when u realize how SHADY the TRUCKING industry really is 😵💫
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2023
- My friend once owned 170 trucks and trailers and did 17 million dollars per year in revenue in trucking. This story he recently told me is when u realize just how shady the trucking industry really is.
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this happens every day in the trucking industry since the 30's
BUT ... 178 trucks @ 17 mil a yr.
ummm those #'s don't jive
I know, I was an owner operator back in 80's with 15 trucks of my own
just say'n
You know they sell red n tacky in a spray can also you have hands...pull that tube dip your hand and really get to know your fifth wheel ;)
So how do you prevent a company from stiffing you the bill? Do you charge beforehand or do you make sure they pay for 1 dropoff before doing another? Also if the guy was making $17 million a year in revenue he definitely recovered, but it probably hurt a lot to take that hit in the short term.
Pro tip. Don't jump off your truck or trailer. You'll pay for it later on. Also, just open the grease tube and smack it off the 5th wheel a few times. Don't stand there and pump all that out.
sounds fake and gay
This is why when the money stops, the work stops. Dont work for free.
Not how business works though
@@IrritatedBear I beg to differ lol unless you like being walked ON😂 FACT TRUTHS ËH 😉
never, never, never, and don't bank hours you never get paid
@@IrritatedBearyou sound like a manager
@@Lomhow TRUE 😂
Bro you violated the grease gun 😂 never seen it used like that
😂😂 I used a whole tube 😬
He ain’t grease his shit he painted the whole damn 5th wheel red😂😂😂 just buy a grease pouch in the truck stop.
How the fuck is a trucker making 100K+ a year so god damn cheap he can’t buy an electric one? Lmfao. The time saved and hands not being destroyed pumping a full tube of grease out it worth it alone.
He’d have been better off cutting the tube open, using a glove and smearing it!
A dry 5th wheel is a dangerous one.
@@guyinatrucka putty works better. And use the tube like a tube of toothpaste
To me, that should be criminal fraud. You knew you didn’t have the money and lied for months. Everyone from that company who lied should be in prison
Doesn’t work that way unfortunately. Biz files BK and most of these drivers are 1099 self-employed freelancers so you’re providing a service without upfront pay. Because of the self-employed laws you make more money and pay less in taxes but you’re also responsible for everything else. Have contracts with companies that want to pay immediately.
The whole industry needs to fight back for better agreement contracts
Its the same in contruction or other industries. Sadly the top dogs file for bankrupcy and transfer all their assets to some associate or familiar.
That's why "fraud" in these situations is so hard to prove because a lawyer or the company could have been banking on an economic recovery or blamed a rise in gas and warehouse fees or who knows what reason to not pay him and the judge might say well, it's clear that there was bad luck going on for the company and not fraud.
What truck driver makes 750k in a few months?
@@iReelyFish that’s definitely not an individual, he has to own a fleet of trucks
This happens in lots of businesses. I had my own boring company for 7 years and finally gave it up over this very issue. Not getting paid is the most sickening feeling that i know.
I was thinking the same thing. Its not just trucking. I do landscaping and refuse to work for large corporate locations. They take way to long to pay and will try to make up stuff to pay less. But regular people can suck as well.
And a week later they re open as a new company.
Yep like clockwork
AMEN TO THAT AMEN 🙏
That’s when you break down the owners door at 3 AM and pay him a visit.
Seriously. 750 grand probably wasn't even why they had to shut down. That's pennies next to 170 trucks....
@@jebidiahcarlyon3543 More like 170X$750 probably.
Never ever let a company get into you for that much. No good dead goes unpunished.
Sadly that’s true
Deed
How do you fuck up a 4 letter word? It's DEED. Smh
So evil dead does get punished? Groovy!
@Celt1cfacts lmao, people get touched up for far less.
Had an old boss in the trucking industry. He had a long time relationship(and contract) with a company. They snaked him and got in bed with his competitor. He was doing a demo on the side and found a massive 20ft hornet nest. Instead of going the legal route, he carefully transported and dumped that nest on their warehouse, which closed them for 2 days. Somehow he got away with it too. That industry is no joke.
If you take them to court early and you don't have this problem. Frequently they buckle at the first letter from your lawyer. A few hundred bucks isn't much to get a few hundred thousand.
His practice of allowing a customer to fall that far behind was absolutely stupid.
yeah i was just about to comment "it's shady for idiots who take jobs from places that dont pay", i would not ever let any company miss a payment let alone many payment equaling 750,000k sometimes these stories just seem like horse shit, like who is this stupid, also is he talking about a trucking co. owner? do truckers make 3 quarters of a million dollars driving truck for a year? i feel like there is like 10 guys with that job lol
Usual practice to run out to 90 days for the so called big players… in Australia anyhow
@@tobybrown1179usual practice for the service provider if they can afford it. Clearly the trucking company could not. Should have cut them off until all invoices were current. Giving one customer that much control is very risky. It is also a lazy way to market services.
