Fischer Trucking in Ft. Wayne,IN.

Noticed you are new here so figured you need the lowdown. If someone reports a company we do not judge them or call names, good karma works, bad karma has a fist if a angry God here.

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I totally agree. Time driving a truck doesn't determine if you are a Driver or a wheel holder. I have spoken with a lot of the drivers and I've heard good things and some not so good. Just like with any company. As with any transportation job you are going to have ups and downs. But, to have worked for somebody for 3 weeks you have no background with the company to start posting negative comments. There are some companies I was with I would never go back to but, I don't believe that I was with them long enough to start bad mouthing them. Maybe it was a bad dispatcher, a slow time getting loads or just a poor new service manager. The company I listed in East Peoria Il. was one of the worst I worked for and I was there 6 months but yet I never listed the company name because I didn't believe I was there long enough to judge them. Thats why I said 3 weeks is no where long enough to judge anybody or anything.

I will admit when I first started I was a wheel holder until I grew up and became a Truck Driver. Luckily I had a mentor that talked to me and showed me the errors of my ways. As far as I'm concerned He was the Best Driver ever on the highways, He was my father.

 

Mr Staff Member,
I don't believe that I was judgeing this other person. I was asking how can he judge them in 3 weeks. If there is something specific you could show me that proves I was in the wrong I will humbly ask for his forgiveness.

Thank You.

 

See, now I worked for Fischer for almost a year. The only reason I quit was because a local job opened up near my house... otherwise I would still be there.
The thing here is that almost all of Fischer's trucks are leased through Penske, Ryder, or PacLease. If you were in one of those leased trucks, you were given the option of taking a loaner truck, and obviously declined, to finish your loads. AND I took the time to add up your listed and implied expenses

$200 orientation pay (which was not really pay, but a cash advance to help you get started... orientation is NOT paid)
$217 Travel
$ 55 Drug screen
$ 65 Physical Exam
$300 ($100 Advance automatically put on card every Saturday X3 Saturdays)
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$837 Total
Who was your dispatcher dude? $837 in 4 days? I would have killed for that... You said they took it out of your last check, implying you got a last check.
Now did you get blanket wrap pay, or breakdown pay or layover pay? Probably not, because you were apparently too new to know to put it on your envelope and drop it in the trip pak box... SOOO!!! the fault falls on your shoulders. Fact is, I was very happy at Fischer, and would go back in a heartbeat if this job doesn't work out for some reason.

 

i to drove for fischer for a year, i left for a couple reasons... One being there low pay. even with blanket wrap pay & my mileage pay. had 9 years and they started me at 0.32 p/m. and the year that i was there i only got 85,000 miles so thats the main reason why i left. miles wasnt there, and with the low pay. made it rough to survive, esp the last 3 months of averaging $300 a week.

I liked my dispatcher, which was Lance. we got along and he did the best he could to keep me going but if there aint no loads then only so much he could do. I also got along great with Shannon, buck, mike, chad and most the others in the office. Low pay was the main reason i left.

The other reason i left was because they treat specialized like its general freight, its not general freight. and having to repower loads ALL the time because a fat and or lazy driver couldn't fold blankets or tare down decking, that got old fast! and i can call them fat cuze im not a skinny man by any means BUT i can also do my job. if you cant do physical labor then go pull general freight.