I believe everything you said 1000% I worked for MGR some Russian company out of Chicago too. When you said Chicago I knew this was a true story! Who are you with now
That sux, I don’t do micromanaging. Glad I never went there! Best wishes, keep truckin’ Small companies are where it’s at. You just got to find the right one.
@@daviddrake9798 you’re absolutely right, I’m still working at one of them for 3 years now. American justice is needed to hold these foreign parasite accountable. All of there female Russian dispatcher sound like little kid trying to tell a grown man what to do with a broken english lol some times I let them keep talking while I sarcastically giggle cause I can’t understand some of what they’re saying
I had a great experience with the Serbians out of Chicago for the first 2 years but then all my contacts with the company left or got fired and when I came back from my winter break it was terrible
I call Nova Lines “Nova 💩 Lines “ lmao 🤣 I was there for about a month and they always sent me from dead zone to dead zone making no money at all I barely made enough to make my car payment insurance and my phone bill that month I was there and this was mid December ‘22 to January ‘23. I’m so glad I left them and also Nova 💩 Lines don’t offer a fuel discount at all so you’re stuck paying full price at the pump and can’t even use your own fuel card. I have a friend who went to orientation with me and they did the same thing to him and they even got him a brand new truck and even that truck gave him problems and when he finally left Nova 💩 Lines they said he owed them about the same as you $6,500 dollars
I agree with everything you said I had the same experience there I didn’t last 3 weeks I was gone on the 3th week and went back to Melton trucklines that’s a terrible company .
Nova lines, most horrible company I ever worked at in 12 years driving. I owed them money more than I made money. They lie to you, and when you leave they keep every penny you are owed. And they come up with excuses to why there not giving you your hard earned money
It sounds to me like you didn’t do a very good inspection of the equipment you purchased! You can check the oil and see it’s not fresh, or that it’s thin. Why would you buy a truck that doesn’t have a service on it, and new rubber? I’ve also never heard of an airbag blowing out, if it’s in good shape. You can usually tell when they start looking dry rotted, that they need to be replaced soon. You also should have done your research into the equipment you were buying, as far as recalls or service bulletins. And no, I’m not affiliated with Nova Lines in anyway shape or form. It just doesn’t sound to me like you did your due diligence before signing the dotted line.
You definitely sound affiliated to me. FYI, the truck had low miles and was inspected my a local mechanic. They are to blame for not checking the oil velocity. Also, it was determined that the truck was maliciously tampered with and Nova Lines was aware of this.
@@daviddrake9798 I don’t care who inspected it, if it wasn’t you, you have no one to blame but yourself for the condition of the vehicle when you took delivery. I wouldn’t buy a brand new truck from a dealership without going over it from head to toe before taking delivery of it.
@@daviddrake9798 And did your “local mechanic” Plug into the computer to look for any codes, or evidence of tampering? My guess is you didn’t want to pay the mechanic to do as thorough of a job as he should’ve. I’ve been driving for 40 years, and never lost a motor. Sounds to me like there might be a little bit more to the story, that you’re leaving out!
Correction when you lease a truck from a company you work for you are not!!!! an owner operator because owner operators can take their truck and leave and do whatever they want until you pay off that truck you are not an owner operator don’t let the mind F you.
And stay away from these foreigners! We're in business together! I don't want you speaking YOUR language to others in front of me! I need to know what y'all are talking about.
I talked to my 3 freightliner shops and this is the 1st time any of them have heard anything about nova ever refusing recall work they have done several of their trucks
Cool don't ever be a owner op then bro, anything can happened and what happens when something happens? You pay for it. It just so happen that you got a bigger truck to start out with. Someone probably adjust abise the heck out of that truck before turning it in and there no way to know that
Defamation of character is pretty serious, you should never attack a person’s success just because you were dealt a bad hand. As you called me ‘ bootlicker, and a clown’ I paid my truck off in less than two years because I follow the money even during the tough times and have always maintained $2.75-3.00 dollars per mile. Like I told you in our email conversations I am extremely sorry you couldn’t accomplish your goals and I wish you the best of luck. FYI all my videos that are published to UA-cam are personal documentaries, accomplishments in my Trucking career.