As long as he has paperwork, he can do whatever he wants. All he has to do is sue em n he'll get all the money hes owed itll just take some time, but it clearly wasnt that great of an idea.
@@Kratos-eg7ez what will be gained from a lawsuit if the party you are bringing the suit against is bankrupt? A judgement means nothing if the party is unable to pay the judgement.
All businesses deal with this, you simply DO NOT EVER GIVE CREDIT LIKE THAT.
Yes it does. It happens every single day. Not just trucking
Yes you do when your customer is a major company and requires net 120 payment terms.
They had a lien but others had priority
Yepper sure does
@ralofofriverwood4806 You always do leins and notices to owners.
But.
That shit don’t mean your gonna get paid. Especially if there’s multiple vendors in position in front of you. I.e. 1st position, 2, 3, 4th and so on. Not to mention. They can just bind the whole thing off. Been there done that.
I always file mine bc it’s the only recourse I have but beyond that? Not much I can do
With all the new regs, it’s a miracle what truckers do. You are our heroes.
You want some fifth wheel with that *GREASE* 😂
80 yo lady walked into my store earlier and said her otr trucker husband of 40 years had died in the sleeper . Took two days to find out and the company told the widow it was her problem to find a way to get the body home. Now fighting her for his life insurance. Worked for them 40 years. I am still livid and I don’t even know the people
Wow that is so dang sad and unbelievable! A driver gives 40 yrs of their life and they treat him with such disrespect?! 😩
What state was this in? This sounds like a classic case of the firefighters going 🤷 idk I guess there was a short.
That’s insane smfh
@@guyinatruck insurance company is at vault for the life insurance. Unfortunately if you ever read it, you’ll find out it really only covers accidentally active work related deaths. Passing of old age “at work” doesn’t fall under that.
Hopefully a judge will make them still pay it out
Not suprised 😊
If a company is worth your trust, they pay on time.
sadly trust can be broken
@@guyinatruck you say the word “like” entirely too much
@@guyinatruck and when trust is broken, you end the relationship. Just like any relationship.
Anyone that is relying on the word and trust of someone that violates trust, deserves to be scammed.
If I'm not paid on full on time and it's not an isolated clerical error, I'm out.
Walmart: understandable, we'll get someone else.
A lot of big companies do exactly what the video describes, expect it's more like 90 days, and they generally don't go bankrupt. Paying you late fees is often cheaper than the interest on a line of credit, and they have enough business to force you to put up with it if you want their money.
Standby lines of credit are a good idea in this case though, if the company goes under or refuses to pay, the bank pays you instead, and their lawyers go after the company. Basically insurance.
Don't keep working if you're not paid
This literally happens in every industry.
Same thing happened to a hotshot driver friend of mine. He was hauling tiny homes and storage sheds from one roadside location to another for a flat rate per unit. This went on for weeks "we'll pay you when they're ALL delivered." They stopped answering the phone and never showed to the location. So, he's got 3 tiny homes and a couple sheds for sale. 😂. I got one free. Now he won't take multi-day jobs from new clients without DAILY payment. No pay today, no work tomorrow. It's in his contracts. He was in the middle of a job and they stopped paying. He told them he wouldn't be back tomorrow. "That's fine. Well call you next week." Next week he was in Wyoming and they were pissed he hadn't been at home waiting by the phone for their call. They had stuff they needed to be delivered! Shoulda read the contract. Man's got to make a living...
How much for the tiny home?
We'll pay you when you've done all the work. _Hahahahahaha._
@@BushidoBrownSama
I bet it's 5 or 10 grand
@@bobbowie5334 Funny thing, that's the same trick the Trump family did to scam contractors who built them their casinos and hotels... Then they blacklisted them from getting employed by anyone in the construction industry.
nice bro its not like they were gonna pay him 40k lmfao. dumbass vendors, god bless truckers man stick it to the bastards
Who the F showed you how to grease a 5th wheel
🤔😬
@@guyinatruckI worked part-time as a truck mechanic. Your suppose to remove off the old grease, clean the fifth wheel with diesel. Check for cracks and any deformities and then put new grease through the nipples. Theres a specific pattern your suppose to do on the fifth wheel. If I did this, I would get my ass kicked.
