I was told by my driver today that the company we are sub hauling for tried to poach him.

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  1. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    I was told that here in California they actually do it very often. I am new at this and all I am doing is asking for information not a bunch of people to be disrespectful and talk about your ######## to me honestly. There is no such thing as a stupid question and all I'm trying to do is educate myself
     
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  3. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    Thank you very much for that response and just being upfront and giving me some valid information. I just started in this office and didn't know anything about any of this stuff and I have actually gone a long way but I still have more to learn and I am eager to soak up any information that anybody tells me as long as they're respectful when they tell me the information. All I'm trying to do is just educate myself and make sure that we succeed in this business
     
  4. Ristow

    Ristow Road Train Member

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    if this actually worked...you don't think the megas would be foisting this little trick on their victims....oops,i mean employees...to "reduce turnover"?

    if you are working your ### off,do it in a fashion that makes people want to stay on with you.....cuz otherwise it kinda sounds like you know the grass in your field sucks.
     
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  5. JReding

    JReding Road Train Member

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    I agree with everyone else here, but just for arguments sake: if you are going to bind him for two years, are you going to include guaranteed work in the same contract for those two years, and if you default at any time, he is released from the contract?
     
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  6. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    Thanks for the information even though your little side comments didn't really do #### to help me but I appreciate you at least giving me a little bit of information that I can remember and possibly use in the future. Have a great day
     
  7. nax

    nax Road Train Member

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    He prolly hitting you up for more $$...which might mean u are lowballing him to begin with.

    Or he's just being "honest" in a crybaby way...coz he ain't the ballz to leave
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  8. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    We just started this company in April so obviously there are other companies that are better than ours but I was told about this whole contract thing so all I was doing was following up and seeing if there was one and if I could get one from somewhere and that's it.. that's all I asked for.
     
  9. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    He was just letting us know that this company was doing that and that's it. He's happy with us and told us that he is not going anywhere and that he is going to be loyal because we got him fresh out of school and he was looking for a job for a while so I was just trying to get some information. Thank you for your reply
     
  10. TAfool

    TAfool Medium Load Member

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    You're looking for a "non compete clause".

    TA
     
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  11. M.A.TRUCKING

    M.A.TRUCKING Bobtail Member

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    Most definitely! I would never try to put anybody in a contract and just not keep my word for my side of things. Like I said to everyone else that I'm just trying to find information because I was told about it but I've never heard about it from anybody else but somebody told me about it today so I just wanted to make sure if it was real out there and if so where could I get one from and how strict should it be because I believe in if we did not come up with our end of the bargain then most definitely he could get out of the contract but he's not saying that he's going to leave and he said that he's happy here but he just wanted to give us a heads up
     
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