McElroy Truck Lines - Cuba, Al.

Yes they was weird,my husband & friends was treated like kindergardners. Our own opinoin but they are 7th day adventist so come friday everything shuts down. Just couldnt get any miles that means no money! Anyway glad they are behind us he is now with tmc & loves it a world of diffrence!

 

Thanks, really didn't know I could do that. Who is the USIS?

 

They are true about getting there drivers home on The weekend. Where I park a couple of MTL driver do also. Usualy Sunday night they are heading out. I wish I could afford to have options such as a true weekend at home.

 

yep they are home every weekend because come friday they stop everything due to there religion, my husband was home every wekend but we was BROKE!!!!!!

 

You really seem to be kind of obsessed with McElroy. Your husband has moved on, perhaps you should too. It seems pretty clear to me from what you have posted that where you reside has a LOT to do with how much freight McElroy had for your husband. If TMC is a better fit for him, then it is a "win/win" situation for everyone involved. Why continue to bash McElroy when a current driver (me for example) has already pointed out that your husband's experiences do not seem to be the "norm" company wide; not for me, not for my fellow McElroy drivers who live and park their trucks where I do, and not for the guys I went through orientation with and trained with.

ALL flatbed work is slow this time of year and especially in this current economy. If you have sattelite radio, listen to "roaddog" channel and you you will hear it said from everyone across the country.

Pick any Trucking company you want and you will find a)happy drivers, B)satisfied drivers, C)less than satisfied drivers, D)unhappy drivers and then finally E)Drivers who spent a few weeks/months at the company and it just wasn't a good fit. My personal take on the issue is that E is a pretty good description of your husband's time with McElroy.

Did I get as many loads as I would have like this week? NO. Did I have somewhere to go and did I get paid for every mile I went all this past week? YES. Could I make more money elsewhere? Maybe. Does that make McElroy a "Bad Trucking Company"? Absolutely not.

I only posted here because I came here BEFORE I chose McElroy to work for and nothing terrible was posted about them. I have worked for them since October of 2007 and SO FAR they are a good fit for me and for 6 out of the seven guys I went through orientation with as of this writing.

And what about the "seventh" guy who quit? Well, he couldn't find a place to park in New York one night, so he apparently decided to just keep on driving for hours and hours and miles and miles until finally Cuba called him and told him to pull the truck over and shut down for 10 hours. He copped an attititude about it and quit. I'm just waiting for him to make a post about how bad of a company McElroy is for asking him to stop violating D.O.T. regs

 

we have moved on but it took awhile after mcelroy ripped him off, alot of people post about companys they dislike on here, & sorry but we know alot of drivers that have quit or are quitting. I am glad they are right for you,but was really bad for us!!!!!!!!Tmc has been great!!!!!!!! just stateing the facts as we know them.

 

how r they about ur backgrounds and what u can have on it and still get hired

 

Well I know they run a criminal background check and they run an extensive DMV check. My DMV report is currently clean, but I got a D.U.I. in 1991 (17 years ago) and they knew about it from their research. They also send letters to your former employers asking questions about you.

I think the main thing they would frown upon (like any trucking company) is major felonies or accidents (especially accidents in a big truck). Fortunately, my one bad ticket from 17 years ago didn't prevent me from being hired. It would probably be best to call them and tell them about your personal situation, I'm sure they'd be straight forward with you if they were not interested.