Sounds to me like the bootlicker was given a golden ticket so that they could preach to their audience how great Nova lines truly is not. I assure anyone reading this comment, that there are more unsuccessful failed attempts with Nova lines and a majority of these Eastern European chicago-based companies. You are nothing more than a bootlicker.... SIR
@@bigreal-wf4xo he's an employee for Nova. They liked his personality on UA-cam and gave him a contract. Not only was he able to pay off a truck early, he also rents one out to another driver and profits off it.
Some of this just sounds like the pitfalls of leasing a truck, especially through the people who book the freight. Some of it sounds like terrible luck with the blown engine. As for brokers being unable to negotiate rates with brokers, I would encourage you to call a broker up on a load and try negotiating with them sometime. The way the market is now, the carrier isn’t really in a position to negotiate because the load to truck ratios favor the broker. I don’t know about @oldrookie numbers. Some of them sound suspect to me, and he hasn’t posted the actual settlement images for quite a while. But what I can respond to is your comment about him running with a company driver mentality chasing miles. There is a reason that trucking companies generally pay cpm and encourage company drivers to chase miles. The reason for that is because at the end of the day, that’s how the company(you in this case) make money. If you are leased to a company, equipment issues be damned, you should be doing whatever it takes to bring revenue to that truck. My kids are teenagers and to this day probably don’t even realize that thanksgiving falls on a Thursday every year. Thanksgiving is on a weekend. And my parents back that shit up. Thanksgiving is always at my house on the Sunday following thanksgiving. Same goes for birthday parties, anniversaries, all that. If you’re averaging $2.50 per loaded mile, there is no planet on which running less miles makes more money or more success than running more miles at the same average rate per mile. People who tell you otherwise are fucking broke. There’s a reason they were there at the lunch counter at 3pm on a Thursday to tell you that bullshit. And it’s not because they were making money. And you’re flatbed. What the fuck are you even doing parked at a truckstop anyway unless you’re getting fuel while taking your 30 off duty? You know damn well 99% of the time that load delivers 7-3/4 Monday through Friday, not whatever that dispatch says. So yea absolutely run that truck like a company driver and run those numbers like a trucking company. The trucking company picks the loads and the driver shuts the fuck up and hauls the loads as fast as possible, delivering the first second they can and repeating that shit. Day in and day out. The rest I actually kinda agree with. It’s bullshit that they refused the warranty work. And clearly there is sabotage when it comes to the truck. Either someone poured something in the engine, or some fucking idiot used the wrong type of oil to save money. Either way that’s some bullshit. But as for the company driver comment… you are a company driver if you are leased. Company driver with bills. Plain and simple. Run like one or go back to a company.
With this company they don't allow you to communicate with the brokers at all it's actually highly frowned upon. I also tried to obtain some customers from novellas near Augusta and they weren't open to it at all. I don't park at truck stops I park at planet fitness or at the shipper/receiver.
It was not under warranty at all they claim that it was vandalism. I found out later that a previous driver dumped transmission fluid in the motor. I'm not a diesel mechanic but it caused significant damage to the engine. Warranty not covered at all. According to Freightliner when jackasses do something like this, damage is slowly down over time. He said it could take a week or possibly four weeks and that's what happened to me. Go do your homework warranty does not cover malicious vindictive damage
How is ANY mechanical failure on a truck with less than 50k miles… the companies fault? They haven’t even had to service it yet lol… 100% accurate that it’s your responsibility, it’s under warranty anyways. Company offered you a rental to keep revenue flowing. Engine replacement takes a month minimum…. What an idiotic review….
Go re-watch the video. The Freightliner repair facility in Birmingham claimed that it was poor maintenance on the vehicle by not changing the oil and not getting the recall work done to the truck. Nova Lines rejected the service request not once but 6 times. This was no longer warranty repairs due to Nova Lines negligence. Also, do you think it's smart to not change your oil after purchasing brand new after 5000 miles? You do this because as the Pistons rods and internal parts of the motor breaks in... Your oil will have metal shavings. Not changing the oil for almost 50k miles is beyond ignorant.
They also lied about us not being responsible for the truck and trailer rental for the first 2 weeks. They told us we would be paid 25% of the line haul to get us fully acclimated. They were dishonest and unethical.