Would be fired. First trailer you hooked up and half of it would rub right off
Hopefully he doesn't scrape it off upon hooking
@@AmbeSwag that’s retarded, if you were rebuilding a fifth wheel or doing a safety inspection then yeah I’d clean it but if you are just greasing the truck pop the cap off the tube and squeeze it while dabbing it on.
As a former salesman, no fronts.
He’s not exaggerating, this kind of thing happens all of the time. When I brokered freight, I saw it happen countless times, and it disgusted me how so many customers, brokers, and even other carriers treated carriers. There’s A LOT of fraud and slimy dealing in the industry, and people have to stay vigilant.
Moral is dont work for free for 6 months then ask for your money. If they can’t pay monthly they can’t pay in 6 months.
120 days aka 6 months 👍 checks out.
@@KrakenIsland64 you know what he means
@@Excalibur2 yea but if I know what he meant why is the douchenozzle auto-correct guy winning the house.
@@KrakenIsland64 4 months, 6 months its all semantics. The point still remains, don't work for promises. You're definitely a douchnozzle tho, have fun with that.
@@KrakenIsland64 wtf are you saying? lol.. winning the house?
Never , I repeat NEVER push harder to help any company , even relatives would screw you over money , people have no control or self respect anymore .
Yea I hear ya on that brother sadly
Definitely true, right about the family,
My opinion they first not to trust,
Seen that with a few friends with their relatives,ridiculous.
Said perfectly.
Nobody else will fuck you over like family.... Believe me, I know...
This is not new to this era. Greedy people will be greedy people, whether they are rich or poor.
Bankruptcy should only deal with business loans not personal people and workers and that is the real downfall of companies are people.... It changed the laws to make it to where it's easier to hurt people and help companies.
Some guys think they are decorating a Cake when Greasing their fifthWheel
It’s not just trucking, it’s everywhere. If people can screw you, they usually will. Get everything in writing and never overextend yourself on an IOU
, yep
Very good advice, regardless of what business you're in
That why you gotta do the screwing
True. I worked in HVAC, and we’d have people trying to screw us over all the time. Small restaurant and convenience type store were the worse, followed by slumlords.
That is true sadly
Never front out your work like that. They found themselves a sucker and sucked as much free work as they could out of him smh
The guy made 17 million in annual revenue so God bless him he was trying to help out a business and not try to put people out of work for that business and that business freedom over that's a shame but I don't look at it that way because if I made 17 million every year in revenue if I lost $750,000 I would write it off on my taxes and be thankful that I could help those people that I see when I pick up a load working that I could help them to keep a paycheck in those pockets there's no way that he didn't get that back and you know it when you have a business like that have insurance if you found a police report and went to court and not get the money I would have went to the insurance and got the money back or like I said I would have written it off in my taxes that's what business do when they do their taxes and can count 4 things that missing
profit margins for most buisnesses are 5-7%, which means that 750k, even if you use it as a tax write down, or create a contra account allowing for losses, still wipes out a considerable portion of annual profits.@@klinedinst14
"Never give a sucker an even break." W. C. Fields
Its called Net 120 payment terms. Its not shady, just not preferred unless that vendor has a very good credit history and payment history. I almost always recommend 50% deposit, net 30 for the rest, if they go past due its 30% interest plus late fees for any service company. Keeps you in business but also keeps the other company or customer accountable.
@@klinedinst14just say you either like getting exploited or exploiting workers. Some smooth brain logic to think it's a positive.
Yup, my Dad owns a trailer leasing company and this is a constant thing. Operators skipping out on bills and also moving and hiding the trailers so they can keep using the trailers without paying. Years ago I helped him steal his own trailer back from a lot that hadn’t payed.
I had some serious questions about my first parachute purchase, and the store told me " there policy is if it doesn't work you can always bring it back" who could refuse an offer like that 😂
Been trucking in the oil patch for awhile, good rates but hard on equipment, maintenance will kill you if you don't do most of it yourself
Yes oilfield and construction is rough on trucks
The rates are straight up garbage now.every rate cutting halfwits is busy trying to be cheap now
I was a roughneck a lifetime ago in Abilene and I have seen some crazy shit in all aspects.
Take care of your truck and it will take care of you...simple
That's why you always demand payment before taking their load anywhere.
I’ve never came across a customer who pays upfront or even right away
@@guyinatruck Then that means you have not found a customer. If the job doesn't pay properly and legally, it's not a job.
@@evolicious NET120 is 100% legal and is standard operating procedure for many large companies. You sound like a W-4 guy that has never run a company but seems to think that they know how things work.
Let it be made clear: just because someone else said it is legal for you to treat them a certain way doesnt mean you expect everyone else to obey said law. To each their own.
Yeah that's definitely not a thing...
