PTL OMG!!!!

I worked for them for almost two years. I just left about 2 weeks ago. A real good friend of mine got fired from them. He wasn't late on loads didn't refuse loads. All he asked for was more miles. He was with them for 18 months. They fired him over not having enough miles per month. He was going to sue and get qualcom records on his messages for court. Well it turned out on him dac they put that he quit! They owed me for 15 det pays that I never saw. Was time to get the he-- away from them. Students think twice about this company, they are bad news!!!

 

I worked for them for 2 weeks in 2007. They called me a few weeks before Thanksgiving and I told them I would start the Monday after Thanksgiving because I had family coming for the holiday that I had not seen in a real long time. They kept wanting me to start the next week and swore if I started then they would have me home for Thanksgiving and at the time I lived 10 miles from Murray where they are based out of so I did start then. The day before Thanksgiving I delivered in Memphis and they told me they had no freight then and would send me something later that day. At about 6pm I still had not been sent anything so I sent a message asking and got no response so I drove to I deadheaded to Murray and parked at the terminal and went home. On Monday morning they called my cellphone wanting to know why I did not pick up the load they sent to my truck on Saturday afternoon in Memphis going to Texas (2 days after Thanksgiving) and I said well I have been at home since Wednesday night. He started yelling at me about I better never do that again or I will be fired and I just started laughing. I went there right away and cleaned the truck out.

One thing they do that everybody needs to be aware of is they will take 2 students right out of driving school and put them together to train each other. They never get trained by anyone with experience and I can't imagine how that could be any good.

 

whats sad is a couple of companies do that putting two students together scary i know u have to start somewhere but man that's scary

 

650trucks only 4 have a higher idel time then his 65%

wow!! that is very high idle percentage! even on a 34 hour restart..was the truck stop not open? Im sure there was somewhere that driver could of went to get out of the truck for a bit. 26 degrees isnt that cold, dont get me wrong it is cold but there could have been ways to avoid some of it. If the sun was shining, could have parked facing the sun. Sun shining through that big windsheild will help warm things up. My first winter ever in a truck, I froze like hell, but the trainer I had sucked. He didnt explain anything to me. But after time, ive learned a few things like everyone else out on the road.

 

Not really, Idle is not calculated that way. It is a ratio turned into % based on the hours the truck is moving V/S parked while running. Example if you drive for 2 hours and than idle the truck two hours in a 24 hour day the idle is 100%. I and most others would see that 2 hour time running as 12% idle time and that's GREAT, but if you not driving much it is easy to get idle out of whack.

It should be a law that all companies with 150 or more trucks are required to put APUs on the trucks with today's idle policies larger companies have got. That truck is your work center and no other industry would get by with this crap, without good rest time your not safe. It is dangerous. I work off the qualcom and idle when I need to. I don't abuse it because fuel is expensive but you will never see me freeze or sweat in the heat when I need sleep.