Fresh out of school, I tried to get on with May Trucking, a small, family-owned, self-insured firm. They decided that I wasn't driving well enough, so they said I should go get some experience somewhere else, and try again with them later.
I called a Werner recruiter, told him *everything* that had happened at May. I asked him if Werner still wanted to talk to me after that. He said he'd check, then a few days later they set it up for me to go from Boise to Portland for orientation.
During orientation recruiting called me, and I learned that the first recruiter had not reported what I said accurately. I told them again what I had told the first recruiter, and after a few hours they said okay, they'd send me out with a trainer.
I was out for 59 days without going home. I got along very well with the trainer, and he gave me good grades on everything. For most of the time we were in fact team driving, because he crawled back in the sleeper when I took the wheel. So, Werner was getting all the benefits of a driving team, and I was getting a little over $300 a week.
First they told me training was 275 hours behind the wheel. When I passed that mark, they "didn't have a truck for me." Finally, well beyond 300 hours, the student driver manager said to drop me at the Dallas terminal to get my own truck.
At the Dallas Terminal, I got a call from the head of recruiting, confronting me with that first false account of the May business, which I had already corrected once. I told him the true facts of the matter, told him that I had already corrected that once with his staff, and that I had given the same version to the first recruiter.
At that point he said that May had reported on my DAC that I had been terminated, and they weren't hiring anyone who had been terminated by another major carrier.
This after working me at slave wages for two months, in possession of all information regarding my employment with May.
They put me on a 40 hour bus ride from Dallas to Boise, and, adding insult to injury, the W-2 that Drivers Management sent me shows total wages of $342.39, when I have a statement dated 11/06/08 showing earnings to date of $2,217.47. So now I have to try and straighten that out before I can even file my income taxes.
I haven't found out yet what Werner put on my DAC, but England looked at my DAC and said no.
I wonder now if I'll ever get anybody to hire me.
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