truck driver

technician

trailer technician

facilities maintenance technician

trailer mechanic

Oakley Transport

They have no problem with Slave labor. They expect you, the driver;

To give 2hrs of labor to their customers, for free, upon arriving at the shipper or reciever, as long as you arrive at the scheduled appointment. If you arrive early, oh well. All of the time you are waiting, that's on you. BUT DONT BE LATE! If you are late, you can forget about any detention time. If it takes you 2hrs & 30 min to unload, you wont get paid for that extra 30 min. They pay a cheesy $10/hr, in 1 hr increments, But only if Corp approves it. (Free Labor)

Layovers: The driver must give them a full 24hrs of sitting around waiting for their next load. They will "begin" paying layover at the end of 48hrs. Then it's like pulling teeth to get it. A whole whopping $100 / 24hr period. If they give you a dispatch after sitting, let's say, 35 hrs in, oh well, that's on you. That too, is free time you gave them

10hr rest breaks: Driver managers have NO PROBLEM interrupting your MANDATORY DOT break, to tell you about a load, even though its prohibited by FMCSA. & Then expect you to be back on the road after 10hrs has experienced from when you 1st originally when on break. (Again, Free labor)

Breakdowns: Dont expect to claim any money for having to wait on the side of the road waiting for repairs. You must be broke down a minimum of 24 hrs b4 you will start to see any money, and then, once again, you have to fight for it, and if you do get it, it too is a cheesy $100/day, After a full 48hrs, even though they expect you to sit at the repair shop & give them hrly updates. (Again, free labor)

Holiday pay: Forget about that. Office folks will get it, along with the holiday off of work. The Drivers? That will never happen. And if you have issues with your load during the holiday? It's a nightmare to try and get anything accomplished.

Mileage pay; They pay by what they call, Zipcode to zipcode. (Yeah right) You can drive all day going to & from a tank wash to a customer within the same city, and they will only pay you for 1 mile for that load, even though a 1 way trip could easily be 10 or more miles of city driving. No short haul pay either. Oh, but they will pay you a "trailer spot pay" of $35/ drop. 9 times out of 10, they pay you the way a crow flies, meaning, you will almost Always end up driving way more miles than what they'll actually pay you for.  (Again, free labor)

In the trucking industry, it's almost always, THE DRIVER that's getting screwed over, even though its us risking our lives on a daily basis. We're forced to spend weeks on end away from our loved ones, forced to work free labor, yet we are the ungrateful ones.

Why do I call it Slave labor? Simple. You wont see the office folks walk into work and forced to give 2+ hrs of free labor b4 receiving pay. Nope. The moment they walk in the door, until they walk out, they're getting paid. Powers out? Nope, they still get paid. Computers are down? Nope, still get paid. Nothing going on in the office? Nope, still get paid. Multiple smoke breaks, outside chatting it up? Nope, still getting paid. At home during a holiday? Nope, still getting paid. 

Where is the Fair Labor pay that's required by Federal laws, when it comes to the Professional Drivers? There isnt any that anyone will enforce. & then these companies wonder as to why they cant retain professional drivers. Hmmmm

It was rare to know one day to the next what you would be doing.  A lot of times you'll work a rotating shift (meaning, you won't have the same start/end times any day if the week).  One day you could start at 11pm, next day 3am, next day 9am, next day 1pm, next day 8pm.  There was no regularity.  Work life balance was hard.  I became a hermit of who I was, working 14-16+ hrs a day, driving an hour to/from work to get home.  It Left next to no time to be at/enjoy being home.   Lot of times I had zero idea what day of the week it was let alone the date. 
  For local you can get salary base pay, but they offer no extra incentives for extra work.  You get X amount for 1 load, whether you do that 1 load or 15 other loads you still only make X.  Management pushes drivers to always do more than 1 load.  Management doesn't understand that refrigerator trailers must be washed out between uses especially when the company holds a food safety rating.
Drivers can't do any repairs to trucks or trailer no matter how small or insignificant.  Got a write up for zip tying up some dangling airlines under the trailer.  Got another write up for swapping out the "bad" grommets on my glad hands (air lines).  
There is driver facing cameras, but when I was there, they weren't operational and most everyone had tape or a sock blocking the view.
Safety department will 100% always trust the camera and sensors over a driver, even when you submit video proof of zero wrongdoing 

Oakley Transport gave me a real chance when I needed it most. Oakley stepped in and got me back on my feet fast. I had just gotten all my endorsements at the end of 2024 and came across Oakley, based out of Lake Wales, FL. Since then, it's been a solid journey.

They haul everything from fresh produce like orange juice and carrots to paper & sugar. Dispatchers are chill for the most part only some loads are more demanding. But even then, safety comes first. Appointments matter, yeah, but they’ll work with you if something comes up. At the end of the day, it’s your paycheck, and they know that.

I’ve been through six trucks since I started some were loaners while mine was getting fixed, and others I drove to swap out trucks that were due for trade-in. You do get paid for those moves. If something happens on the road or you feel unsafe, they don’t hesitate to get you a hotel. 

Their equipment is decent. They run Peterbilt 579s and Volvos, but they're slowly phasing out the Volvos which I think is a good move. Not a fan of the auto shutoff and the interior buttons on those (feels like a toddler’s toy. The Peterbilts are much better, hands down.

One thing I want to remind every driver: you’re the captain of your ship. If you see a defect, report it and handle it. It’s better to be safe than sorry especially during DOT blitz season. Tires and lights seem to be the biggest issues I’ve come across.

