Hoosier Tradewinds Tradewinds My Personal Experience With Hoosier Tradewinds Truck Leasing Program Arcadia, Indiana

Not only will you NOT get enough miles you will NOT be paid on time if at all, after reading the content below you will understand why I say that.

In October 2011 I went to work for Hoosier Tradewinds as a lease purchase driver, this is something I would not normally have done but they where offering $1.05 per practical mile plus the fuel sir charge in this case they where paying 0.33 cents per mile thats a total of $1.38 per practical mile.

The truck they gave to lease was a 2007 freightliner with 500,000 miles on it for $280.73 per week. In the 7 weeks I drove the peace of equipment I incurred fortunately no repairs. Ok now you know the fundamentals.  Now lets look at the reasons for this being a Bad Experience Leasing A Truck

Bad Experience Leasing A Truck #1

To start with they just could not give me enough miles, they state on there website that owner operator average 3000 mile per week. I was averaging around 2500 piles per week running everything they gave me and only being home once every two week for a reset (34 to 48 hours), when I brought this fact to the attention of management, I was told the company only averages between 2500 and 3000 miles per week..

Bad Experience Leasing A Truck #2

7 days after I talked
with management I came home after being on the road for two weeks for another short weekend, I found no pay waiting for me I was expecting two checks but there was nothing, zip as in NO MONEY!!!! When there should have been over
$1700.00, so I contacted payroll and told them I was not moving the truck until I got my back pay deposited in my bank account, need less to say 3 days past before the money has been deposited, the following day I would have been ready
to roll but the pay for that should have been deposited that day for the previous pay period was NOT deposited.

Bad Experience Leasing A Truck #3

Hoosier Tradewinds might start you off with 1000 to 1300 mile runs but that will change after the first few weeks in my case I when from 1200 to 1300 mile runs to around 500 miles per run and as little as 250 miles per run, **ll I dont like short runs if paid by the mile as a company driver much less a owner operator.

As of right now they still owe me over $3000.00

Additional information is listed on my blog at http://truckingtruth.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/my-personal-experience-with-hoosier-tradewinds-truck-leasing-program/