Smithway Motor Xpress - Dean Anderson Lier, Cheat, and a Ripoff! Fort Dodge Iowa
Take about five minutes to talk to the Smithway Express recuiters and they will promise you the world to include detention pay! What a crock!
I drove for Smithway ( flat-bed division ) previously for about six months. I never saw the first check for being detained at or by a customer. I therfore quit working for Smithway.
Some three months later I received a letter from Smithway asking their old drivers to come back. I questioned Smithway about my back pay and they said they would take care of it. I figured I'd give it a chance. BOY AM I STUPID! I figured all the hours I was at my customer and professionalism that I had shown toward my customers, that Smithway would have shown me the same courtesy to me by paying me for being detained by thease customers.
Just a fact, If I'm not rolling I'm not making any money. You would think the least Dean Anderson could do is pay his employees as his company had promised for detention. I even wrote a letter to Dean Anderson and he doesn't even have the guts to write me back or give me a straight answer. What a coward!
So don't belive everything they tell you. I considered detention time as supplimental to me regular pay for being there for Smithway. Dean Anderson is a lier. You still owe me and others thousands for being there for you! What a Crook you and your outfit became!
Patrick
Hapeville, Georgia
U.S.A.
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Steve
Bradenton,Florida,
U.S.A.
Here's how you get your detention pay
#2Consumer Suggestion
Mon, March 06, 2006
First, it has to be properly documented. Second, it is not automatic, you must get an authorization each time from the driver manager or dispatcher and make a formal request each time.
If it was properly documented, and you did go through proper channels with your request, you can file a wage claim with the DOL. This is because it is a part of your total compensation package.
The way I always did it, was logged the eligibility of detention pay on my log book, and also documented who I spoke with and any authorization on my log as well.
SMX is one of the better flatbed companies out there. You could have done much worse.