TRY HOURS REH HOT EXPEDITING ripoff, fuel surcharge, yeah right! ambassador program, what a farce! MAUMEE Ohio

If you are a driver, XPO, formerly Express-1 is no better.  I worked for them for a month and was paired with an idiot.  In the 5 weeks I drove with this guy I personally saw him run 4 red lights, including one he ran when he took his road test and the administrator passed him!

I told the fleet manager (Adam Brown of Toledo) for the owner of the truck (Brian Judd/Judd Transportation) what he was doing and he sent me a text saying he would find a replacement for him.  A week or so later I got a text from him saying Matt would be staying on with us.  Then I called my recruiter at XPO (Cindy Kuntz) and told her what was going on and asked her to find another owner to put me with.  I called her repeatedly but she would never take or return my calls.

I made both audio and video of the blatantly stupid things my co-driver did and the fleet manager got mad about it claiming I didn't have his permission to do so, as if I needed it.  I refused to sign his idiotic lease because in part it made me responsible for the stupid things my co-driver was doing and told him I wanted off the truck and he has refused to pay me in excess of $1600 that he still owes me.

Both videos I have attempted to attach are from the last day I was on the truck.  They are short but you don't have time to set up for this kind of thing.  Even so you can tell what he is doing.  The first video shows him reading a message I sent over the QC to XPO to Adam Brown, while he was driving, AND BROWN KNEW IT.  The second one shows him driving through an on-coming turn lane.  This guy was a bad driver to begin with.  But once he started playing with his phone the truck was all over the road.  I never got a decent nights sleep.

I have filed a complaint with the FMCSA so we'll see what happens.  They are probably just as useless and unconcerned when it comes to fullfilling their obligations to the public they are supposed to protect as any other government agency so probably nothing will come of it.  If the FMCSA really has any intention of making our highways safer they need to crack down on carriers and make them liable to the drivers, regardless of what their contracts say.

I've been with TryHours for one month, and I've only worked 8 days!!! They keep telling me they don't have work, that it's slow, that they're trying to find me something....but day after day after day goes by, and STILL no work! I sat in Toledo, OH for a WEEK which is where the company is based out of...you'd think that they would have SOMETHING to do in their own city, wouldn't you? Prior to that, I sat at home for 11 days because they kept telling me they "had no work", that they were "looking". Both times I went to St. Louis, I ended up deadheading home 250 miles at my own expense because they couldn't find me a load to get me home.

This company doesn't seem very well established, as they are constantly having to use load boards to find loads.

Any company that has an established customer base does not have to rely on LOAD BOARDS. But what makes me even angrier is that I just found out a few minutes ago that they docked my pay 3 different times for "not being on time".

One time they docked my pay 50%! I ***KNOW*** I was NOT late to anything! If anything, I was EARLY!

I told them I am hurting so bad financially as it is because they aren't working me, and I'm so discouraged and depressed because of it, and then to find out they are STEALING money from me, that I might as well just shoot myself. I'm sick of trucking companies.

They are all crooked and hurt so many people. What's it going to take for them to get a reality check? Someone walking into their building and shooting up the place? Someone killing themselves at their front door? This really has to stop! It needs to be made illegal for trucking companies to steal money out of people's paychecks. Owner Operators and employees need protection from trucking companies. If you can avoid it, don't ever work for a trucking company - you'll just get screwed one way or another. I have not had one good experience that can speak of.

Have you ever heard anything about Express-1 in Michigan? They have $0 down on their box trucks, and if things aren't working out and you want to leave, Express-1 told me they don't hold you up for the remaining lease - all they require is a 30-day notice. I am considering doing this, but don't want to get burned. So have you or anybody else heard anything bad about the company?