Weird phone call from "TTR"

Absolutely not.

 

Sounds as if you applied to Cargo Transporters through their link on the Jobs Board here. That's the list of jobs accessed through the Trucking Jobs link at the top of the page, and Cargo Transporters has one of those ads. The apps on those company pages all ask for phone number, email, etc. That's the only way they could have gotten your phone number.

I can see how a company recruiter might have referenced the site in a phone call so you would know why he's calling. The forum side of TruckersReport has no way to have your phone number and doesn't want your phone number.

 

I had a call a few weeks ago. Caller ID showed it coming from MY phone. Yep. Like I wouldn't notice. Was a scammer.

 

Hi folks, some clarification here:
We don't have forum members' phone numbers, and even if we did we wouldn't call with job offers because there's a complete separation of TruckersReport between the forum and the job board. Like a newspaper, we don't want a situation where the news editors have to answer to the advertising department.

That separation is why the forum moderators were unaware that there is a team at the TruckersReport job board that calls drivers who have applied through the job board or selected an option to receive job offers in the Hammer app. Anyone who opts out is immediately placed on a Do Not Call list, this team has been making calls since mid-2019 and doesn't waste time giving drivers the hard sell.

Thanks for being cautious and I appreciate the feedback you've given.

 

One of the ways this team on the job board operates is as a quality control check to see if the carrier's recruiting department is doing their job. I'm guessing that you applied to Cargo Transporters, so the TruckersReport team would be calling you to see whether Cargo Transporters had actually reached out to you or if you had been left hanging. Sounds like something got lost in communication, I'm sorry that the parts you did pick up sounded bad out of context.