I want to file a report against Flying B Animal Transport located in Van Nuys California,MANY animal rescue people have used him in the past and they have all had complaints about him.He is too nice,he only cares about the animals and not himself,he only has the animals best interests at heart,he travels with a loaded pistol because there are so many bad people out there that when coming upon a vehcle loaded with dogs might have bad intentions and try to take them and having protection would thwart those bad people..95 % of truckers on the road carry weapons for just that purpose,PROTECTION..Mario the owner of Flying B transport is USDA Licensed to transport animals unlike about 90 % of all animal rescue transporters out there,Mario does the right thing which is unheard of...He was very rude and unkind to me in that he was too nice and only tried to please me,there is a limit to how much niceness I can take..He went above and beyond the normal of being professional and THAT is not how it is supposed to be in animal rescue.
When he transported my rescue dogs to me in Connecticut coming from Los Angeles he made the trip in four days which is unheard of as he said it would take him at least 6 days allowing for pee stops for his transport animals every 3-6 hours at rest areas,I was very unhappy that he made such good time as I had to cancel my hair appointment which I gladly did for him,also he was constantly sending me text messages and pictures of my rescued dogs while they were ot on the road headed towards me..It became annoying that he would even consider contacting me to show me how my precous animals were doing in his care,he even went as far as making a short video of my pups at a truck stop In the high plains area of Kansas..Also he fed them the best possible food while transporting and also gave them only bottled spring water to drink ..THE NERVE,He only charged me an ourageously small fee per the size of each of my animals and a share of gas for transporting coast to coast.I was very outraged that he could charge so little and yet give the best possible care to the animals in his care...But the one thing that bothered me the most is that Mario sleeps in his transort vehicle with his charges..that is unheard of instead of charging clients for hotel rooms he sleeps in his car never leaving his charges..I can say without a doubt that I will NEVER not use him ever again becuase simply he did not do everything he said he would not and everything he said he would.In closing I would ask that everyone think clearly about using the FLYING B Animal Transport service..there are so many animal transports out there that promis this and promis that and only one that I know of that follows through on their promis and it chills me to the bone that The Flying B Animal Transport actually does what he says....
Becca
Flagstaff,#2Author of original report
Wed, October 09, 2013
I just wanted to write my own two cents here,I have heard so many negative things said about Mr.Gandolfo and all I have to say about that is "HORSE HOCKEY"..I have watched the same group of people constantly attack not only Mario's STELLAR transport business but also his own characer not only libeling his own character and life but even going as far as calling him a wanted criminal and a crack head as well as having an illegal transport vehicle and is not registered with the USDA to carry Animals..I have seen his certificate to transport and he also has it posted on hs worldwide web and his facebook page..He also recently got a surprise inspection from a USDA inspector at his facility and passed with flying colors ..Does this sound like the kind of person these same people have for the past 4 years,yes I wrote 4 years ..are making himout to be?? Hw do these people sleep at night ..The one single person who is behind Mario's loss of transport work through her lies and her libel of him and his transport business is named Tina Pollard and she resides in Los Angeles California and is a very shady person.She alone has and continues to wage a smear campaign against Mr.Gandolfo at the request of one Alma Kowalski who loaned Mario money to better his transport business .It's a very long and complicated story and one which should be made into a novel that includes conrtol of people through money,paying people to ruin another's life,manipulation through money and blackmail all on Miss Kowalski's part,but the short of it is Mario is guilty of NOTHING except to be a paid professional coast to coast animal tranporter with an unblemished record..One thing I want to touch on before ending my 2 cents is that Mario has NEVER transported sick animals.there were 3 instances yes where the animals dieed from 4 days to 4 weeks after Mario transported them and at the time Mario picked up those animals at the shelters they showed no signs of being sick.ALL of these cases were claimed by the rescuers who saved the animals that Mario in no way shape and form was responsible for the animal's deaths and money as miss Pollard states was NO factor in any of this..what kind of a foul mouthed human could accuse anyone of such a thing especially when they know it to not be true..Someone who is out to ruin a person's name that's who through their own personal vendetta or for someone else's...In closing I will say this " I have never met a more caring individual than Mario Gandolfo and I will never understand how he keeps transporting the animals through the constant daily libel of his transport service and his own character..His heart must be bigger than the whole of Texas and because of all the bad and false publicity he gets I sure hope he keeps sane through all of it.I would have cracked long ago.
Mario if you see this "DON'T EVER LET THEM GET TO YOU AND STAY IN THE LIFE SAVING GAME AND KEEP ON WINNING AS LONG AS YOU CAN"