Colonial Freight CFS WARNING!!!

I hope this will help someone by keeping them from what I just went through! Stay away it is a SCAM hidden expenses, truck payment, insurance which they own, you have to drive over 2000 miles in a week just to pay them you get nothing!!!! then you are dependent on them to get you more miles that week so after fuel you can make a little? But they don't get in any hurry trying to get you miles once they got theirs! I only drove for 8 weeks before I quit, I wanted it to work! the truck was a new 2014 volvo 780 it was nice!!!! no apu though! I drove from South CA to Nashville, TN and then turned truck in at Knoxville yard where they say you must! then was lied to face to face by the owner, Ruby McBride! I told her I needed to rent a car to get home to Conway, AR but didn't have a credit card in my name. She said "Well we don't have a company account with any car rental places" we can't help you. Go talk to Mike Barnes. Then I got authorization from Budget and paid $35 to taxi to get to airport, only to be told NO! we can't rent unless you have credit card in your name or corporate account. now i have to pay $35 to get back to truck! next day i go back inside and crying talked to another lady and she picked up phone and called enterprise and rattled off an account # for cfs and rented a car for $379 one way knoxville to conway plus gas! I had to give her cash to pay up front! they have $350 in escrow of mine $50 a week deduction. and $100 deposit i paid out of first load that was refundable! but i get NOTHING in fact they are saying i owe them $1,463.28?!!! CRAZY but TRUE Consider yourself Warned!

 

OK, I will admit to making a mistake, I have been in banking most of my life and I choose not to have a credit card. Regardless I happened upon them by calling a 800 # on a Job add that said "Home weekends" make $1,100 - $1,300 weekly! I was told on phone that I would haul containers from port in Texas to IN and back taking me home in AR for weekend! I was also told all I needed was to drive 600 miles a week to make payment. I was just looking for a driving job that would get me home weekly! I got there and was told they didn't do anything with a port in TX only Gulf Port, MS so that doesn't take you through AR. They also said when I told them what the recruiter told me, "well they did their job and got you here!" And I did have money to get home, as I said I paid $70 for a cab round trip and I paid the $379 up front to rent the car that they finally arranged after telling me they didn't have an account. All I am wanting is to warn other drivers about them! They charged me another weeks payments and said they had to replace windshield (which there was nothing wrong with it ) and they did a preventative maintenance on truck! that is how they came up with the $1400