Black Dog Trucking

All I can say is wow! Would hate to know what they were going to pay you to work there.

 

Well at least you did not take it.
Sad people think this is fine equipment and get mad when you refuse to drive junk.

Good luck in finding new work.
Hope they have better equipment

 

If i showed up there and all they had was that to drive i would have left like the place was on fire.There is no way i would have driven that truck.Looks like one good bump and it would have fallen apart.

 

I've worked for 2 owner/ops and 4 "small" companies (biggest one was 20 trucks) while I was on the road.

My husband stayed on the road after I quit driving and his current & last job have also been with small companies.

In our experience, when it comes to small companies, your experience can vary WIDELY. There are excellent "small companies" where your quality of life will be second to none....and there are God-awful, Satan spawned trucking company owners who deserve to have their tender bits chewed by a pack of coyotes.

Don't let one bad experience put a bad taste in your mouth about all small trucking companies. I've had some horrible experiences, but that's because I didn't exercise the common sense YOU did- and just said NO WAY after seeing the truck. All of the bad experiences I had, I KNEW what I was getting into. You can tell a lot about a company by their equipment. Then again, me and my husband were in a rough spot for a little while- he because of speeding tickets, me because of a false DAC report, so for about a year or 2 neither of us could afford to be too picky about who we worked for. We went anywhere who'd take us.

One of the worst places I worked for I drove a truck about like yours. Cleaner on the inside, but older (1995 KW T600) and in horrid, poor shape. I don't think there was a single item on the whole truck that was DOT compliant. Drove for that guy about 4 months....finally the way he ran things caught up to him. It always does with the guys that run shoddy equipment. Long story short, he ended up with that trailer impounded, and so many violations written up on the tractor he decided to sell it rather than pay the fines or fix it. Put us out of a job but after what we'd dealt with while working there, I didn't care.

I have other stories too....mostly of people not paying us, one guy kept jerking us around & let us sit and rot at the Ontario CA TA for 3 weeks in the middle of summer with no money, no fuel, and obviously no A/C or Idle Aire, until he could scrounge up the money to repair our clutch fan & buy fuel for us to pick up a load. And when he did, he only sent enough money to BUY the clutch fan from Freightliner, and expected my husband and one of the owner's buddies to repair it themselves in the parking lot. For free. He did it, too.

My husband recently left his last job, a 7-truck flatbed operation (mostly due to concerns that the owner was having financial trouble- not getting paid on time etc) and he found another relatively "small" company seemingly out in the middle of nowhere in our state. Yet the owner has been in business since the 60's, started with a farm, feed & hog operation, has been running trucks since 1974, and expanded the fleet to include a reefer operation in 1999. There are something like 20 OTR trucks- not a single one is over 2 years old. Meticulously maintained every 6,000 miles. Washed every time you come into the terminal. Miles are steady at about 3200 per week, pay is good, benefits, incentives & bonus program is amazing.

Sometimes you have to kiss a bunch of frogs before you find one that turns into a prince . Keep looking, I am sure there is a better company out there for you. Good luck.

 

Seems that the dumber the company name, the worse the company is. There used to be a small dump truck outfit in Atlanta running purple trucks named "Scooby Doo Trucking". I mean WTF?

 

A friend told me once "I can work with old equipment, but I can't work with junk equipment". It looks like that stuff is GARBAGE! I can't hardly believe they thought that was road worthy, and ready to go!

I once worked for a small flatbed outfit. About a dozen trucks, and probably 40 trailers. All his trucks were newer Pete's. I was told when I started he was going to lease me a new truck.
When I got there, instead of a new lease truck, there was an old Marmon, that had been run through the ringer. At least twice. The owner told me it would only be for a couple of weeks, til he could get some things straightened out. I was OK with that.
After 3 weeks, I asked him about getting out of this POS. He said "I told you it would be a couple of MONTHS, not weeks". I told him that's not what I agreed to, and that I would have to start looking for something else. I also told him I wouldn't quit without notice.
Last straw was in Chicago, on a pouring down rain Friday afternoon, when the headlights and taillites quit working for the second time in as many weeks. I told him I was going home, and he could have the truck back Monday, at the yard. He told me he'd have something else for me on Monday. I wasn't too sure, but when I brought the truck back Monday, the yard guy took me to the dealer, and picked up a leased new Pete daycab.

Moral of the story is that there are still good small companies out there. Keep looking, you'll find one.

 

WOW!!!! I woulda done the same thing, no way in HELL i would ever drive something like that. Just imagine you pulling up in a weigh station in that junk, lmao they would have a field day!

 

LOL....all of my worst experiences have been with "initials" companies.

B&P, JNT, MCT (not the Comcar subsidiary, completely different outfit).

The crappy KW I mentioned in my earlier post was a company named after the owner, first & last name on the door. I won't mention the name on a public forum but even though it was legitimately the guys name....he had a funny name. Reminded you of a horny wild canine of sorts.