This will be short Seward motor freight out of Seward be purple slow trucks hires drivers never pays bonuses never gets you home and when you quit they lie on your dac report leaving no co to hire you I’m out of work I have a clean mvr Seward ruined my dac report.
Greetings, I have a complaint that I would like to make in regards to the unjust and disconcerting way that I was treated by the HR/Recruitment team of the Seward Motor Freight Company.
I was contacted by Danni Klasek a recruiter for Seward Motor Freight in regards to an application that I had submitted to Seward through a third party trucking job search engine. Ms. Klasek and I spent between 40-60 min. on the telephone together, and during that time we discussed in great depth what job duties, requirements and expectations Seward Motor Freight expected from their drivers.
While I was on the telephone with Ms. Klasek the two of us discussed what type of equipment Seward Motor Freight operated. Ms. Klasek told me that their vehicles were mostly 10 speed transmissions, however there were also trucks that have super 10 speed transmissions as well. Ms. Klasek asked if I was familiar with a truck that has a super 10 speed transmission? I told her I have not ever seen a truck with a super 10 speed before, therefore I was not familiar with a truck that has that type of transmission, but I am willing to give it a try. Ms. Klasek told not to worry they will more than likely perform your road test, and then assign you to a truck with a normal 10 transmission. Ms. Klasek went on to say that in the event that they did happen to wind up testing you in a truck with a super 10 speed transmission, and you were having trouble driving it, the company would work with me, by getting me into a truck that I was familiar with. Ms. Klasek referenced a recent event that had taken place with a new hire whom also had no prior experience driving a truck with a super 10 transmission. According to Ms. Klasek the new hire “ended failing the first road test, so the new hire was switched to a truck with a normal 10 transmission, and the driver was just fine.
I was reassured by Ms. Klasek that just as long as I passed my physical and my drug screening I wouldn’t be given the boot (stranded). Ms. Klasek assured me that if I had trouble with my road test, the company would work with me. In conclusion of my conversation with Ms. Klasek I had no concerns whatsoever, about my ability to fulfill the requirements/expectations of the Seward Motor Freight company. Therefore, with the understanding that just as long as I met the requirements which were stated by Ms. Klasek (which were to pass the physical along with the urine drug screening) I had the position and “nothing to worry about”.
After two weeks of ongoing communication with Ms. Klasek I was flown from Portland, OR to attend orientation in Seward, NE. At the time that Ms. Klasek and I were on the telephone discussing my itinerary and details of the orientation, as well as the expectations and requirements that the Seward Motor Freight company had for me, which again were to pass my physical and my urine drug screen; I was asked about my experience level with the super 10 speed transmission. Again, I stated that I do not have experience; but I am more than willing to give it a try. Again, Ms. Klasek assured me that I would not have any problems if I was not able to pass the road test driving a super 10, and that the company would work with me and get me into a truck that I am familiar with.
Feeling confident in that I had landed a commercial vehicle driving position with a smaller, more personable, and family oriented company, on 12/20/15 I paid $25.00 out of my pocket to have my baggage checked,though I was not told of this fee prior) and I flew into Seward, NE to begin employment with Seward Motor Freight.
The orientation was supposed to have been from 12/21-12/22 and I was anticipating being out on the road and driving for Seward Motor Freight by 12/23/15. Due to the timing it was a holiday week and that was probably the reason that I was the only student in orientation; which was not a problem with me. Prior to me going to take my physical and the drug test, Karen the lady that oversees orientation asked me what I would like for lunch? My response was, “that it doesn’t matter, just nothing with pork” I felt that I received a judgmental look from Karen for my request to avoid pork.
On day two of orientation everything appears to be going well. It is time to go out and perform my road test and I realize that I am being tested in a truck that has a super 10 speed transmission. Due to the fact that as I had previously stated, I do not have any experience driving a truck with a super 10 transmission, I stated my concerns and apprehensions about my ability to safely and efficiently operate this type of truck, let alone pass a road test to Bill Vossler whom is the road tester for Seward Motor Freight. Mr. Vossler responded “well were going to see how it goes”. Although I knew that it was very unlikely that I was going to pass the road test, I felt a sense of excitement and anticipation because I was going to have an opportunity to get a feel for a super 10 speed transmission.
