STAY AWAY FROM CAREGAN TRANSPORT!

Please give me a shout. These people have got to be stopped.

 

Not sure how giving you a "shout" would help anyone in a bad situation, but here goes.... HELLO!!! That's me shouting at the top of my keyboard.

 

ummmm......Honest TB......He only mentioned it 3 times, ya gotta do better than that.....

Belay that message! Mentioned 5 times. repeat....5 times. That is all.....

 

I didn't get my final check from Caregan Transport either. I mean... I didn't get the first week's check until the third week, so I should've expected as much. This company makes it's bread and butter off of shortchanging their drivers. Sign me up for the Class Action lawsuit anyday

 

With Care in the first part of the name I would think there is bias in some of these posts........

 

Its not a surprise they terminated you for hitting what I can only imagine was a stationary object. A lot of places would fire someone for that, lease driver or not. Even owner operators get fired for damaging only their tractor hitting stationary fixed objects.

98 per mile...I am assuming this means you only were paid 98 cents per mile? You should talk to an attorney if you believe that you have any standing. If there really is a class action that actually gets certified and makes it that far, there is a lot that could go awry with it. Doesn't mean just cause its a class action it will net anything. And even if it does, the likelihood all the drivers who have been shafted will be made whole is non-existent. The only people going to make a lot of money in that is the attorneys.

So back to lease agreement, I would review it and what it states about damages. $2,500 for damages I think is right about industry average, for the deductible they will charge-back to me for damage. But it will ultimately be whatever I agreed to when I signed the contract. It should say so in the lease, what the amount of the deductible charge-back is. If I never received anything in writing before they deducted any monies for the deductible, I might have a case and talk to an attorney. But it's something that if all my claims arise from federal statute, and when it comes to truth in leasing regulation (which it will), that will be a federal court issue. Doesn't necessarily mean it could not be filed in a court like district court, I just expect that if I do file in a lower court it will be removed by the defense to federal court unless they waive jurisdiction.

I would talk to an attorney if I were you as your contract could be limited by the statute of limitations of whichever state is chosen by choice law in your lease contract. Unless of course it is picked up in any class action issue in the discovery period. I will know without having to join the class directly, if there is a class action. I will get something in the mail and wait for what could be years for a bunch of circle jerking to take place. Or opt-out during the applicable opt-out period of the class action and retain my own attorney and sue in my own capacity.

None of this is legal advice and I am not an attorney. I am not saying do this or do that. This is merely an expression of what I might do in your situation, if I was in your shoes.

 

What happened in small claims?

 

I feel silly writing all I have as I did not look at the dates of the posts I replied to. But my guess is, there was never any class action that materialized. There is this case KELLEY v. CAREGAN TRANSPORT, INC., 1:18-cv-00500 - CourtListener.com that was filed by someone, one single person. It was ultimately dismissed. I don't care to pay for the files to read them on PACER, but you can if you wish.