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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KM4FAE, post: 4443595, member: 158862&quot;]I worked for PTL in 2013 and I thought they were going under at that time. Here is my experience with PTL, and why I left. 1) They NEVER include the paid miles with the load info. If you want to know what the paid miles are, you have to ask EVERY SINGLE TIME you get a new load! At first they will give you the paid miles over the QC. But then they quickly stop doing that and tell you to call-in, which takes at least 20 min and leaves no record of proof. The longer you work there, the harder it becomes to get the paid miles info. And the reason is because &quot;IN MY OPINION&quot;, they shave about 12% of the paid miles off each paycheck. Now I&#039;m not talking about the 4% to 12% more miles that we all drive to deliver a load (national average is 8%), no, I&#039;m talking about an additional 12% fewer miles that you are getting paid for AFTER allowing for the 8% out of rout miles! 2) Company policy requires any driver who has 3000 or more paid miles in a week to take a drug test. So if you have a load left over from the previous week that didn&#039;t get turned in on time, or, if you just have a good week period, you have to take a drug test. I was drug tested 3 times in 5 weeks! So I said something to my dispatcher about it and was informed of the 3000 mile &quot;red flag&quot; policy. 3) The company is pretty good about maintenance as long as you are far away from a PTL terminal. If you are up in Wisconsin and break down, they will get you rolling again asap. But if you are at PTL&#039;s HQ in Murray or at the Memphis yard, you will be there all #### day for even the simplest repairs. 4) PTL does a lot of drop &amp; hook, which is good. The problem is that 90% of the time (seriously, 90% of the time!) the trailer you are picking up will have a major issue. And you will have to waste 4 hours of your time getting it fixed AND still deliver the load on time or its YOUR fault! If you pick up a trailer that&#039;s missing a mudflap and you decide to fix it yourself, figure about 3 weeks to get reimbursed for the mudflap that YOU paid for to deliver the load on time. Same thing goes for DEF fluid, if you get reimbursed at all. When I finally quit after 7 months, they asked me why I was quitting. So I told &#039;em, &quot;I&#039;m tired of all the lies&quot;. Their reply was classic PTL, they said &quot;Well, that&#039;s trucking&quot;. No....., that&#039;s not trucking. But it is PTL policy![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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