Good Afternoon Joel,
I really appreciate your reply. Ya did it w/ class & w/out making accusations that what I said wasn't true. I don't recall the details of my runs, though I do know I have only been late one time due to it being my fault in 6-7 years of expediting. That was a situation where I thought the consignee was in the Central Time Zone & they were actually in the eastern. DOINK!!! my bad. I was 45 min late. What stunk about that is I was napping 5 minutes from the destination. Also, that was in the last year, not w/ CTX. Obviously I can't help it if the weather is brutal or if the shipper isn't ready when I get there.
W/ CTX I simply didn't get paid as agreed upon. I got a few different stories as to why. Like each day might be a different story. Don't recall exactly "what" the stories were, though thinking back one of em seemed to be the lady in payroll was sick or something. Not totally sure. Anyways, I gave em a week & when I still didn't get paid I left.
I'd call down there, every day or two, & ask if my check had arrived. I'm sure the guy got sick of my calls. His response went from "your check should be on it's way soon" to a lot more hostile responses a lil later on. After this went on for awhile, I just set a date that I wanted my check by. I told him if it didn't arrive by Dec. 7 I was heading to court. (I still remember that date for some reason, Pearl Harbor maybe???) That gave em about a month to come up w/ the payment. Anyways, his response was something along the lines of "DONT YOU MAKE THREATS TO ME!!" I'm not one for idle threats, & I pretty much relayed that to him. Going to court was gonna happen if I didn't get paid. I figured that they'd had long enough & if I didn't have it by then, they prolly weren't sending it. Anyways, December 6 my check arrived.
Now, all this happened in 1994. As I stated in my previous post, things can change. I noticed another post had said his opinion might be outdated also. I wrote my post w/out having read his, so both of us had similar experiences.
I haven't met you, but I already respect you. I wish you were there when I had my challenges, maybe I'd still be working there. As for my current company, I'm pretty happy w/ it. I'd like to think I'll be w/ them until I'm ready to retire. I pretty much drive locally & when I'm ready to move out of Michigan, they have offices all over the country. Who knows though? Our paths may cross again. I do have a 2000 van, though if I was to find someone who would put it in service, I wouldn't be the one driving it.
I wish you the best of success,
Danny