Midwest Polar Express Scam

Rick Gartner is operating a fly by night unscrupulous scam under the company name Midwest Polar Express. Gartner continually hires new drivers, hurries them into taking a load with only a verbal contract in place if at all possible. Then Gartner jerks them around by giving them just enough advance money to keep them from starving and strings them along. Gartner keeps them running brokered freight far from the home terminal, from brokered load to brokered load for as long as he possibly can until they quit. Gartner has little if any prime freight, and does not do any accounting or make any attempt to pay for freight moved with any regularity whatsoever.
The only way to get any money out of Rick Gartner is to go after him incessantly until he pays something, which will always be the absolute minimum that he can possibly get by with and still keep the driver running for him. The amount Gartner pays a driver never bears any relationship to what he owes that driver in accord with his agreement with them. He makes excuses for not accounting and uses creative accounting and the fact that it becomes more and more difficult to sort out the longer this continues. For instance, Gartner will “inadvertently” fail to credit any and all amounts a driver has paid out of pocket even after the receipts have been turned in to him, and then claim that all amounts paid out in advance money was money paid to the driver for compensation. All out of pocket expenses such as fees for toll roads, wiper blades, certified scale fees, tire repair, light bulbs, motel bills if the truck is down, diesel fuel in emergencies, faxing of bills, etc. are treated in this manner.
After a driver quits Gartner will make no attempt to pay them any of the amount that he owes them. Gartner will make all manner of promises to pay what he owes, but will never account for loads moved or make any attempt to pay amounts that he owes his drivers after they have quit. Gartner siphons money out of the trucking company on a regular basis into hidden personal accounts and then cries to his drivers about how broke he is, how bad things are, and makes up all kinds of excuses as to why he can not pay or account for loads moved and what he owes the driver, generally by falsely blaming an accountant. He will continue to string every driver along in this manner until the driver quits. Gartner will wear the driver down when that driver attempts to collect what is owed to him for freight moved. He makes promises he invariable does not keep, and employs delay tactics that he is very practiced in while not paying them or even making any attempt to make square what he owes them. Gartner will simply hire another driver and then do the same thing to them. Generally has not been reported because the driver moves on and becomes preoccupied with making a living and does not pursue it. Not this time! I want everyone to know what this con artist is before they get screwed by him.