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Hirschbach Motor Lines

SO  IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT JCT JUST READ THE ENTIRE THING THANKS

Please Take heed of all the negative reviews RUN AWAY DONT LOOK BACK 
The trucks have around 500000 miles on them, but they will sell the to you at almost full retail price. the variable lease is a great concept, its true you can take a week off and come out only 300 or so in the hole easy enough to make that up right hahahaha but after that  FORGET ABOUT IT. So if you like being away from home NOT GETTING PAID THEN JCT IS RIGHT FOR YOU. Shippers and receivers dictate your schedule and most are aholes,  thinking of dropping or swapping to keep you rolling, ya thats a joke. 1300 average length of haul ya but they schedule you 5-6 days to run that load so if you pick-up on time your stuck waiting the extra 3-4 days to get unloaded. there are no early appointment times pick-up or unload jct has no control over their own company they let the shippers and receivers tell them how to run their drivers. you want to know why they have orientation where you can start any day its to keep up with the extreme turn over rate.here are some of the current things that other driver want to improve at jct directly from the closed group page. THIS IS THE FIRST POST THAT STARTED ALL OF THIS 

What would you like to see if JCT would improve somethings?

Please keep it professional I want a list of things that we can bring to the table.

Thank you
COMMENTS 
1 More information on pre plans

2 Tighten up time between pickup appointments and delivery appointments.
Stop charging guys new truck prices on trucks that have 350k+ miles on them. These trucks have been paid on for 2 years, but when a new guy gets in one they want to start the payments over like it’s a new truck. 
Just a couple of my many many thoughts.

3.  I agree and disagree on the appt times. Some loads really don't need to be scheduled any tighter than they already are, while others definitely have much more time on them than needed. Unfortunately, that's also not something that JCT can control anyway. The customers dictate the appt times.
I do agree that there should be a different way to handle the lease contract amounts for used trucks though. I'm not sure there's a good way to handle that though. Would it be fair to those of us who are staying in one truck to watch noobs come to the company and only need to pay half as much - or even less - in order to pay off their 300K+ mile trucks? Maybe it would work better if the payments made can transfer over toward the initial value of a new truck, if they decide to get a new truck at some time.

4. Is there a limit to how many items we post?

5. A flatbed deviation and duels on any truck that wants them let us drivers make the decision

6. Just make sure trailers are repaired

7.Communication,

8.  Comunication,
Respect,
Preplan info with the companies we are going to.
Not just a city.

9. More transparency on repairs whether from getting tires on national account and getting work done at sapulpa shop

10. More free late trips

11. Trailers repaired before assigned out . Especially the Sapulpa yard. 3 times lately I’ve tried to pick up a trailer to have something wrong, tires, lights, air leaks, etc. 
San Bernardino? None available, gotta go to Colton to get one.. it’s not hard for a yard truck to go hook up to a trailer and put air to it to make sure the trailer is roadworthy. 
COMMUNICATION . This is a 50-50 thing. I try to let dispatch know what’s going on with my end, and in return I hope for the same. My DM does a bang up job, but the night and weekend crew seem to slack every now and again. I have sat in the office and watched what happens, from the DM to the planners, their job is not easy either. But just that little extra message can mean so much.
We are all a team here, and it takes effort on both sides to make everything work like a well oiled machine.
Just my .02 worth

12.  So true! Today, for example: I sent a QC saying no empties were available at the Fort Worth yard. Crickets. After about 10 minutes, I called Chuck B up to confirm that he got the message. He didn't. Later on, I sent another QC saying which empty I was grabbing from Taylor Farms in Dallas. More crickets. I called Chuck again to confirm. This time he actually did see the message, but not even a simple "10-4" coming back to me across the QC for me to know anybody even read the message

13. You have to remember though night crew and Weeknd crew it's about 6 people handling over 700 some trucks compared to your DM handle 45 trucks

14. That we can use "OUR" maintance acc# money without asking permission to do so ! .. i hate going to shops ( loves, TA , etc) especially at night and having to ask for permission basically and waiting for an authorization to do something on the truck. Ive been to places where the shop guys get mad at me for the process taking for ever 🧐🧐
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Actions speak louder than words

Hirschbach there’s not another company that’s gonna tell you we call you by your name not a number.

