Add Henderson Trucking to the BAD list

So, just as I thought...

You aren't listening to me: I enjoyed working there! At least, I did until they started screwing me! Their equipment was top notch, and I practically never had to wait at a warehouse.

Maybe 1 more driver has completed the lease purchase since I was there, which would make 2 on the list. And yes, there are drivers that last 5+ years in companies - but those are company drivers. Hell, I've lasted that long at a company.

And apparently - you've been missing MY point: my point, is that they royally screwed me over, along with other lease operators, for no reason at all except to add more money to their own coffers. Since I don't work to be screwed over, I left. Actually, I didn't leave, but that's another story for another time! They made twice as much money off of me - once for the load I was moving for them, the other for my paying them to do it! Again, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing to me.

For some reason you refuse to believe that it happened at the great and powerful Henderson, which leads me to believe that you're working in the office there. You're probably the one that screwed me over, too!

And YOU have to realize that in trucking and life, that when a company does something like this to people for no reason at all, that it should be made known in the industry. I'll be delighted to do just that.

Perhaps they favor "locals" over drivers hired from elswhere?
Perhaps they favor certain drivers that kiss ###?

I don't know. All I know is that after the first month, they stopped letting me make money, and then stopped talking to me when I questioned it.

That = SCAM. I don't care how much you love it there, it is what it is. I really liked it there, too, but it doesn't change what they did to me. I was there, I was willing, and I was ready, and I got nothing.

So far as I'm concerned, Lee Waugh, Bill Bede(sp), and that Lesley bimbo that was running the dispatch office are the biggest bunch of lowlifes to ever walk the planet.

I'm sure that Josh Kaburick had something to do with the way things were being done there, too. I can't see them just up & running things the way they were, without his blessings.

 

A-HA!

Now the truth comes out: You ran solo for the first year, and have been running teams - as a lease operator - for the past two...don't you think that's a bit ODD?

I mean, shouldn't they run you enough that you don't need another driver? They didn't did they? Instead of questioning them about it, you bowed down, and took on another driver - and at YOUR expense, not theirs. (another lease operator I went through "indoctrination" with, ended up having to do the same thing, in order to make any kind of money, and he still ended up walking away, because they wouldn't run him even with a co-driver) You're really doing them a huge favor by hiring that other driver, so they wouldn't have to.

I see "Sucker" painted on your forehead, Texasbound!

I mean, when I worked there, they had 50 COMPANY DRIVERS walk away, because they refused to run teams when the company tried to force them to. If you were there the same time I was (judging by your own words, you should have been), you'd remember when they had over 50 tractors parked all over the place! That wasn't because they were trading them in, it was because the drivers quit! Nearly 1/4 th of their entire fleet!

I'm VERY happy that I left them, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to trash their name everytime somebody asks me about them! I never signed anything that said I wouldn't.

I still think you're in the office at Henderson: why else would you be so concerned with wether or not some 400 other drivers read what I have to say? Why are YOU dissing me? What makes you think that YOUR opinion carries any weight - because you're still there, and I'm not?

From what you've said, that only means you haven't got the huevos / the CSA score / the intelligence to look for something better, or to realize that you too, may be getting screwed over!

 

Rachi,

No chance: I'd rather go back into the Air Force & do 6 more years, than to go back to work for another trucking company! IF ( and that's a VERY BIG if) I were to do that, it would be MY truck, and MY authority, and running through a broker.

But to be honest, I'm having much more fun playing with old cars. Besides, it lets me play on my computer at night! I put in 6-7 hours a day, then I go for a walk, or goof off. Monday I'm going to Reno for a few days.

Hell, maybe I'll end up doing the good 'ol "Welcome to Wal-Mart" thing if I ever get bored enough, lol! Even they'd pay me more than Henderson did.

Seriously again - no chance. I like being my own boss, and working my own schedule. And the best part - NOBODY tells me what to do!

You can't beat that with any kind of stick.