- Report: #1493000
Complaint Review: Turquoise Trucking LLC - Cedar Rapids Iowa
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Michael -
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Turquoise Trucking LLC
3330 Southgate Ct SW Cedar Rapids, 52404 Iowa, United States
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773-492-2317
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Turquoise Trucking, LLC Matt and Rashad Suspicious Hiring Practice Cedar Rapids Iowa
I applied for a positition as a Company Drive. A complete backgroud check was done. I was approved for hire and flown from Louisville, KY to Cedar Rapids, IA. Upon Arriving I found that everyone was polite friendly, and curtious. I took my drug test and finished the required orientation training. Then came the paperwork.
Immediately I was alarmed and puzzled by the fact that I had to fill out a W-9 tax for (for Independent Contractors), and asked to sign a document stating that they offered no garantees of any kind. I had a problem with both of these. They tried to tell me that a Company driver and an Independent Contracor are the same thing. I have been in this profession for nearly 30 years and have been an Independant Contractor and a Company Driver and they are nowhere near the same.
They wanted to pay me a Company Driver's rate under an Independent Contractor's Status (0.48cpm) after telling me that I would be paid 0.50cpm as a Company Driver because I was a Military Veteran. I don't know of an Independent Contractor who works for less than 0.62cpm. The IC has no company benefits, no workers comp, no unemployement insurance, or any of the perks offered to a Company Driver, that would be the reason for the higher rate paid to the IC.
Secondly; This no garanteeof any kind document. They did offer (over the phone) a 400 mile per day garantee as long you had the hours to drive it, but they refuse to put that in writing period. Mind you, I went to IA on 03/16/20 for this job. When I started questioning them about the pay and the garantee, a report that they had had recieved on 3/12/20 claiming I had a violation for a company I never worked for showed up.
I'm not saying that they made up the report by any means, (I even filed a dispute against the company that put the bad information on my DAC Report. My point is that they waited until I challenged the contract before they brought it to my attention. After that, they decided not to hire me and left me stranded homeless in Cedar Rapids Iowa 500+ miles away from my home in Louisville, KY and refused to get me back home.
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Matt
Cedar Rapids,Iowa,
United States
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#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Tue, March 24, 2020
We were completelly transparent that this position was a 1099 contracted position. We have 11 drivers in our fleet that are happy and are all under a 1099 contract.
We did not catch the HireRight report that this gentleman failed a previous drug test-for that we take full responsibility. It cost us a plane ticket and two nights in a hotel for this person because he chose to withhold information concerning said failed drug test. When we made the discovery, we still paid for him to have a room that night. When we invest in people it costs our company money, time, and recources. We also spent a Saturday and a Sunday working to try and get this gentleman a rental car. The bottom line is we were lied to and it cost us plenty.
