When I started with this company, they seemed pretty nice. It was ran by a family and they seemed professional enough. They took me to Farmington to get a truck and my first load out west with them. As soon as I started out from Minnesota to Oregon at the beginning of January, I realized the heat in the cab of the truck didn't work and the truck kept overheating. I told them and all they were worried about was the truck breaking down and having to fix it. I traveled all the way to Billings, MO before they even attempted to fix it. The only reason they did was because I had to keep stopping and adding anti-freeze and they assumed I would be late if I didn't. That's was only the first load!
Thru the 3-4 months, they would barely give me any fuel-enough to run about 300-400 miles and be stuck. I had to badger them to give me a paycheck that was suppose to be paid to me every week. It took 3 weeks after my check was actually due to get my first check and it was worse as I went along.
One day, the truck kept using fuel on one side and not the other. Me, not knowing anything about trucks, called them up BEFORE I ran out of fuel and told them exactly what was going on. The dispatcher called her brother, then called me back. He had told her the fuel line may have been accidentally shut off, but he was too busy to tell me how to open it back up and it was probably ok anyway so she sent me to get some fuel. So I drove and of course ran out of fuel. She sent an on-road service the first time with 10 gallons of fuel, which to her was suppose to get me 40 miles to the next fuelstop-then, of coarse, I ran out again. I had to sit in a cold truck for about 6 hours total that day in 35 degeree weather! They may me pay $400 for that on road service with the excuse that they can't babysit EVERY driver they have (they had 4 including the brother). The next day, when they didn't have enough money for me to fuel the truck, they told me how to open up the line so the tank on the other side (that was completely full by the way) could be used.
I had had more than enough when I was pulled over and taken to the police station in Olympis Fields, IL because they had not licensed the truck I was driving nor had they bothered to get and IFTA license after March (I checked it when I got my truck non Dec 27 and it 3 months. I had forgotten about it). They had to post a bond to get their truck back on the road. They told me they had a lawyer that would show up to court and take care of it and after that court date, I got myself home and quit. Of course I gota letter from Illinois saying noone showed and had to take care of that later on.
By the time I quit, they owed me for a months wages. I have never seen them-EVER!!! I contacted the USDOL and they can't do too much so I never bothered any farther.
There were three other drivers they did similar things to just in the 3-4 moths I was with them. I am still shocked people would actually do things like that.
Of course, now, here it is February and I can't get a W-2 from them. It would be wonderful just to be COMPLETELY done with this nightmare called DRAGON CREEK CARRIERS!!!
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