Good, Bad & Ugly of Jacko Logistics : Vancouver, WA

Do you know their turnover rate? I'm assuming it's high.

 

I just want to highlight this part, "office bathrooms are not for drivers."

This is a microcosm of how OTR truckers are treated in this broken sector of the industry. Denied access to bathrooms on their company's own property. Nothing says "Our drivers are family" like denying them access to bathrooms at your own headquarters.

You literally see this behavior by employers towards their own employees on display here on the front page of favorite trucking companies section of the forum too.

Abilene locks their doors to the office and drivers lounge at their main terminal at nighttime without giving drivers a key or key pass, thus denying them access to bathrooms. FCC does the same thing and locks their doors at I think it was their Council Bluffs terminal (or maybe the one in Fremont I can't remember I read it on their main thread), so that their drivers cannot use the shower facilities or I'm assuming their bathrooms either at nighttime. And this particular company seeks to not only deny drivers access to bathrooms during the nighttime at their terminal but also during the daytime as well, literally creating a two tier discriminatory employee policy of denying one group of workers access to the same bathroom facilities as a second group of workers.

Let's not even talk about warehouses holding drivers up (I'm looking at you cold storage facilities) for 3-12 hours and don't provide a bathroom for drivers, many times not even a portable one either.

Is there any other profession that requires workers to be away from home for work and gets denied bathroom facilities at their companies own properties when they are done working for the day? Even oil workers in the middle of nowhere at least get man camps with access to indoor toilets and running water. Every other profession gets you a hotel room on their dime. Only OTR truckers are treated as subhuman with no guaranteed access to bathrooms when they overnight on their own company's property.

Sorry for the rant and yes I'm sure the super truckers will be here shortly to tell me that real truckers don't deserve 24/7 access to the same indoor bathrooms the office workers use, but this issue really is a perfect microcosm for how OTR truckers are treated. Like straight up garbage. And the industry wonders why young people are turning their backs on OTR and don't want to do it.

 

200% agree!!

 

Nice writeup, @Knight_Rider Good luck with your future challenges.

 

When I worked at FCC, you could access the driver's lounge, bathrooms, and showers 24/7 in Fremont. The bathroom was accessible 24/7 in Council Bluffs but the driver's lounge and showers were only available during business hours. It was a few years ago so maybe things have changed, I don't know.

 

That no bathroom access part really rubs me the wrong way.... If I cant poop in the bathroom you poop in, its not a good fit.

 

Regardless, you are not discussing your favorite trucking company here or else I don't think you'd quit so soon