Are we a bad trucking company?

"We'll let you take advances so you start in the hole" good luck getting real drivers.

 

I don't know about everyone else, but I can NOT and will NOT go to a company that does that. Holds 2 weeks, then "allows" advances? What a joke.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with an escrow policy. The company I work at has an escrow policy of $2,500. Been full for almost 3 years though. Every now & then, I get hit with a tire bill from these RAILYARDS so they just deduct it from my escrow. No problem with that.

 

That's the mistake right there, Experienced drivers should have the finances to transition and nor should a carrier provide the advance ( Company drivers ) screw the sob stories. I'd cancel the advanced crap ASAP, You're not a charity.

 

No one in their right mind lives paycheck to paycheck. If you cant wait a week for your check to catch up then you need to work harder or get a better paycheck. As well as learning to properly manage your financials.

 

Sorry my man, I cant get past the "holding 2 weeks and allowing advances". It costs between $150 and $200 a week to live out here, plus most of us have bills, and the idea of starting off in debt to a company, cause they hold back 2 weeks. I cant get past that. On the escrow part...if you don't have at least $10k saved up and put away in an account, you don't belong "leasing/owning" a truck anyway.

 

I don't live paycheck to paycheck, trust me. If I did, I wouldn't be out here. But the idea of a company expecting you to go in debt to them before you get a check, is absurd. Sounds like CRST, Prime, CR England, and the rest of the big companies. Most companies hold a week back, which is understandable. But 2 weeks, and allowing advances so you get in debt to them so they don't have to pay you? That sounds a lot like Prime, CR England, CRST, and the rest, like I said.

 

And furthermore, as a company driver (I will NEVER lease onto or into a company, cause its a giant scam, your basically paying them for the priviledge of driving their truck), if they try and charge me for something that I had no control over...I can assure you, they will find their truck at the nearest terminal without a driver. NOW...if it is something I did, I take the blame, and will pay accordingly. Like I said earlier, if your going to be a fool and go into a L/P program, you have no business doing it unless you have a minimum of $10,000 put away.

 

I agree 100% but.............
Crap happens

Long story short, I have a very good employer and my bank royally screw me for 6 out of 8.5 weeks till i noticed, No one knew were 6 weeks of pay went.
I didn't notice until about 8.5 weeks in and checked the account. I was very short.

Turned out to be my bank, Explained to me by the manager they screwed up, it won't happen again, Yeah, I changed banks the next week.

Crap really happens