How to spot a bad company

Rule 3 . If the truck is red , orange , or white with big blue letters .

 

I was the only one in orientation for SCHUSTER and they are one of the worst companies on the road,they all suck my advice to anyone wanting to do this is NOT find another profession

 

u are the cats meow

 

I am different things to different people . . I feel like Sybil .

 

Without question there are bad companies out there. However if you read between the lines you will find that the driver creates most of his own problems. Most drivers out there who job hop are looking for a panacea. There are no perfect jobs out there. If you read through the threads on this and other sites you will find that drivers have unreal expectations of companies.

Drivers go to work for 48 state carriers and then get pissed and quit when they have to go to the east coast. Hey, its part of the job get used to it.

Drivers have 2 or 3 slow weeks in a row and some how the dispatcher has it out for them and is trying to starve them out. Give me a break the company still has to make money too. If you aren't running miles and making money neither is the company. There are slow times in trucking it is part of the business get used to it.

I've seen drivers quit because after 90 days they didn't get a new truck, or had to drive a Freightliner instead of a Pete. I've been driving alot of year and have yet to discover how I could make more money driving one brand of truck over another.

Then you have the driver who if not home at 6 a.m. on the day they are supposed to be home they start whining like little babies. Freight doesn't always run to your hometown. In the real world sometimes you have to be out longer then you might like. Most companies don't won't to keep you out past your due date anymore then you, it just works out that way. It's all in the way the freight runs.

Then you get my dispatcher lied to me. I have only know 1 maybe 2 dispatchers that lied on a regular bases. Most are just giving you the information that they have. It is also a two way street on lying. I've seen drivers tell dispatchers that they were out of hour when they didn't get the load that they wanted or the load was going someplace that they didn't want to go. The driver's that lie can always seem to justify it in their own mind. Then let a dispatcher tell them something that is not as it is on the load simply due to that being all of the information that they have and well you know the story.

If you want to be home when you want and want to eat the expense or you don't want to run certian areas or if you think you can run a company better then you are free to buy your own truck and trailer and get your own authority then you only have yourself to blame when things don't work out to suit you.

 

That won't happen unless the government gives them grants to buy trucks . If they don't have money for school they sure don't have money for a truck .

 

When the recruiter says they "talk" to a lot of drivers making money there ...

Recruiter can't answer simple questions about the company, and talks your head off with meaningless details.

"Herds" of bobtails from that co. sitting in the truckstops.

Bus tickets for orientations over 500 miles away.

Companies trucks pulling off to pay tolls with cash.

General cleanliness and professionalism of the co's drivers.

Pushes their lease, religion, politics excessively during orientation.

Offices and facilities that look more like medium security prisons, than a place of employment.

Management making a point to tell you how you can't sue DAC or themselves for information posted.

Trucks constantly "around back" in the scales.

Trucks last to be loaded/unloaded at customers.

More than enough trucks in the orientation yard, and they still send you off for "recovery" of your assigned truck.

All I can think of for now ...

 

if you listen to most posts on the web sites there are no good big companies out there, but not everyone can get on with the local regional companies.