K & B Transportation PROBABLY TREATS THEIR DOG BETTER South Souix City Falls Nebraska

heres another report on a sh*tbag company using drivers for illegal trucking.
soon it will come to pass that all the professional drivers who are being treated so sh*tty will collectively say Hey F*k You!!  and just stop working like this...WE can take control if we all band together
f*k these a*holes like K&B  lowlife dipsh*ts!!!

As a former K&B'er, I can confirm everything he said. After many sucessful years working for Schnieder, JBH, and even Swift (although a really bad place to work), unfortunately for me, my DAC is also ruined and I am un-employable now (almost a year) courtesy of K&B. DOT regs and Hours of Service mean nothing to K&B, and they don't take kindly to complaints.

I never worried about the short runs and lack of milage, because of the 2500 mile guarantee (you always got paid for 2500 miles minimum no matter how few miles you drive). Ever wonder why they guarantee a minimum weekly salary of $850 ? The big problem was they couldn't understand that once you go "on-duty", the DOT 14 hour rule starts.

They always wanted 11 hours of driving out of me, even though it would be 3 or 4 hours from here to there, then 5 hours parked, then 3 or 4 more hours from there to here, then 3 or 4 hours parked, then a 5 hour drive over yonder. In their book, 3 + 3 + 5 = 11 DOT driving hours, and I was told to "make it work".

For the mathmatically challenged..... or other exhausted K&B drivers out there, the DOT would call that a 19 hour work shift..... as they are writing you up for the logging violations, the HOS violation, and the 30 hour out of service ticket. By the way, that's also 3 strikes on your MVR too.

Be very careful, Iowa State Troupers know what's going on, and that plain white DOT vehicle sitting at the west-bound IA/NE weigh station is not empty either. I only got caught once, but the IA Trouper said he understood what was going on, and let me go after about an hour, with a complete safety inspection and a warning ticket, no DOT or MVR report (btw, my MVR has been, and remains clean for the past 35 years).

I fussed... and I bitched... and quoted regs to them... and I attempted to educate my dispatcher for weeks. So one day after about 15 hours driving, they kindly told me I could stop at this maintenance shop and pick up a relief driver. As I slept in the back, he drove my truck (and load) back to the K&B terminal.

Back at the terminal late that day, I was woke by a shop guy, who told me to report to my dispatcher. He took me to a small room upstairs, and presented me with photographs of about a half case of some odd-ball BEER suposedly taken in my truck, and pulled out a 12-pk of Miller beer with a few cans missing, and told me that was just taken out of my truck by the shop.

Of course I told them it was bull sh*t, and I wanted a test. Sorry, no test, no recourse, no appeal. They pulled the control breakers and batteries out of my truck, and told me to clean it out over night... in the dark... alone. The next morning, they loaded my 10 boxes of personal effects into a pickup truck, and dropped me and my stuff off on the street corner in downtown Souix City at the bus terminal. Stuck on a street corner with all my stuff 1283 miles from home, no bus ticket, no paycheck for the past week, nothing.

After 6 months filing complaints with the DOL, they finally sent me a statement for my last week working for them -- 96 hours at $5.75/hr (minimum wage, no over time, and yes, that's over 13 hrs driving a day) -- payable in two installments forthcoming. First about a month later, second about a month after that. So as to leave no evidence and to accept absolutely no liability for any of this mess, the checks were issued by "The Great Western Cattle Company".

I've been a licensed driver for over 35 years. I've never had alcohol of any type in any kind of motor vehicle (not even when I was a teenager). There's not even a drop of alcohol of any kind in the house that I'm about to lose, because I haven't been able to get a job for the past year.

Avoid K&B like the plague. Go work for Swift if you don't need the miles or the money, or JBH if you can handle the lies and BS, or even Schnieder (ok miles, usually got a load, very strict on HOS) if you are mechanically inclined and can repair your truck or trailer yourself on the side of the road (they do give you breakdown reflectors, flares, two garbage bags full of spare parts, filters, two gallons of oil, but no spare alternater, starter, transmission, or rear tandem axles).

Well, I guess big trucking companies are always going to screw us, drivers are always going to uselessly b***h and complain, and this is just the way the cookie crumbles. If you can't take it, go be a school teacher.

Fellow Driver,

Please let us know the outcome of your rebuttal with USIS. Our lawyer wants me to try the rebuttal process first. I wish you the best.

If anyone cares to do so, and if they were to take the time to search the sheer number of complaints lodged against this company across the web, and even on this site for that matter, one would discover three commonly expressed complaints about this company, and they are very serious complaints.

1.) They wake up drivers routinely to prod them to get down the road, by whatever means necessary to achieve getting him or her up and out of bed;

2.) If a driver dares assert any resistance and threatens to quit, they are well known to contact police under false pretenses, and have even attempted to claim a driver has stolen the truck once or twice, and;

3.) This company absolutely trashes the employment records of people who get fed up with being treated like cattle, when they run for the hills.

This company should be avoided at all costs. It's as simple as that.

If anyone cares to do so, and if they were to take the time to search the sheer number of complaints lodged against this company across the web, and even on this site for that matter, one would discover three commonly expressed complaints about this company, and they are very serious complaints.

1.) They wake up drivers routinely to prod them to get down the road, by whatever means necessary to achieve getting him or her up and out of bed;

2.) If a driver dares assert any resistance and threatens to quit, they are well known to contact police under false pretenses, and have even attempted to claim a driver has stolen the truck once or twice, and;

3.) This company absolutely trashes the employment records of people who get fed up with being treated like cattle, when they run for the hills.

This company should be avoided at all costs. It's as simple as that.

If anyone cares to do so, and if they were to take the time to search the sheer number of complaints lodged against this company across the web, and even on this site for that matter, one would discover three commonly expressed complaints about this company, and they are very serious complaints.

1.) They wake up drivers routinely to prod them to get down the road, by whatever means necessary to achieve getting him or her up and out of bed;

2.) If a driver dares assert any resistance and threatens to quit, they are well known to contact police under false pretenses, and have even attempted to claim a driver has stolen the truck once or twice, and;

3.) This company absolutely trashes the employment records of people who get fed up with being treated like cattle, when they run for the hills.

This company should be avoided at all costs. It's as simple as that.

If anyone cares to do so, and if they were to take the time to search the sheer number of complaints lodged against this company across the web, and even on this site for that matter, one would discover three commonly expressed complaints about this company, and they are very serious complaints.

1.) They wake up drivers routinely to prod them to get down the road, by whatever means necessary to achieve getting him or her up and out of bed;

2.) If a driver dares assert any resistance and threatens to quit, they are well known to contact police under false pretenses, and have even attempted to claim a driver has stolen the truck once or twice, and;

3.) This company absolutely trashes the employment records of people who get fed up with being treated like cattle, when they run for the hills.

This company should be avoided at all costs. It's as simple as that.