Burris
03-09-2007, 02:09 PM
I worked for a trucking company in Salt Lake City Utah. When I put in my application Anna the recruiter I talked to said that since I had 3 1/2 years experiance but have not drove in 5 years they would put me through a 7 day driver referesher course and start me off at .36 cents a mile. When I got to my training site after 2 days they said I would have to go to their full trucking school but they said they would not charge me anything. Well at their school I was made to sit out of class at times because I already knew how to drive a truck and I was told by david I was wasting the other students time by being in the truck. Well they then told me I needed a trainer for 3 weeks. My trainer released me after two weeks but could of released me after one he just wanted to cover his reat. After that they told me you need to be a second seat for 3 weeks at 10 cents a mile. My first seat driver john called in and said hey this guy don,t need any training he is good to go but they made me stay 3 weeks anyway. When I finally got my own truck I was told we put you thru school we are not going to pay you 34 cents a mile we are going to pay you 26 cents a mile. So at .26 cents a mile I was loosing 100 to three hundred dollars a week depending on how many miles I got that week. I called in to recruiting and talked to anna and told her at 26 cents a mile I would be turning in my truck sooner or later. Well I found out from my dispatcher I was terminated but I was 1500 miles from the yard so I called into anna and said hey im not quiting now but sometime soon im going to look for another job and when I get by the yard then I quit. She un-terminated me and I was driving again. I tried to save my job by calling in and talking to anna's supervisors. I talked to Debbie. I tried to tell here that is was not good to start a driver off with 3 1/2 years experiance at beginners pay and have him hired away. Well she got mad and we had a few civil candid words for each other. I was just trying to get a raise. Debbie told me we are not going to put you through school for free and pay you 34 cents a mile. A few weeks later when I was near salt lake I turned my truck in at the yard and went home. We I got my next driving job at (another company) they called(my former employer) for a job reference. They told them they fired me that was a lie, they told them I was late with my loads. That was a lie too the only time I was late was when the highway freezed over into a sold sheet of ice and other times it was just plain just down closed. And one time the shipper overloaded my truck to heavy so instead of paying a thousand dollar fine I stayed over 24 hours to have it loaded correctly that was not my fault. They read what I said to debbie and to my driver manger but I said nothing that was not true. I was getting paid every two or three weeks and going for days at a time without eating because they were not giving me miles and paying me for my loads until two or three weeks later and I let my driver manager know about it too. Also the first couple of months I did not get home to see my family but their policy is a driver gets home every three weeks. I lost well over 20 pounds starving because they told me I would make money with them and I ended up over two months behind in my bills at home and I have a family of three a wife one girl infant and a 8 year old daught I had to feed. Now theyare trying to prevent me from working. If any one knows of anything I can do about this please let me know. Thanks, Lloyd
