Complaint Review: cmh trucking - burnsville, Minnesota

 my boyfriend did not work for the oil side of this company so dont talk about someone you dont know and where you dont know all the facts and hmmm if they got shut down there must be a pretty good reason. my boyfriend did his job and is a very good driver, how do I know? I use to run team with him. So dont sit an say that he wanted something for nothing, he ran his a*s off for this piece of crap company and Im glad they are shut down so they cant take from other honest, hard working over the road drivers!! Sorry you lost your job but if you are such a dedicated and good driver you shouldn't have an issue finding another job. we have moved on and my boyfriend found a reputable company who treats it drivers with respect and doesn't rip him off, by the way I did some checking and the most that they paid for a trailer rental is $350 a month and they were charging over the road drivers $600 a month maybe with these rip offs to over the road drivers your so called good company paid you. think about it

my boyfriend did do everything that they asked of him and he worked in the regular frieght side of this company and is not a driver that expects something for nothing, guess you are just one of the few lucky ones that got paid. good luck in your endeavors and we wish you the best

I worked for CMH for about two months earlier this year before the owner decided to shut down operations. Employees were paid according to their productivity. I thought that was a great system, although some employees didn't. They wanted to be paid as a function of time without taking any responsibility for getting things done on their own. The job often required that a driver stay with the truck on well and LACT locations overnight for a timely delivery and headstart in the morning. Some employees didn't want to do that, but rather wanted to waste company fuel, time and productivity traveling out of route to be at the company supplied housing every night. Then they wanted to complain about substandard paychecks because "they were not able" to get in enough loads because of conditions over which they "had no control". But of course, they certainly did have control over how much they could have gotten done. Its just that night time TV was apparently more important to them than their paycheck. I want to give testimony that CMH treated me fairly and I have received, on time, every bit of pay that was owed to me by the company in the weeks following the shutdown.

Success as a driver in the oil hauling industry is extremely self determining. No one owes you a living. That includes your boss, your boss' boss, and your coworkers. It is very much all up to the driver to coordinate his own system of success. Everything you have coming to you as a driver must be produced by yourself, no one else. If you want something for nothing, try government work.

In my last rebuttal I stated that it didnt make sense as to why would you have to run 3000 miles a week if your getting paid percentage. It makes sense to me now that I found out that they also charge you 2-3 cents per mile that you drive for the payoff at the end of the lease (if you make it that far) so the more miles you run the more money in their pocket at the end, and if you quit they keep that too, and you have to give a 30 day notice to get any of your escrow back if you quit, really, who gives a 30 day notice, even in the real world your only required to give a 2 week notice. I also did some investigating on my own and found out that the most they might be paying for leasing trailers is $350 a month and they are charging drivers $150/wk for trailer rental plus $45/wk for trailer  insurance, a friend of mine only pays about $29/month for trailer insurance and she runs reefer units. Then they have the nerve to send out 1099 forms stating you earned so much with them...ya ok.

This company is making alot of money off of drivers who are out there working to earn a living for their families and this company is starving them and they go home and sleep good at night. I would suggest if you are thinking about going with this company to run and run fast. If it wasnt for family and friends we would have lost our place to live and had our utilities shut down because we didnt have the money to pay for them. My boyfriend made over $3000 in one wk and brought home a paycheck of less than $150, and he only had $200 out in advances and $100 went for tolls and scales and things like that. The loads they get are mostly from one broler that is known for having cheap freight. My friend with the trucking company won't even answer her phone when that broker calls because their freight is so cheap she won't even turn the key for what they offer