covenant a church group PLEASE!!!

Powder Joints · Jan 17, 2010

oldtrucker2u said: ↑

First you showp up for company orientation in Chattanooga. The Van Drivers that shuttle you around are a good source of info then the nightmare begins the hotel, stay at the Bates Hotel instead. The food they serve go to a local jail its much better. Orientation what can you say it is what it is. then you get a truck dont expect a rolls royce. Then you meet your fleet manager, mine I cant complain. then when the night dispatch comes on you get a message that says basicaly states if your not dead, dying, or upside down dont bother us. then if you idle too long they charge you for it!!! Thats right boys and girls go over idle they will take your money no warning like they say. money gone!! Then if you have a small incident like 200 dollars your trailer goes bla dont call breakdown. for a god fearing company you couldnt tell it by the verbage their supervisors use on the phone. regardless if you do 50.00/500 dollars of damange they will take 500 out of your check 25.00 per week.so use your own good judgement.[/QUOTE

A long time ago when my wife and I were far less experienced in trucking than we are now, I remember quite distinctly hiring on with them out of CA where we live. They could have just as easily allowed us to attend orientation at their Pomona terminal but they chose to make us sit on a Greyhound bus for over 50 hours to go to Chattanooga TN (and as everyone knows there's no sleeping on the grey dog) and after 50 hours of almost no sleep we finally arrived in Chatt on a Sunday afternoon (orientation does'nt even start until monday) thinking, great, we'll get a bite to eat, good night's sleep, catch up on all the sleep we lost on the way, and be rested and refreshed and ready to taclke orientation full force first thing Monday morning but NOOOOO they make us leave our personal belongings unattended in the open where soemone could just walk up and steal something and no one would do anything about it and go to their yard for DOT road testing about 10 of us look, come on, i know the law requires them to road test us i have no problem with that but the orientation was 3 days they could have done that any time within that period (needless to say we all passed the road test anyway on almost no sleep but that's not the point) the least they could have done was to show us enough respect to allow us to eat and rest and get a decent nights sleep after a long trip having come 2 1/2 days and almost 2200 miles all the way from california for crying out loud what a bunch of inconsiderate dickheads if we would'nt have needed the income so bad at the time i would have made them send us right back to CA on their dime

If you don't like the bus then get your own way there. They are not obligated to free transportation at all. Oh by the way I can sleep on a bus just fine.

Why should they waste everybody else time and not start the test right away, your not there for a vacation this is a job for a trucking company.

If you let any company take your money your a fool. You are not liable for there equipment. If the mention take your money leave orientation. This is one of the reasons I left May Trucking. When May discovered I wrote refused across there authorization form I was told ot was required, so when I got to the So Cal Yard I cleaned out my truck. Don't be a fool.
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