PDP Trucking complaint

FozzyNOK · Oct 8, 2024

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PDP is an owner operator company where you self dispatch from the spot market.

They have trucks and trailers that you can lease or you can bring your own equipment. I came there with my own truck from a previous company where I averaged 180,000 per year.

When I left that company as an owner operator I had approx $9,500.00 in the bank and another 2,000 cash in my truck with a good credit score. Joined with this company not knowing what to expect, started out in the negative immediately owing them money.
I was shocked to see a negative balance on their dashboard. Making money to pay their collection of bills every Friday.

Needless to say I never came out of the hole and it was a domino effect of financial loss from there. I will be 60 years old this month and it feels like starting all over again.

They stopped paying me any money at all for months. I was working, and working, and working, the more I worked the more they would keep. They said I owed them money and it must be paid off before i could get paid.

They offered a $250.00 cash advance but you must pay it back on your next trip along with your other cost. Then we get $12.50 advance fee and 2.50 process fee.

I was working 7 days a week with no vacation time trying to overcome their financial oppression. I use to take vacations all the time.

In my experience PDP is a safisticated billing scam, under the guise of helping the business owner be successful, grow their business, and have freedom. They give you a lot of happy talk as a motivation to keep you running. They count on "BTO's" being ignorant unsuspecting fools who run hard to make the money to feed their investment ventures.

Be careful joining with this company they have a lot ways to take your money and you will start PDP in the negative on there dashboard. Then you work your ### off to keep chasing those bills and fees that they will throw @ you.

They pay you tyically withing 24rs of finishing your load if its submitted by the noon cut off. Cost will be deducted from each load and additional monies will be deducted every Friday.

If you have a breakdown far away from home be sure you got money in the bank to take care of yourself. Dont depend on PDP to help you if you get stranded. They are very shady when it comes to helping you out on the road.
No one can help you after 10pm if you get in trouble they tell you as a business owner its on you.

This company is not about you. They are about taking your money period. Then making you feel like they are looking out for you.
They refer to you as a "BTO" (We don't have drivers we have business owners) but you feel like an AI or bot feeding their financial investments and bank accounts.

Just before I terminated my contract with PDP they shut off my ability to book any loads. As a power only truck, I had to deadhead from Florida to Atlanta to drop the load out trailer. Then deadhead back to Florida again without a load. Their way of punishing me because of not getting a PM done on "my own truck" in a timely manner.

Comments are opinions based on my experience with this company. Be clear eyed going into this 1099 scam. I do not recommend them nor have I personally met a single driver who recommends them. This business is not run according to american standards. Run like hell and dont look back.
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90sTrucker · May 1, 2025

You have to know how much it cost to run your own equipment/ business depending on the carrier to pay for your breakdowns sounds like driver mentality. If you dont know how to be an owner operator then just say that and go apply at SWIFT.

Lonesome · May 1, 2025

90sTrucker said: ↑

You have to know how much it cost to run your own equipment/ business depending on the carrier to pay for your breakdowns sounds like driver mentality. If you dont know how to be an owner operator then just say that and go apply at SWIFT.
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a little late to the party?

90sTrucker · May 2, 2025

Lonesome said: ↑

a little late to the party?
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Better late than never.

mjd4277 · May 2, 2025

90sTrucker said: ↑

Better late than never.
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Way too late since the OP posted back in October (7 months ago) and has probably since moved on!

90sTrucker · May 2, 2025

mjd4277 said: ↑

Way too late since the OP posted back in October (7 months ago) and has probably since moved on!
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and yet you're still here . . . 7 months later...interesting.

mjd4277 · May 2, 2025

90sTrucker said: ↑

and yet you're still here . . . 7 months later...interesting.
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Says the one who responded to the post…

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