ruan bad business

must depened where you run out of for ruan, talked to several ruan drivers over the years that ran dedicated for differnt companies in mn none of them had anything bad to say about them except slow trucks!!!

 

A smart driver would never had stayed there for 2 years. Slow learner?

 

I don't get the complaint about the logs and going over. Pretty much any company will nail you for going over even 1 minute on Elogs. A violation is a violation which is the same thing a trooper would say. If you're not logging full pre and post-trips there's no one to blame but yourself.

 

Wow, are you kidding me? What's wrong with motel 6 and Super 8? You've got to be kidding me. That's a lot better that laying over in a truck stop in your sleeper. Sheesh

 

I talked to a number of Ruan drivers that worked for a dedicated walmart account and they cleaned up pay-wise. Every company with several or more different accounts will have good ones and bad ones. This is a good time to remind everyone that if you are thinking of working for a company on a specific account talk to the drivers on that account first.

 

Not when your used to "laying over" at home I guess. Laying over on a regular basis is a result of pizz poor planning.

 

Who are you driving for now and is that company better then Ruan?

 

As we were just informed via FACEBOOK that we don't have to report to work monday - here's some digs. I worked there for just shy of 4 years, it got progressively worse every year. Inept Management - We had 4 different terminal managers over 4 years all of them with no actual commercial driving experience. They had and still don't have any idea of state D.O.T. regs, or FMCSR. We were told that it was a preventable if you tore an airline off backing into a door (half the doors we dealt with you HAD to jackknife into.). Typically our airlines were 14 foot straight 1/2" rubber hose. They hang on the fuel tank just connected to a trailer, every time you turned they'd drag on the cat walk. Go ahead and look that one up.

Our account was a nightmare.
We traveled between 2 warehouses approximately 5 miles apart - through town - across every terrain but grass. Our drive tires were garbage truck tires because road tires wouldn't last 500 miles. It beat the piss out of the trucks driving like that. Things are always broken, The bushings in the panhard rod on the rear axle of my truck have been completely gone for 2.5 weeks. It was always our fault. The customers empty trailer lot has room for a physical 70 trailers, they typically kept it at about 90.
There are potholes in this lot that when it rained, you could park a day cab volvo in, and cover the bottom step.

We were OFTEN hauling loads with a product weight over 50k+ pounds My highest was 59600. (air bags didn't inflate and my brakes were cooked after a 5 mile trip involving one very small hill.)

We were always on call, expected to forge logs even though we fell under the air mile radius exemption (because ruan requires driver's to keep logs.) The general rule was that if you worked more than 70 in a calendar week, don't expect to get paid for it. OK, sure. It's been 144 hours since logged hours since my last day off, what do I do? Just put that you reset last Saturday.
The job was literally undoable to anyone's satisfaction.

This is where it gets awesome - Our terminal was Union. Say what you want about Union's I don't care, I'll be getting a withdrawal card Monday, doesn't matter to me either way.
They fire a guy improperly that was a complete (sssss), deserved it, had preventables constantly, broke stuff, filed false workmans comp claims. TWICE. and got paid. I photographed him doing things that he shouldn't have been able to do with his "injury" and sent it to Ruan's safety and risk management along with written statements at their request. Could you lift an inflated steer tire onto the hub, from the ground with a torn rotator cuff? Why would you in the first place? They paid him. A large sum. TWICE. They let him commit insurance fraud. <back on point> They rack up like 10 reasons to fire him, put it all on one write up, and terminate him. Anyone with any sort of management experience knows - If an employee is being stupid, write him up for insubordination, often. In the contract you have to recieve due course, write up, suspension, termination. They just fired him. The union smacks them, because they didn't do it right, arbitrator decides he gets his job back. Ruan tells the contractor that he was fired for safety violations and is therefore a detriment to the account. They remove him from the account. After the arbitration is complete. So now they pay this guy 720 a week to do nothing. WINNER. While they're doing all of this dumb stuffff, THEY DO IT AGAIN. Same freaking story, only another guy. (no insurance fraud there though.)

In doing this, they crapped on 14 guys tonight. Pulled out of the account. Those of us that actually did our jobs and worked hard, didn't break stuff, and came in and did what we were supposed to when we were supposed to? Unemployed. Because of crap management.

You know what pisses me off the most? No idea where my birth certificate is and I was born in Los Angeles county. Let my haz mat lapse this year. I've got over 5 years in without so much as a door ding, I ain't worried.

I've talked to a couple of the Target dedicated guys, and they seem to like the work. Dont blame them, seems legit. Our account and the entire management team was terrible. Absolutely terrible. Des Moines is just as clueless.