John Veriha Trucking - Marinette, Wi.

What a nightmare- so your poor hubby ended up getting ticketed? That sucks, but good luck to both of you.

 

LOL No I am not. I was looking at that company to apply at because I live near there

 

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Looks to me like this is just one more company to stay away from. Sure seems like there are alot of them. I started looking into trucking a couple years ago because it is always what I wanted to do. The more I find out about trucking the more I think I will keep the job I got. But, just in my opinion you know, I think trucking got to where it is because of truckers.

 

From the For what it's worth department' as a former solo driver for Verhia, my experience started nicely -- The office pesonnel and Veep were knowledgable and personable. I was a 7-on-7 off driver; nice in concept, but didn't pan out that way. The shop will 'sell you' required load locks, brooms etc... (gotta be a Wal-Mart someplace along our routes, eh?) - What peeved me was load 'bait and switch,' carrot-dangling techniques employed by dispatch. Get you to the terminal for a load that 'changes' - fine; I can be a team player... jump thru some hoops and make things happen to the best of my ability. When directions are WRONG, Empties not where you're TOLD they are, sitting around waiting to load or unload uncompensated, (company prolly gets the detention, but not the driver -- '...we don't have a detention contract...') routing discrepancies etc... held against a driver -- that's just plain WRONG - particularly when a driver agrees to 'help out' in a tight situation. A load that arrives back in Marinette 16 hours early (because that's the earliest appointment that can be 'had' 48 hours in advance) delivering to the warehouse right next door at 0700 the next morning and your hometime is 3 days overdue...just to be told upon arrival to unload it goes to the OTHER warehouse... is an INTERNAL LOGISTICAL problem. Time is money. Don't TELL me I'm being charged with a LATE DELIVERY when you cancel my original 'good' load coming out of the house and I accept an already late live-load to help out, then -- give me wrong directions to both origin and destination, and give me grief because I took the FASTEST/SAFEST/LEGAL route to get your 'hot' load delivered ON TIME. Don't call my house on hometime early telling me you have a 'good' load, and then cancel it and give me local work when I arrive at the terminal; Don't WAIT til I've battled my way thru Chicago/Milwaukee for the third time that week with a Drop and Hook, past-due-for-hometime load to ask (TELL -- "refused load etc." charge against me) me to make a 'local' Milwaukee pick-up and delivery 'because you're the ONLY one in the area..' - Verhia doesn't want drivers who have critical thinking and evaluative skills, a THOROUGH knowledge of DOT regs -- they want ROBOTS; Drivers who are willing to allow themselves to be abused. When planning/dispatch/administration can all get on the same page, it works well. When drivers' intergrity is asked/demanded to be compromised - it's on the DRIVER. We're all professionals -- we ALL know the rules. 7 on and 7 off does NOT mean 10 on and 3 off, dangling carrots to get drivers to jump thru hoops, welching on agreements and committments. It's give and take -- but if it doesn't balance out.... any driver with a hill of beans worth of sense is going to BOLT. Meetings were held to discuss the various issues to no avail. Once you're in that truck -- they think they OWN you... Drivers are PEOPLE, not robots.....

 

Thank you for writing on Veriha. I thought my partner was the only one to have problems with them. They have blasted his DAC stated to unemployment and other companies he applied to that he is unemployable. Attorney's are wonderful.
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