A true short story....

NOTE: the names have been changed to protect the innocent...lol.
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Hell ya we held that truck/trailer for ransom. Because they are telling a big lie and using drivers. Gary is using drivers. Gary is using Alex, who is broke who hired the drivers and is running a company with his MC Authority. Gary is running his truck/trailer making all the money without the responsibility of paying the drivers. Now I want you to tell me how Alex is going to pay the drivers when truck and trailer owner Gary is taking all the money? Alex giving you $125 worth of diesel for a long haul from Arizonia to Massachusetts and puts in $300-$400 in twice. Now I'm not getting into the multiple breakdowns we had with the truck and their eyes focused on the money without the proper methods to run a business or going to talk about when you are low on fuel and next fuel stop is too far and you have to stop the truck and wait until morning because Alex can't get a hold of the broker or answer his phone. Yes my coDriver who is my boss did cuss Gary out and told him he could you know what with his truck and trailer where the sun don't shine. Gary must think he's God because he has a few trucks and bragged about one being paid for. I wonder what victimized driver helped him do that?

But no driver is going to run off with your truck, trailer and cargo (trailer full of frozen pizzas ...LOL) for no reason. Let's talk about that.... They must have paid this driver the bear bones and he got sick of it and ran off with his equipment and cargo trying to get his money. They deserve it.

This truck and trailer owner is suppose to be a Christian man hiding behind the holy cross but yet he's the biggest crook of all.

Ok, so after calling Alex when we got back to Michigan where we were at. My coDriver told Alex he wanted to be paid in cash money and not a check that was going to bounce because he was broke. He also told Alex to come with the Washtenaw County Sherriff and pay us so he could have his leased truck and trailer back, so it would get documented the right way. Mean while, Gary's butt hiding somewhere behind the phone holding his hand out like a little b. So Alex showed up with $480 with the sherriff to pay 2 drivers for the delivered load that went from Ohio to Arizona. When the Sherriff spoke to my codriver he said, " this happens all the time". After Alex paid us we got a ride home from the sherriff and he told us that is "totally wrong what they did but the owner gets his truck back and that it is a civil matter whether we had gotten paid or not". We were just trying to get paid and we lost out big time.

A week later we received a check for $112 for two runs from one from Arizonia to Massachusetts then from Massachusetts to Michigan. That was for TWO drivers. Now is anybody going to tell me who got cheated? How can you support yourself on a little bit of pay if Gary has taken all the money and hiding behind Alex? After all of this we were still able to buy our truck after explaining this to a family member who is a corporate director loaned us $3000.

So, to sum it all up two drivers who drove over 5000 miles for a total of $592 with three break downs on micro-managed fuel and not to mention the truck was stopped by D.O.T. Weigh station and someone had to pay a BOND on the truck to get the truck back on the road. Is this short story funny or what?

 

But we don't want to get sued for slander but Gary is his real name so his name wasn't changed because he is not innocent. But he regularly reads this forum and is a member here. And he is looking for his next victim that's how he found us. And he directs you to Alex. Alex as far as we know isn't on this website.

 

This is what you get for "trusting" owner operators. Driver Beware!

 

We don't know the whole deal what led to that driver stealing the truck, trailer and load. But we definitely know it was because he wasn't paying him. And he must of ran a lot of miles too. We had heard he missed his court date and now there is a bench warrant out on him now. It is upsetting that this driver was forced to do something out of the box.