Celadon?

Lease purchase contracts have consequences. If you aren’t prepared to deal with those financially it’s very easy to go broke! There are hundreds of stories on here just like yours... just saying... I hope you know what’s in your contract and what you signed up for. To throw out labor board issues and suspected cartel ties tells me something about this. I know that management would have sat down with you and go over exactly where you stand with them with all of this. I have no doubt if you were professional and sat down with all your business records they would give you the same respect and tried to figure out where you stood within the parameters of the contract you signed...

 

You are mistaken. I was a w-2 employee at the time they failed to pay me. This is not about the lease. The lease was a bad deal, but mostly at the end. Up until they decided to do that it was ok and I was paid fairly. The maintenance was taken care of when I called and I always paid off my negative balance if there was one. It was only until this year when it went bad. I requested a higher amount to be taken from my pay, like I said before, and they refused. This issue is about when I was a w-2 employee and under a certain state's labor laws. They failed to pay me my hourly wage and I have evidence to support this fact, including the logs, the bills of lading, and the load orders I was dispatched on.

I tried to talk to them about it. I have records of me asking them repeatedly about this and other things. They refused to answer, would ignore it even if I asked multiple times, or would say "I will ask someone and get back to you" then never get back to me, even if I later asked for an update.

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If you had been running the truck for two years and were 4 grand in the hole on the escro account, I can see where they may have just figured pulling the plug was a sound business decision, i also have an idea the wages they shorted you as a company driver was credited to what they figured they owed. I have heard very few good success stories involving company lease trucks, some have made it work for them, but I think they are in the minority.

 

Been with them for 10 years... I don’t believe this story at all: I’m sorry but, you should have gone in there with all your paperwork and sat down and figured it all out. Your wages at an hourly rate were probably used to pay off your debt you owed and I bet it says something in the contract that that is permissible..

 

Nope; I’m a Company Driver: have been on here since 2007... look at my posts....

 

I would have stayed for 10 years had they not done this. I have been there since the end of 2015. I did try talking to them. I left voicemails for HR as well. I was not based out of Indy and was several states away.

 

Any driver can request routing to Indy and they will happily bring you into the corporate yard.

 

After all this you are going back to another lease?

Good luck, driver.

 

So,what I didn’t see in this 1st posting wAs that you problems originated with your fleet owner; not Celadon.. you drove for a “ subcontracted” fleet owner who actually owned the trucks you were running? Not a lease thru Celadon leasing company? Celadon isn’t in the leasing business anymore; that’s subcontracted to a leasing company for individual leases or you have a relationship with a subcontracted lessor who leases several trucks and has drivers drive for them... I still think we are not getting this entire story here. Are you sure your subcontracted employer wasn’t to blame for this whole mess???? Your relationship to him affects your relationship to Celadon...

 

Really? Omg