Add Henderson Trucking to the BAD list

Hey I agree do not abandon the truck. I know you are frustrated and rightfully so I have asked their operations manager via the qualcomm and she will not answer you. Mike Thompson aka Bernie Madoff is a joke. Just think all they are hiring now is lease operators so they run you enough to make the payment plus they are deducting escrow, security and maintenance and if you don't make it 6 months they keep most if not all of that. Than they just lease out the same equipment again.

 

Sorry to hear this story again and again! If funds are low, which in case by many, just stay on the company side. Been in the business a long time and with what i read and hear over most companies, you'll make more as a company driver anyway. Don't let all those big riggers bs u. As for Henderson, talk to some of their drivers at the produce sheds. The big problem on their side is alot of customers are requesting the teams and also cutting rates using the so-called economy as an excuse. If u were around yuma, etc. and seen the record numbers of snowbirds in their expensive rvs pulling their toy wagons, makes u think. Also the yachts are are the rise here on lake michigan and soforth. Americas next biggest mystery. Wouldn't suggest leaving the truck their either, the crap one sided DAC follows. TRY and see if you can get the truck on some kind of terms back to salem and work out a bus ticket for return. Talk rationally with them when doing so. Other options are searching for a carrier instead of playing on this message board and getting on the road to pay some bills. It will take awhile for the Dac to show up anyway. Me personnally, don't give a rats ### over the Dac report. Most are inaccurate. Good luck to you driver.

 

Henderson is a good company if you are a team or live in the midwest. Solos that lease on there and need to go home every 3 wks will not make it unless you live in the midwest that is where there solo freight is. Drivers have to research more than just a companies pay rate and the type of trucks they have

 

most companies will give you a bus ticket home then take it out of your final check. But being that you are a lease, they may not do that for you. Have a relative wire you money for a bus or plane ticket, or they can purchase a ticket for you online or by phone. If that fails, you can hop a freight train and ride on a JB Hunt container back to cali. Who knows, maybe there will be some other drivers on there with you that you can party with.

 

They call it landstarve for a reason.

 

If you have 2-3 witnesses who all heard the slick talk from the Recruiters, (yes tricky "Dick" McAndrews) then you have Witnesses....right?
I agree taking the truck back, taking photos inside and out and having Hendrickson sign for it is better than abandoning the trucks some where.

 

another so called truck driver that can't handle the life of the road' so he is going to leave the truck at the t/s and just go on his marry way' well that is how he is going to look at it' i am glad that he is not driving' i bet he could not even find his way if a map was in front of him. and i hope dac sticks it to him. say good by to his cdl.