They're supposed to pay the drivers 25% of the Total line haul on the rate kind for the first two weeks where you're not responsible for paying for truck trailer rent and fuel the purpose of them doing this is so you get acclimated to the system and you don't start off in the negative. They don't offer that anymore and they should have never told any of the drivers this lie during orientation
Pictures of flatbed loads at loading & unloading? Of course you do. How long have you been driving? How else can you dispute a later claim on damaged cargo? You complain a lot. Equipment issues are part of trucking and yes, oil change intervals are not every 12k miles in newer trucks. Do your research.
You are grossly wrong buddy. When purchasing a new truck specifically freightliner, they require you to change the oil after the first 12,000 miles. Not to do it every 12,000 mi but the first. Freightliner did not warranty the truck because... All had been changed and it was metal shavings all in the engine. Yes it is good practice to take pictures of the load for potential claims. However I'm an independent contractor and I shouldn't be required to provide those pictures to dispatch because I'm not their employee.
I believe everything you said 1000% I worked for MGR some Russian company out of Chicago too. When you said Chicago I knew this was a true story! Who are you with now
Pretty sure that truck has warranty.
Thanks for the video.....I'm hauling for Perdue and was going to apply with Nova until I saw this......GOOO COX!!!!
“ boot licker “ 😂😂 thanks for your honesty brother. I was thinking about going over to their lease purchase.
They're just another trash company from Chicago. Definitely avoid at all cost.
That sux, I don’t do micromanaging. Glad I never went there! Best wishes, keep truckin’
Small companies are where it’s at. You just got to find the right one.
this dude 100 percent right never worked there but finally somebody who knows what this flatbed shit is about
Thanks for keeping it 100
Great review bro, thanks for keeping it real
You're right CRST and PS are pretty decent.
Me to, nothing but total discombobulation. They are a scam
P&S great walk away LP great flatbed company. Have there own freight.
P&s have LP now ??
Sick of these international folks taking advantage of Americans.
They think they've outsmarted our government and drivers and has completely taken over Chicago
@@daviddrake9798 😒
@@daviddrake9798 you’re absolutely right, I’m still working at one of them for 3 years now. American justice is needed to hold these foreign parasite accountable. All of there female Russian dispatcher sound like little kid trying to tell a grown man what to do with a broken english lol some times I let them keep talking while I sarcastically giggle cause I can’t understand some of what they’re saying
Im good where I am I live in Cincinnati and get $1450 a week guaranteed minimum. I work for Decker and they been pretty good to me.
Lesson learned- im a true witness? Should have listened to you 6 months ago
I had a great experience with the Serbians out of Chicago for the first 2 years but then all my contacts with the company left or got fired and when I came back from my winter break it was terrible
I call Nova Lines “Nova 💩 Lines “ lmao 🤣 I was there for about a month and they always sent me from dead zone to dead zone making no money at all I barely made enough to make my car payment insurance and my phone bill that month I was there and this was mid December ‘22 to January ‘23. I’m so glad I left them and also Nova 💩 Lines don’t offer a fuel discount at all so you’re stuck paying full price at the pump and can’t even use your own fuel card. I have a friend who went to orientation with me and they did the same thing to him and they even got him a brand new truck and even that truck gave him problems and when he finally left Nova 💩 Lines they said he owed them about the same as you $6,500 dollars
I agree with everything you said I had the same experience there I didn’t last 3 weeks I was gone on the 3th week and went back to Melton trucklines that’s a terrible company .
I never thought I would jump in a practically new truck and the engine would blow. That was mind-blowing to me.
I did 12yrs with CRST Malone it’s not a good company to work for!!!
You should have just got a new truck.
Wesley you just got lucky with your truck
Once He said CRST was good you know this guy full of it .
You obviously don't know shit about their lease program. Before talking out the side of your neck.... Do some research.
Paul Taylor truckers Justice center. Talk to him about your dak.
Nova lines, most horrible company I ever worked at in 12 years driving. I owed them money more than I made money. They lie to you, and when you leave they keep every penny you are owed. And they come up with excuses to why there not giving you your hard earned money
South Carolina!!!
Go cocks!
Good point, then he said, he gross 9k and only got 2k out of it 😅😅😅😅dammit driver ain’t no way…the math ain’t mathing
It sounds to me like you didn’t do a very good inspection of the equipment you purchased!
You can check the oil and see it’s not fresh, or that it’s thin.
Why would you buy a truck that doesn’t have a service on it, and new rubber?
I’ve also never heard of an airbag blowing out, if it’s in good shape.
