Rapid Response Inc.

I recently leased to this company out of St.Peters,Mo. shortest lease in my life, I left Barr-Nunn for this company based on promises made that they would allow me to train my wife and we could start the groundwork for a rolling retirement, gave BN a 2 week notice and left in good standing. Monday we went to the 3 hr. orientation in a cold warehouse with a table in the middle of it, sign this, sign that, you know the deal...anyway at noon get a load going to Florida, no problem. The next morning I find out load can't deliver till Wednsday, no reload till Wednsday night, now I have 2 1/2 days invested in a 740 mile load, not good..I also inform them that I contacted my own insurance company and will not be taking theirs, was informed thats not an option, I asked for the cost WOW!!! almost 3 times as much as you would pay anywhere else...The kicker...now all of a sudden after 2 weeks of dealing with them and making sure they understand our plans they tell me that even after I have the wife trained the only way their gonna keep a file on her for experience is if she drives one of their trucks solo....Not in the plan...this company lied about many other things as well, such as customer base,time out,time home and up front costs, I delivered load and bit the big one in fuel to bring their trailer back Wednsday,,,Run as fast as possible from Rapid Response.. I had OOIDA look them up(wish i had done that sooner) 3 different USDOT numbers since 1982 slightly changing their name each time...very fishy..

 

I tried finding them on trucker sites such as this one prior to leasing on, could'nt find anything good or bad so I assumed no one had anything to say, I sure wish somebody would have...Figured it was my moral duty to start this thread so no one else gets burned. Please feel free to elaborate on the going broke comment though...the more info the better informed others will be.

 

Ok...allow me to enlighten you, in order to be verifiable in this day and age of insurance companys running this industry, you must have a company keeping a file on you for D&A testing, a safestat report,mileage,logging,health etc... the days of O/O training you and just writing a letter are gone... as far as 740 miles in 2 1/2 days...well I guess with all the solar powered truckers out there you might think this is good, I don't and neither would anyone else that knows what their doing and has a working calculator.....as far as you driving with your husband and no record? you are driving as a solo or you are in violation of a lot of rules, if thats the case, hope you don't get caught...if your husband should get hurt or pass away your (driving) career is over with no verifiable history...do your homework before trying to make me look like a pissed off idiot that just walks away on a whim. no wonder the truckstops are so full by 6pm. with 370 miles a day being a full work day for you.

 

I don't want to come across as hateful or vindictive, if u read any post I have on TTR you will see that i try to be fair and honest, TTR is a great place to inform your fellow drivers, i know it has been used to be vindictive also but a knowledgeable person can usually filter out the BS from the truth...that being said...I just got off the csa2010 website..should have done that sooner,my bad...Rapid Response is in high alert on almost every safestat catagory, 149 trucks and drivers with 559 inspections in 12 months,none passed.. they are in the 94% to 96% bracket with 100% being the worst, every scale in the country would have been pulling me in had I left their signs on my truck...and as we all know, the game is played by staying under the radar. just a little FYI...your welcome