I've already got 14 weeks in on my 1st trucking job and I have already learned the game. Lucky for me I started with a great company. There also used to be a saying: If you can do something, don't do it for free. Being nice is one thing, helping is one thing, but not getting paid for work is another.
My dad worked for a company in Midland Texas hauling crude oil, he continued to work for a while but they went bankrupt as well. He was never paid, it was many thousands of dollars in owed wages.
If they don't pay 30 to 60 days don't haul their stuff that's on him
In this economy haha i wouldnt losn yhrm anything thats what banks are for
@@yourmomma4423 you trust banks🤣
Agreed but that’s not exactly how big contracts work. 3 months (90 days / quarterly) is pretty good for those numbers.
I’ve seen smaller contracts with longer dates .
That’s where the saying don’t write cheques you can’t cash originates from 😆
Unless you meant 30 to 60 days after the original 90 days.
But again, if you’re on 17M a year then it’s probably more beneficial to spread a good name than to not haul their stuff. The fact that they went bankrupt is where things fall apart as if it’s like that, the hauling company probably shouldn’t have taken the work on to start with / didn’t do their homework 1000%.
"thats on him" no
As an accountant, we generally do accounts payable payments every 30 days unless the vendor requests we pay them later (say net every quarter)
I used to work in 401k recordkeeping, and I saw similar first hand. Company just vanished overnight, bosses all disappeared and the truckers showed up to an empty warehouse. They hadn't gotten their employee contributions and there was no one in HR to approve disbursals. Their 401ks were locked up for months while a third party accounting outfit straightened out the paper trails and got their withdrawls approved.
That’s how it is at bars and restaurants too. I worked at a brewing Company called Rivertown not long after they opened and they had me work for free for 10 hours and when I went back asking when I work again, they told me that I was not on the hiring list and that they would not pay me And every day I drove past, the brewery looked dead and empty even when I went to pick up DoorDash orders it still dusty and empty where they were signature for every delivery pick up. I remember less than one year they closed for good and it turned out they were filing for bankruptcy because they didn’t listen or care about what the workers had to say about coming up with ideas And solutions to the company.
My rule of thumb is simple: nothing comes out of my trailer until I get paid. Has always worked for me.
Haha YES
Yep' it's mine till you pay for it.
What companies pay you, before they unload your truck?
@@craighightower4736 I do hotshot. I make more doing hotshot than everyone I know who drives big rigs. I got my start on Uship, and have built such a large customer-base that people call me directly. I will not use Central Dispatch because they deal with a lot of companies who do that net 30 bs. A good way to look at it is if someone can't pay you upon delivery, they need to wait until they have the money before they request transport.
@@acgstereomanthis is the way tbh. If you deliver the product on time and they can't pay on time, I see no reason to hand over the product. Even lights a fire under their asses to get the money together, especially if it's something important.
Companies like Pegasus and JSI (and other freight forwarders) love to pick on independent truckers, and small trucking companies. They hold what they owe you and after lots of harassing they send little bits at a time, paying off the smallest bills first. Pegasus specifically owed us over 10 grand on several occasions, so we picked up all their freight they wanted us to get and held it hostage until they paid up. The trucking industry sucks to work for. I've gone months without pay waiting for these bigger companies to pay up before.
Each to their own, but this is why I like being a company driver and getting good rest at night. When a companie's comdata card doesn't work at the fuel pump, that's usually a red flag. If my pay is incorrect too many times, that's a red flag.
I try to steer clear of mega carriers because I'm not convinced that they won't use a nearby rookie to leapfrog me on better loads because they can pay the rookie less.
Talk about be violated in the worst way possible.
Yeah, showering with your daughter as president
This happens a lot in construction too. My old company did this to their subs all the time. They would just not pay. Liens were filed and many lawsuits as well too. I quit bc I couldn’t take it any more. Every day people would call me about payments.
One of my employees told me he went to a gun range one time to see how much a membership cost. The guy at the register told him he'll give him a one year pass to the shooting lanes for a hundred dollars. Two days later, the range shut down.
My wife and I visited the Milwaukee zoo when we were newly married. They charged us $20 or whatever per ticket at the gate, and after we've been walking for about 5 minutes we hear a notice that the zoo is closing in 15 minutes. No one bothered to tell us on our way in... we saw the monkeys and got one of those smashed penny souvenirs and that's about it.
File a dispute on your card is what is i would do
Never been to ranges what’s wrong here?
@@Ekdrinkthe one year pass was only useful for 2 days
@@brandonhoover2120pass was probably in cash.
Forgive the debt, write it off as a loss, report them to IRS for unreported income, recup some of your losses.
