TransAm Trucking.....MUST READ!!!! inside story

88 Alpha · Sep 5, 2019

Anonymousproxy said: ↑

Sounds like a company cheerleader. Common for most of the big fleece purchase training companies.
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You know it's acceptable for someone to come onto this forum and offer a different take on a reported company, even if they are a company shill.

MaxzRig · Sep 6, 2019

Davetrucker818 said: ↑

Here's the inside story on TransAm Trucking. First look at their business model. They are primarily a Leasing Company, period. How do they get lease drivers, they advertise and recruit COMPANY and lease. This draws them in. Virtually all their recruits want to go company but end up leasing. They bus in 80 to 120 newbie students every month from the CDL Mills. You are now a number in their system.

You will be staying in a hotel during orientation. You will be staying in a hotel (after your 3 weeks on the road with a coach) while testing out. Orientation and Test-Out candidates do not stay at the same hotel. Why? Because during orientation you are thinking, "company driver". During test-out (if all goes well with their business plan) you are probably thinking about lease.

First and foremost their goal is to weed out the anti-lease newbie's and be done with them. How do they do this? They must know what you are thinking. They will have a trusted spy at the orientation hotel. He will probably pose as a student testing out. He will mingle with all the newbie's and listen carefully. If you are identified as unlikely to lease and very unlikely to be sold on the lease program later on, get ready for a rough ride.

You will be put with a coach whose goal is to "get you gone". This coach will do his best to get you to quit ASAP. Whether you quit TransAm or the trucking industry all-together they don't care, as long as you go away. They will try to accomplish this the first few days of road training because you have not yet been paid. (you will sign a letter during orientation stating that if you quit for any reason within 90 days you will pay for your transportation and hotel bills during orientation) If the "hatchet man" coach is effective you will be dropped at a truck stop and pay your own way home from there. And guess what? That first check they owe you… it goes to pay for your bus ticket to Olathe or Rockwall along with your hotel bill… and you are gone. Another busload of newbie's has already arrived to replace you.

To avoid EOE hassles they do hire a small percentage of company drivers. These are newbie's who in their opinion can be sold on the lease program down the road. If that is not their opinion and you are still hired on as a company driver (again EOE comes into play) guess what? They are still within the 90-day window to lose you and re-coup some expenses from your final check. Another bus has already arrived.
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This cowboy is telling ya'll the absolute TRUTH!!! I personally ran for these thieves in 2006. Started out as company driver & shortly after offered (from 38cpm) 50cents from a Lease driver who had about 5 other drivers working for him. After a grueling summer of off/on again a/c in the truck... I found this unscrupulous but charming owner/contractor running me began to 'fire' his crew a little at a time!!! Of course STEALING THEY'RE LAST COUPLE OF CHECKS$$$ SON OF A BEECH IF AFTER ANOTHER MONTH WENT BY HE DID IT TO ME TOO!!!
While we drove team for one week. He kept me on the hook saying; "Im soooo blessed to have you driving for me! I'm gonna give you this whole week of us driving double!!!" I believed this crap hook line & sinker>>>> KICKED ME OUT IN VIRGINIA AT A TRUCK STOP IN THE RAIN! I DRAGGED MY TRUCK FULL OF CLOTHS & GOODS ACROSS THE STREET TO LOCAL HOTEL... !!!! I called a cop, he only said, "sorry, its his name on the title". I tried to sue... a sub-contractor has NOOOOOOO TO LITTLE RIGHTS= SAME AS A SLAVE!!!! Work, no rights, get paid what ever! I told the owner of the company... he only replied " well there's two sides of every story". OMG what hell for the first 6 mos. of breaking in! But God's got me more than the devil can keep up with!!! I'm making crazy money now in W.Texas oil fields!!!
STAY AWAY FROM TRANS AM!!!!!!!!!

LDLWells · Sep 6, 2019

MaxzRig said: ↑

I'm making crazy money now in W.Texas oil fields!!!
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It's feast or famine in oil.

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