Weston Transportation Owner Scott CrackHead! Phony Slush fund. $50.00. North Kansas City Missouri

Weston Transportation had to close it's doors and sell out due to the incompetence of the Owner, Scott Shriner.  He sold thje company to Schmuel Brothers, an Intermodal Freight Company in Kansas City Kansas.  I guess the blood all over his hands as well as karma coming back to bite him in the a*s after screwing over so many long term employees really got to the loser.

Notice that the rebuttal doesn't disclaim any of the truths in my original article ?

First of all this individual worked for said company for many many years. (lets just say more than 10) He is the person who said he quit due to running illegally and being caught in the process.  Sounds like a bunch of sour grapes to me.

No so sure about the crackhead part of this report, but after working for this company for many years I feel I can set the record straight.  This company is NOT a trucking company any self respecting truck driver would want to work for.  In the early days of working here, we were forced ti drive illegally, i.e. round trips to Detroit Michigan with only little rest. 

They illegally reported to Ford Motor Company that they were abiding by the Fair Labor Standards Act that we were being paid fair wages for our work.  Trucks were being held together with a wing and a prayer, junk equipment, except for always keeping trailers that Ford would accept.  Later on, new equipment was bought, thanks to the high fees that Ford was paying them.  They would take round trip money from Ford, booking return freight through other brokers, doubling the take on the return load. 

When Ford started lowering their rates because other companies were interested in hauling the auto freight, then Weston bailed out.  Taking brokered freight from what ever spot brokers they could get freight from kept them afloat.  Then came Indianapolis, Indiana crash in 2019.  The driver that administered the road test for Bruce Pollard specifically reccommended not hiring him, but greedy Scott Shriner, wanting to fill another empty spot, hired him. 

Details here : https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/bruce-pollard-semi-driver-who-caused-crash-that-killed-mother-and-twin-daughters-sentenced-to-9-years.  The blood from Alanna Koons and her twin daughters are all over Scott Shriner's hands.

I first spoke to Weston Transportation about coming to work there in June of 2008 after speaking to several of their drivers.  At that time or since nothing was said to me about any sort of hiring bonus either by Scott nor the drivers I spoke to, though as at many old time companies especially small ones, an escrow account would be taken out of my pay up to $1000.00 to cover any damage to the equipment or claims.  The rate the escrow monies would be taken out was $25.00 a week.  If I had a family emergency, this money would be available for me to get.

The pay promised was starting @ $.31 cents per mile with penny raises at the end of the year.  Miles promised at that time were 3500 a week and home every weekend. 

I spoke with them again in July of 2008 and went down to KC to interview them in person and to check out their operation.  The operation is small of course due to Weston being a 40 truck company.  I know that it is a 40 truck company because while sitting there, I was looking at their dispatch board on the wall and counted the number of trucks there.

I was told that I would technically be paid by Peoplelease because it cut down on overhead for Weston in not having to have a payroll clerk.

Weston only hires experienced drivers with at least 3 years experience and clean records.  Over half of their drivers have been there 1+ years with many there 5+ years.

I liked the equipment which is less than 3 years old and I especially liked the pleasantness of the office staff.  Scott Schriner was very nice and respectful to me.

I went to work at Weston Transportation as a driver 8/1/08 and have been there since through all the problems the economy has caused to trucking companies throughout the country. 

My pay is right every week, the benefits  provided are adequate and though miles have dropped off due to the economy, Scott and the other dispatchers work hard to keep us running fairly with equal miles between us drivers.

I have had many family problems this last year with two deaths in the family...one sudden and one brother who was sick 6 weeks before dying.  Weston made sure that I was home for as long as I needed to be with my truck sitting in the front yard of my house.  They allowed me to take their truck to the hospital in KC to see my brother.

I ended up in the hospital myself in July for 4 1/2 days.  I went in on a weekend while I was under load.  They sent a driver up to repower the load, but again, my truck stayed at my house.  When I offered to reimburse them for the expense of having to send a driver up to get the load and me having to deadhead back to KC, they refused to take my money.

We are expected, as at any company, to maximize our hours...that means running 11 hours a day.  Never once have I been turned down, threatened or coerced to run illegally when I say I am too tired to run. 

To say that I am happy at Weston Transportation is an understatement.

Now the funny thing about the reports here is that they are all written on the same bad information...that $50.00 is taken out of people's pay for the escrow account though none say it is for an escrow account.  That is strange wouldn't you think in 3 different reports from supposedly 3 different people?

Furthermore, I have been around people using drugs and I go to the office often and have never seen any indication that Scott nor anyone else in the office is on drugs.  I have seen him tired, frustrated and angry though...normal behavior for a boss at a trucking company.  But ya know?  I have screwed up and he has been a little angry, but has never disrespected me or any other driver in my presence...haven't even heard that he has from the other drivers at Weston.

As far as Weston's safety stats...as a life member of OOIDA, I know to check those before going to work for any company.  For a small trucking company that has been in business for 20+ years, they are about average nationwide with most of the findings being minor equipment problems like lights out.  1 fatality accident in 20+ years is pretty good as far as stats go.

Bottom line, I wonder who the one person is who was so disgruntled at Weston in whatever capacity it was who wrote these three reports...obviously not a driver or at least one who knows anything about truck driving or trucking companies.  Bunch of sour grapes in my opinion...and after 37 years in the trucking industry, I know sour grapes when I see them.

Ya'll be safe out there!

Lady G