Don't Go To DeBoers

I recently joined the Deboers team, ha big mistake!! They made it all sound so great and I hadn't heard anything bad about them so I said duh..ok. My first clue it was a mistake was during oreintaion. But I still thought it would be ok. So finally I get a truck(at least that was what they called it, personally a rolling peice of junk was my thought). But I was still being ignorant. So off I go on my first load..la..la..la. Load one yeah! Done perfecton to load two.......thats when it all turned ugly!!!
First the company gives me the wrong directions and has me thirteen miles away from my drop, but then they have me try and squeeze a truck and 53' trailer down a road meant for a bike (really it wasn't even a real road). So I bumped the street sign, I did not knock it over or even cause it any damage(the police officer thought I was crazy for even calling him). But it did scrap the truck. By now it is 5:30 p.m. on a Friday, and guess what the "wonderful" company I am driving for has NOBODY there answering phones or the qualcomm. I get a message saying someone will call me during business hours on Monday. "What?"! So I sit in 90 plus degree temps and no fuel and a no idling rule. So I sit , sit, and sit. Now it's Monday still no answer from them.....we don't know what we are going to do yet. Now it's Tuesday......well we want you to pay for the damages to the truck.....all $8800.00.....for tires wow must be gold plated! So then they decide to just put two tires on and get me on the road , finally by Wednesday I have a load out of there! Heading back up to the main terminal. While I am on the road hum.....I find out that they(Deboers) have canceled my prepass toll card, and my company card for idle air and won't authorize more than 50 gallons of fuel at a time. So I still drive on when I ran out of hours to drive I was 20 minutes from my house so I called my wife to come over and pick me up so I could go home and shower, eat, and get ready to go in the morning, but while I was away from my truck the company decided to come get it, and now they stuck me with abandoning the truck, it was not abandonded I had it parked overnight in a safe lot. Now they are making sure I can't get a job anywhere. So in order to keep my kids fed and with a roof over their heads I may have to go back to a factory since I appear to be taboo!! So just a warning about DeBoers it is way to good to be true!!! Lies, Lies, Lies, and to think I was stupid enough to leave an ok job to go to them(and I have since been replaced at the job I left). What was I thinking!! I hope this keeps someone else from being stupid!

 

I think they had been tracking me the whole trip back up from down south and as soon as my truck stopped they knew it. Another one of their rules was you were not allowed to leave the truck for any reason except to get food to eat, so what not showers either? It is not like it was a high value load, it was huge rolls of paper!

 

So basically the company can ABANDON you where ever and when ever they want but you can't even park the truck and go eat, get clean clothes and take a shower because that is abandonment? Well maybe I should start my own company then I guess I can make up the rules as I go along, hum..... I am sure I can come up with a few new ways to screw the drivers. Kind of like what do you mean you can't drive 1700 miles in fourteen hours.....you didn't even try, whats wrong with you!! How dare you tell me it can't be done, I'll just send you out to do it anyway and oh yeah if you can't do I guess I don't have to pay you for all the miles, don't bother trying to get a hold of me your not that important to me it's saturday and I have a "life" not you! Ha...Ha...Ha..