GSTC - will trash your DAC !!

You don't know what you are yapping about. A company doesn't have to prove absolutely anything whatsoever to DAC! If a driver files a dispute, DAC contacts the company. If the company disagrees with the driver, then DAC leaves the false info on their report. The company is DAC's paid subscriber, so the company is sided with by DAC 100% of the time. All DAC does for the driver is to place the driver's side of the story on the report. How much good do you think that this does for the driver? Secondly, the Fair Credit Act has no recourse for the wronged driver. Go look it up. There's no board or anything that can right your wrong. The only recourse a driver has is to contact Quaalcom. Quaalcom is a gps system that tracks every 5 feet of movement that a truck makes. If a company claims abandonment, for example, the Quaalcom will prove beyond a reasonable doubt where the truck was actually left by a driver. The Quaalcom company, by federal law, is required to keep your records on file for 6 yearts. Go to a lawyer and get your Quaalcom records.

 

Don't feel bad, i kept finding trailer after trailer with bad lights, tires, etc, only to have Mike (the old guy in dispatch at gstc) jump down my throat and tell me to just fill the tires up and go down the road. He was a really good guy to work with until Tom took over the place, then he turned into a total #######. I told mary kay and the rest of the people there my total honest opinion of things changing for the worse there after they raised a fit over my leaving. It puzzles me how companies can change from being good driver- oriented places, then go to totally disrespectful toward the drivers after the owner's kids take over, then have the gall to place garbage on a driver's DAC after he or she gets fed up and leaves.

 

I have to agree with you,a company that i worked for did something like that, i hooked up to a trl. in our yard and every thing was fine on the pretrip, made a del. 80 miles down the road. pulled out of the dock at the customer and when i made a right turn pulling out of the dock, the light cord got caught on something and pulled the faceplate of the light receptical on the trl. off. was charged with a preventable and was put on my DAC, i fought it and the same thing,they would not take it off and stuck up for the company, I believe that DAC is in the back pockets of the trucking outfits as they are the ones paying the bills for DAC.

 

Tom really made some garbage decisions there...a lot of the drivers didn't like him too much even back when gordon ran the place. What really po'd me was when they got the new volvos, he put all kinds of restrictions on them, even to the point of setting the engine so that you couldn't idle between 25-75 degrees still not bad unless you had a freezable load, or the truck develops a problem with then batteries. Unfortunately, the only person tom listens to is tom, unless you included that new ops manager he put in there. There used to be another person working safety with mary kay, but i guess she worked too well with drivers, and that doesn't work well with Tom, he managed to drive out all the veteran people who made that company great except for mike and delaine, and i feel sorry for those two, especially since i think mike's personality shift is more from the incompetent way tom is running things. I wont even get into how horrible the shop is at fixing things on the trucks, that's another thing altogether.

I know this may sound like i'm trashing tom a lot, but i once had respect for him until he was handed the reigns of that company, and managed to destroy a good outfit with his overinflated ego.

 

That was my big frustration....constantly sitting for hours, even DAYS between loads!! when i started there i would haul loads out of the south end of the warehouse, or other locations around iowa. Those loads, i made good money, always got home weekly, never once had to fight with dispatch, and when equipment problems came up, it got fixed. Walford became like my hometown away from home to the point i even planned to move there at one point. When i left again for the final time almost a year ago, they raised a pretty big stink but i held my ground, and had to have a meeting with mary kay and the new guy, herzburger i think. I told them, and even tom & mike themselves, that GSTC was no longer the good company i join 10 years ago. It had changed sharply for the worst, and mary kay would give a convoluted, bs answer. She knows NOTHING about driving a truck!! At least when Dave & Jennifer ran that department, and Mike,Joe, & Delaine ran things in dispatch(i still think mike needs to get out on that Harley more often and learn to chill out lol) , it was TOP NOTCH. Tom is one of those people that thinks he is 100% right about everything, and woe to anyone who disagrees with him. Back when they had the t2000's and Gordon himself was in charge, there was none of the micromanaging on the trucks like they do with those volvo's. I held hope that Gordon would take the place back and get rid of tom before more damage can be done, but i think he's washed his hands of it and told the kids that if they run it into the ground its their own fault.

 

thx i was jest called by them

 

DON`T do it, this place is PATHETIC!!!!