2012 / First year wages @ May

The post was to inform others what I made the first year which is what I said I would do whether i stayed with may or not. of course everyones first year will be different, which is why i also added my hometime and breakdown. It was just put out there for info. I didn't leave may for more pay, right now im getting the same as i was starting to get when i hit my year with them. I left primarily because I wanted to move east and I couldn't do that at May. Thats not to say there weren't other issues because those last few months things just got worse and made me want to leave even faster. Having to beg a company for fuel, and def and such is just nonsense. Telling a DM thats working night shift that you need def and you wont make it far and getting a response that says "you dont know what you're talking about you should be good for at least 2 more days and if you have a problem with it you should talk to your dm in the morning about it" and then to top it off getting charged for the def the shop put in the truck after breaking down, having a fuel stop 300 miles away when you are under 1/8th of a tank and telling them you wont make it but they try to stretch you out to a stop thats a bit closer and you dont make it, DM's that have no clue what they are doing as if they were just trained to send the same messages every morning just to fill a spot in the office and not keeping in contact with their drivers and what they are planning for their loads..... Just a few of the things I will NOT miss.

Yeah i know there are a bunch of people that are happy with working at May, and thats great for them, they've been around for a while. But things are changing, and guess what, the new guys coming in that this is or was our first company, this is what we are learning that its about. When im with a company and someone is telling me what to do over the qualcomm, especially as a new driver, I am assuming they know what they are talking about, that they have more experience than I do and so I should just go with what they tell me. How could I get in trouble, im doing what i was told to do.... Not here people, you will talk to 3 people over the qualcomm and over the phone and get 3 different answers, all of them ending with your butt in the sling for not doing it the way you should have vice doing it how you were TOLD to do it. so don't think that just because these messages are coming from 'managers' that they are looking out for your best interest, because when the dust settles you're the one that's gonna be paying for it.

of course, this was just my experience. results may vary