Lester Coggins Trucking - LCT They lie and Destroy a drivers reputation... Okahumpka Florida
My husband Bill worked for Lester Coggins Trucking, for about a year this last time. He had been giving them all that he had in the way of working. He would be delivering and after he delivered he would have to sit for anywhere from 2 days to a week before Coggins decided that they was going to give him a load out of there. He would be left sitting in the parking lots where he had delivered until he would finally get run off and Coggins wouldn't let him just go to a truck stop and wait.
He would call them almost every hour, they told him that when they had something they'd let him know. But they usually didn't for at least another day. I know this because he would call me and complain to me about it.
He decided that he was interested in looking for another job. He finally found one and he called Coggins up while he was on the road and gave them notice. They had already gotten word of the new job some how. But he was in Alabama at the time and he was on a time crunch to get back to Florida to turn in his truck. He has neve left a truck abandoned for any reason and he wasn't going to start now.
They told him that he had to stay in Alabama until they got a load coming back to Florida. They finally offered him one but it was going the other way.
He told them that he had to get back to Florida as soon as possible. They told him that he couldn't come back without a load. He drove back to the yard anyway. They told him that because he came back without a load and as far as they was concerned he had abandoned his truck. Which we don't understand because he drove it back to the yard and gave them the keys.
Well they told him that because of this that he would never be able to get another driving job as long as he drove. They told him that he was "BLACKBALLED" from driving.
So now because of Lester Coggins trucking, the only kinds of trucking jobs that he can get is crappy ones that pay hardly nothing because of Coggins destroying his good name and good reputation as a driver. He's been driving since the early 60's.
My words to you. DRIVERS LOOKING FOR JOBS. STAY AWAY FROM LESTER COGGINS TRUCKING IN OKAHUMPKA, FLORIDA.
Katie
Hollow Rock, Tennessee
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
T Johnson
United States of America1997 - Worked for them and this IS what happened to me too!
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, April 28, 2011
This is a very accurate report. This is classic LCT....
I was a trainee, learned there and ran for them H.A.R.D.
Dispatch lying to you and Safety railing on you, don't do what dispatch orders than get pinched hard and left without any miles and kept in a location that is not near a truck stop or anywhere you want to be, run the miles that dispatch throws at you and safety will have you!
If these two departments weren't bad enough to handle and carefully navigate than you have to deal with horrible equipment, I was in a flat top and it was poorly maintained, then getting trailers that were in like same condition.
I was black balled and sabotaged on DAC by LCT... H O R R I B L E company... if you want to know more about this nightmare just read anywhere and then look up the parent company Gainey Corp and see they stiffed even their creditors and ran the company into the ground.
Just safe enough to say, stay away like the plague!
J.R.M.
Tampa,Florida,
United States of America
Sounds Like Clasic L Coggins
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, March 02, 2011
This IS one Of The Worse Companies I Ever Worked For I Felt Relived When I Got Fired
Safety Fighting With Dispatch Dispatch Fighting With Safety And Driver In The Middle.
Telling Drivers To Run Illegal And Then Later Pulled Into Safety Comparing Your Log Book To The Dumb Quailcomm
Truck Don't Tell Me Where I'm At So How Am I To Log That Way ???
They Fire Staff Drivers Like There Is No Tomorrow
After They Fire You They Make It Almost Imposable To Get Unemployment Or Get Another Job.
Stay Far Far Away From This Company