E.W. Wylie not so great.

I recently worked at E.W. Wylie for 7 months. I have to say it was one o f the best jobs I have had regarding the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when hugging your child. Thats as far as it goes. The hometime was as planned. You come out of the house and tell them when you want home again. I always got home again on time usually two or three days ahead of time which is just bad load planning and resulted in low check. Overall drivers are treated well at Wylie. I was paid per mile more than any company job I have had (.38 cpm) Why then are you wondering am I complaining? It begins in load planning. You will wait for a load after you deliver. Even if you are communicating your daily status. Most times there wasnt even a search for new loads til way after I had emptied. Resulting in dead time which pays no one. I never complained since I hate confrontation as it brings out my temper which I do not like. Equipment is fairly nice but gutted power and of course my truck had issues constantly with the dpf filter not working properly. Came in Dec. 29 to Fargo yard and went on shop board for dpf,b service and broken drivers window crank handle. Dec. 31 the mechanic performed a 6.5 hour b service and fixed window crank handle. If I had a mechanic taking 6.5 hrs to do a b service I would relegate him to the unemployment line . Had to wait til the 3rd of Jan for a clutch cable to come in. Whats that you say? Of course that wasnt something I needed fixed. Clutch was fine. A littke stiff at times due to low air pressure but not something I needed. Dpf? Never even looked at. Guess I was just gonna have to keep doing daily parked regens. I got the call from Stan Koch and havent looked back. Well not entirely true. I got a bill for $377 for an advance of $150 which I will pay but the other $227 is supposedly my insurance premium. Which I will be forced to pay but cannot use. Nice. Not paid for breakdown or shop pay after sitting in Fargo 7 days. The advance was so I could eat. They didnt want to really tear into the truck because then they have to put me up in a hotel. Better to have that truck out of the shop at night so I could sleep in it. Honestly I didnt care. I just wanted a load to pull. After 7 months and a gross of $15600 I feel real silly for staying for such low pay. I was merely thinking that the company treated me good and I didnt want to dissapoint my wife by having too many jobs. Btw I would have grossed an average of about $26-27000 for a year at Wiley. Being out 2-3 weeks at a time during said year. Also the performance bonus is a total of five gimme categories(accident,tickets,ontime performance and other things that are easy to obtain) then they throw in idle time and mpg as well as paid revenue miles which of course make it impossible to get much of a monthly bonus. Great for them bad for the driver. I have grossed $22000 already in just over two months at Stan Koch and feel just as welcome and it is a driver friendly atmosphere here on the Cummins board. Please feel free to comment good or bad I would like to here from people. Also the payroll department is overwhelmed at Wiley and only pays two week intervals and wint pay state taxes gor a loy of states. I now owe Illinois $547 dollars. Thanks Wiley!