It has amazed me that the scam works as well as it does. It’s so blatantly wrong, but so accepted. I fell into it hook, line, and sinker. I went to work for Coyle with just being told I would be paid off of the gross. They made it sound so normal that I never had a contract to sign or anything. I’m thinking that an owner-operator would have the amount in the contract.

I have to wonder if the financing companies care. They get trucks back all of the time and this would have to be a root cause in many cases.

When a driver goes under taking loads that pay less per mile than it costs to run the truck, you really can’t fault the company. The company always tells them that there is another run that pays well to make up for it on the other side, of course there rarely is. A few times of this should prompt that driver to leave the company. When a driver is working from a fictional set of numbers, that’s just fraud.

I suppose a website like this directed at the facts could make you feel good that you might foil one more person from getting involved with the scam.

I’ve thought of all the trucking scams out there and often wondered if anyone would even pay attention. When a person gets into trucking, they tend to let dreams get in the way of facts presented to them. Even when they are switching companies, they have high hopes and want to believe that the company they are going to is going to be the answer.

Right now, all that I see are standard complaints about trucking companies. Many of the appear to be written by the wives of truckers. Many have a valid complaint, but then they throw in things that are baseless like, “They wouldn’t let him come home and he’d been out for 2 weeks!”. Then they say, “Don’t go to this company.” I probably could find complaints like this for any company. What the Internet needs is something useful and solid for a driver to make a decision with.

I’ve got a feeling you’ll come up with something useful and original.

What a business would not like to pay employees whatever they seemed fit?

I chocked it up to my own stupidity for getting into the situation with them and left at the first opportunity I could get. Of course, they got a free ride until I could figure that out.

The reason I never attacked them on the Internet, which is so easy to do, is that I couldn’t find a way to absolutely prove that they did it. Who says Wal-Mart.com isn’t sponsored by Target.com is some way? I have a feeling that what comes around goes around and I just move on and let them bask in their own misery. I’ll hear of them shooting themselves in the foot as I have other companies that have wronged me. At some point, they’ll get squashed by honest folks.

The owners of Coyle Trucking had to showboat their owner’s show trucks and motorcycles to make themselves feel better about their ill-gotten gains.They had to hide in fear behind a little window inside their fortress to make sure no driver came after them. They had the shame of being cowards and theives. I have no fear of them or anyone else because I know I’ve given everyone a fair shake. I felt that a full website against them would only keep me bitter and be a constant reminder that I had been walked all over.