Interested in driving for Gozal. Is anyone familiar with them?

I recently have been flooded with ads for trucking companies on the unholy book of faces. I'm only interested in going on the road again for serious pay. Gozal Inc has an ad on Facebook advertising 25% (or 27%?) of revenue, which is $8k - 12k. That means $2k - $3k/week. They're advertising that on their web site, also. That got my attention! Is anyone here familiar with them?

Thanks in advance!

 

I believe it's 1099.

 

Update: That was a big mistake. They are cheapskates. They are wholly untrustworthy. They will leave you stranded.

 

Alright here goes.

Stay away from those effers, unless you want to be left on the side of the road.

I saw an ad on Facebook advertising $2000/week, and that's based on percentage of revenue, which is between $8k-12k/week. It's 1099, but I'd deal with that for the money, but I do expect a little bit more flexibility than with W2. When I got there and read their paperwork, it had some crazy strict rules. Only the worst companies I've ever worked for (looking at you, Schneider) had similar rules. It appears that they have a driver cam, but I don't know if it is active. They appear to have a forward facing dashcam in the same unit, and I'm OK with that part of it.

The truck I spent the weekend in was nice and clean, besides the mattress. The truck was a 2023 Mack Anthem with less than 100k miles. It was clean and smelled clean.

The trailers I hooked up to seemed decent. They weren't banged up. Brake shoes had plenty of lining on them. Tires were fine. Lights were working. Doors opened and closed easily. I asked where the trailer reg was and the proctor said he had it with him.

The mattress was a different story. It looked like a guy pleasured himself on it and left stains all over it. Can I load pictures of that? I had to sleep on that because they were too cheap to put me in a motel. I bought new sheets to put between my body and those stains. I planned to buy a mattress if they wouldn't find another one for me. BTW, when I mentioned the mattress the guy literally laughed at me.

Monday, 4 March, we started something loosely resembling orientation, and I had to sign a bunch of stuff that sounded like I had to buy my own cargo insurance, but they assured me that's not the case. I'd like to have a copy of those. I said if that's the case, this is a no-go for me. They assured me that's not the case.

After that, we started a driving test. I did everything I was asked to do competently. They had me back up a few times. I've never had to back up more than once, and I think they were trying to make me mess up. Then the guy told me they weren't going to hire me. I asked for a reason, and the guy stammered and made up a few things. He said I didn't detect a light on the trailer was out. I think he was lying. He said I didn't narrate the inspection to his liking, though he didn't ask me to and he watched me and saw what I was doing. I checked everything, just like a real pre-trip. He claimed I didn't detect an air leak. I'm skeptical about that, too. There was something else, but I don't remember. A bunch of nitpicking BS. If I did so bad on the inspection, why did he let me get in the truck and drive it around? I really believe they made things up because they couldn't flunk me. I backed up and pulled forward 3 times. I've never done that on any road test I've ever done. In a normal driving test, they want to see me back into a dock without hitting anything and then I'm good to go. No one has ever had me blindside into a dock in a driving test.

I'm sorry. I don't know anyone's name there except the recruiter, Ace. Everyone else is "he", "the guy", or "they/them", if there are more then one.

They did EXACTLY what I would do if I wanted to fire (or not hire) someone but had to create the appearance of a legitimate reason. You know, like discrimination.

Those ######## offered to get me a bus ticket that would leave me 50 miles from home, and it didn't include my luggage. I asked about my luggage and they told me not to worry about it. I would have to abandon my bedding and clothes to get home with my computer and personal documents. They assured me my luggage would be fine. When they dropped me off at the bus station, the bus station attendants told me I had to add my luggage to the ticket. I called the number you have to call for Flix Bus, but could not add my luggage to the ticket because I didn't know the email address or phone number associated with the ticket. The company totally ghosted me. No one I called answered. Whatever number and/or email they used was not known to me. I would have to abandon most of my stuff to get on the bus. I spent more than an hour on the phone trying to get ahold of someone who could help me. It didn't help that everything is automated.

I talked to a few friends and relatives who encouraged me to leave and get a rental. I got an Uber (not cheap) and headed to Motel 6. The next day I was trying to get a rental car and couldn't. They have such obscene policies that make it impossible to rent a car! I guess they only want to rent to corporate customers. Anyone with a valid driver's license and the money to cover it can rent a U-Haul, so that's what I ended up doing, but it's NOT cheap. It cost me somewhere around $500 to get the U-Haul van. That's not counting the Uber rides, motel, and a weekend of fast food. In order to get that food, I had to get an Uber to a fast food joint. That got expensive real quick. I took an Uber to Walmart and back for bedding to cover the disgusting mattress. BTW, I left that sheet on the mattress. They can have it. That was roughly $50 to ride both ways. It was roughly $50 to ride to church and back on Sunday. I was pretty certain that I had a job, so I wasn't too worried about it.

It feels like some kind of employment scam, but I don't know what they got out of it. Also, I can't understand why they were so malicious to me, when I didn't do anything to them.

This is the only time I've ever gone to orientation and didn't have a rental car provided. I guess lesson learned on that one. If they can't get me a rental car, I'm not wasting another minute of my time talking to them. Another thing I'm going to ask from every company I talk to is a guarantee in writing that they will at least get me back home if they decide to not hire me. This is the first time I've ever gone to orientation and not been hired. There was one time I went to an orientation and rejected a job, because I was lied to about pay, but I just drove that rental car back to SC where I was living at the time, unpacked my crap and took the car back to Enterprise.

Oh yeah. Another thing. Wanna know how I found out weed is legal in Ohio? The office and shop stank like weed when they were open. It gave me a headache. It REEKED of marijuana the whole time they were open. I should probably wait a month to do another drug test just because of how much of that smoke I breathed. When I was riding in one guy's car, he was smoking something that smelled a lot like weed in a vape pen, WHILE DRIVING! I asked him to stop at McDonald's so I could get a bite, and he whined like a little ##### and refused to do it. I didn't eat for almost the whole day because of where their shop/office is located and I had already spent more than $100 on Uber rides.