SLX, Inc. - Kansas City, Mo.

If I'm not mistaken, OOIDA took a piece out of their hiney a few years ago, and yes...They are KNOWN for rampant abuse of drivers and lessors...

For the record, the company in question is SLX, Inc. - Kansas City, Missouri

 

This company will claim you can own your truck in 12 months.
Sad fact they don't even own their own equipment. Everything was
used in refinancing the company from their last bankruptcy filing.
They are still 4.5 million or more in debt. The equipment is, on average,
6 to 8 yrs. old with at least 5 to 6 hundred k on the motors.
Their recruiters are their dispatchers and they are paid to fill those trucks. Each of these"Well Maintained units." Has had, on average, 6 to 7
different drivers with their own driving habits in it. The bare minimum is spent, unless the driver pays, on upkeep. To even get into the oreintation will cost you 125.00 and whatever food and motel room costs are for that week. Eventhough they say paid oreintation, yeah, you pay them. If ANYTHING goes wrong with the truck, the driver is charged regardless of how short your time in the truck. Save yourself money and
Headache. DON'T bother with this company, They are not worth the aggevation,the heartache, nor the money they will cost you. Go with someone who does have an open door policy and will tell you which of the dispatchers owns what and where you stand. Go with someone who actually has the titles to the equipment or at least is honest enough to
tell you they don't. Go with someone who will give you as many miles
at the end of the lease as they do at the beginning. Consider this and stay away from SLX.
Signed a former driver and victim of lies. TEXAS

 

Maybe SLX should just go ahead and do the right thing and change the "L" to a "U".

Thanks for the heads-up about these guys. They sound like an outfit that deserves nothing but a very wide berth as I tip-toe around them on my way to somebody much better.

 

Started as Ledar transport. OOIDA sued them, big time, now new name change, SLX. Same people, Carl, (owner-father) Norma, (owners ex-wife-payroll-mother) Scott, ( recruiting, dispatch-son) Star, ( dispatch-Scotts on again off again squeeze) Steve, ( dispatch, tires, best friend). This company will lure you by telling you that you will own a truck in one year. You go in, go through orientation,then you see the trucks. NONE ! They will lease you a loaner truck untill yours gets out of the shop. You will take it and run, run, run! You get lots of miles, but guess what? NO PAY ! After about three weeks, your truck is ready and you get a check. They explain that it takes that long for 1st one, then regualar after that. You fall for it, cause afterall, you got miles, you got your check. Now, the fun begins.You pay $1000.00 down on your truck, and roll on. Miles stop, tires go flat, are bad or blow. GUESS WHAT AGAIN, THEY TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR NEXT PAY. Now, your $1000.00 in the hole from down pymnt. and you another $800.00 in the hole for tires. Then you get your next pay form. Yes, I said form. It will have a breakdown of everything that came out of your check, and the balance you owe them. You call said you made a tire report, and Steve said he will re-imberse you. Right, he loses more tire reports than an old man can eat prunes. Then you notice they held out too much fuel. They convieniently forgot to process it on the right week, or they claim you didn't turn it in on that week./ Regardless, you owe them money. The next week, you owe them more, and still no pay,you lost your car, phone, something.Then you get soooo hungry, you quit. Their plan is to starve you out of the truck, or make you owe them so much, they no longer need you.Your costing them money, have to let you go. Can you figure out what they made off you. The biggest kicker is, they tell you if you quit and don't pay what you owe them, they put an abandonment on your DAC.Got questions!?

 

Gee, that sounds just like Anderson Motor Freight,ATS, after orientatin I went thru.and came right home by bus,before I started. Then the end is like schanno was,thought you were doing great,then service fix things that should have been replaced before you leased the truck,then your freight rates are great from Iowa to boston,you get !.40 a mile,then you leave home and go all the way to Chicago for 57cpm, week 13 I quit and made 400.00, not enough to pay IRS or ssor medicade, 13 weeks came home once,started 899. a week , when payments started about 700 a week, ended at 400.,van pak,greenfield,hirshback,all grogeon companies,screwing all of you sooner or later. you won't see it till you want to. they should be shut down. they double broker you from thier own companies beware"""

 

Actually, one of the plaintiffs in OOIDA's case against Ledar is from where I live. To this day, the truck that he was leasing from them is listed as missing. Supposedly, after he and OOIDA filed suit, the truck was "stolen" from his house and never seen again. I suspect that the truck ended up as parts and Ledar got the insurance money from it. If I remember correctly, they got some legal relief on the deal, but in general all they did was admit that they weren't following the line and letter of the leasing agreements.

Unfortunately, many of the suits that OOIDA takes on result in changes in one specific contract, but have no overall effect industry wide. At best they can be used to establish porecedent in a court case, but's that's about all.

 

SLX out of Kansas City. Be afraid....be very afraid.

 

are they still even in business???