Western Canadian Trucking Companies Flat-Deck and everything else: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

If you're in the flat-deck or other specialized trailer market I thought it would be a good idea to have a Western Canadian version of the "good and bad companies", since many drivers out west in BC, AB, and SK who are doing a job search need a quick way to check out a company's review.

This would be a good place to discuss your recommendations for a company, give a reference to other job seekers asking about it, let everyone know where the company could improve upon their already great reputation, then Let us know what you liked about the company, what the company culture was like, what the pay was like, what made the job a keeper, etc.

If you've successfully won a judgement against an employer, or your employer is violating the labour laws, or has a bad attitude, is incompetent, is not paying you properly, is not reporting your pay properly, has unsafe work conditions, is timing your runs too tight, not giving you enough lead time on a move, run down equipment, refusing repairs, you had to deal with terrible customers who treated you like an animal, absent management, had issues with how you were paid, had issues with safety, made you run tired, made you falsify your logs, expected you to sit and wait for free, had issues with fights over getting trucks fixed, had issues with getting laid off for days or weeks without pay suddenly, favoritism on who got the work when there was slowdowns, or whatever else you feel is not right please let us all know. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and you're helping to protect other families from getting hurt.

 

From one driver I spoke a few years ago to this issue this matches up with what you said. The company hired this guy to run for only 42cpm, and was running the guy ragged 70h or more per week, week after week. The truck was a Volvo and didn't look too shabby. But he was complaining that he was making more money back home than when he came here to Surrey. Really the rates needs to improve but as long as companies have cheap labour being resupplied from Asian and Europe this fiasco will continue.