Dahl trucking / Elmore truck & trailer & Europersonnel

I know this post is a couple months old, but I can't help myself. You seem to be a fairly smart guy. And since I have never been to South Africa, I can't question why you would want to come all the way here for a job. But what did you expect to happen. The U.S. is in the middle of a pretty severe economic situation. Our unemployment rate is higher than it has been in decades. If that company was above board and honest, and meant to pay a fair wage for a fair days work, they could have found a few dozen people in Minnesota and Iowa to drive for them. They certainly would not have had to hire from South Africa. I do hope you get what you deserve in back pay and such.

 

As an employee of Dahl Trucking/Elmore Truck & Trailer, I feel it is necessary to reply to this report. It is quite easy to narrow down who the employee was that wrote this post. Here are a few of the extra details he does not give you. 1. He arrived in the states on May 15, 2012 and was taken for his DOT pre-employment drug test, on May 21, 2012, he was taken for a 2nd pre-employment drug screen, (this is required by the DOT and must result in a negative result before any driver can be put in a truck). He attended our annual Safety Meeting on May 19, 2012. 2. He signed a phone lease agreement with us on May 21 2012. 3. He filled out necessary paperwork and was orientated on May 25, 2012. 4. He received his first paycheck on June 8, 2012 (which was the end of his 3rd week here, not his 5th, as he states) for one load that he hauled the week of 5/20-5/26/12. Yes, it was for $39.55, but it was only one load and please remember he had only been here for 5 days (2 of them a weekend) prior to this work week and yes, it was 3 weeks after his arrival but, all new drivers have to wait this long for their first paycheck as he has to work for a week, submit his paperwork for billing processing the following week and then payroll is processed the next week, with paychecks following weekly after that. 5. What this driver does not tell you is in the meantime while he was waiting for his first paycheck, Dahl Trucking advanced him money so he would not go hungry. The other thing he does not tell you is, Dahl Trucking provided him with a home and all the necessary furnishings and essentails needed to live. Also, Dahl Trucking provided each home with a van to use. 6. Dahl Trucking has 2 divisions, one is End Dump Drivers and the other is Belly Dump Drivers. They each get paid differently because of the type of work they do. This driver was an end dump driver and was paid a % of the tons he hauled per load. They do not get paid by the mile or the load and the rates do vary by job so, yes, we could not tell him a definate dollar amount he was making. Our jobs are bid on usually 2 years in advance and the wages are set then, we just don't make up a wage as we go. The important thing to remember here is that the DOL determines an hourly wage we have to pay before we are approved to hire these drivers. When calcuating the wages they earned and the hours they worked, they were making above and beyond this hourly wage. We had an in office meeting with these drivers on June 6, 2012 providing them with examples of "their" paychecks and how much they were making in hourly wages at that time. In all wage calcuating these drivers were receiving $4.00 - $5.00 an hour more than was required by the DOL. This driver did attend this meeting and received this information. 7. This driver only worked here for 7 weeks. He turned in his notice, (not a 2 week), staing the job was not what he thought it would be and that he was going to return home. 8. His total earning for the time he was here were over $4100.00. 9. It would not have been possible for him to drive 21,000 miles in 7 weeks because that comes to 3,000 miles a week and with the local work we do, that is not possible. Lastly, I would like to say there are many things that factor into our work here. We hire these guys from South Africa and give them the opportunity to come here and work with the hope they can help make things better for their families back home. Those that are dedicated workers do just that, the ones such as this driver, do not have the ambition to work for a living and expect things just "to be given to them". Euro Personnel and Magda are not the problem here, only ignorant applicants.

 

man...all these people in the country out of work and you all decide to "outsource" and hire drivers from overseas...i'm going out on a limb here but you couldn't find qualified drivers in your area??? then you call them ignorant??? all I can say is watch out for karma 'cause it's gonna get you!!!!!!!

 

In response to "light load member", all these people in the country out of work are not all truck drivers, if you follow any of the national truck driving reports you would know about the shortage of drivers in this industry. We need drivers that can stay out away from home during the week and now days most "drivers" do not want to do that. As far as calling them "ignorant", it only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole basket, as "wheelmouse" has attempted. Most of these guys are great, they are eager to learn and ever so grateful to come here and work as we are to have them.

 

Mr. Dahl, there is a little more to the story here, as you well know, that I will share with the rest of the readers: The reason that there is a shortage of drivers is ONLY because you trucking business owners are screwing your drivers out of a fair wage. You are finally beginning to use up your "resources" (gullible human beings) and are taking whomever you can; including foreign workers. And spare me the fact that you guys "deserve" all your millions because of all the risks that you take to operate your business; your drivers risk their own lives everytime they get behind the wheel.

 

@ dahl trucking...sell those woof cookies somewhere else...there isn't a business in this country that doesn't receive some sort of financial benefit from the gov't for importing foreign labor or outsourcing jobs...there isn't a shortage of drivers in this country just an overabundance of greed by the folks in charge on these companies...that's where the so called driver shortage is coming from but I guess paying more monies per mile to the drivers already here makes to much sense...so keep up the great "humanitarian" work you're doing...

 

Sounds like another Eurotrash recruiting outfit, there is a reason the FMCSA is cracking down on these Eurotrash outfits

 

Eurotrash lol. Dahl Trucking seems to have more tricks up his sleeve than a street corner magician.

 

So the driver was there for 7 weeks, and grossed $4100.00? That's not quite $600.00 a week, gross, for staying out all week. No wonder you have to import drivers.....

Also, most of the places who hold wages for 3 weeks are either bottom feeders, or in trouble. How many "drivers" were housed in each "home?