Recruiter Lies

While I feel bad for the OP, we all realize that this happens on both sides of the fence in every industry right?

I mean for every recruiter that lies there is a factory worker who lies on his/her application as well.

Do your research before hiring someone or accepting a position.

 

Thats why long ago I decided not to work for any company not in my area. That way I don't have to stay in a hotel, ride a bus, ride a plane, rent a car or seat a lemon at some far off terminal .

 

Too bad they can't be prosecuted for false advertisements .
It's ok to be a lying POS and waste everyone's time

 

Try SuperService LLC in Somerset KY

 

Are you okay with drivers being prosecuted for lying on applications? Goes both ways bub.

 

That's not good. Hang in there. Watch out for yourself.

 

One issue.

If you smelled alcohol on that bus driver's breath it's either from drinking or a case of diabetes or soem other related problem that might kill him leaving you 50 to die shorly or worse.

You should have made a scene about the possible drunken bus driver and never got on it.

Whatever they said about the bus ticket being book is a pile of manure. You can book a thousand bus tickets and they should still be good until you use the trip on it.

Recruiters I do not trust. However there has been only one or two that were any good. But I learned some things from these because I gained access to certain rooms that are off limits to orientation attendees taking physiological testing which is essentially a structural loaded set of questions to determine if you are a company material or not.

I recall one specific question, if I was two hours from customer would I stop when out of hours with logbook that close? yes or no. I entered yes.

What I saw on that printout under my name there in that room to that specific question that was sent back to recruiter I realized that the company thought that was a MASSIVE Risk for employment. In short they wanted to screen out drivers that would follow the logs. The questioning I endured during the road trip from the recruiter was based on that particular scenario. Big company should inter change loads with a team or get me a new appointment. We should not be having this conversation about staying legal after your giant lecture about following all laws earlier song and dance to the new orientation people that morning.

One of two things I thought would happen when I tossed that answer back into his face, he got angry. Would I be beat up, stranded etc? Or retribution in some other way. or will he accept my answers and insult somewhat and hire me.

He hired me.

Ever since that particular encounter with ATS in North Carolina orientiation, anything to do with mental health questioning in trucking test paper work is extremely suspect to me. And one of the grounds for me to go home and not hire on.

What they did not know was I had my fill from 1967 to around 1990 with state provided mental health professionals and all their tests and interrogatory questioning etc. My last one during middle school had me there by the parents for 3 hours twice a week out of school hours and away from my girlfriend.

I realized that because I was not talking to my parents with anything of value, they had hired this lady to extract that information out of me. About 1998 before I left maryland that subject came up and I let em have it with both barrels telling them they should have talked to me plain with good questions rather than hire a gestapo lady in the shrink office twice a week to get infromation to them. I kept secrets in those years from the parents. Unfortunately it was undermined and used against me whenever the shrink reported about the session to the parents.

It hurt the parents really badly when I told em off. But it needed to be said.

To this day I don't deal with mental health, I already am evaluated quietly when I am at the doctors for medicine. There is a letter with pointed straight up questions like are you thinking about suicide on my desk from my health insurance. Who do they think they are fishing for that crap from me. That letter went into the trash can. If that subject comes up anymore I will make certain that is not going to be allowed to continue and i may have to find another insurer which would not be too difficult.

The spouse in the VA system is or was enduring mental health for a while first it's a trauma type ptsd related problem of a particularly personal nature from the 80's Then when it morphed into more sinster things and potential changes she dug in and pretty much ended the mental health type appointments.

I have a feeling they are hunting for vets so they can be stripped of their independance, freedoms and certain rights which we all enjoy because they don't have a bright day now and then. It's scary when a insitution organized against the patients who do not have a say when they get in too deep.

I think that started in 2007 with obama care. My family doctor asked me three questions, Suicide>? no. Guns>? Turkey season on your waiting room table magazine yes? (Oh...) those were removed. and other question related to drug seeking behavior.

I told him that would be the last time he would be asking me those kinds of questions. And so far it was.

Recruiters HA. They will promise you the moon if it will get you to sign here and here and here to get hired on.

Do your own research without them first. You own eyes and ears will tell you everything you will need to know about a prospective company. Your CDL is just too valuable and probably the last of it's kind in terms of being able to have a life with money in good payroll without having to go to college or be tied into indentured serviatiude with promissary notes and contracts legally binding should you quit or be fired within the year.

One recruiter in FFE at memphis worked as a dispatch at times. I don't hate the man. He has to make a living. But our working relationship was never the best because what I learned inside FFE did not match some of the promises and pretty lures that came out of his mouth from time to time.

Guess who he calls when he gets into a jam with a load thats late and a customer threatening to fire FFE as a account? Us. So I think that's good for something being able to save the account for him now and then. But we were not stoogies to be abused by memphis dispatch. and from time to time there were words that cannot be shared here or taken back. It's just the way life is sometimes when dealing with a recruiter that is like a rattlesnake inside your rose garden eying your young child chasing the bees.

 

Rosicrucius job is to find you and get you the lowest amount possible

 

This is exactly what happened to me. The recruiter lied about every major question I asked him about the company. I flew to orientation and found out that none of what he had said was true. None of it. I lasted 6 months and then just couldn't take it anymore and left. I was assured by the ownership that he was an outside recruiter and his contract was canceled over the way he recruited me and another person at orientation.

 

A recruiter? Really? Why? Haven't any of you figured out that if a trucking company employs or uses recruiters to obtain drivers, they should always be avoided?

You've got to be kidding me?

If a company was so good to their employee's, there would never be a need for a recruiter. Just by word of mouth there would be a waiting list for driver's looking to hire on with that company.

Do I need to remind all of you that anything a recruiter says is worthless? You have no agreement with them. Even if they write it on paper and sign there name to it, it means nothing.

The words of the company are also worthless even if it is on paper! You are an "at will employee". The company can change their minds on every, and i mean every, aspect of their operation. You don't have any say so in what they do.

Unless you are represented by some type of Collective Bargaining Agreement, (Union) , everything you see and and read mean nothing.

Welcome to the deregulated OTR trucking industry.

Have fun!