You can usually tell when they start looking dry rotted, that they need to be replaced soon.
You also should have done your research into the equipment you were buying, as far as recalls or service bulletins.
And no, I’m not affiliated with Nova Lines in anyway shape or form.
It just doesn’t sound to me like you did your due diligence before signing the dotted line.
You definitely sound affiliated to me. FYI, the truck had low miles and was inspected my a local mechanic. They are to blame for not checking the oil velocity.
Also, it was determined that the truck was maliciously tampered with and Nova Lines was aware of this.
@@daviddrake9798
I don’t care who inspected it, if it wasn’t you, you have no one to blame but yourself for the condition of the vehicle when you took delivery.
I wouldn’t buy a brand new truck from a dealership without going over it from head to toe before taking delivery of it.
@@daviddrake9798
And did your “local mechanic” Plug into the computer to look for any codes, or evidence of tampering?
My guess is you didn’t want to pay the mechanic to do as thorough of a job as he should’ve.
I’ve been driving for 40 years, and never lost a motor.
Sounds to me like there might be a little bit more to the story, that you’re leaving out!
Lemon law? The truck? Have them get u a new truck
In the red...
With lease purchase they don't call it being in the rear they call it being in the black
@@daviddrake9798With lease purchase they call it taking it in the rear.
It’s east of the Ukrainian size of road island
A Ukrainian company. Inwas told to leave. Keep on changing rates. And not giving a straight answer on RATECON
You are right about them Ukrainian lol
What company do you work for now?
Who you driving for now?
Correction when you lease a truck from a company you work for you are not!!!! an owner operator because owner operators can take their truck and leave and do whatever they want until you pay off that truck you are not an owner operator don’t let the mind F you.
He probably paid by the company to make those videos lol
So did you get a abandonment on your record?
You better stick to company driving.
I hated them.
And stay away from these foreigners! We're in business together! I don't want you speaking YOUR language to others in front of me! I need to know what y'all are talking about.
I talked to my 3 freightliner shops and this is the 1st time any of them have heard anything about nova ever refusing recall work they have done several of their trucks
Go Gamecocks
Go Cocks!
Cool don't ever be a owner op then bro, anything can happened and what happens when something happens? You pay for it. It just so happen that you got a bigger truck to start out with. Someone probably adjust abise the heck out of that truck before turning it in and there no way to know that
You sound like a boot licker STFU
Should have called me would’ve told to stay away from them
Everything you said is oart if being an owner operated
Defamation of character is pretty serious, you should never attack a person’s success just because you were dealt a bad hand. As you called me ‘ bootlicker, and a clown’ I paid my truck off in less than two years because I follow the money even during the tough times and have always maintained $2.75-3.00 dollars per mile. Like I told you in our email conversations I am extremely sorry you couldn’t accomplish your goals and I wish you the best of luck. FYI all my videos that are published to UA-cam are personal documentaries, accomplishments in my Trucking career.
Sounds to me like the bootlicker was given a golden ticket so that they could preach to their audience how great Nova lines truly is not. I assure anyone reading this comment, that there are more unsuccessful failed attempts with Nova lines and a majority of these Eastern European chicago-based companies. You are nothing more than a bootlicker.... SIR
@oldrookie266 yeah ok man, you’re the only “trucker” that talks good about nova.
@@bigreal-wf4xo I don't talk good about Nova at all
@@daviddrake9798 not you bro. The rookie guy
@@bigreal-wf4xo he's an employee for Nova. They liked his personality on UA-cam and gave him a contract. Not only was he able to pay off a truck early, he also rents one out to another driver and profits off it.
Some of this just sounds like the pitfalls of leasing a truck, especially through the people who book the freight. Some of it sounds like terrible luck with the blown engine.
As for brokers being unable to negotiate rates with brokers, I would encourage you to call a broker up on a load and try negotiating with them sometime. The way the market is now, the carrier isn’t really in a position to negotiate because the load to truck ratios favor the broker.
I don’t know about @oldrookie numbers. Some of them sound suspect to me, and he hasn’t posted the actual settlement images for quite a while. But what I can respond to is your comment about him running with a company driver mentality chasing miles. There is a reason that trucking companies generally pay cpm and encourage company drivers to chase miles. The reason for that is because at the end of the day, that’s how the company(you in this case) make money. If you are leased to a company, equipment issues be damned, you should be doing whatever it takes to bring revenue to that truck. My kids are teenagers and to this day probably don’t even realize that thanksgiving falls on a Thursday every year. Thanksgiving is on a weekend. And my parents back that shit up. Thanksgiving is always at my house on the Sunday following thanksgiving. Same goes for birthday parties, anniversaries, all that.
