An honest account at MAY TRUCKING

Many, many drivers (myself included) are treated with little respect, and are primarily viewed as commodities. May is NOT a family oriented company. Driver managers are trained to push a driver past their maximum limits to ensure the greatest profitability. Office personnel will ridicule a driver for wanting 'home time' with any regularity, such as at bi-weekly or monthly intervals. Drivers will experience frequent errors with pay, almost always as a result of driver manager negligence. Most driver managers are overworked and underpaid, which might be the reason for their general apathy toward drivers. This has contributed to a culture where drivers are the punch line of office jokes and the general 'water cooler' banter. The overall hierarchy at May is particularly opaque. Drivers who would consider working at May should take note that upper management puts a great deal of pressure on office personnel, particularly those who oversee driver performance, and that this creates a culture of disunity, misinformation, manipulation, resentment and near frequent conflict over what many drivers perceive to be predatory exploitation. Entry Level Drivers are largely powerless to leave the company within the first year as upper management is well aware that most ELDs need the full one year OTR experience in order to be considered a professional driver and thus move onto a reputable and professional company. Despite keeping my head down and biting my tongue, and despite the fact that I was ALWAYS within the fleet's top ten percentile in terms of overall driver performance (miles, safety, etc) and was consequently paid a much higher CPM than my peers, I decided to leave May after eighteen months. Very simply, I found the office personnel to be very petty, the company culture to be exhausting and the company PR positions to be largely based on lies. Perhaps there was a time when May Trucking was a decent company where drivers and driver perception was an integral part of company culture, but that time has long since passed. I hope my insights will not be perceived as inflammatory, but might aid those drivers who are weighing their options.

 

ELDs start over again with driver training when they join with a new company. Again orientation, and 3-6 weeks OTR driver training, and then a solo out test before they can roll solo again. ELD flat pay in this period is a third of what a normal driver makes on CPM. Only drivers with more than one year OTR can road test and roll when they start somewhere new. I'm not quibbling, but ELDs are greatly disadvantaged when they switch companies within the first year.