My tax advisor said you can’t write off uncollected income.
@@mikep1380you just don’t recognize it as revenue. Depends on your accounting method as to whether you never recognize it or have to write it off afterwards. But you can absolutely have the irs go after them for benefiting (profiting) from the free work. Doesn’t help you though
Doesn’t bad debt go under the expense portion of the ledger?
Wrong, you suit the ever loving fuck out of them over and over and over again until they either give you your money or they ACTUALLY go bankrupt
@@surr3ald3sign That’s a problem. To open a broker company all you need is $300 and the bond that doesn’t cost much, after that its all depends how good you are at finding shippers. So in theory someone can open up brokerage company every six months, collect money from shippers, don’t pay truckers then when claims pile up bankrupt the company snd open new one. Many do that over and over.
Hey man I'm sorry to hear that happened
Something like that can be devastating..hope the guy's doin okay
Happens in every industry. I’m halfway through collected a $150k debt that is months past due. Finally they got outside funding and are paying me $30k/mo until it’s done.
That's why you never do favors like that for companies they are just going to take advantage of you.
money now or nothing
Pay me my money down - if you owe me a nickel I ain’t doing a tap of work until we’re square.
I've been here. When they owe you, it happens over time. When it gets down to shit or get off the pot, they go use someone else, and start paying them to get the next company on the hook.
@@matthewholzmueller6292yeah true but can’t like sue em ig?
Guys he absolutely greased the 5th wheel like a goober for engagement in the comments. I mean that's the only plausable explaination.
Most people are literally incapable of seeing that
@@Nunya111 its still well greased... if its stupid and it works it aint stupid :D
@@jstefa2 it is stupid if it’s the companies grease being applied (but not if it generates tons of extra engagement) :D I don’t care either way though, you completely missed the point of the comment I was replying to.
@@Nunya111 oh i didnt miss anything :D but that doesent mean we cant poke fun at each other :D the smiley face at the end was a hint :P
@@jstefa2 I smiled too D:
I worked for a company who only paid bills when the suppliers showed up with the deliveries and refused to unload without first receiving a cheque for what they were owed. I don't know why they didn't fire us as a customer. As an employee placing orders it was downright embarrassing. I didn't stay too long!
I had the same thing happen, but in a different industry and that’s what caused my business to close. I had to pay everybody out of pocket because they were doing net 30 with us and they were our largest client at the time. They were mid-cap company with several headquarters, but they magically filed for bankruptcy one day without warning.
NEVER let someone get that far in your pocket
They were deep in the pocket
Fuck " that far" don't let em get a penny I debt no money means no work
It's simple. If they don't pay, they don't get deliveries.
It’s scum that have all the excuses to stretch out paying. 60 days and I put you on COD.
It's against federal law to hold a load hostage no matter what the situation. Stop giving bad advice. Drivers have done that at my company and they ended up in handcuffs.
@@poebutcheddar Hostage? Why should I even bother picking it up if I'm not getting paid?
@@poebutcheddar then don't load it?
Just tell them they can hire someone to drive the rest of the way and bring the truck back to you.
Cannot afford it? Their problem
My old job at an HR company did the same thing. Kept getting a promise that a company was gonna pay for our work and they never did for months. My boss was paying out of her own pocket so that we can send people their checks. After a long time, the company was bankrupt and sold to shareholders of the HR company. But since they were so far behind, they also didnt want to pay.
Situationslike this is why I require payment in full up front. Even in the printing industry. All too often people would order thousands of dollars in printing to either write a bad check or just abandon the printing. I'm amazed that people still try to collect after services are rendered.
Never ever let a mf tell you they'll pay you later. If they can't afford it now odds are they'll never be able to afford it. You will get screwed and it'll be on you for being the nice guy. There are no nice guys in business it's eat or be eaten. I quit over not being reimbursed 300 dollars on time I can't imagine having 750k in a pretend fund.
Even in personal matters it sucks. I sold a truck to a guy who said he'd pay me 500/month for 9 months. He only paid me 2 grand and made such a fuss i couldn't deal with it anymore. Refused to abide the contract and i had to give up. I told him of he paid 2750 total i would be done otherwise i was gonna repossess, and he didnt call my bluff.
People fucking suck
Exactly. I don’t care how trustworthy the company is or how good of terms you are on with them: if you’re short money, you get that shit yesterday and not a second later
True
@@trail_mix24 bro you're a fool. Thats like me walking into the forrest and night with nothing and getting fuckdd up and going ohh nature sucks..
Im sorry i understand you were trying to do somerthing good but. Do you understand how the world and people work?