If you’re averaging $2.50 per loaded mile, there is no planet on which running less miles makes more money or more success than running more miles at the same average rate per mile.
People who tell you otherwise are fucking broke. There’s a reason they were there at the lunch counter at 3pm on a Thursday to tell you that bullshit. And it’s not because they were making money.
And you’re flatbed. What the fuck are you even doing parked at a truckstop anyway unless you’re getting fuel while taking your 30 off duty? You know damn well 99% of the time that load delivers 7-3/4 Monday through Friday, not whatever that dispatch says.
So yea absolutely run that truck like a company driver and run those numbers like a trucking company. The trucking company picks the loads and the driver shuts the fuck up and hauls the loads as fast as possible, delivering the first second they can and repeating that shit. Day in and day out.
The rest I actually kinda agree with. It’s bullshit that they refused the warranty work. And clearly there is sabotage when it comes to the truck. Either someone poured something in the engine, or some fucking idiot used the wrong type of oil to save money. Either way that’s some bullshit.
But as for the company driver comment… you are a company driver if you are leased. Company driver with bills. Plain and simple. Run like one or go back to a company.
With this company they don't allow you to communicate with the brokers at all it's actually highly frowned upon. I also tried to obtain some customers from novellas near Augusta and they weren't open to it at all. I don't park at truck stops I park at planet fitness or at the shipper/receiver.
The truck was under warranty
It should
It was not under warranty at all they claim that it was vandalism. I found out later that a previous driver dumped transmission fluid in the motor. I'm not a diesel mechanic but it caused significant damage to the engine. Warranty not covered at all. According to Freightliner when jackasses do something like this, damage is slowly down over time. He said it could take a week or possibly four weeks and that's what happened to me. Go do your homework warranty does not cover malicious vindictive damage
First two problems……that hat and the Freightliner 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How is ANY mechanical failure on a truck with less than 50k miles… the companies fault? They haven’t even had to service it yet lol…
100% accurate that it’s your responsibility, it’s under warranty anyways. Company offered you a rental to keep revenue flowing. Engine replacement takes a month minimum…. What an idiotic review….
Go re-watch the video. The Freightliner repair facility in Birmingham claimed that it was poor maintenance on the vehicle by not changing the oil and not getting the recall work done to the truck. Nova Lines rejected the service request not once but 6 times. This was no longer warranty repairs due to Nova Lines negligence.
Also, do you think it's smart to not change your oil after purchasing brand new after 5000 miles? You do this because as the Pistons rods and internal parts of the motor breaks in... Your oil will have metal shavings. Not changing the oil for almost 50k miles is beyond ignorant.
They also lied about us not being responsible for the truck and trailer rental for the first 2 weeks. They told us we would be paid 25% of the line haul to get us fully acclimated. They were dishonest and unethical.
@@daviddrake9798What do mean, how were you only getting 25%?
They're supposed to pay the drivers 25% of the Total line haul on the rate kind for the first two weeks where you're not responsible for paying for truck trailer rent and fuel the purpose of them doing this is so you get acclimated to the system and you don't start off in the negative. They don't offer that anymore and they should have never told any of the drivers this lie during orientation
@@daviddrake9798 Yeah that's messed up
Old Rookie signing out 😂😂😂😂😂
He's definitely a bootlicker for them.
I’ve signed back in
Pictures of flatbed loads at loading & unloading?
Of course you do. How long have you been driving?
How else can you dispute a later claim on damaged cargo?
You complain a lot.
Equipment issues are part of trucking and yes, oil change intervals are not every 12k miles in newer trucks.
Do your research.
You are grossly wrong buddy. When purchasing a new truck specifically freightliner, they require you to change the oil after the first 12,000 miles. Not to do it every 12,000 mi but the first. Freightliner did not warranty the truck because... All had been changed and it was metal shavings all in the engine.
Yes it is good practice to take pictures of the load for potential claims. However I'm an independent contractor and I shouldn't be required to provide those pictures to dispatch because I'm not their employee.