I began my road test by performing a thorough pre trip on the truck and trailer; upon coupling the truck and trailer the glove box, which was literally just propped inside the hole fell out and was hanging there. Mr. Vossler said that I had caused the glove box to fall out, until I spoke up and said that I was not the cause.
Although I was giving it my best shot; I was truly having a challenging time driving this truck with a transmission that I was totally unfamiliar with and because it was a completely different shifting process than what I am used to driving, I had a very difficult time shifting the gears. My tester Mr. Vossler said “we'll go back and get a straight 10”. Mr. Vossler had me sit in a room while he went to retrieve the keys from the mechanic for a truck with a normal 10 speed transmission. I overheard the shop mechanic tell Mr. Vossler that they didn’t have a normal 10 speed ready and couldn’t have one ready to go out that same day. Next Mr. Vossler went to talk to Eric (the head guy in the building). I overheard them discussing that it was Mr. Vossler’s last day at work, until New Years. Next Eric and Karen came into the room that I was waiting in and they closed the door. Eric asked me “how my food was”? in a condescending way, as if implying that I should feel lucky type of tone. Eric then goes on to tell me that I had failed my road test and that normally they’d work with me but because of my timing (holiday vacation week) instead they told me that I was terminated and I asked if I was going to have to find my own way home, and Eric stated yes.
I stated to Eric that I felt that this was unjust treatment and that I had been upfront and honest with Ms. Klasek about my experience level prior to agreeing to travel to NE to attend orientation at the Seward Motor Freight company. And that I was assured by Ms. Klasek that as long as I could meet the two requirements which I have previously stated, the company would work with me. I did pass the physical and I did pass the urine drug screen testing, therefore I should not be expected to pay for my own way to get back home. I went on to explain to Eric that it is extremely cold in NE (the following day there were a few inches of snow) and that I have no money to get back home, nor do I know anyone here and once I am kicked out of the hotel room in the morning I will have nowhere to go. I also reverberated everything that both Ms. Klasek and Mr. Vossler had told me in regards to the requirements and expectations, as well as what would happen if I was unable to pass a road test while driving the truck with the super 10 transmission (which again was that I would be provided a regular 10). Eric responded that he knew nothing about that discussion.
I attempted to debate my position with Eric by pointing out that I had not done anything that should give them any viable reason to not only terminate my employment, but to also expect me to pay my own way to get back home. Eric had no answers to my pushback other than to say “we can talk about this until we are black and blue in the face it’s not going to change nothing’ and again I am told to find a way home. I tell them Eric and Karen that I am not going to be able to get back home if they do not pay for it, and then they tried to get me borrow the money from family or friends, they tried to do everything that they could to make me pay for my flight back home after they completely screwed me over and broke their word to me. After pleading, begging and practically sobbing like a baby, they ultimately paid for my ticket to get back home. However once again I would be expected to pay the $25.00 fee to check my baggage, and it would not be reimbursed because they were buying my ticket (even though that’s the fair thing to do). Upon telling me they would pay for my ticket to get back home, Eric also told me that “I had better be thankful the owner is so merciful and that I’d better write her a thank you letter when I got home”
As if all of this was not bad enough once they decided to pay for my ticket home, they tell me that my DAC report would reflect that I was terminated from Seward Motor Freight, even though I was never offered to sign any termination papers. I had only been through one and a half days of orientation, I had not ever performed any type of working responsibilities for Seward Motor Freight, nor was I compensated for any of my time as an alleged employee on their property, even though I’m 150+ miles away from my home.
I feel this company is very misleading, unfair, unethical, and possibly even potentially religion and age biased. I feel that this company’s bad timing costed me not only my money and my time but also a very negative mark on my DAC report (which prior to this experience my DAC report reflected satisfactory work from all previous trucking
Positions). I cannot understand how it can be legal or ethical for a company to purposefully make it nearly impossible for me to obtain another job as a commercial truck driver by placing this onto my DAC report, simply due to the fact that they had a shortage of trucks due to the holiday, which made it impossible for them to test me in the type of truck that had previously stated that had experience driving. I am 100% confident that if I had, had the money to pay my own way back home after wasting my money and my time for nothing, that they would have made me spend it to get back home after they brought me out for orientation at a bad time.
