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DAT Trucking. Can the best out there make this deal work?

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by countrycuz, Oct 29, 2010.

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  1. Oct 29, 2010 #1
    countrycuz

    countrycuz Light Load Member

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    My friend recently hooked up with this company out of West Columbia SC.
    After everyone said this was a bad deal he took the bait anyway because he wanted to run solo so bad he was willing to hope and pray that this would work. Apparently its not working.
    This company runs reefer west of I 35 and they pay the driver 22 percent of what the truck gets. Only problem is the fuel cost comes out of your 22 percent. He took a load from Columbia SC to Dallas Tx.
    he spent 500 dollars on fuel and the load paid 1575.00 to the truck.
    This gives the driver 346.50 as payment for his work.
    He then took a load from Dallas to Forrest Park Ga. It paid 1250.00 to the truck. He gets 225.00 as payment but the fuel cost was more than that!!!
    Tell me how this can not be criminal? Once he got to Forrest Park with his 100.00 cash advance he was in the hole over 300.00.
    Anybody else out there want to pay a company so they can drive a truck.
    Compared to this company,,Carolina Cargo is union wages with a golden parachute.
     
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  3. Oct 29, 2010 #2
    123456

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    He knew up front it was a bad deal......................

    McFly !!!!!!!!!!!
     
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  4. Oct 29, 2010 #3
    countrycuz

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    The managers pitch was this.
    Some of my drivers make 90K a year.I am sure as hell that was gross.
    He said"try it for a month and see if you like it"
    "Either you'l make money or you won't"
    If he can get enough dreamers out there to try it for a month he could really care less if they make money or not. And when my bud asked dispatch how much the load pays, He got cussed out "Quit aggravating me about how much this costs and how much that costs!!"
    Red Flag Alert Number 2.
     
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  5. Oct 29, 2010 #4
    Mortar Man

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    Nobody could make 90k
    With fuel coming out of the 22%

    You sure it wasn't 22% of the freight not counting FSG ( fuel surcharge )

    That sounds more logical
     
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  7. Oct 29, 2010 #5
    Mortar Man

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    If not that is the worst business decision I ever saw a person do ...

    If I was buying the fuel with no truck payment

    I would not do it for less than
    52%
    Heck fuel will cost you. 0.45-0.50 a mile just fuel alone

    You are assuming the highest cost of the load
    FUEL
     
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  8. Oct 29, 2010 #6
    Rollover the Original

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    OK, I'm confused which recently isn't hard for me to be but is this a company job at 22% or an L/p and they paid 22%? It has to be the L/P as who in their right mind would pay to drive someones truck?

    See there I go again! An L/P would but really, who pays the fuel for someone out of a paltry 22% of the load?
    Case in point: Grapes from SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY (this week according to the USDA website that tracks this information and a quick call to an agent friend), to chicago paid $4300 tops and 22% of that is $946 which is $.43 a mile which IS good money but to pay fuel out of that??

    Gimmie a break!

    You got bent big time and every time you put fuel in that truck! The miles according to PC Miler is 2167 and at 6 MPG that's 361 gallons of fuel at the national average of $3.04 (midwest cost west coast shows $3.20) comes to a nice cost of $1097.94 and so you PAID them $151.94 out of your pocket to drive what kind of truck? With all those dancing girls in the sleeper, a butler serving you steaks, a ton of chrome, maybe dual train horns and a bazillion lights?

    As they tell Forrest in the movie....RUN Forrest RUN!

    I hope you do your homework before you ever take a deal like this again! Also it just might help you if you knew how to find the rates being paid for produce and meat!

    Oh, this company is now awarded Rollovers BFI Award! I hope they display it proudly to have sunk so low as to have won it!

    Also do every trucker out there a big favor and post this in as many trucker forums you can! This one is great BUT not everyone come in here which IS a shame!
     
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  9. Oct 29, 2010 #7
    Mortar Man

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    I'm confused too roll over

    I can't figure it out unless the driver in question is a company driver on percentage and the percentage includes fuel
     
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  10. Oct 29, 2010 #8
    Rollover the Original

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    25% IS the fuel! Actually it doesn't even cover the fuel by $151.94!!
    I think the company actually goofed and meant to pay him 52% and are dislexic and goofed and will pay him the balance when the books don't balance and they find their mistake.

    Now, pick my old arse off the floor before I laugh my self to death!
     
    Rollover the Original, Oct 29, 2010
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  11. Oct 30, 2010 #9
    countrycuz

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    As I said before, My friend has a verbal lease on the truck and is required to pay for all the fuel. He gets 22 percent of what ever the load pays going from A to B. As far as I know right now that is all the compensation he gets. He told me after his two trips to Dallas and then back to forest Park Ga he was in the negative over 300 dollars and he only took a 100 dollar cash advance. And yes he signed some kind of lease but he did not get himself a copy for me to read.
     
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  12. Oct 30, 2010 #10
    Lonesome

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    oh Lord.....
     
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