SRT- Equipment Utilization Policy

These guys might be the exception to the rule but usually If you give notice youre just giving the company a chance to strand you in the middle of no where for your efforts. Better to just drop the thing off on the way home AFTER you got out from under the last load and have someone come get you. Once I decide Im out I just wait til the next chance at a terminal and leave the thing there. but usually Id drop my loads and bobtail home so your results may vary lol.

 

Jai-bird, call your lawyer.

I have a hard time believing that it took $1000 worth of fuel to get from Atlanta, GA to Texarkana, AR. Any of you O/Os think that numebr sounds a little high?



Let's assume the truck got 5.0 MPG, and let's assume fuel was $3.80 per gallon.

665 miles @ 5.0 miles per gallon = 133 gallons.
133 gallons @ $3.80 per gallon = $505.40.

 

they charged that driver per mile charge for unauthorized miles & usage.

 

Reply with a letter use certified mail and ask for proof that they have your signature promising to pay the debt. If they cannot provide the proof within 30 days it leaves your credit. Google disputing items on your credit and there is plenty of form letters you can use. My guess they cannot provide the proof.

 

We all know you did not burn precisely $1,000 in fuel. SRT is pissed off and want you to pay something, so they picked $1,000 as a nice round number. Next, if they paid $4 / gallon full retail price, their tanks would have to hold 250 gallons of fuel. I believe that's not true either, right? Clearly they are lying about the amount of fuel.

IF you owe anything, you have the right to a copy of the original fuel receipt, which shows their cost.

 

It's not just the cost of fuel here boys and girls.There is maintance costs/ insurance costs etc. on all vechiles running.
I will agree with some of the other posters that there might of been a clause in their driver rules stating this. Opps forgot to read the rules.
So they charge him for running a trk. mty.
The poster never said where the ld. was going they wanted him to get. They might of had him relay it and then come to the yard.
Yes he was on time off.
They never did state how many days they had beeen home or how much time was before they start new job.
So yes they can and did charge for outa route miles.. Pay it up....

 

Even so, if I were Jai-bird, I'd have a lawyer send a certified letter erquesting a copy of all documents stating this police, with Jai's signature on them.

Don't let a bottom-feeder company jerk you around, make them prove their claim.

 

You guys understand there is more cost to rolling down the highway than just fuel? $1.52 is a cheap bargain and it wouldn't cover my cost per mile to roll. OP should consider himself lucky it isn't$2 or even $3 a mile which is what SRT's customers pay. Sounds like SRT clearly spells this out in orientation and OP owes money. As far as 2 week notices go I've only worked at 2 companies in my career and the previous one kept me rolling, busier than ever, thru the 30 day notice contractors sign. Begged me to stay too. Likely drivers that are costing them money could possibly get treated differently though. It is what it is, get a bus ticket if that is so. Doesn't matter what anyone else does I'll honor a notice.

 

any lease drivers doing well at srt

 

I do -and I also understand that the chance of a truck being vandalized or stolen while sitting on company property is significantly less than if it was left sitting on a truckstop lot in Atlanta, GA, almost 700 miles from the home terminal.