Owner plays with my pay II The loads

[GatorBait]

I ran from my home 748 miles to Bentonville Arkansas for a 1/2 day orientation to learn a Nextel to receive loads. I got a load from Harrisison,AR to New Braumels,TX. Then D/H to Laredo to pickup a load,ran that load to Nogales,AZ,THEN SAT TILL 3-12,told to go to El Paso TX,I got 110 miles from Las Creuces,NM,They told me to turn around go back to Nogales,AZ,pickup a load 3-13. The load on 30-13 was shipped out 3-12 to Tucson.I sat till 3-15,then told to D/H to El Paso,TX. I sat till 3-20,picked up a load El Paso,TX to MO.I sat for a day,picked up a load in MO to West Chicago. I sat in West Chicago for two days waiting on a load,D/H home. Now if I did pass some back info to the owner on a bank address and there are ways to check numbers and addresses via internet,why is there a problem getting my deposit in the bank for the entire time I have been on the road for 3 weeks? We got into it about this today. If there is 2 branches of the same bank in one town,any branch can deposit the money. Despite the problem with the depositing of money in my account. The owner was not at all really concerned that I only got 5 loads in a 3 week period,where as this company you take what they give you,or commonly known as "forced dispatch". 5 loads in 3 weeks and he is not concerned about making money with this van. Now can I say WTF?

 

[GatorBait]

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Needless to say....I offered to return the owner his van back. I dont need his BS!!! I have come across some owners from a previous carrier I have driven for in the past.Orientation is Monday.

 

[Scuba]

Make sure he pay your payroll taxes if he ever gets around to paying you. He told you where to go etc that makes you his employee

 

[dscincexp]

Well I cant sit back and let this go unsaid, I love drivers that get on here screaming and yelling about the horrible owners and leave out important facts that will put them in a unfavorable light. Old Gator signed a document (part of independent contractor agreement) on the day he picked up the van in which he had to state how he wanted to be paid (sent to house or bank) of which he picked sending it to the bank and he gave me the address of his local branch. We pay on Friday, but mail checks to bank on Thursday am, that Thursday night I arrive home to find his check was returned and I immediately call him. I looked up his bank on Yellowpages.com and it showed the address as 1796 vs. 176 which I was given, his comment was maybe he left out a number, but couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t get there anyway. I sent the check out that next morning to the corrected address and put a stop payment on the other check I had sent that morning and rewrote that one.. A lot of aggravation, but it was done. Contractor pay IS important to us. Come to find out this week after our concern when drive stated still not in bank, I called his bank to straighten out addresses and found out they do not have that location any longer.. The post office delivers to the address on the envelope and if it is not right, they don’t drive around looking for the right location.. they send it back… We re cut new checks today AGAIN.. mailed to house.., Lets hope he knew his home address.



So this guy decided to call some of my other Contractors to see why no one was getting paid, everyone else was.. they gave us the correct info and it works correctly, 3 others have their check sent to their bank as well .. It was the information he gave us. Seemed to not mention that either..



He also failed to say after orientation he had a load next day, 640ish miles, and then a 1048 mile load to which I got a call the next morning stating he never expected to run long miles and wanted to quit??? The sitting in the AZ and then El Paso was unfortunate BUT he also failed to mention that the carrier gave me monies because they felt bad about him sitting and my van not making money, I told them it was not necessary but they insisted, HE received 95 % of that money.. Not his standard percentage that most would give. ..



I am a multi fleet owner, in this business over 13 years and do take care of my people, most have been with me for multiple years, I have not grown my fleet by screwing driver, I have rehired a lot that left for greener pastures.. I maintain my equipment.. I will not stand by and have someone that does not understand try to ruin my name.



I had the enjoyment of drive the sprinter he had home today with the smell of urine in the cab, his dogs, I assume or at lest hope.. So when you b(*&ch about a owner that takes his hard earned money to buy vehicles and have them trashed by someone whom calls themselves a professional, go buy you own **** truck and treat it like crap… I am tired of this crap that owners are the ones out trying to screw drivers when it works both ways…



Two sides to a story.. but lets put is all out there

 

[greg334]

I am not going to judge either of you, however I am going to make a suggestion to you and to others.

If you are going to use a bank, CALL the bank and talk to them DIRECTLY. I learned this back when I was working with doctors. ALL banks don't like surprises, they will refuse checks and mail not addressed to them as a matter of business. They may send the check to the processing center instead to a branch office and may also just say no.

The other thing that I have been doing for other projects is paying people through PayPal, seems to be a lot easier than dealing with all the other crap. The driver can get a Paypal credit card, and boom instant money.