Attention all company drivers!!!

Hello I have another #### company I work with out of Ventura California
Trailer and tractor rear air bag not good
Alternater belt lose bad tires
They wouldn't fix it. I need to warn drivers not to work for this company company name B&D transport. Filthy dirty smelly inside cab and the mattress stank
They didn't fix that truck.
Co driver says it's ok to drive like this
Please let drivers in California not to work for this company.

 

Hello I'm new to this.
I found me another #### trucking company. Had to get off truck in Arizona.

 

It's interesting to come back and read this over a decade later. I was the one who messaged Mack twelve years ago. I was brought in for a Train The Trainer class at USA Truck. My boss showed me a printout of something I'd said here and asked me about it. What I had said was that the guy who ran orientation for new upgrades from student drivers was a guy who had apparently missed his calling as a motivational speaker. I intended that as a compliment to the guy but apparently, someone in Van Buren took it the wrong way. I wasn't given any sort of warning, just asked about my posting and instructed that I should be careful what I post, that as a trainer I would be setting an example, yada yada.

In the years that have passed since then, I went to work for Crete, drove a company truck for them for about 2 years, bought a 2006 Century from them, drove it for them another 2 years and change, paid it off early, went to Landstar, drove that Century another year and a half, traded it in on a Prostar. Had $20k in the bank waiting for something to break when I signed the paperwork to buy the Prostar. I got a 2012 Great Dane dry van shortly after getting the Prostar. That Prostar took about 2 years to bankrupt me. I lost my truck, trailer, house, and car. My wife had just become disabled and needed me at home, so instead of climbing behind the wheel of another company truck, I went to work as a dispatcher for a small all-owner/operator company in Chattanooga. Just shy of a year later, that company was sunk by either a series of huge financial blunders or a series of fraudulent deceptions, depending on who you ask. So I went to work as a fleet manager for a company I will not name here but will say it is "large truckload dry van carrier, based in Chattanooga, which was an early adopter of autoshift transmissions." That's where I am today.

Now, I do want to make it clear that I don't care what people post here or on Facebook about companies, especially the one I work for. I get along great with my drivers, for the most part. They do good jobs, for the most part. I will not report anything anyone says here unless they're admitting to something very bad, like intentionally crashing, driving under the influence, human trafficking, that sort of thing.

The company I work for offers tuition reimbursement, and I'm pursuing a degree in Business Administration. I do keep my CDL with N and T endorsements, but have let the hazmat endorsement lapse.

Ain't it strange how things come full circle?

 

Oh, and my Red Beard isn't red anymore. It's mostly white. Weird how a million miles will do that...

 

Dont they said its a nutritional deficiency of lack of iron zinc among others? Ehemm you find these on red meat. Watch out its organic meat not CAFO animals. You find good quality at your local farmer.

 

Ah...you just gave away who you work for. Not that an earlier description didn't do it. They are the only company I'm aware of that offer tuition reimbursement. I work for a small company in Chattanooga that the office staff has almost all come from where you are now. It's a small world.

 

I meant tuition reimbursement for university, not CDL school

I don't mean for it to be a mystery who I drive for, just want to make sure I don't explicitly name my current employer in order to not inadvertently violate their social media policies, especially the bit about not posting anything that might make people think I'm an official spokesperson for the company, etc. etc.

 

If it's an iron and zinc deficiency, everyone in my family over the age of about 40 has it...

No worries about me not getting enough red meat; I have red meat at least 2 meals a day

 

I got ya. I don't think we have a digita media policy. That's the tuition I meant. That's really a good thing for the drivers. I wonder how many will actually take advantage of it.

 

It's a different deal for the drivers and their dependents here - theirs is prepaid at a particular online university (but an accredited one, so there is that). I'm taking mostly-online classes at a local university, paying up front myself, and then taking advantage of the reimbursement, which is only available to me if it's for classes towards a degree in Business Administration or Transportation Management, and only for classes in which I make a B or better grade. I'm taking Business Administration - it's more portable, don't want to chain myself to the transportation industry for life, even if I do end up working in that industry to retirement.