Canadian good and bad trucking companies

Be sure that Barry Ireland has NOTHING to do with it! Barry ran the used eq/auction yard across from the JD dealer.

Barry is a bandit from way back!

 

Im not leased to Taylor but haul an odd load for them. I also know most of there leased operators and have never heard any of them complaining I think there a straight up and fair.

 

9 years at wilson truck lines i have saw changes. now we are teamster union 65.00 per month dues with bid runs by seniority for dispatch low man gets whats left. new hire will work weekends start tuesday to sunday probably. electronic logs on people net system. 3years left on current contract with no increase in rates

 

ok thanks for the info. no need for that bs. i had enough of unions in the past

 

Wow you're either really naive or related to the owners. They held me at the Cambridge yard for two days after I refused a two-drop load delivering for 08.00hrs in VA the next day. It was about 7pm and I'd just got in from WI/IL, and although not out of hours, didn't have enough to run the load legally.
Alan Macdonald the assistant safety officer reviewed my refusal and agreed with my stance, then we waited for Bob Halfyard, (Blobby Halfwit), to meet with us.
What followed was an hour long tirade laced with obscenities, (the refuge of the illiterate and ignorant), wherein he accused me of not being a "team player" and not putting in enough miles. I also got the usual "other drivers do it," which is another mantra they use to isolate you, and make you feel as though you are the only one refusing illegal loads etc.
I had a micro-cassette in my pocket and still have the tape kicking around somewhere. Alan didn't say a word, just hung his head, and I could tell he was embarrassed by his boorish boss. I ended the meeting by saying it was getting late, and no doubt everyone was wanting to get home for dinner. Of course the irony was lost on Blobby, but he appeared enthusiastic about the dinner suggestion.
The next day, Thursday, he kept satelliting me saying we should meet again, and he was driving around the Challenger yard, but couldn't locate me. I was parked offsite behind a nearby mall. I e-mailed him back and said that one of his "meetings" was enough for me, and given his attitude that I didn't feel another would improve the situation. I also asked again for an Ottawa area bound load so that I could get home for the weekend. Blobby wrote back that I would have to meet with him again before I could get a load.
I pulled the plug on the satellite and bobtailed home to Ottawa. After emptying my truck I drove it to the Dorval yard and left it, and a letter to Dan Einwhecter explaining my position. Nothing came of it.
All these companies are ultimately the same greedy entities who are only interested in profit. Trust, employee loyalty, faithfull accident free service mean nothing. The driver who lives in the truck and goes where and when dispatch decides is king.
Most of these companies hold the dispatcher in high regard, and while I have met a few nice ones I swiftly learned not to praise them to the company, as they are then marked as being too driver-friendly. Most dispatchers have limited interest in your welfare however no matter what guise they operate under. Team Leaders, Driver Managers etc, most still have the IQ of an eggplant and would have no qualms sending you anywhere, anytime, with any kind of load. You are merely part of the truck.
Incidentally don't think any of the trucking journalists are on your side, all of these publications rely on advertising from trucking companies to pay their wages. I wrote to one such editor when he sung Challengers praises in his column. He e-mailed back claiming to be a friend of Dan, (Challenger owner), and offered to try and help with my situation when he next saw Dan.
What actually happened was that he reported to Dan as to what I was going to do about my firing, in effect giving him a heads-up about my plans in case I went to the press, or Labour Board etc. I know this because editor-Rolf included my e-mail address as a hyperlink in his exchanges with Dan. My e-mail hyperlink was also included in Dan's replies to Rolf, and all of this e-mail bounced back to me!!!!
I'm aiming to semi-retire in the next few years, and if I ever get around to writing that one book that everyone supposedly has in them, trucking will be the subject, and my working title, "The Semi Slaves!"
Snafutoo.

 

I bought a truck from LB Taylor about 6 months ago. I have bought a few trucks sight unseen over the phone and this has to be the worst of em all as far as condition went. He told me they sell alot of trucks and yadda yadda they know what its like buying sight unseen. I went to pick the truck up after a last minute change to where they decided they wanted to drop it off in Regina instead of me coming to Moosamin to get it. I thought the guy was meeting me there, but instead they left it (or sorta abandoned it) at the Husky truckstop and the key still in the ignition. I looked around the truck and saw that the front fender had 2 holes, the fairings were all wrinkled up and the windsheilds were completely toast....all after them telling me that this truck was in premium condition for the age and miles (2000 w/ 1.1m km's)...so in ending my lil rant about LB Taylor, I would say I am not very happy with their business ethics in selling trucks...

 

Not sure who you were responding to here but yours seems to be a common issue with that ######## of a company...

You should write that book...the truth needs to be revealed about companies like that.

 

Ha ha ha.Sound like a pretty good truck driver story.Load of BS!! Snafutoo??? Too funny.ha ha ha

 

From everything I've heard about Challenger and the wastes of skin that run that dump, I'd say its probably closer to the truth.
But hey...if you think that treating a driver in that way is somehow funny...then that says more about you.

 

Sorry, only my second post. Thought I was responding to a supposed CMF team driver who claimed to be content. If these fleets were so concerned with safety we`d have snow tires in winter, and disc brakes.
If the oversight entities DOT MOT were so concerned about safety they would enact regulation and law to compel fleets to save and store all satellite e-mail exchanges with drivers. That way it would be easy to see when a fleet tries to force a driver to interstate, drive over hours, or whatever.
I bobtailed home in my Challenger truck after refusing an illegal dispatch. I did the same in my Bison truck after refusing to interstate. Even now, years later, my e-mail from these situation might be recoverable by a knowledgeable forensic computer technician.