Seward Motor Freight Inc Reviews
This will be short Seward motor freight out of Seward be purple slow trucks hires drivers never pays bonuses never gets you home and when you quit they lie on your dac report leaving no co to hire you I’m out of work I have a clean mvr Seward ruined my dac report.
Greetings, I have a complaint that I would like to make in regards to the unjust and disconcerting way that I was treated by the HR/Recruitment team of the Seward Motor Freight Company.
I was contacted by Danni Klasek a recruiter for Seward Motor Freight in regards to an application that I had submitted to Seward through a third party trucking job search engine. Ms. Klasek and I spent between 40-60 min. on the telephone together, and during that time we discussed in great depth what job duties, requirements and expectations Seward Motor Freight expected from their drivers.
While I was on the telephone with Ms. Klasek the two of us discussed what type of equipment Seward Motor Freight operated. Ms. Klasek told me that their vehicles were mostly 10 speed transmissions, however there were also trucks that have super 10 speed transmissions as well. Ms. Klasek asked if I was familiar with a truck that has a super 10 speed transmission? I told her I have not ever seen a truck with a super 10 speed before, therefore I was not familiar with a truck that has that type of transmission, but I am willing to give it a try. Ms. Klasek told not to worry they will more than likely perform your road test, and then assign you to a truck with a normal 10 transmission. Ms. Klasek went on to say that in the event that they did happen to wind up testing you in a truck with a super 10 speed transmission, and you were having trouble driving it, the company would work with me, by getting me into a truck that I was familiar with. Ms. Klasek referenced a recent event that had taken place with a new hire whom also had no prior experience driving a truck with a super 10 transmission. According to Ms. Klasek the new hire “ended failing the first road test, so the new hire was switched to a truck with a normal 10 transmission, and the driver was just fine.
I was reassured by Ms. Klasek that just as long as I passed my physical and my drug screening I wouldn’t be given the boot (stranded). Ms. Klasek assured me that if I had trouble with my road test, the company would work with me. In conclusion of my conversation with Ms. Klasek I had no concerns whatsoever, about my ability to fulfill the requirements/expectations of the Seward Motor Freight company. Therefore, with the understanding that just as long as I met the requirements which were stated by Ms. Klasek (which were to pass the physical along with the urine drug screening) I had the position and “nothing to worry about”.
After two weeks of ongoing communication with Ms. Klasek I was flown from Portland, OR to attend orientation in Seward, NE. At the time that Ms. Klasek and I were on the telephone discussing my itinerary and details of the orientation, as well as the expectations and requirements that the Seward Motor Freight company had for me, which again were to pass my physical and my urine drug screen; I was asked about my experience level with the super 10 speed transmission. Again, I stated that I do not have experience; but I am more than willing to give it a try. Again, Ms. Klasek assured me that I would not have any problems if I was not able to pass the road test driving a super 10, and that the company would work with me and get me into a truck that I am familiar with.
Feeling confident in that I had landed a commercial vehicle driving position with a smaller, more personable, and family oriented company, on 12/20/15 I paid $25.00 out of my pocket to have my baggage checked,though I was not told of this fee prior) and I flew into Seward, NE to begin employment with Seward Motor Freight.
The orientation was supposed to have been from 12/21-12/22 and I was anticipating being out on the road and driving for Seward Motor Freight by 12/23/15. Due to the timing it was a holiday week and that was probably the reason that I was the only student in orientation; which was not a problem with me. Prior to me going to take my physical and the drug test, Karen the lady that oversees orientation asked me what I would like for lunch? My response was, “that it doesn’t matter, just nothing with pork” I felt that I received a judgmental look from Karen for my request to avoid pork.
On day two of orientation everything appears to be going well. It is time to go out and perform my road test and I realize that I am being tested in a truck that has a super 10 speed transmission. Due to the fact that as I had previously stated, I do not have any experience driving a truck with a super 10 transmission, I stated my concerns and apprehensions about my ability to safely and efficiently operate this type of truck, let alone pass a road test to Bill Vossler whom is the road tester for Seward Motor Freight. Mr. Vossler responded “well were going to see how it goes”. Although I knew that it was very unlikely that I was going to pass the road test, I felt a sense of excitement and anticipation because I was going to have an opportunity to get a feel for a super 10 speed transmission.