Bro used that grease gun like he was drunk pissing on a tree
😂😂
It'd be easier to just squeeze it right from the tube instead of pumping it all out of a grease gun. Better yet, just get a 5gal bucket of grease and just apply with a putty knife.
As a retired bill collector I always told my clients if someone hasn't paid you in 30 days place them for collections
I was an ltl trucker,got paid hourly, worked for a company. My company leased the trucks. I had a rig with a lift gate. I noticed a serious crack in it and wrote it up. A couple of days later I got that same trailer back,did my inspection thinking that they replaced it or in the least welded it. Nope, they just painted over it and wrote that trailer up again with plenty of choice words. I quit that company soon after that when they pulled a fast one. Ltl is a mixed load. I would inspect my load and noticed a black plastic around the pallet and a generic bill of laden with no description or weight. That's odd. When I pulled the black plastic off and it was a food item. That day I also got loaded with a 6.1 in the nose. Transporting a 6.1,a poison with food is illegal and subject to a major fine on driver and company.
My company hauled dedicated to some warehouses in NY state. When the one got only $30k behind we stopped delivering until it got paid. No one else delivered since we had the contract. They paid pretty quickly and we resumed. People need to remember that the trucker could control this country if they'd just stand up.
Very smart move
That’s the trouble, nobody will stand together, no matter where or even what country your in, US Aus UK, EU, there all the same, feel for the old girl, that’s just down right cruel…. 😢
Just about any blue collar industry could control the country...underappreciated people forsure.
If the Truckers would've stood up with the Air traffic controllers during the Raegan years labor would be in a very different position in the USA.
Yup, the truckers are the backbone to America.
No industry is above this. There are shady people everywhere.
No disrespect, I never heard a fast food worker say their pay was held for 120 days
The point is about business to business shenanigans. Obviously there have been construction and maintenance contractors hung out to dry by fast food business owners. To your point though, do you really believe that no carhops or fry cooks have had their hours “edited” by shady employers? It would be a miracle if one of the most low paid, naive, uneducated, and/or desperate class of employees in the world were never taken advantage of.
@@geronimopratt7976 fast food has its own set of problems.
@@geronimopratt7976 That happens all the time. Restaurant employees often have their paycheck delayed.
Don’t put that much grease on your 5th wheel. It’s all gonna get pushed to the end, put on the slope
That's the transportation industry in general. I was recently a full time deckhand in a boat and decided to stay on part time and help out as needed.
They keep calling me asking if I can work and I said I'm not giving you one second of my time until you pay me my reimbursement check from two months ago.
And people wonder why there's a nationwide shortage of 80k plus truck drivers.
Nah, there's no shortage of drivers. Thousands of drivers try to start every year. Huge surplus of people with CDLs who aren't using them and an even bigger surplus of drivers with lots of hours in non CDL trucks
There's a shortage of pay.
Start paying us better, gives us better work/life balance, better benefits, and more reliable income, and you'll be amazed how many drivers show up for a job
There never was a shortage. Go work now see if there is one. 🤣
There is a shortage of truckers but they pay is shit. I keep my CDL for a rainy day
@@towcatain't that every broke joe
That seems to be what they want us to think
If they don’t pay after 30 days, start putting liens on their property.
If they go bankrupt there is still a chance you won't get paid - if there are more creditors than money there is an order to who gets paid first.
@@questioner1596 if they are bankrupt they can't afford lawyers. Start reposesing.
@@questioner1596 Which means "Don't wait to put that lien on them."
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@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272 lol they probably don't have much worth of anything, and the bank usually has first dibs and they going to take anything of value, so what is left probably won't even cover your lawyer fees
It happens everyday in every industry. Part of being a good business man is knowing which hands to shake and which hands not to shake.
I was an over the road trucker for 10 years. I remember one rather large trucking company going out of business and their drivers found out when they woke up one day, and their fuel cards didn't work anymore.
They literally left hundreds of drivers stranded with no warning.
I always hear about how much trucking can make, but I've been around truckers my whole life and I've never met anyone who wasn't being massively screwed on the job. For such a vital industry to the country, it is amazing how shaky the foundation of it is.
It is not only trucking, but more like the whole society being held together by ductape and other temporary solutions.
@Fri3ndlyF1re currently we're at the point where society is being held together by hopes and dreams.
@@purpletigerracing7087 What hopes and dreams?
It's a truckers term for when you don't have enough straps😂
@@purpletigerracing7087 Why do you believe the past was different?
I did a job for my aunts elderly friend who was totally taken care of by trust fund. When I went to settle up she told me, "No, I am not paying you." Now, this was after I had saved her life from choking on a huge chunk of tri-tip at my uncles memorial. These soulless carcasses are out there.
