MGR Freight System review from current dispatcher

BigBadWolf123

Your analysis is SPOT ON.... I left this company at the beginning of September 2018. I wished I had had this advice before coming here. If anyone here don't believe you... tell them to ask me. You definitely pointing out many of the things that go on there

 

The saga continues...

 

Another reason I won’t dont for companies based out of Chicagoland.

 

Everything he's saying it's true I'm a owner here and i knew almost everything but he forgot to tell you guys this . whenever you go to their terminal to try to fix something in your trailer they will change tires breaks even if they are still good and try to find other stuff and they will charge you .it just happened to me last month

 

Lol. Yes, he is telling the truth about most of this. I just left them a couple of weeks ago. The money was good last year, but it went downhill quickly when the market slowed down. I had one of their trailers for 6 weeks, before I decided to buy my own trailer. When I went to turn it in, they “claimed” that I had ruined a brand new trailer tire in 6 weeks, and charged me almost $500 for a trailer tire. Then refused to give me this supposedly ruined trailer tire. I imagine that they left the tire on the trailer and scammed the next driver. You can check my other posts but I figured out very quickly that to survive at MGR, or anywhere, as an owner operator, you need your own “everything.” Truck, trailer, fuel card, toll tags, and registration if possible. I’m stuck now with a $2000 Illinois tag and registration, that MGR won’t refund the unused balance.

But I learned my lesson with them. I would definitely steer clear of them. That house of cards will come down eventually.

 

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That's what t they do. Any positive reviews are from people who own the company or are working at the company not from drivers themselves.

They are a clan- 50 or so family members each with 2 or 3 Google Id's and you see where all the positive reviews come from.

Is this company Bulgarian by chance? or Macedonian?

 

They use a Google Voice number which has a USA area code such as 708 or 630 ( both Chicago). Their voice will be crystal clear and unless they tell you they are abroad you will assume they are in the USA.

Fake names are used in case there is any investigation police will be unable to find them. Or the IRS for that matter as these companies are big tax cheats.

Notice how they are always changing offices. Over the course of a year they might move 5 or 6 times.

 

Yes. My dispatcher called me from a 708-xxx-4800 number (Chicago). One of the girls from safety called from a Florida number. My first dispatcher was Joey, who was great. He was very aggressive with getting good rates. My second dispatcher was Kate. She was horrible. My biggest problem with them was that they lied constantly to brokers. They would tell brokers that I was closer to a pickup than I actually was. Or they would tell brokers that I was empty when I wasn’t. The final straws for me was when I was asked to not answer the phone when the brokers called, and they would ask me to lie to brokers. Eventually the brokers figured it out and started taking their loads back leaving me stranded without a load, often for hours or even until the next day. It was brutal for me with my own truck and trailer, so I can only imagine how devastating it was for those guys who were leasing trucks from them. Not to mention that they are probably destroying drivers’ DAC report