Fifth wheel transportation

This post has no place in this forum.

It’s concise, informative, stated without any undo drama, not all caps, has the company name in the subject, and reasonably detailed.

All kidding aside, this should be a template for how to post information on here that is useful to others.

 

yeppers..amen..and all that other good stuff!!

 

If you like this one go to thread go to TMC the truth

 

Does anybody have any further information on this company? Just saw their ad on Craigslist and I need to hire on somewhere pretty soon.

 

Yes....they charge $10 a week for logs----you can buy 30 days worth of logs for 99 cents at TA.
Ain't that enough for you?

 

Stay as far away from this place as you can. CROOKS is the only way to describe them. I leased on and then talked to a few drivers down @ Loves who said they are still trying to get paid from weeks past. They backed up everything people are saying on here. I immediately went back and returned all items given to me and they are trying to sue me. WTF?? If you check with BBB and DOT you will find numerous investigations and complaints filed. How they are still allowed to operate I do not know. As one of there drivers told me "Instead of leasing on to Fifth Wheel, take $3k out of your bank account and give it to your buddy, then let him kick you in the balls 1/2 a dozen times". You have now experienced working at Fifth Wheel Transportation. Heed these warnings people and STAY FAR AWAY.

 

If it's Fifth Wheel man don't do it. Anywhere else is apparently better.

 

My original post was written after being turned over by Koon Trucking in Mississippi. They are now Transport One. Basically left me high and dry which was a ploy to get me to drive one of their company trucks. Chance would be a fine thing !
Very quickly after that post I basically lucked into a lease on with another local guy in that area where we were able to help each other. Still there but only for a couple of weeks.
Waiting for my IFTA stickers and I shall be up and running on my own again.

I see absolutely no point in owning equipment outright and giving somebody else 15 or now 18% for finding loads for me. That is basically what they do and in the case of the load before last I found it myself using Truckerpath!
A free app ffs !!
That plus the overly expensive insurance, an 18% commission AND providing my own settlements (yes you read that right) has caused me to scuttle back to doing my own thing again.

I do not know about you guys but 2015 was a watershed year for me. I had a massive amount of personal expenditure - nothing to do with trucking - then the freight fell off a cliff !
In desperation I hauled JB Hunt trailers around for exactly 2 months. Waste of time. Then on my own again for a while as I went through the Landstar 'process' (torture). It took 3 month from application to getting under my first load with those clowns. Made no money, got caught twixt a rock and a hard place re the staties and a weigh station in TN and good ol LS terminated me.There is nothing like support from the company you are leased to and this, was indeed, nothing like support.
I hate those people.
They ripped me off beautifully regarding the escrow and treated me like a leper.
That began a process of bouncing around with little company leases until I have finally a) had enough and b) gathered enough shekels together to make the jump back to my own good old authority.
Frankly I can't wait and I must say that rolling everything up and joining Landclowns was the worst decision of my trucking life. I should have just stuck it out.
Friends don't let friends lease.

 

please contact me at truckingbrother@gmail.com