansion in saddle river nj with a 10 car garage. each door filled with an exotic toy. meanwhile the drivers make 800 bucks gross a week and hate life. what a world

 

Unless he signed something they have no right to deduct for equipment damages from a company driver. If you drive a forklift in a warehouse and damage a pallet do they take it out of your pay? Probably not. As far as the late load goes it depends on circumstances like maybe he hit traffic or something. Even if it was late because he was goofing off at a truck stop instead of driving a decent company would just verbally warn you not deduct money from your pay.

 

Legal ease was not my intent, too many screw ups out here whining when they mess up. Decent company or not if a driver screws up now they cry and moan instead of accepting the fact that every time it happens and they are at fault.

 

I know, right?

At my last job I tore a hole in the roof of my trailer on a low bridge. I had to pay the $1156 repair bill. Did I like it? No. Did I ##### and moan? No. Why? Because I ###### up, not my boss.