Complaint Review: DON SIMMONS TRUCKING LTD WAYNE MURPHY DON SIMMONS KARYN SIMMONS

DON SIMMONS IS A FULL PARTNER WITH WAYNE MURPHY, MURPHY INDUSTRIAL OILFIELD, BROOKLYN OILFIELD SERVICES AND BARRY BERGGREN.

THE REFUSAL TO HONOUR WAGES OWED EMPLOYEES IS A CORNERSTONE OF DON SIMMONS POLICY.

WHAT IS WRITTEN BELOW APPLIES IS FULL TO DON SIMMONS TRUCKING OF HINTON, ALBERTA.

WAYNE MURPHY is a person with whom no company or person should do business. Wayne Murphy owns companies that no person should consider working for. Some of them are:

1) Murphy Steam Trucks Ltd
2) Murphy Industrial Oilfield Inc.
3) Brooklyn Oilfield Services Ltd.
4) Murphy Mats Ltd (Oilfield Rig Mats)
5) Lobo Music Corporation
6) ispyalberta.com
7) Alberta Business Directory
8) yellowhead.com


NOTE: THIS LIST IS BY NO MEANS COMPLETE AS WAYNE MURPHY ALSO RUNS A STRING OF UNDER-THE-RADAR NUMBERED COMPANIES.


Wayne Murphy is nothing but a garden variety con-artist and slickster whose life revolves around ripping off his customers and his employees. In addition to ripping off his employees he routinely places their lives in danger by refusing to provide safety equipment as required.

Wayne Murphy owns many little companies and uses them in a shell-game at his convienience to avoid paying bills to both his suppliers and his employees. In addition to routine theft and fraud Wayne Murphy cannot be trusted to tell the truth for a second. If you enter into an agreement with Wayne Murphy you can count on having to chase Wayne Murphy with collection agencies and Law Courts in order to collect what you are owed. Even with court orders Wayne Murphy hides behind and moves quickly from one company to another. If you are a person or company seeking a service or product and you encounter Wayne Murphy don't walk away...run like hell!!!!

If you are an oilfield consultant or engineer doing business in the Alberta Oilpatch do not contract the services of any of the companies listed above. Wayne Murphy instructs his drivers and operators to overbill contractors as much "extra time" as they can. Wayne Murphy and his company Murphy Industrial Oilfield and Murphy Steam Trucks have ripped off some of the largest companies in the Alberta oilpatch such as Encana, Talisman, BP, Imperial Esso(Cold Lake). If, for example, you require water or frac-fluids to be hauled to your drilling/service rig you can be sure that you will be overcharged at least 2 hours on every invoice. Wayne Murphy regularly instructs his employees to lie about road conditions, travel time etc etc and use that as an excuse to add fraudulent hours to the time-tickets.

An example of overbilling that Wayne Murphy regularly uses is "clean-out" time or "flush" time. Wayne Murphy knows that there is little way of tracking how long one of his trucks has been at a clean-out facility such as NewAlta or C.C.S. Wayne Murphy will regularly claim that his trucks were at the facility for 1.5 to 3 hours when in reality the unit was only there for 20 minutes.

Even more serious is the complete disregard Wayne Murphy and his partner, Barry Berrgren, show for the environmental regulations of the oil companies they work for. Rather than spending money on installing "heat-tracing" on their trailers valves and sumps so the fluid won't freeze, they simply instruct their drivers to dump any remaining fluid on the contractors oil-leases. This incredible stupidity places their customers in positions of severe liability as federal and provincial inspectors could fine the prime contractors millions of dollars for spills.

Prime contractors should be very concerned about the training Wayne Murphy's employees have received as this places them in a position of tremendous liability in relation to Canadian Law (Federal Bill C-45). At Wayne Murphy's main yard (12 km east of Edson, Alberta, Hwy 16, south side of hwy near Wolf Creek) his employees can be seen working at over-heights with no fall protection and using extreme high pressure water with no safety glasses.

Hours of Service Regulations (log books) are a joke to Wayne Murphy and he insists his drivers routinely drive in excess of 24 to 36 hours straight. In addition Wayne Murphy will insist that the drivers falsify log books. This poses a severe hazard to workers on oil leases in close proximity to Wayne Murphy's trucks (Brooklyn Oilfield Services, Murphy Steam Trucks,

Wayne Murphy routinely does not properly train his employees nor provide them with the proper required safety equipment. If any employee objects Wayne Murphy becomes extremely vicious and vindictive, threatening the employee with the withholding of wages etc. If the employee persists Wayne Murphy then embarks on a harassment and intimidation campaign.

If the employee finally quits because of the threat to his or her life and safety or because he or she refuses to commit acts of fraud Wayne Murphy will not pay any outstanding wages owed. Once the person attempts to collect wages owed Wayne Murphy begins to manipulate the hours owed. For example: Wayne Murphy will claim some hours were "training hours" paid at half-rate, he will completely deny other hours. This will continue until the amount owed is a fraction of the true amount owed.

Once the employee attempts to collect wages owed there is no level to low for Wayne Murphy to sink to. Wayne Murphy considers himself somewhat of a legal expert and will begin a campaign of terror and intimidation threatening to sue the employee and seize his or her assets and wages. For the average employee this can be frightening but it gives the results Wayne Murphy wants: non-payment of wages owed. In the alternative if an employee is able to fight back Wayne Murphy immediately runs to the police and fabricates wild stories about the former employee, again a campaign of terror and intimidation. Wayne Murphy is nothing less than extremely vicious and vindictive who will stoop at nothing to achieve his own ends and desires.

One of the scams Wayne Murphy was running to the detriment of young hopeful musicians was "Lobo Music Corp". Wayne Murphy represented himself as the President of an "Independent Record Label with a bright future that was well connected in Nashville". Wayne Murphy would take large cash advances for "record contracts" and then fail to produce anything. If the musician asked for a refund Wayne Murphy would dream up every excuse not to pay, claiming false expenses and fees. Some of the record producers in Nashville like Lonnie Ratliff and Jim Pierce who have been in Nashville for decades have never heard of Wayne Murphy. Wayne Murphy use slick talk to steal from young musicians. He is nothing less than a thief and a con artist.

Another example of Wayne Murphy's disregard for safety was the renovations he was doing on a piece of property he owned in Edson,Alberta. (414 50st). Wayne Murphy refused to take out a development permit and was told by the Town of Edson to cease construction. The construction also posed a serious threat of fire to tenants that resided in the upper portion of the building. Wayne Murphy had a fit of temper and showed complete disregard for both safe construction and the safety of his tenants. He was finally forced to cease construction with a court order.

There are hundreds of people who paid fees to be listed with "ispyalberta.com" and the Alberta Business Directory. Again this was little more than a scam, a well organized ripoff.


One word of advice: AVOID WAYNE MURPHY LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!

DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH WAYNE MURPHY , BARRY BERGGREN, DON SIMMONS TRUCKING OR ANY OF THE COMPANIES LISTED ABOVE, YOU WILL NOT ONLY REGRET IT BUT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MONEY.

Allen james
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, Alberta
Canada