Colonial Freight Systems,,CFS

I'm currently a Colonial Fright driver in route to Ohio from their to Knoxville, TN to turn my truck back in. I've made less than 600 dollars in 3 WEEKS! Please stay away!

 

When you're spending more "on-duty" hours posting complaints about a company than cruising down the highway, your pockets will always be empty! After 14 years with Colonial, I know if you can't make it here, get out of trucking. They should change the name from Colonial Freight to ..... I make money by accident at this place, Inc.
A quote for anyone thinking about a carrier as an owner operator... "Losers never win, and winners only drive Big Trucks for CFS!"

 

At Covenant,I heard.

 

Colonial Freight Systems is an o/o company. I called Colonial and asked them about their l/p plan. The payments for everything (insurance, plates etc.) is $753.00 per week for an 2009 Volvo. The lease runs anywhere from six months to three years depending on the year model and the mileage. At the end of the lease you have the option to turn this truck in for a new truck or buy it. How much I don't know. I called OOIDA compliance office and asked them about Colonial Freight Systems. Jerry stated that they have not had any complaints about Colonial Freight. However they have had a lot of complaints about the l/p plans out there by other companies and no names were mentioned. Jerry said he recommended staying away from l/p plans and that the complanits were about the companies cutting their miles back causing the driver to lose his truck. I asked Colonial Freight for a copy of the lease agreement so I could have Jerry (OOID compliance officer) to look at the with lease agreement. Colonial Freight refused to give give me a copy of the l/p plan.
Jerry also stated that OOIDA would like to hear the good about the l/p plans as well as the bad. THANK YOU OOIDA and you to JERRY!!

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I am only going to say this about them not wanting to release the contract. Stay away if they don’t want you to take that contract to an attorney there are some hidden issues somewhere. You should have the right to have that contract reviewed for legal advise

 

I like them. I plan my week out in advance. I do alright. If I change the way I run truck(speed) I can earn more money than I do.

 

As I said in another post, I have been thinking about going to work for CFS and have been in contact with a gentleman named David M. He has answered every question I had without hesitation and when I asked him just earlier today about sending me a copy of the lease contract the driver is required to operate under he said it would not be a problem and he would get it to me first thing in the morning along with some other general information on the company. I see that these posts are pretty old. Does anyone have any recent experiences with CFS?

Also, does anyone know where I can look up a companies turnover rate from say a third party source? or is that even possible?

 

Here is a copy of the Lease Purchase Contract from Colonial Freight. They had no problem sending it to me. I got it first thing this morning as I was promised on the phone yesterday.

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am looking into this company and the contract above seems to be missing a few pages...

not sure about this company as its hard to find information on them

 

Has very bad safety scores