STAR TRANSPORTATION--wrost of the worst

Here I sit on 30 may 2011(mon) # star's(of nashville tn)atlanta yard(a dirt parking lot). I have now been sitting here mt for 4 straight days. This company is the worst I have ever been with..and I've got 20 years experience in this industry. Living in florida and sitting in the atlanta ga yard for 4 dam days. The pay is horrible..they top out at 35cpm..my pay is 33.5...who the hell pays 33cpm nowadays. Moral here is terrible..low pay, you only get home every 2-3 weeks now, not the every wknd they say in their ads and on their website. Seriously consider other companies before you come here. I've been here well over 3 yrs and this was the last straw...tomorrow morning I'm telling my dispatcher to give me load up to nashville tn to our main yard to turn in my truck. I can make more $$ as a greeter in walmart. Sorry sorry sorry excuse for a trucking company. Oh just a note..their turnover rate has exceeded 95% every year I've been here. They lose about 5-9 drivers per week for 1)low pay,2)no home time,3)back office & payroll personell who could care less about you. Family atmospere... my ###. I put star on par with swift, werner and us express as the bottom of the sewer in trucking companies. LOOK AT ALL OTHER COMPANIES BEFORE MAKING A MISTAKE AND COMING HERE.

 

@48packard and heirforce1...I hadn't changed my profile in past 2 years so that's reason for differant states. I didn't mention that 2 yrs ago we took paycuts, 2 to be exact. I've stayed here, 1 because floridas employment status is so bad, and 2 hoping this company would give us back our regular pay like they promised in a letter to us in aug 09. Also I have really started hating this industry as a whole for the past 2 years and am pretty much at the point where I want and will retire in jan. Jumping to another company for 6 months makes no sense if I'm retiring..I just wanted to get the word out about this company. They now have their yard in a dirt lot south of i-285 in atl..been here bout a year now. They also have no more dispatchers at the atl and memphis yards. Both were fired..they also fired 1 of the 2 dispatchers at the orlando yard. Word has it that star will be going to a new yard joining covnt. in july aug.

 

They have also lost almost every dispatcher that was here when I came here. I would say 75% of the dispatchers they had have quit with a few mentioned above who were let go. Morale is the number one problem here. Its bad when drivers quit, but when dispatchers and customer service, along with upper managment people quit..you have a serious problem..all that has happened here.

 

Thnx heirforce1 and 48packard...u guys keep the shiny side up...time for me to move on to bigger and hopefully better things. I think close to 20 years in trucking is enough for me...boy do I miss the military now. When I was in u get to hate it at times, but after dealing in the trucking industey...man the military was heaven....