TWIC?

I can tell you this. I got my TWIC card at the port in Philadelphia. If the security of our country depends on the two boobs issuing the TWIC cards there, we are in a LOT of trouble. Both struggled to speak enough english to allow basic communication.

 

Yea, I am having trouble getting mine. I also had problem's understanding the people on the phone with "homeland security". They were supposed to send me a letter regarding I need to send some info in to dismiss and allow me to gt my TWIC card. Never recieved anything in the mail nor a returned phone call. Problem is, Prime Inc. withheld the $132.50 for the card without my written consent. I can't get past the automated answering machine and I'm out that money which I really could use right now. I've never been anywhere in this country where I have needed it anyway. Instead the costomer has asked for my drivers license for verifacation and had an escort take me around.

I'm pretty hell bent about the situation. Maybe sue to get the fund's returned in small claims court plus make them pay for the court cost? I never signed or even seen any such document allowing the company to deduct the funds from my pay and never agreed or gave consent.

 

Well, I live on the coast and I need mine all the time. I paid for it when they first started issuing them. Many places I go will not let you in unless you have it. Some companies will pay for it and others wont. Its your card, just like your drivers license and who paid for your drivers license? I dont know how much good it really does in the long run but I have tools I dont use that much that cost more. Just something else I needed to get work. When I pull into a place now, I hand them the TWIC card instead of my drivers license. At least the TWIC card doesnt have all your info right on the front for all to see like your drivers license does.

 

I can't load without it at many places. I'll keep mine thanks. I am not giving up ethanol storage work.

 

Ahhh (just googled TWIC card)

The nearest English equivalent that is our RHIDES card (Road Haulier IDEntity System) it allows me into ports. Its free, I dont remember paying and the port police even take your photo. No private details on the front and its valid for three years.

 

I load at 3 diffrent ports in Ct and NJ and have never bin asked for it yet so for me it was a wate of money.

 

Skunk,

just suck it up.
$132 isn't enough to get bent out of shape over.

It's especially not enough to take a big company to small claims court over.
You have a job, and be thankfull. If you want a good referral when you leave a company, then taking them to court is not the answer.
Go to an HR person.

 

No pun intended when saying this but sucking it up is easier said than done. That's a $132 I could really use right now for the trip back to work and orientation living expense's. I left my last job because I needed to be home with my finace`to help take care of her while she was pregnant. Now my daughter is here and she is going in for surgery Friday. Gonna be home for a couple more week's to help take care of the kid's and then it's back to work for me.

My fund's have been exausted and I've barrowed what I could to make this month's bill's so trying to get up the cash to live on for a week plus the normal travel item's has been and still is a daunting task. I've even been looking and asking around to friend's if they know of anyone that need's some temporary help on a job site somewhere but everything is full up.

I may end up having to bite the bullet and go empty handed and live on the provided meals as orientation is not paid where I am going.

You are right about a claim. Wouldn't be worth the effort. Wishful thinkin' though I suppose.

 

I used mine once getting a load of banana's in Gulfport. The Mexican guard searched my truck too. I told him, kind of defeats the purpose of a TWIC background security check, then you feel you have to search my truck after I proven to be an American with a clean record. He just looked at me dirty

I highly doubt a terrorist is going to blow up a banana warehouse. We show them Americans... no more fruit for them. lol