The "Truth" About Rush Expediting !!!

Where do I start?? 1st-Thing is Rush charges you 5.00 a week for uniforms that you have to take home and wash and dry yourself. You are not allowed to exchange any unless they are torn or stained. Yep!! that's right you pay them to wash there shirts at your "EXPENSE" at your house.. Wow what a deal.!!

2nd-They pay you on percentage. But what they don't tell you is that they have you do work that should be paid per hour. Example-Seperate and hand unload frt. and put it in customer's storage area. Or you may even do dock work (ie) load or unload your truck at term. Or repallet and/ or seperate frt. on skids. How about change your own marker lights on your own time. "MY FAVORITE" is get back to term at 2:30pm and be forced to wait "NOT PAID" till 5:00pm or so just in-case something pops up before you are allowed to go home.

3rd-You are on call at all times. There is no real set start or finish time. They will work you at least 12hr days. But you will do alot of 14hr days as well. And let's not forget the "FAMOUS" One -16hr day that you work which is mostly on a Friday. How about drive to Chicago,In to delv. and drive back mty at no pay. This kind of stuff happends all the time. And no those miles are not included in the pricing. When you break down hrs worked and money brought home you can make 5.00hr up to 14.00hr if your lucky. But on a "Honest Ave" you might come close to 10.00hr for your Cdl-A all endorcements with hazmat that you've worked hard to get not to mention the money it might have cost you.

And Last but not Least!! Everybody and I mean Everybody!! From The Owner (and wife). To Operations Mgr. To Safty Mgr. To Dispatchers and Appt setters. DO NOT HAVE A CDL!! Yet they run the company and your life and they get to decide what kind of money you should make as a CDL Driver. Rush has a very and I mean very "HIGH TURN-OVER RATIO" of employees do to the hrs worked and money brought home.

Now do to your possable boardem I will end this post with one last statement: In my opinion if you work for someone you should get paid for all hrs worked. But if you are on percentage then you should not have to work on time consuming crap or be forced to wait on your own time that only benefits the company. After all our time is also valuable to us just like the companies time is valuable to the company. It's hard to watch the office people take 5 or 6 smoke brakes in a 8hr shift and get paid for it. ( you do the math). When you work 12hrs plus a day and only get paid for a portion of those hrs. This by far is the "MOST CROOKED" place I've worked for in Dayton,OH!!!

 

Yea the company I worked for went out of business so I'm now in the game like so many other's trying to find a decent job. Rush was the 1st to pick me up and now I know why.