I began my road test by performing a thorough pre trip on the truck and trailer; upon coupling the truck and trailer the glove box, which was literally just propped inside the hole fell out and was hanging there. Mr. Vossler said that I had caused the glove box to fall out, until I spoke up and said that I was not the cause.
Although I was giving it my best shot; I was truly having a challenging time driving this truck with a transmission that I was totally unfamiliar with and because it was a completely different shifting process than what I am used to driving, I had a very difficult time shifting the gears. My tester Mr. Vossler said “we'll go back and get a straight 10”. Mr. Vossler had me sit in a room while he went to retrieve the keys from the mechanic for a truck with a normal 10 speed transmission. I overheard the shop mechanic tell Mr. Vossler that they didn’t have a normal 10 speed ready and couldn’t have one ready to go out that same day. Next Mr. Vossler went to talk to Eric (the head guy in the building). I overheard them discussing that it was Mr. Vossler’s last day at work, until New Years. Next Eric and Karen came into the room that I was waiting in and they closed the door. Eric asked me “how my food was”? in a condescending way, as if implying that I should feel lucky type of tone. Eric then goes on to tell me that I had failed my road test and that normally they’d work with me but because of my timing (holiday vacation week) instead they told me that I was terminated and I asked if I was going to have to find my own way home, and Eric stated yes.
I stated to Eric that I felt that this was unjust treatment and that I had been upfront and honest with Ms. Klasek about my experience level prior to agreeing to travel to NE to attend orientation at the Seward Motor Freight company. And that I was assured by Ms. Klasek that as long as I could meet the two requirements which I have previously stated, the company would work with me. I did pass the physical and I did pass the urine drug screen testing, therefore I should not be expected to pay for my own way to get back home. I went on to explain to Eric that it is extremely cold in NE (the following day there were a few inches of snow) and that I have no money to get back home, nor do I know anyone here and once I am kicked out of the hotel room in the morning I will have nowhere to go. I also reverberated everything that both Ms. Klasek and Mr. Vossler had told me in regards to the requirements and expectations, as well as what would happen if I was unable to pass a road test while driving the truck with the super 10 transmission (which again was that I would be provided a regular 10). Eric responded that he knew nothing about that discussion.
I attempted to debate my position with Eric by pointing out that I had not done anything that should give them any viable reason to not only terminate my employment, but to also expect me to pay my own way to get back home. Eric had no answers to my pushback other than to say “we can talk about this until we are black and blue in the face it’s not going to change nothing’ and again I am told to find a way home. I tell them Eric and Karen that I am not going to be able to get back home if they do not pay for it, and then they tried to get me borrow the money from family or friends, they tried to do everything that they could to make me pay for my flight back home after they completely screwed me over and broke their word to me. After pleading, begging and practically sobbing like a baby, they ultimately paid for my ticket to get back home. However once again I would be expected to pay the $25.00 fee to check my baggage, and it would not be reimbursed because they were buying my ticket (even though that’s the fair thing to do). Upon telling me they would pay for my ticket to get back home, Eric also told me that “I had better be thankful the owner is so merciful and that I’d better write her a thank you letter when I got home”
As if all of this was not bad enough once they decided to pay for my ticket home, they tell me that my DAC report would reflect that I was terminated from Seward Motor Freight, even though I was never offered to sign any termination papers. I had only been through one and a half days of orientation, I had not ever performed any type of working responsibilities for Seward Motor Freight, nor was I compensated for any of my time as an alleged employee on their property, even though I’m 150+ miles away from my home.
I feel this company is very misleading, unfair, unethical, and possibly even potentially religion and age biased. I feel that this company’s bad timing costed me not only my money and my time but also a very negative mark on my DAC report (which prior to this experience my DAC report reflected satisfactory work from all previous trucking
Positions). I cannot understand how it can be legal or ethical for a company to purposefully make it nearly impossible for me to obtain another job as a commercial truck driver by placing this onto my DAC report, simply due to the fact that they had a shortage of trucks due to the holiday, which made it impossible for them to test me in the type of truck that had previously stated that had experience driving. I am 100% confident that if I had, had the money to pay my own way back home after wasting my money and my time for nothing, that they would have made me spend it to get back home after they brought me out for orientation at a bad time.