rip-off john christner

I dont understand why JCT thinks any load is more important than any drivers life. Maybe its me but thats what it looks like in some posts

 

I think many people have the misconception that JCT cares more about the load then the driver. What JCT means is if you can't get the load there on time let them know up front because they will repower a load 2 or 3 times to get it there on time.

Let me straighten out something and make it real clear. EVERY TRUCKING COMPANY on earth cares more about the load then the driver bottomline. If you think your more important then the load at your company then go and deliver 2 or 3 loads late next week come up with some great excuse about being sick out of hours and see how long you keep your job. Face it people they are in the business of moving freight not giving you a job!

 

If you pick up a load that doesn't have enough time on it they will repower it or reschedule it to get it there. If your negligence is the reason you should get blamed for the late delivery that's the way the real world works. Communication is the key to getting a hot load there on time not how fast you drive, you know before you drive the first mile if you can get it there or not on time. To many drivers don't do their homework and accept a load then freak when they realize they can't stop every 100 miles for a 30 minute break outside their normal required break. To many drivers can't keep the left door closed.

 

Entirely true! I had a zealous co driver that was very quick to jump on a load (nothing wrong with that kind of initiative) but we dodged the bullet on 3 service failures over a short period of time. I had to talk to him because we were on a team and it could have affected my record too..

You have to look at the route, & your logbook and do the math!

 

Check out the pic's and blog on my page to see what happened to me at JCT -

 

Sorry to hear what happened to you but I believe there is more to the story that you haven't mentioned. I have several drivers that had the same problems with truck and they are now in a casadia and prostars. Never fired, all they had to do was tell john christner that they are having trouble with the truck. Either its the way you approached john or there is something else. They can't just fire you cuz of a dirty truck. If they really did then I'm assuming you can sue them and I'm sure they aren't that stupid to just fire you cuz of that. They just sometimes don't tell you the reason you get let go just like those people in orientation few weeks ago.

 

I'm giving you the whole story. I have been talking with a couple of attorney's. My conversation with Mr. Christner went basically that I thought it was unfair to give the new trucks to the new drivers when some of us were having real issues with our trucks. He told me he had sold trucks for less issues than mine, I told him I didn't have that option, but I was happy at the company. He told me he didn't control that anymore and I thanked him for his time and left. Total conversation, less than 5 minutes. Was told I probably stepped on someone named Shannon's toes by going to Mr Christner? No service failures, even for weather, no tickets, no failed DOT's, no wrecks - you tell me

 

hi all im new here. and i have a real good one about jct. they run you all you can handle, i signed on with them in august 09, i was terminated monday 4/19/10 so here it is three weeks ago they (jct) shut me down for a 34hr restart luckly i was at home i asked to take 3 days off and forget my home time the following week, i was told no you take that load after 34hr and we get you back for home time on the 16th i said ok. got me a load from california to temple tx it had osd they asked me to take to dallas i went up there this is friday at 230pm they tell me we have a load that dels at 530 in temple this way you dont dh 300 miles home i said fine but i'm not going to get there at 530 respons from dispatcher oh we got it set up they will take whatever time you get there i show up to walmart at 745 they say nope you need to reschedule well i told the inteligetn life form (nite dispatch) they said well you stuck with i guess wrong answer i drove home sent my offduty msg they replied you not mty can't send offduty macro monday dispatcher calls me says you del that load, where is it, i tell them 3 hours later we need to clean truck out i head to truck stop truck trailer gone they towed it for been in unsecured location yes its part of the agreement but they could just as easily said take it to dealer across street or something,i have no bad feelings cuz the way i see it they did me a favor. by the way when i started there i got into a t600 used with 500000 miles why no other trucks or new trucks where available to our oriantation class in the 8 months i was there i never once had a possitive balnce on my maintance account i went $6000 in hole with that kw and in nov they still would not give me the oppportunity to move into a new truck they finally did but like i said i was 6000 in hole

 

Well I'm going to put my 2 Cents in , NEVER is it a good idea to buy ANYTHING from the person you work for on credit. You guys that go out and l/p these trucks gotta have a screw or 2 loose. Why do you think they have these programs? Is it so they can sell trucks to people that can't save enough to make a down payment? or is it because they want to give a 150000.00 truck to somebody that doesn't have enough credit to finance a bicycle? OR do you think maybe they do it because it makes the company money? My guess is it's the latter

 

Are you CRAZY? $553/ Week? lets see 52 weeks in a yr times 553 equals $ 28,756.00 divide by 12 months 2396.33/month average payment for a nearly worn out truck with 500,000 miles on it? WOW!! I guess the "cliche" is right "there's a sucker born everyday" LOLOLOL.