KLLM Going down hill???

My experience with the company was the exact opposite, but I'm not bitter anymore as I landed an excellent job with better bennies, pay, coworkers, supervisors, etc.

 

Ok, let me re-phrase; they don't push them out...they just don't give them many miles if they don't drink the "push to lease" kool aid. You get a lot of 34 hr resets (even after you just got done taking one) if you don't drink the "push to lease" kool aid. Look back through the posts, it's either true from multiple people or there sure are a lot of people mysteriously having the same bad dream. Glad I'm gone and with another carrier that is night and day different. How does that even happen?

 

The only 34 hr resets that i have been getting is when i do hometime...

 

A positive attitude is a refreshing thing to encounter.

 

I agree. Wish there were more them (being positive attitudes) out there.

 

KLLM must be having financial issues. We finally got paid on a load from July and had them issue a Comcheck. When, out of frustration, it was mentioned they are playing games with "check is cut and will mail Friday" (the last of a long line of dodges) the lady on the phone lowered her voice and told us she hates it and is asked to lie all day long to push payments out as long as possible.

Last load we will ever haul for them.

 

they can't cut rates forever and expect to survive..

 

I officially "left" KLLM about a week ago. Been there two years, and I must be the weird one here, because I loved my time with the company. Only reason I chose to leave was that I am starting a local school bus job in FL so I can enroll in college in Jan.

my experience with KLLM has been a great one. No company is perfect, but I saw NOTHING of what is being talked about above. Never got paid late. And only real hang up was more with the shop than with operations. I was always treated with respect.

So not to be disrespectful here, but methinks that the above isn't telling the whole story.... (The Internet is pure truth right?!?)

 

as with any situation, you can tell the character when times get tough

corporate america has treated its employees like a commodity for 200 years. nothing new about that

but when it needs its employees, it gives out perks (insurance, vacation, etc), when times are tight, it cuts back, neither one should you take personal, you are no longer a person

so all of the mega-carriers are suffering, higher insurance, higher fuel, higher fines, higher costs of equipment

so they need to save money, where do you think they will take it from? YOU, the worker
where does the government take its money from? you, the worker
where do the toll people take their money from"? you, the worker

you are society's cash cow, and until you stand up and say you aint gonna take it any more, you will constantly be on the back burner of every corporation, government municipality, police officer, toll collector in the nation

good luck and welcome to austerity

 

Bill is an owner/op with his own authority last I knew and thats another whole ball game then running a company truck or leasing a truck from them..