Company gets you in the door with an awsome introduction in Lake Wales! At cooperate offices everything is A-1, until you get to your terminal! My terminal was Conley Ga and it was nothing like 
Lake Wales! The terminal manager there doesn't answer the phone and the dispatcher has a very nasty and rude attitude! I was told that I needed to cancel my doctors,appointment to pick up I load earlier than I wasn't suppose to! And it was an eye doctor's appointment to check my vision for new glasses! Whenever you request hometime you will get sent out some where where that you can't get home in time or you will be just stuck! I was stuck for 3 days in Arkansas waiting for a load which I never got! And my dispatcher refused to let me head home a day earlier, she said deadhead home when it was on the same day I had requested to be off! After you get to you terminal, Lake Wales has nothing to do with your situation they don't control payroll, or any problems that may arise. You will be directed back to your terminal manger which is pointless when you can't get them on the phone! The driver advocate is a very nice lady and convinces you that things will get dealt with but it is all a lie! Just to get you into the Company! The introductions at Lake Wales the handclaps the smiles it's all fake and ends when you get to your terminal!!! I have many other very interesting events that happened but this would be too long of a rant!

When I was first contacted by the recruiting department,  I had my doubts and for good reason. Recruiter lied! Comes with the territory right, wrong. We do not have to keep doing this to other drivers, we do not have to accept it, you promise it, you should deliver it.
It's forced dispatch.
Anything west of Laredo and Dallas, 5 to 6 weeks before home time.
Dedicated goes to seniority, unless you out perform them if you can manage to get on.
Medical is over 125 a week, unless your single.
They do not care if your sick as long as job gets done and would rather to give you days off in the truck instead of send you home to get better.
At first they do make it seem like a good company spending that money to get you to orientation but it's most defiantly not training.
After orientation, they throw you to the wolf's. Set you up for failure but they do give you a list of driver trainers to call when you realize that they didn't show you how to do that in orientation but did talk about it or mention it, briefly. 
I am disappointed in the company. I expected better not more BS.

I worked here as a local driver for almost a year. It was without a doubt one of the worst work experiences I have ever had. First of all, my recruiter lied to me about pretty much everything. They refused to pay the advertised sign-on bonus, because I was a "local" driver. (The ad I responded to was for LOCAL drivers.) The equipment is slow and so loaded-up with safety garbage that constantly beeps, buzzes, alarms, and chirps, that it is stressful to drive the truck. The DMs are horrible (unless you are one of their buddies) and next to impossible to communicate with. They randomly changed (lowered) the pay scale twice while working there. The employee and truck parking area is a giant mud hole most of the time. You will sit around A LOT not getting paid: Waiting on clean tanks, loading/unloading, etc. They will do their best to work you 12-14 hours a day for what amounts to about $15 an hour, sometimes less. After a couple of months, you will truly hate this company and hate going to work. All the "you're part of the family" stuff they used to preach, makes me want to vomit. 

All good with the exception of idle time, because the permanent and constant weekly increase of new drivers, sometimes there is no runs and you get to wait days at truck stop till they can find the next load or run. You only can make money when you're driving that means when you aren't driving you have no income and that did not work for me. Again if you are adding miles you will make money that is a fact but not always the case.
Fleet of newer Volvo fleet, excellent driver managers,  weekly training always going on. Money is there when everything aligns property which doesn't happens regularly, either because there are no loads or customer no ready or product no ready or other delays, but for does rare or scares weeks that everything do aligns you'll make what they claim you will make. And if you do get hired and later want to quick make sure you have an exit plan because the rig needs to be taken back to Florida yard, I like the company and people I worked with "driver manager" too bad they didn't have the work load. 
 

This company has great trucks and they give you the warm fuzzy feeling when you first start there. Over time, they gaslight you and constantly make you feel like you’re the problem, not them. The driver has 100% accountability and the office personnel have none. You will constantly have to chase them and keep track of your money owed. Tons of narcissism and they take an easy job like this working here and turn it into a hard job. They love to keep track of your hours and push you to use everything every day and if you don’t, the narcissism will kick in to help you along. In the end. I decided to leave here because I got tired of spending weekends in the truckstop with no work. I was also promised layover for all the weekends I had to sit and that didn’t materialize either. This has to be one of the first companies I ever worked for as a company driver where they just make rules up as they go, but they don’t bother to tell you you’re expected to find out some mysterious way. 

Job posted for work in home state but no work there. Sat in truck for days waiting for loads could never locate loads to haul. Training sucked. Trained on things that were not needed and didn't train on things needed in the field. Try to call dispatchers and managers. Never get a return phone call. If you need help after 5:00 good luck!  They will leave you stranded until the next day and they might text you but no phone call. Promise you lots of miles but have to spend so much time at truck wash outs that you lose miles. Also they only pay practical miles so you lose a lot of miles like 150 a day that you don't get paid for!  Was told to take very little with me because they would send me home right away with truck. Weeks later got me home. Company wants you to pay for everything, tole roads, fittings, hard hat, everything that can possibly be bought cheaper else where. Not a good experience. Read and pay attention to the reviews. There is a reason they bring in 10-15 people every Monday for orientation!

They have you sign on for the lanes your going to run and do the complete opposite,the southeast run is a joke,basically they don't have enough drivers to cover the contracts that they have so even if you sign a contract for southeast your going all over the place regardless,upside the money is good but that's as far as it goes,you have no paid holidays,and if your day rate and you have to sit you don't get paid,even if you return the truck to the terminal in one piece and quit,they will not give you your last check,their terminals Arent terminals their quala washes they lease space from them to park so technically the terminal is lake wales,so you park the truck any other place but there they will tax you for that as well,your not home weekly,basically you find out the truth when you go to orientation and either you tough it out or try and find a way home from there 


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