Hirschbach is a company that actions speak for themselves.

Let me explain.

I was pick up in a large SUV at the company’s parking lot that I was quitting because they were treating me badly as a company driver.

I was settled in this large SUV all by myself to the car rental company where I had a car paid for waiting on me.

Then all me meals and gas I spent on the road getting to my orientation was reimbursed on my first check.

I had my truck waiting on me the one I told him I wanted.

I was put in a motel room a private room with no roommates unlike the other companies that jam more then one person in a room.

Orientation was only two days long the Orientation Instructor were the coolest intelligent people I ever had in an orientation.

Other truck driving companies can’t hold a candle to Hirschbach.

Other companies talk all that BS about your not a number we call you by your name lol.

That is all BS.

Hirschbach has all them bet from day one Hirschbach treats you like your professional truck driver.

Hirschbach thanks you all the time for what you do.

All the Hirschbach employees treat you with respect from the Maintenance department to the office workers to your Dispatch to your drivers manager everyone at Hirschbach is 100% Professional.

I did not come to Hirschbach just for the money you can make here, you can make money at any company.

I didn’t come to Hirschbach for the benefits you can get here, you can get good binders at any big trucking company.

I came to Hirschbach because they treat you like family.

I know a lot of companies out there say they treat you like family but they say that just as a gimmick to hire you.

Hirschbach has treated me like a professional truck driver from day one.

Other companies talk the talk but Hirschbach walks the walk.

Everyone at Hirschbach is always thanking me for my hard work I do as a truck driver.

Ever other truck driving company I have seen and work for talk the talk but can’t walk the walk.

Hirschbach has showed me that they real care about ever truck driver that works for them.

I am proud to be a Hirschbacher.

Thank you Hirschbach for letting me work for your Amazing Awesome Company. 

The company culture seems dedicated to running the company into the ground. They have little to no attention to detail, blame their drivers for all problems including the ones they create. There is a huge disconnect between the office culture and drivers. Office workers do not understand or support drivers very well. A lot of the job gets misrepresented to get you in the door. Not to mention how utterly awful the systems are that they use, if you don't write down, monitor, track, every penny to hold them accountable you will lose that money. They are a shambles. Save yourself the headache. And don't let the large sign on bonus attract you either.  The payout requires you to stay on with them for years before you get any lump sum. You will lose more money trying to stay and make it work than you will ever get from the bonus. It also seems as if drivers who signed on with big bonuses get jerked around to try to make them quit just before they are eligible for a payout. Want to sit for days, a thousand miles from home and only get offered short distance trailer moves that will earn you less than if you sat for 24 hours with no load? This is the company for you!

They are mostly concerned that your truck payment is covered each week. The hard part is making enough money over that to justify committing 24/7 for weeks at a time. Taking time off is very costly, as you return to work behind on payments. Any detention or layover pay will barely cover the payment so there is no compensation for you sitting somewhere killing time. Still, hoping for enough miles above the payment each week to make it worthwhile becomes tiresome... or more liike disheartening when your pay for the week is 6 or 700 dollars.  They will rush you through orientation in one day just to get you out making that payment. If  you don't have a degree in accounting, or even if you do - good luck figuring out your pay stub accuracy and details. It is designed to be way too complex to understand. Plan on spending much time waiting on hold. Understand going in that they are trying to be a low-cost carrier competing to haul freight the cheapest. Consequently, both shipper and carrier are low budget.  There is always the captive lease operator to ensure the company is protected from the downside.  Dispatchers are typical ... but, they sure appear to have enough time off each week.

