Freymiller Bound;Reefer Madness Begins!!!

flightwatch · Apr 22, 2015

####. They're still at $.34cpm? I started a that in 2012. Glad to see that they're sharing the spoils....

123456 · Apr 23, 2015

Freymiller has always been a high mileage,

low wage outfit.

Ssand Man · Apr 23, 2015

Sounds like a lot of bashing on Freymiller.
Flight watch, I know you left by your choice. Then, you tried to come back and Freymiller said no thank you. That tells me all I need to know.

Ssand Man · Apr 23, 2015

MickTrucker said: ↑

Considering freymiller. Have a few questions tho. What is the starting pay for recent grad with no previous experience? Where will orientation be held? If traveling, food and lodging provided? What type of drug testing do they do, Ua or hair? If they do hair, I'll need to wait about another month or so before going to orientation. I'll need to allow my hair time to grow out, my body hair as well as on my head. I'm a shaver lol! Well my girlfriend doesn't like hair so, I turned into a shaver smh.

I've read through some of the post and saw drivers were getting plenty of miles and that's exactly what I need, just needs to be at a reasonable rate. Thanks you guys for the help!
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You seriously haven't even tried to do your homework on this carrier. All of those questions could be easily answered by a recruiter.
As for the drug tests, if your asking that, stay away from Freymiller!! There's enough bums working here without bringing in more bums. If I find out who you are, I'll be sure to tell Vicky about you.

flightwatch · Apr 25, 2015

Ssand Man said: ↑

Sounds like a lot of bashing on Freymiller.
Flight watch, I know you left by your choice. Then, you tried to come back and Freymiller said no thank you. That tells me all I need to know.
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You sound like a ####y prick that really has no idea what they are talking about. Freymiller welcomed me back with open arms. Frady is the one that said no thank you 2 days before I was to come back to work...after I had already quit my job, bought an airline ticket and other things. I make twice as much now as I ever did with Freymiller...and I'm home every night to boot. So frady actually did me a favor by revealing exactly who he is...preacher or not. Br sure to tell Vicky that Matt L. says hi when you are tattling on forum members.

Ssand Man · Apr 26, 2015

Frady. Meaning Freymiller. Meaning D&M Carriers.

Ssand Man · Apr 26, 2015

flightwatch said: ↑

I felt it would be best to give Freymiller 24 hours before I told my story, but since they did not follow through, here it is.

It all started back in late February when I received my new truck from them. Since it was new, it didn't have permanent tags...and therefore, no EZ Pass. Knowing this, Freymiller decided to send me into the NE anyways. When I questioned them about the lack of an EZ Pass while going down toll roads, their response was to just blow the tolls and the state would send them the fee in the mail. Not wanting to cause too many waves, I agreed to this. While going through Baltimore, I went through an EZ Pass only toll booth (I blew the toll.) Staying in line with my luck, I got pulled over by a Port Authority cop. Come to find out, not only did I blow the toll, I also went through a non truck toll booth. After it was all said and done, I received 2 tickets from him. It was pure revenue generation because both tickets were for the same infraction. The 1st one was "Improper Lane Condition," and the other one was "Failure to maintain proper lane." What I didn't know was that both tickets would result in a total of 6 points added to my cdl. Coupled with a previous improper lane violation ticket from CA in 2011, I now have 9 points on my license...ya Florida and their crappy points system. Who would have thought that being in the wrong lane is equivalent to an open container violation or speeding 15 mph over.

Fast forward to last Monday. I contacted the recruiter to start the process of getting rehired. She told me to update my application, and I would be good to go. After updating my app, I called her back, and specifically asked her if there were going to be any issues whatsoever with me coming back. She said that everything looked fine, and the I was good to go for Sep 9th. Upon hearing that confirmation, I turned in my notice with my current employer, and purchase a $305 airline ticket to return me to OKC. I heard nothing else from Freymiller until yesterday.

On Tuesday morning, I received a phone call from another recruiter questioning me about the 2 tickets. She accused me of not informing Freymiller of the tickets and trying to hide them. I explained to her how it was, in fact, quite the opposite and that I was quite vocal about those 2 tickets because I felt that Freymiller was partially responsible for payment of the fines. After all, it was Freymiller that dispatched me to an area that is nothing but toll roads knowing full well that I didn't have an EZ Pass...and then telling me to blow the tolls to boot. She said she would call me back after speaking with safety. After about 10 minutes, she phoned me back to inform that everything was still good to go for Sep 9th.

On Tuesday afternoon, I received yet another call from the primary recruiter informing me that Freymiller would not take me back because "I have 9 points on my license and in FL, you only need 10 points and your license will be suspended." Knowing that this was absolute #########, I called her out on it. She informed me that the safety directer would call me to discuss it. The safety director called me and we had about a 5 minute discussion in which he tried the same cdl suspension bs again. Again, I called him out on it, and then he proceeded to tell me that dispatch wasn't too happy to hear of my return too. Once I heard that, I knew that he was just making things up since my relationship with operations was very good (I had many people come to me and tell me that they were going to miss me and that, when I was ready to come 'home,' to give them a call.) At the end of the conversation, he said that he would review my info 1 more time and give me a call by the end of the work day. Well, that call never came. I sent him an email yesterday evening outlining the point requirements for license suspensions in the state of Florida as well as outlining my case regarding the tickets. Again, I didn't hear back from them.

The bottom line is that Freymiller screwed me big time. I am now out of a job and have a $305 non-refundable airline ticket to go to OKC that will not be used. I personally feel that this happened because the safety director has some kind of beef with me. I think he believes that I was trying to hide those tickets from him which simply wasn't the case. But instead of being a man and telling me straight, he has to try and ######## me and tiptoe around the truth. This is completely unfair to me because I was a good employee for them. I was never late due to my own fault, I took immaculate care of the equipment, never declined loads, etc. I even recruited several people to the company...and for that, I got strung along and then hung out to dry.

In the end, it goes to show that even a good company can burn you. I am not so much pissed as I am saddened by their treatment of me. I really did enjoy working for Freymiller, but as they say; all good things must come to an end.

Thanks for reading.
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flightwatch · Apr 26, 2015

I am well aware of what I wrote, but thanks for dredging them back up so that new people can see what they are getting into.

Blue Irish · Apr 26, 2015

Regarding per diem pay earlier in thread: The way the company saves money is that they do not pay their 7.65% share for Medicare & Social Security on the per diem amount. The way the driver saves money is that the per diem amount is not taxed in any way. It's 14 cents per mile straight into your pocket...almost like working for cash. The one way it can hurt a driver is in their Social Security they receive when retiring. It's not a ripoff of the driver, it's just a legal way for the company and driver to pay less taxes and net more money. People that work in the oilfield LOVE per diem. And yes, it will make your gross earnings look like less when applying for a loan BUT...I'm sure some of the guys out there are paying child support and the per diem amount does not show up as income, so there you have it.

aussiejosh · Apr 26, 2015

Hey folks about 10 years ago i came over to the US on a H2b work visa they'd put us up in Weatherford TX while we waited for our SS # then we went out and got our CDL's there were a whole bunch of blokes bragging about how great drivers they were i heard later on that they only lasted about 3 months most started up with Freymiller in Oklahoma City OK i got sent to work for a company called LW Miller based in SLC UT i'd love to hear back from anyone in here that met some of the guys. Like i said it was back in 2005 so alot of people have moved on and done alot of safe miles since then.

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