Gosh that seems very soulless to not pay someone for taking care of them like agreed upon 🤦♂️
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Some got understand that some times you have go full mafia hit an on people.The law has never help.Just fact they know there life going end quick will do amazing things
Give her some more Tri Tip
Its not the trucking industry really its the companies they contract with.
Exactly. The trucks did their job, they just did it with a shady company.
That trucker is obviously way too nice and learned a valuable lesson lol.
I’m in construction, you never let someone get that deep into you…ever. When they are owed or the owe…you keep it reasonable, or your done doing business with them.
Yeah this is pretty standard with larger companies
PAUSE LMAO 😂
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Rule- don’t let someone take your kindness for weakness
Agreed! Great rule
@@guyinatruck still trying to get my money back from a “friend” that was suppose to fix one of my older bmws up gave him 11 grand to rebuild it from the ground up with paint new turbos and everything. Don’t want to go the legal route but may have to
People think kindness and respect as weakness.
Exactly, I have to deal with it but I’m getting better, I’m very hesitant to be kind to people today
The issue is the law and it happens in every industry practically. They know the cost of losing the business and of a law suit is huge so they’ll see how far they can push it
wait till he hears about ghost logging and truckers having two log books
that's why you don't keep hauling for people that don't pay, first skipped payment is the day you walk away and stop doing work for them
Or do solid, contracted terms like Net 30. 4 months is insanity
That’s all businesses. Do not extend credit to clients. Ever. Period. Because the ones who need it, end up never paying. They simply can’t afford to have markers called in bc they’re operating on the margins 💯 of the time.
this is true it is all businesses, but extending credit is a little different than agreeing to contractually working with each other while setting payment terms as net accounts, it's pretty standard
Noooooo businesses do this! What are you talking about! 30 days is even rare!!! 120 days??? Are you joking??? No one does this
Yeah, I used to work for this company, at one point, they just ran out of money, so they switch to a new truck owner, switch agency for casual staff, etc. it was bad
You write “like” into your script more than a teenage girl says it at the mall
Thats why you never let them get ahead of you financially. Stop delivering until you get paid.
Well they weren’t they had 120 days to pay
who accepts a paycheck once every 4 months?
@@imabebebebe2496e like to call those individuals Targets 😆😆. Company Filed Bankrupcy, Move 3 warehouses down, and changed the name of the company . Lol
Had an old telephone job where they’d “give” you like $250 per referral that got hired on- well they’d tell you that only pays out like every six months… and BAM! Like the day before or week before- they’d “have to let you go” and you’d rack up like a thousand dollars in referrals or in some others cases THOUSANDS of dollars and get let go the day before 🤦🏽♂️ yeah they got a lot of people that way
Why am I not surprised 🤦♂️
Sounds illegal
Are you like sure like the way that's like what like happened.
they still have to pay you. sue them if you can afford to
@@danels7 Suing someone in the US isn't all peaches and cream like everyone seems to think. Even in the case of victory, lawyers make out with most of the winnings. Companies bank on this by having lawyers on staff to deal with this kind of thing all the time.
We had a huge retailer do this to the company I work for. They knew they were about to file chapter 5, so they ordered over $260K worth of product. We shipped everything and billed them with our standard terms. They filed bankrubcy and we never recovered the balance. I guess they did this to a lot of their vendors.
Thank you for not obnoxiously looping your video 🤙🏽
Man that story hurt. 750k is enough to make most people look for revenge.
either revenge or question existence, which he played with both evils.
I'd be looking for blood and make heads roll for WAY less than that.
I've taken revenge against a trucking company into my hands. I will never regret it. If I caused less than $1 million in damage (for being shorted a few hundred dollars), I'd be shocked. I poured DEF in the fuel tanks of 35 trucks, (DEF paid for out of pocket with cash), drilled holes into the company's above-ground 10,000 gallon fuel tank for the trucks, reported the diesel spill to the government (the company never did, the government found out because of me, and punished them), and burned down the owner's house while he was in jail. This company was too cheap to have security cameras on their property and I attacked all of my targets over the course of only 2 nights within significantly less than a year without being caught. They paid for their corruption without directly paying me.
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Sounds like and should be made into one of those Based on a True Story type of movies. You'd be getting all that you were owed and then some while sharing your incredible story with countless others, thus reinvigorating the working class Americans. Would be a dream, I'll say! :)@@superstraighthhwhitemale8880
Every industry is shady. The whole damn world is shady AF.
yep. its sad asf. All about money now... I mean it always has been but before social media and the internet n shit making it so easy to find new employees, people were more reliable tbh
Humans are the only animal on Earth that have to pay to live so.....
