Canadian good and bad trucking companies

Lol sure of course that's how you see us since you're the type to even consider working for a bottom feeder company.

 

If your feelings have been hurt this bad by anything said to you here you're not going to enjoy trucking.

 

You're really something. You worked for a smaller company and got all bent out of shape coz they catered to the drivers that had been there probably for years and not the new guy with a crack jack license. Then you come here and start name calling when people tell you to pull your head out of your ###.

 

RUN! if you are going to be an employee, i\m really sure it's illegal for them to not only deduct for insurance, but to charge back any damage you may do. contact a labour lawyer, they give free first meetings. as well, i've heard tell of the owner standing in the yard yelling at drivers when they #### up.

 

try Schneider National. they are self insured and don't try any of the shenanigans that Highlite seems to. as well, they have good orientation for new drivers

 

Howdy folks,
Would very much have your input and comments on "Prince Logistics" in Lachine, QC.
I'm interested in doing CA and Midwest US.
Any complaints? How do they treat their employees? (I'm female) Any known BS?
Any good positives?
Thks for info gang.

 

i worked two years for them…and they still try to get me back whenever I have changed companies. That was four years ago when I left and I am feeling more charitable now that time has passed since being gone….and only in that I liked the insight into some of “Russian” culture in terms of camaraderie, the tribalism, the harshness of character but give deep respect to non-Russian mettle—they think, and are not always wrong, that Canadians are effing stoopid. Dispatchers are dispatchers and will say anything to get that load delivered. They were my first experience of the extremes they will go to convince a driver to deliver come he’ll or high water. “You’re grandma died? Don’t worry, we’ve called 911 and the ambulance is in its way. Just make this load!” I’ve made up that quote as an example but geez, every single time I agreed to do that one thing extra instead of calling it a day, the situation would explode and I would be stuck somewhere, far away from getting home/to whatever that night.
Honestly, they hired me without a test drive, and I still thank the Creator/Multiverse/Great Mystery that I didn’t kill anyone. Being so green to an industry and not being the most forthright in standing up for myself—trucking changes this, let me tell ya—I made it work for two years. I made money with them which was a relief after a failed small business, and I ran ragged, gained 40# which I still haven’t lost although hopefully I’ve turned more of it to muscle with CrossFit, plus got my hallowed experience while maintaining a clean record which makes me pretty suitable for any job I want…..although, I’m not going to lie, it’s a harsh industry and drivers are treated like a dime a dozen and drivers also can act like they’re a dime a dozen so know what you can stand. Trucking got me out of debt, into pretty good savings, I did get to see many places and I took in the sights whenever I could, plus, it was always good conversation whenever I talked with locals. It pretty much disarms the straightest, most conservative, suspicious, hasn’t been anywhere, local yokel because no one can argue that trucking is also some of the most blue collar, real back bone of the nation kind of work there is and even a liberal, commie, queer looking personage such as myself does it and ######, the world is really gawn screwy. I’m talking past tense because I’ve taken a sabbatical since April and am just touring around the US with my newly acquired green card, living off largely my savings(from trucking hardcore for the past six years—no apartment, cooking on a camp stove and making my own coffee, using my shower credits well). I’m vibing out where I might want to set up a flag and then get my license changed over to a US CDL. I don’t want to truck like I used to but I will if I have to and the real takeaway is that I will have a job within minutes of looking around seriously. Every place I’ve stopped for a decent amount of time, usually a month, I’ve been offered work once I got my ppw sorted or at least directions of where to sign up. I’m taking my time in deciding any of this.
All this Sunday morning soliloquy? Highlight will give you the work and experience you may need, they will try to take every advantage of you as they can, they refused to give me a copy of my contract and moved goal posts often, and my final straw was when they started making a deduction on my cheques for something that no one in payroll could explain. What they do to their own country men and newcomers is pretty reprehensible—they basically paid for the trucks/repairs, even on the trailers, and there wasn’t even a lease purchase plan in place. I can only imagine what they told those guys, “yep, this is how it’s done here in the New World” and these drivers didn’t know enough English or places to look(Labour laws) to know any better. You seem to write English well enough so likely won’t be taken for such a sap although I know someone who has been with Highlight for five years and she still can’t get them to stop the insurance deduction….at least at year three of her tenure. I’m not sure the how and why not Federal Labour hasn’t been able to put a stop to this. The recent crack down on Drivers Inc may have righted some of the Highlight sail but everyone knows that savvy accounting is about getting the most profit in any legal looking enough way and they’ve got savvy accounting—he’ll, even “good” mega carriers will skate the morally legal line to twist out some more pennies from a driver.
Just know that you’ll be no different when it comes to being considered the mule for those pennies and decide what’s important to you. Getting experience, getting money, getting taken?

 

That kind of is the norm for any industry....look after the senior drivers who have experience, know the drill, good/great driving records = make money for the company. Any company that caters to new drivers and leaves the senior drivers to be in the muck is likely not a great company. Oh wait, by my second year, Highlight was hiring new drivers at 6 cents/mile than I was currently driving at. I also heard, after I left, that they had boosted their cpm to a real all-time high....0.80cpm if one does the NE and signs certain contracts.....and then slashed everyone's cpm to less than .50cpm...maybe 0.44. Drivers called Labour and Labour said that as long it added up to minimum wage per hour, there was nothing illegal about it.

 

...and other quotes from your list.....

yea, many truck drivers can be ### h*les, in fact, I sometimes felt they were the first one to be such, however, asking for 'help' and then putting on blast at a bit of 'you're going to what?" incredulous reply will most certainly ensure you will only work at bottom feeder companies. interestingly, the person I know who is still at Highlight had shuffled amongst no less than 12 companies in two years before hitting highlight. After observing what a mouthful this driver has, and sometimes rightly so while other times made me think that most companies moved that driver on and likely squeezed them out of the place, highlight still keeps that driver there. Mind you, that driver hasn't been in any accidents and is an on-time driver so, highlight will give back for that. So, given your propensity to get right into name calling, keep your driving record clean, use that mouth for the good at a place like highlight, and you'll be golden. In all honesty, I cleared easily $1200 most weeks at Highlight....I just don't do things solely for the money.

 

Trucking companies can reduce wages at anytime, they don't even require a reason since truck drivers are no different than seasonal crop pickers regarding wages/OT.