The only thing that is good about the company is the pay. Everything else I a complete nightmare and disorganized mess. I've seen high schoolers run jiffy lubes better than the management that hirschbach employs. The environment is very toxic and one sided. Unless your a favorite of the service manager you will hate life with a passion. Service manager plays favorites allows those favorites to do whatever they want. If you try to do the same your job will be threatened or held over your head like it's a treat. Management will pretend to care about but then quickly backstab you. If you sign up for a shift don't expect to be on it for long they will swap your shift and promise to put you back but never will. Easiest way to put this place is they promise you the world but give you nothing. If you want to keep your sanity stay away from this shop. The shop itself is falling apart with no real plans to fix it and everyday you will have the feeling that you won't have a job. Also don't ever call off even if you have pto it might get you fired. The honest only good thing about this company is the pay but it's not worth it. Shop also problems with other techs damaging boxes to which they do nothing about.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I'm my opinion they are no different than all the rest of these trucking company ,that go by a favorite driver system they have two different type of dedicated lanes one where the shipper pays all of your over head cost and one where you have a dedicated lane but you pay all of your own cost and you know who get what lane ,I was running north east and stay in the hole with their sliding pay ,if I was advertising someone I would tell them if you. Can't get on the dedicated lane where they ( the shipper pays all of your over head ) don't go work for them they will keep you in the whole and then you ask for a cash advance that will be other way they keep you in the hole don't do it just find you something else 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Majority of their loads are night lanes where you have to drive at night

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Depression and sad to drive all week long and not make a paycheck

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Herry up and than wait  the typical over the road company

What is the best part of working at the company?
The management are amazing. Dispatchers great. Equipment great. No complaints amongst the staff.
Someone is always available and they always there to solve issues and fix problems if need be. Loads are constantly flying at the driver.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It’s Refridgerated so any company hauling produce, meat, frozen goods use blue beacon mostly and blue beacon were scarce. I like washing my trailer usually kept the same one. More reliable easier to prevent breakdowns overall. Drivers that know their equipment and keep the same equipment can keep better care of the equipment.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great super friendly they don’t call every 5 min. Phone calls with dispatchers was normally friendly good morning every now and then literally 2 times a month or change in route which was rare. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I get up breakfast freshen up and deliver my load very peaceful at Hirschbach owner is great.

For starters the recruiter makes it all sound tastey, like most jobs They pay for you to come to what you believed was a 2 day oreintation, its turns into 4. Good thing everything was paid by them, until you get out on the road. The Job description was Dedicated run which I did not even do any of my job description..I was sent to VA with no clean clothes,No blankets or pillow and teamed up with another driver, whom also was stuck out with no drink,food and bedding. They had NO trucks for us after oreintation. Arrived back to maine and had to sit still for an addtional 18 hours waiting for Dispatch to contact us. 4 hours from home and I had to wait..Unpaid. When dispatch was called Nobody answered...EVER. We got an I DONT KNOW...wait some more. Pay attention to Oreintation..LOTS of things that in fine print..such as $2.00 per mile when you get off route, $2,000 pet deposit if you want to bring a cat or dog and NO rider policy, $500 charge if your truck is left slightist bit dirty if you leave the company. On and On and On...We made more in Oreintation then we actually did running to VA and back. Watch this Company.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Hirschbach Motor Lines does not care about their drivers, they only care about lining their pockets and their bank accounts they get two s**** about their drivers

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The recruiters lie to you to get you into their company, and when you get the orientation they'll smile at you tell you where the best company out there and when you get on the road with a trainer they treat you like garbage, especially when the loads are all delivered and they just let you go because they don't like you

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible, Hirschbach Motor Lines employees only care about themselves they'll smile in your face and stab you in the back, it is a bogus company

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hirschbach Motor Lines is like every other trucking company they promise you one thing and once they get you in the door everything changes they're just worried about lining their pockets with all that money and then treating you of like a toilet

if you are young and willing to party and drink all the time you will fit right in.  or if you suck up to certain managers you will fit in.  be prepared for a manager in the maintenance department to refer to you and coworkers as b*tches.  or hear him ask a coworker to see her chest on a regular basis or moan when an hr generalists rubs his shoulders.  also if you do the same thing that other people do i.e listen to videos while working or answer a text be prepared to be wrote up and they wont be because they are the managers favorite..  these same people are also allowed to create their own schedule and come and go as they please to take their grown son to and from work or their kids are "sick" again.   Then when you stand up to this Manager you get wrote up for anything you did wrong.  no verbal warnings nothing prior to the write up.  Then you get let go and told you are not a cultural fit for the company.  no explanation as to what that means.  It could possibly mean you didn't bend and kiss someones backside, or you weren't interested in playing foosball, ping pong or bumper pool during work hours.

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