Company drivers BEWARE of Metropolitian Trucking

^^^ Man sorry that happened to you. G/L getting out of that. I know i had some rough times at a Trucking Company and i told myself when i was flaming pisted off to calm down and wait for the right time to turn in my 2 weeks notice not just take the matter like that lol. Sucks they had the cops put a PB on your truck, WOW!

 

How long did you sit before you decided to bail outta NJ and what did you say to them in order to get 3 troopers sic'd on you?

I obviously don't know all the circumstances but I don't see any proof of wrong doing on this company's part. You didn't leave the truck in their yard where one of the managers or security could keep an eye on it. You left it at a truck stop where a driver had to pick it up and likely stole your stuff. It's then a company driver's word versus a a driver who quit on the 2nd load. Do you honestly think any company, good or bad, wouldn't give you an abandonment after you took off on your own on the 2nd load?

 

Dude, you in effect stole their truck!! What did you expect? You're lucky you weren't arrested and charged! And yet, you have the gall to come on here cryin' the blues after a stupid stunt like that. Man, another prime example of what sits behind the wheel of some of these trucks out there.

 

How dare you accuse the driver of doing wrong, and defend one of these corporate Quallcom controlled blob companies! You probably are an office person at Metropolitan, or a brown nosed driver.

No companies I have ever worked for, even the rotten ones, have treated me like this during a family emergency. No one should have to wait on a Quallcom in a situation like this, especially being as close to a terminal as he was.

I hope the next next driver they treat this way leaves them a gift, like a pound of sand in the crankcase and 20 pounds of sugar in the fuel tanks!

 

So the company informs the drivers IN ORIENTATION the procedures to quit ?

"When you quit, which won't be long...." WOW what a bunch of dirt bags !

 

Just doesnt sound quite right does it??

 

I've done hvac work here and got to know a lot of guys there. I also know quite a few drivers from comin and going. This thread isn't a accurate assesment of this company. Quite a suprise to me that their name came up.

I will say I know nothing about how they really treat their drivers, but I know I haven't heard legitimately bad stories about them. Only the same stories from the same guys complaining as they always do.

Sorry this had to be my first post, but knowing this company and my states law, if you got pulled over like that it's because you did something illegal. You should be #### glad your not sitting at the Iron Street In right now.

 

Thats common with that company and NFI...I got put out of an NFI truck once for refusing to get up and go get a load and I was way beyond my 70 hr rule, at least by 6 hrs. Vince Lombardi rest area on th NJ turnpike. They NJ troopers put me out right there but I got my stuff out. The trooper told me it wasn't the first time that he did to and pointed at a Metropolitan truck and said I put a driver out of one of those last month...that was back in 2001.

You should read some of that guys other post in here. He is a trucking company office worker in here to start trouble. It's common knowlege you can't drive for any large company out of NJ since Jevic folded among drivers because they do this stuff all the time.

you don't even drive dude, do we come to HVAC boards and put our two cents in? Metroplitan is a bad place and I have had stories about them for years. I see those broken down trailer and white freightliner filthy and falling apart on the road daily. They are very picky on who they hire even before this recession but thats mostly an insurance thing.

 

when you take off in that truck without their consent that is basically theft.as far as your stuff do you really believe that driver turned it in?what they did was wrong but so was what you did.