BEWARE OF TOTAL TRANSPORTATION!!!

y.lee.coyote · Apr 7, 2017

I have been with total awhile been driving 14 yrs and I have no issues with them they pay what they say and treat me good.....u have a good work ethic and roll with them through the ups and downs ......u get the miles....3k a week aint nothing here easy to get......sorry for your expierence.....

YAH4444 · Mar 20, 2018

Old - School said: ↑

So you got 9 hours of sleep but wanted 12? Thats all I need to know. Honestly, I'm thinking the company is coming out looking better then you after reading this. Good luck in your next endeavor.
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ACO476 · Mar 20, 2018

FloridaDriver said: ↑

Around 9am the phone rang and it was the front desk telling me my ride was there and I told the person I had permission by Tony Wallace to sleep in till noon. I went back to sleep.
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Pretty childish there driver. I'm having trouble mustering up any sympathy for you. Honestly didn't sound like too bad of a situation that you were in either...

Ree11 · Mar 25, 2022

FloridaDriver said: ↑

After driving for them with a spotless safety and delivery record and dealing with a truck that broke down every week, not only did they manufacture a reason to get rid of me they have now screwed me over on my DAC Report.

I recently applied to a national company and they said they would hire me if it weren't for a certain black mark on my DAC report. That black mark was from "Total Transportation" of Jackson, MS. The black mark reads "fired for not following company procedure."

When hired by Total Transportation I was given a truck that kept eating fan belts and one road call and three seperate company shop visits later they finally figured out that the truck had been in an accident. (stellar job eh?) Once that problem was fixed the air pressure kept losing pressure while driving so that the pressure gauge would drop and the light would come on and the pressure would rise back up and this would go on and on. Three more visits (at least) later I had had enough so I was in Jackson, MS and took all my stuff out of the truck and paid for my own motel room and was to meet with John Stomps (CEO) the next day. I met with Tony Wallace (VP of Operations) and he said to me, "Why have you got your stuff?" (he had no idea I had turned in my truck the previous day.) I told him I was not getting back in that truck. I had joined Total in November of 2014 and this was February 2015. He scrambled to find me a truck. He got on his phone and said to the guy on the other end, "I need a truck like a dead man needs a casket." I told him I was promised a new truck by Tim my terminal manager previous and then renigged on. He finally came up with one and told me, "I'm going to get you a ride with a driver who will talk your ear off to Loudon, TN. We'll put you up in a motel and you can sleep in till noon." So sure enough I waited around the terminal all day then the driver showed up in the late afternoon and sure enough he had stuff in the bunk so I stayed in the passenger seat having my ear talked off till midnight. The hotel they put me up in in Loudon is nice except after I arrived there at midnight around two in the morning I went to go to the bathroom at 2am the toilet backed up. The hotel offerred to switch rooms but I was so tired I stayed in the room.

Around 9am the phone rang and it was the front desk telling me my ride was there and I told the person I had permission by Tony Wallace to sleep in till noon. I went back to sleep. At noon I went down to the front desk and the local terminal guy was standing at the front desk talking trash about me to the front desk person who was only glad to join in when this husband/wife driver team joined in to fray in spite of me telling them it was none of their business. The husband continued to harrange me which led to his threatening physical violence to which I called the police. The police showed up and heard my complaint and decided to give me a ride to the terminal. Before that the the husband told me "You'll be fired before the day is through."

While at the terminal I waited outside while a cleaning guy was cleaning my new truck and was called into the terminal office. I was told my relationship with Total was being terminated and among things I was being accused of swearing at the terminal window guy. (figure that one out.) I left a message on Tony Wallace's voice mail in the presence of these people telling him I did no such thing and called a cab, went to the local airport where I paid for my own motel room then rented a car to get home to Florida.

It's bad enough when people in your orientation class all get new trucks while you languish with a broken one and to be promised a new one and have it not materialize and the ultimate trifecta is to go through all this crap and now have it affect future employment. I called Tony Wallace and John Stomps to tell them to remove that libelous mark on my DAC report and they wouldn't even return my messages. All that mark does his hurt me, it has no effect on them. I did not earn that mark and I did not violate any company procedure... BEWARE!!
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Wow! Did me the exact same way. I can’t get hired anywhere else for crap! I turned in my resignation to John Stomps who assured me if I ever wanted to come back I’m welcome! Next thing I know my DAC report says I was fired due to company violation! This company is a piece of #### I hate I ever stepped foot there !

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