Yeah glad more people are starting to believe it when we say it!
Sadly it seems that way
Technology has increased the level of greed
The way you stowed them pigtails about broke me
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If he didn’t go to court about it I’m sure it’s because there was a lot of illegal shit going on.
they filed bankruptcy ..all there debts disappear...he cant sue because they no longer owe him. sad really
they did try to sue but it didnt work out and they spent more money on legal fees
yup pretty much in most cases this is the truth
@@guyinatruck damn! He made the attempt but idk if I could sleep at night with that on my chest.. because I’m pretty sure once the company tanks u can’t recover credit wise or financially.. and u can’t get that time back.. like how do u go on after that :(
@@georgetrynamakeajug god dammit… is there a way for his debt to be dismissed aswell? So he doesn’t lose everything? I think he can file chapter 17 bankruptcy which allows him to make payments on his debt and they can’t take the trucks and stuff that would buy him time to work something out in the industry to get the trucks rolling and get income right?!
That looks like the most long winded way of applying a large amount of grease 😂
That's his fault for terms like that. It's a massive struggle with our Controller anytime a project I work on has anything but N30
This happens in other industries too. An airline that I used to work for (IAero) just went under for the same reason
The shady stuff doesn’t only happen in trucking. I used to work in HVAC. We had two customers who were bad pay. One had a restaurant and the other had a small grocery store. They’d call for service. We’d come out and fix their equipment. However, neither would pay until the next time something broke. When we went out, they’d pay for the previous service, but we’d have to wait for payment on the current call until the next time something broke. My boss kept letting them get away with this for several years before he finally wised up. The final straw came when one of them on a Saturday. A piece of paper had gotten sucked into a fan on the refrigeration unit for cooler. It was making a racket but wasn’t anything serious. I took the cover off, removed the paper, and the problem was solved. The customer refused to pay, because he said I didn’t really have to do anything.
Wow see that’s a problem in business, a service call or new build like it’s all a service that you’re rendering, customer can’t choose which they think they’ll pay for. We all just gotta pay our bills especially for services rendered
@@brokenrobot4073”Not only did I change the batteries, I also taught you to check them first next time!”
Not just trunking: every industry has those companies that accidentally scam customers by going bankrupt before fulfilling their promises.
Cash on arrival. I am a business owner. A guy just bought 5,400 bucks in equipment. Received it, then did a credit card dispute. The guy said he was a cop before.
Well now he’s going to jail of the dispute goes through.
That's why it's a good idea to run a credit check on the shipper and get out early.
this company had an excellent credit score, was in biz for years with the same customers. But I agree if you are doing business with someone, a hand shake isn't enough these days.
Moral of the story: Don't be stupid and keep working for someone who isn't paying!
Well they had net 120 day payment terms so it wasn’t really the case here
It’s tough luck finding out the hard way you’re being taken advantage of financially, even from an employer you work for full time if you find out you’re being very underpaid for the job you do. So many try and get away with what they can right under your nose.
He then proceeded to sue the administrators of said company. This also happens in every business, not just trucking. There are a lot tighter credit restrictions in place today because of these companies, but it will always happen in every industry because not all companies can be successful.
Trucking typically has a 90 day billing time so you do a load this week, earns you 2k. You can wait 90 days to get the 2k or sell your bills to a factoring company that will pay you 95% of the pay so you get 1,900 for that load and moneys in the bank this week instead of 90 days from now.
The reason being is that people need to buy the product, then the retail stores get paid, they pay the shippers who then pays the trucking company and the manufacturers. It takes time
Yet you can go to JAIL for writing a $20 check that doesn’t clear.🙄
I know right!
Try to do what Hunter Biden did.
My man, I ain't ever seen a saddle coverd in more grease than in this video
Too much? How do you do it bro?
I put on a rubber glove and I just smear it around. That way I don't have to use all of that and waste so much.
@@guyinatruckI put about 1/4 the amount you do on the 5th wheel. And drop the airbags. When very close to the kingpin, raise and finish coupling. Or just put a decent about at the 2 points that contact the trailer so it smears it forward onto the 5th wheel
If you don't drop the apron after you almost click the kingpin jaws, most of that grease will be pushed off and wasted.
120 day defferal of payment is huge. The company would have to be worth hundreds of millions to allow that kind of payment plan. The place i worked for previously only allowed 30-90 days with a credit cap or we'd stop working (tractor and trailer repair). We had huge contracts with kroger, swiftys, greyhounds, kenworth, etc. The most id ever seen was 350k not paid and we put 12 of their projects on hold.
I had friends that did pilot car service, some of those shady companies screwed them over as well.
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