#### Navajo Express Jim F.

Navajo is the scum under the scum at the bottom of the barral I was just fired from that friggin dirtbag place . Look for my post in the next day or so , but I do warn everyone DO NOT WORK FOR NAVAJO

 

The only company I ever quit in a rage was Werner, well JB Hunt sort of, but my truck was parked in their yard every night. I was on a 2,500 mile run wtih Werner, I wrote about the screwing I got when I tried to get THEIR truck off the highway and over to a repair facility on another thread. Regardless, I waited 2 days until they fixed that truck, drove it to Phoenix, dropped the load at the designated receiver, took the truck and trailer back to the yard I had originally received the tractor from, took all items they had checked out to me back to the office at the yard where it was issued. In other words, I did it by "their" book so I wouldn't get totally SCREWED on my 2,500 mile run.
As far as abandoning trucks, it used to be as common as flies on you know what - get mad at a company, just leave the thing parked on the side of a highway. I never did it because I was too greedy, I guess, I wanted my money for thet run before quitting a company. Today, well, apparently they have a lot more "resources" for making a driver "want" to get that truck to wherever THEY want it - I really wouldn't know because I have been doing local for a long, long time now. If it would have been me, I would have done what another poster said and asked them where they want the truck. Obviously, you are quitting, they can't expect you to pick up another load and keep you out any longer.

 

So, I guess you're not the most unbiased source of info regarding Navajo. Would be interesting hearing their side of the story.

 

Guys have been badmouthing Navajo for over 20 years. Where there's smoke there's fire

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Maybe a great outfit like Navajo can make money on the side through its abandoned truck fleet. Piss off drivers to the point they leave their rigs sitting in rest areas, and then send newbies who don't know the industry to fetch it. It may cost those jokers nothing to retrieve the abandoned rig, yet they'll charge 1500 to the offending driver. Sounds like a good money-making scheme.

The only problem is the experienced guys are getting the word out through sites like this, with that word being "don't work for any company that has an abandoned truck fleet in the first place."

I remember seeing Navajo advertising (begging) for help in papers every day of the world way over in Salt Lake City. Know the closest Navajo terminal was/is over 500 miles away. I've known those guys are bad news for at least 10 years. That smoke has been billowing at Navajo for a good while now.

 

Well, legitimately, no they can't. Get their refusal on tape, now you've got proof. Call them a couple of times, tell them you want to quit, where do you want the truck. If they demand you take another load, simply refuse. If they still play the game, at least you have their voice on tape. I would then pretty much head directly to wherever their corporate offices are, park the truck in the front of the front entrance, walk in and find whoever the biggest honcho is I can find, tape running and hidden in my pocket, get some more statements, leave the truck there. I really could care less about DAC reports to be honest, I haven't had any of that checked in any of the jobs I have worked at in the last 4 or 5 years while I was moving from one place to another attempting to find the dream job. At least, they told me they weren't checking it, and again, I really couldn't care less. I pretty much figure JB Hunt has put a negative on there, even though I quit according to their rules, it didn't stop me from getting hired on at Ferguson, whose background check took fully 3 weeks.

Well, take it back on JB Hunt, I didn't give them much of an advance notice, but then again, they didn't give my ANY advance notice besides a meeting where all drivers showed up in the lunchroom one morning and we were all told collectively that we were going to "receive" a significant pay cut. Honestly, I don't even know how to find out what's ON my DAC report.

 

Unfortunately, others out there may depend on DAC a lot more. A clean DAC may be their lifeline, as they're new to the industry and are trying to get their feet in doors.

Don't do anything that will hurt your DAC report later. You never know when you'll need to go back across a bridge, a bridge that is supported by DAC steel beams and trusses.

 

Hello I am ladyc and i used to work for navajo shippers out of Denver Colorado. I was with them for about sixty days when they made me a Driver trainer. I had two trainees in three weeks. My first trainee was half paralized in the right arm. from the elbow down and i reported that to Larry Barker in safety and they found out she lied and let her go. Well when they sent her home she was allowed to remain on the yard for over five hours so she could speak her opinion and slander me to my new trainee. finally got her comdown to go out next morning. Well about three weeks later the second trainee acused me of beating her up and threatening her bodily harm. Safety called me on phone while i was in the pilot las vegas neveda and had me on speaking phone and yelled out me why i wanted trainee off my truck. This after i was called fb and she told me that if i did something wrong that she didn't like that she would report me.
my dispatcher wouldn't allow me back into the truck until she was out of it. I never say her again by the time i got back to denver Colorado she had busizens down the left side of her body.
this had gone all over the yard and my own dispatcher told a fellow worker that i was trying to kill his trainee. And she was put in motel room. So I tried to talked to Paul Harris head of operations and he didn't want to deal with until monday and i was being defensive and he also put it to me that he could asked
me to clean out truck right now my statement to him was ok if that is what you want that is what you got. They charged me a $100 for delivering the load and $150 for detailing the truck and I am with out a job to this very Day. And I will never train again
because my side was not heard. I didn't get a reciept from the guard shack on the keys and fuel card when i left i never was refund the money on my load locks or my enforcer lock that was on my trlr thank you for letting me get this off my chest

 

Lady, you are thinking about it entirely wrong, 1st think of the money you made them, 2, the privalige of having their name on your resume and how lucky you were to be allowed to drive for them at all.
All lame jokes aside, I am sorry to hear you are still out of work, especially over a torqued off trainee, good luck