Chicago Companies

RUN. Fast.

 

Just a guess, mind you, but I would imagine that they are looking for help.

 

Slim, I’ve been seeing it too. All the companies seem to come from the Chicagoland area. 90% of them are from the Eastern European region, Slavs, Baltic Estonians, Bulgarians, Latvians Ukrainians, and Lithuanians most use white Volvo’s and offer very high rates at 1099. I’ve heard lots of horror stories about these companies. From a cultural perspective there can be somewhat of a disconnect. As Americans we are used to doing things the way we’ve always done them — some say the Europeans have a culture within the trucking company that is different than ours and that it transcends into how they do business. How that translates into a bad Trucking company remains to seen. They can’t all be bad. I think by and large though, trucking is trucking. The basic rudimentary and fundamental dynamic of trucking must be universal. The delivery of goods from one point to another. I’d really be interested in hearing from some drivers who are working for theses outfits.

 

For that rate they probably pay on 1099.

 

No probably about it. They pay a 1099, break any other laws they don't like like pushing the driver to break HOS, run poor maintenance, and when all that fails they fire the driver and don't pay the last few paychecks.

Plenty of proof from the bad company forum for this.

 

Unlimited Freight Inc. will CHEAT you out your paycheck

 

Based on all the negative publicity they get here on TTR, I’d advise you perform a very good due diligence before deciding to sign up with one of them.

But, I advise that before signing on with any company, anywhere.

 

Now out of that 2k pay heck, withdraw insurance, 0 retirement savings plan , higher taxes cause "officially" you will be independent contracor, and probably ZIP to ZiP milage pay.
And they will abuse that PC status on logs, like crazy, but will blame your ### when you will be put OOS in weight station. Been there done it for 6 month myself, no thx, yep money might be better in a begging, but in an end of a year, IRS will eat you alive

 

These companies have literally turned the truck stops into refugee camps......maybe it's time for the government to nationalize the trucking industry.