What is something you hate hearing from a recruiter at a bad trucking company?

A few live up to it. Some others like Great Plains take it too far to the point where they turn the company into a group therapy clinic and preach all kinds of Mickey Mouse garbage, like “EOS”.

 

When a percentage pay company says "We have lots of miles." Don't care! What do the loads pay & how much deadhead?

When a mileage pay company advertises 0.60/mile & says "Well.....in a way...let me explain our bonuses so you can achieve that."

"We pay for your health insurance". Sure, after you've been there 2 years.

No clear definition of "quality home time"

 

Maybe trying to get you to show up and get into a lease.

 

You can earn up to "X" amount cents per mile. That one makes me blow a gasket. Tell me what the base pay is, not what it could be with bonuses I may never see.

 

I found that out with another outfit in western Iowa. The high paying loads were mostly up& down the east coast between Sysco warehouses but half the time I would get deadheaded back which wiped out half the money I could’ve been earning. Plus they acted as if the load gross was a secret, often if asked I would be told a higher amount than what I got. I left there after I got fed up with the constant dishonesty and the pathetic excuse for “maintenance”. After that place I swore never to work for percentage again.

 

On boarding begins Monday.Please bring a cashier's check

 

This one is particularly egregious. Just be up front about the pay, ####.

 

If only He had made it clear. Like, I dunno, a hard and fast, plainly stated rule. Like a commandment or something.

 

"You're hired."

 

"Our top drivers made over $100,000 last year" or, " own your own truck, no credit check!"........ CLICK!