A Warning about Hendrickson Trucking!

Whenever a statement starts with "Recruiting said" I roll my eyes.. Why do drivers trust someone that is paid commission for hiring???? Talk to drivers doing the job that you will be doing and get the inside scoop.

Why Mr. Hendrickson are you forcing people to work under such adverse conditions!!! Ummm, Mr Hendrickson taped your hands to the steering wheel did he? Mr Hendrickson holding a gun to your head? No one in this industry is forced to do a #### thing. If you are driving his trucks you are choosing to do so, grow up!

 

Oh come on Dryver! "Why do drivers trust someone that is paid commission for hiring????"

Mr Dryver, this is a person representing the company!!!!
If they cannot tell the truth, then they are misrepresenting the truth, that sir is a LIE!
For you to sit there and accept this kind of behavior rolling your eyes, then sir you too are part of the problem!!!
By you simply turning a blind eye, you are simply condoning this kind of bad behavior!!!

All employees agree to to a job when hired! We all understand that! We all preform the tasks and duty's required by the employer and comply to all the State and D.O.T laws governing our industry!
When the company you ware working for forces you to falsify "Re-work" your logbook to show more available working hours your working for a dishonest company! It's just that simple!

 

Do you live in the real world or the world you wish it would be. People lie OK, especially if it increases their pay check. Recruiters lie, Salesmen lie, lawyers lie, Presidents lie, for your sake WAKE UP!
I am not condoning this company in anything I said, just pointing out that it happens all the time and if you do not research the job yourself and rely on the word of a recruiter for your future then you are naive and a fool. Read what I wrote again..carefully. Was I rolling my eyes at the recruiters behavior or the fact that another driver believed them? It was the fact that this driver took every word as gospel. Go ahead read it, you are wrong!
No one forces you to "re-work" your log book, you choose to do it, you are dishonest right? Who is the DOT gonna kick in the butt and shut down, YOU! Are we wearing big boy pants around here? A mother can force a little boy to eat his veggies, no one will ever get me to falsify a log book! Geeez, grow some and say no!

StudentOfLife, here ends a very important lesson in life.

 

That's a good read Braveheart! Plenty of good points from several members in this topic.

Spin it however you want, I love OTR in 5 or 6 day spurts and if you think I'm gonna get out of bed for less that a $1000 dollars a week, then your as dumb as you think truck drivers are.

Keep digging, the good companies are out there but I'm telling you, you have to find them on your own. If they drop a dime into advertising or even actually hire "recruiters" then look elsewhere. You just have to go knock on some doors. Don't get discouraged instead get determined.

 

If you are being payed by the mile it makes no sense to convert that to hourly pay, it will just depress you like I said.

Sure, your mileage rate is more then just the time you drive. It includes performing pretrips, fueling truck, getting services performed, scaling loads, interacting with shprs and recvrs, time waiting to be loaded and unloaded till xtra pay kicks in etc...

Whenever you go for a OTR trucking job orientation you usually receive a drivers manual or something that outlines the companies policy's and in there it will say somewhere that these policies can change without notice. So what the company was supposed to do ystrdy might change without you even being aware of it. You are not covered under the fair labor standards act. The companies have wide latitude to screw you over.

Again since you are not covered by the same laws as the people in your dp office, they can pretty much screw you over if you do not butter their bread or wash their sock. Your time is worth what the company says it is worth and not much more.

Well if it is a team truck why would you count the other drivers miles as your own? Anyway, $750 and change to drive what amounts to about 3 days worth of driving for even a newbie ain't a bad check. There are solos out there running 1000 more miles making less.

The company is running some of these trucks super solo, they just did not tell the OP. If you want to run team miles then run 48 and don't pad the logs to run out of hours.

 

Bigblue19
Your sounding like a recurring agent or the payroll clerk and not a truck driver!
I understand the independent Owner Operators, they take a load, it is there responsibility 100%, permits, insurance, fuel, truck etc. As a company driver your under the umbrella of the company, they have the responsibility of the insurance the fuel the truck etc. They pay a driver to go from point "A" to point "B" However they also need to pay a driver for for the time he or she is sitting waiting to get loaded or unloaded. I got stuck in Stockton waiting to get a load bottled water, after 5 hours of sitting in dock #16 our truck had been loaded Dispatch then told us to drive to Sacramento and get a different trailer then go over to Campbell's Soup to get a load. We were never compensated for sitting those 5 hours.

 

That is the way Hendrickson is paying each driver, they are splitting everything down the middle! Even if one driver has more hours that the other in that pay period.

 

Dryver!
It’s people like you who roll over and let recruiters, dispatchers and trucking companies continue to lie to you and your fellow drivers! You sit by silently as trucking companies take advantage of your fellow drivers! Its your attitude of complacency that allows other driver to get screwed. It is people like you, who don’t have the balls to stand up and expose a lie! Cowardly and spineless, you only care for yourself and it is people like you who perpetuate this abuse of Truck Drivers!

You are totally up-side-down in your thinking and you are absolutely WRONG!!
Sorry for yelling

 

Quit shouting, you are hurting my ears.