Design Transport / Dallas TX

Why do you say that?

 

I went to work for Design Transportation out of Dallas. I was there for 2 weeks only. I was fired. Right up until they fired me, I liked the company. But what we had there was a failure to communicate. That was not just there problem but mine as well. I also had a customer complaint. It took me too long to back into the dock. He also said I tied up his dock for too long. I was out of hours and had asked permission
to sleep in the dock. I had moved during my 10 hours and still needed to sleep for 4 hours. The place that complained ended up not paying for the load. I was suppose to pick up a check from them but no one told me that. The very next load I had to pick up at the convention center in San Antonio. They did not have any bills of lading. So Design did get paid for that either.

I loved the truck I was in but it had no refrigerator. I got stuck at the Dallas yard twice. No showers or anything there. Heat was horrible and I thought the APU was out. Turns out I did know how to use it.

I am sure things would have been better, had I figured out how to talk to my dispatcher. We the problems hit, she just covered her ###.

I do recommend Design Transportation but be careful you screw up and they are not your friends.

 

Does anyone know if they are using paper logs still, or have they switched to those computers? Thanks

 

They use Qualcomm

 

Wow this definitely sounds like a driver issue no refrigerator? you've got to be kidding me!

 

It was a driver issue. I am delicate. My experience had always been with the best of everything.

Design and I just did not fit together. That is why I can recommend them and still wouldnt work for them again. Not that they would rehire me. I met many folks there who had nice things to say about the place but they all lived in Dallas area.

The one thing about the place I loved was they had an OPEN DOOR POLICY but had a sign on the main entrance that said drivers use the back door.

 

well if you are delicate then you are in the wrong business my friend. I have been in it 21 years, it is not for the weak or delicate, it might just be time to exit the industry all together!

 

You got that right.

 

I just vomited in the back of my throat a little.......

 

What are there trucks govern at