Link America .BAD

all i know is i saw one of their trucks parked besides me and it was an owner op, i think , i hope so anyway , and it looked like the driver and the truck needed to be put out of service.

 

Every OTR company I ever worked for had more trucks then they needed. Your DM/DP/DSR (take your pick) would be telling you on the phone or Qualcom that frt was slow or they were at - 20 here and - 40 there etc.. and you would look out the window of your truck and see the orientation guy walking the newbies around the yard telling them how great freight was at company x.

Every OTR company I ever worked at except Interstate Dist., had problem with their trucks that needed to be fixed but unless you refused to drive the truck they would not fix them. I had to go to D.O.T scale houses on many occasions to get shops to change bad tires, batteries or fix air leaks or fluid leaks. And I drove for major carriers not some 5 or 10 truck outfits. Try getting these OTR outfits to give you a new mattress or fix a torn curtain or replace a worn out driver seat. Good luck because in most case those are not considered necessity's that they want to spend money on till the truck is turned in.

You may not have 100 trucks waiting to be fixed but I bet most if not all will have a long list of items that will HAVE to be fixed before you can sell them again.

Then why do you pay them by the mile and pressure them to run illegal to keep your customers happy after OP's drops the ball?

The solution would be to get rid of dirt bags that abuse the equipment and fix what needs to be fixed and not just what will get the truck on the road. And do it before the new hire seats the truck.

Yep and nothing burns me worse then busting my hump to get a late load to a customer and then finding out that x OTR company threw me under the bus to cover their own behinds.

Drivers already know this. Which is why when you treat driver poorly and burning them up, you will tend to hear more complaints from your customers and then start loosing them.

So why should a driver want to deal with a outfit that is willing to play a numbers game? If you have a hundred drivers and you only screw over 10 of them, all is OK because the other 90 can be used against the rest to put forth the illusion of tranquility?

Come on my friend, I have yet to work for a OTR carrier that did not try to get out of paying money to me at one time or another. You really made the needle jump on that one.

OK, The OP gave their side and you gave yours. And since I know how OTR company's operate and some of the kinds of people who work in their offices and how they truly feel about their drivers. I choose to believe the OP at least about the fact that they are owed money that your company won't pay.

 

Hey ive been reading this they wont care this is a big company it has bought out serval other companies or has taken them over for example i told my dad once hey go on to lane freight over here in houston we were but a few ours later a freind calls tells him about a better place and we decline the offer to go and work for lane and we never will that place is a great trucking company but i dont know if they ever have loads since washita link america and the others run the same areas seems to me work is slow around lane maybe idk those companies take the most of lanes loads they run the same regions which means slow u may never get a load becuase the guy from washita took your load or the guy from link america beat you becuase they own you as a big company they will not care if you get a load or not the things that appel most of us is that sweet little rider program which most carriers do not offer these days i think that is a good choice but i will never tell me father to go down to lane frieght and call them becuase well link american and washita take there loads and your left sitting at home while some company driver has taken your load and hes off and your not getting paid

 

I was an owner operator for linkamerica from 03-04 and enjoyed my time there. I left to start a dedicated operation. The only trouble I had was the weight of the loads from pepsi in dallas tx to tulsa ok. So I avoided them. Bob in Atlanta was the best recruiter I have dealt with. but like I said I was an owner operator and this was several years ago.

 

so true washita screwed me out of my last check said it was money they lost for sitting at home. well i was at home trying to get a load but was told nothing yet now i never had the problem getting loaded before until i gave them a 2 week notice sounds like everything link america is connected with screws every driver they can

 

Conact the Unemployment Office as they will have all the state and Labor Commision paperwork. They might even make a phone call for you.

 

I hate to hear this. I was giving serious thought to going to Link

 

I also worked for LinkAmerica. I was employed by Washita Frieght Systems out of Oklahoma City. That company was great to work for, lots of miles and decent pay. I am an owner operator. LinkAmerica came in and layed off 21 of the 28 emloyees. Then they did away with the every 6 month safety bonus, after that they took away the performance bonus, several months later they lowered the mileage rate from .90 cents a mile down to .85 cents a mile. The miles went bye, bye. I heard they lost a bunch of Washita's customers. I was losing around $ 400.00 dollars a month. The terminal in Oklahoma City now only has one dispatcher in it. They moved all the tractors up to Tulsa. I tried to do the right thing and give them notice. They held my check and they still have it this happed back on May 9,2009 when I quit. I have called several times and they say they have to wait to pay my fuel taxes. Thats been two months ago..