Earl L. Henderson Trucking/Salem,IL

CP1993 · Aug 3, 2015

TB John said: ↑

The "boot" means your vehicle can be disabled and/or towed until your tickets are taken care of. It sounds like you have multiple tickets you've ignored for what ever reason and they are catching up with you.
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Financial Reasons. && No not really. Lol

TB John · Aug 3, 2015

Is it "No not really" to "you have multiple tickets". Or "No not really" to "you've been ignoring them".

Johnny holt · Aug 4, 2015

innercity outlaw said: ↑

Earl L. Henderson Trucking/ Salem, IL. Warning if you value your career stay as far away from henderson trucking as possible. Somehow dispatch manages to assign u loads that are already late. they expect you to deliver on time, then will slap you with a service failure. Add to that that thier lease purchase program is a sham. they claim they will pay for everything then you get a bill where u end up paying the cost. they are owned and operated by an outside firm. So at every oppurtunity they have they throw the driver under the bus to save thier own necks. good luck getting in touch with dispatch over th e phone, & if you do they will give you the riot act over the phone, rudely tell you how they are busy have no time to talk to you hang up then send a message over the qualcomm politely asking you to communicate thru the qualcomm. if you really need something as simple as a lumper fee request. You might as well say goodbye to you're 14 hours. becuase you will here from dayshift but swing or night dispatch. I won't even get started on if you breakdown.
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The outside firm that owns Henderson now is prime Inc, a friend of mine drove for Henderson for about 3 months after prime bought them out ! Stay far away as you can !!!

joseph1135 · Aug 4, 2015

CP1993 said: ↑

Yeah, I've told her about everything on the application process. But I just recently discovered that all the tickets from my license plates are now on my DL because I've became eligible for the boot list from past due tickets. The tickets all came from photo lights and I can't really tell how fast I was going, but the speeding ticket online says "Speeding Violation 11+" What do you think that means?
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I think that means you're not going to be a truck driver.

skibum_63 · Aug 4, 2015

innercity outlaw said: ↑

Earl L. Henderson Trucking/ Salem, IL. Warning if you value your career stay as far away from henderson trucking as possible. Somehow dispatch manages to assign u loads that are already late. they expect you to deliver on time, then will slap you with a service failure. Add to that that thier lease purchase program is a sham. they claim they will pay for everything then you get a bill where u end up paying the cost. they are owned and operated by an outside firm. So at every oppurtunity they have they throw the driver under the bus to save thier own necks. good luck getting in touch with dispatch over th e phone, & if you do they will give you the riot act over the phone, rudely tell you how they are busy have no time to talk to you hang up then send a message over the qualcomm politely asking you to communicate thru the qualcomm. if you really need something as simple as a lumper fee request. You might as well say goodbye to you're 14 hours. becuase you will here from dayshift but swing or night dispatch. I won't even get started on if you breakdown.
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What do you expect for now being owned by prime?

crazybread · Aug 7, 2015

So I hear that this place is a GREAT place to get a CDL with and much better then Swift. I am not sure what to pick been thinking about Swift because it's #1. I do like what i hear about Henderson trucking would like to know how many miles a week do you guys get? How is it like working for them? I live in California so i am not sure how the home time would work out because i know they don't have a terminals in California.

7millionmiler · Oct 20, 2016

j5372 said: ↑

I just did a 3+ month stint at Henderson, as a team driver with my best friend ( teamed together before). Got LOTS and LOTS to say about them, but last Tuesday, we were so pissed that we quit under a load ( totally not my style).
Pros: they dont micromanage you. They dont "route" you, unless high value load. They didnt squeeze us on home time. ( we always got our home time ON time and a little extra sometimes)
Cons:1) They have no clue what detention is. We spent 10+ hours sitting waiting to get loaded and never saw 1 dime for waiting. This happened all the time on Cali loads (produce mostly) we sat roughly 100 hours in the 3 months and never got paid for any of it. 2) alot of our runs were "finish up" runs that someone else ran out of hours or got sleepy and couldnt finish. 3) didnt get paid for extra stops on some occasions. 4) always sending messages about "you didnt send in your macros" even tho it showed on the sent messages that we did. 5) Their shop is idiots. the 2011 Cascadia had something wrong with the rear end and it shook ALL THE TIME tooo the point you couldnt sleep. 3 times in the shop, and nothing wrong with it. yeah, right. It always pulled hard to the right (that was because of the "crown in the roads", as we were informed) LOL 6) as a team, we barely got 5000 miles most weeks. Was told "you can have all the miles that you can run".... but we never saw it. After awhile, all this crap added up and we just had enough. Plus, ( I KNOW youve never heard this one before, but the DM's LIED all the time!!) Ive seen worse companys, but this is the only one that I didnt give notice too, and bowed out on a good note. Good luck if you give them a try.
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7millionmiler · Oct 20, 2016

Bunch of clowns in safty dept & shop .I pay for road Hazzard warranty & run over glass bottle & cut my tires. Had to get replacement than got to Henderson shop for maintance & they take off new tire and put on some old ones and then 2 weeks later call me and tell me I owe them for a tire which I don't have anymore isn't that wonderful

7millionmiler · Oct 20, 2016

TEXASBOUND said: ↑

So how long were you with Henderson? Did you lease a new truck? Be more specific.
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7millionmiler · Oct 20, 2016

I'm in a lease here for last year cost you about $1,200 a week so you better hope you make enough to pay for it when you do have a problem you can never get ahold of their shop to pay for anything .

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