James Brock - CDL Driver Reviews

Driver was with us barely a week. He started and everything seemed fine for the first day or two, and than he started scamming us for money. First he claimed he broke the screen on his phone, and he needs money to fix it. He was told we don't issue any extra money on top of the allowed weekly cash advance on his fuel card, but since he claimed he is unable to use the eld app on his phone, and the amount of money wasn't too big, we issued a money code. As soon as he got it, he started claiming his screen couldn't be fixed and he needs to get a new phone, so he asked for another 100$. At this point we needed to make sure he can use his eld app since he already accumulated several violations on his HOS due to "not being able to use it", and he already had a load finished, so we gave him money for that too. Even after he got it all, he still wasn't using the app, and kept very poor communication with us as to what is going on and why isn't he using the eld properly if he "fixed" his phone. He only reached out to ask for lumper money codes and truck and trailer washout, which all ended up being bogus charges as he never was able to provide receipts for any of it. We got him to the office to fire him, at which point he started screaming and yelling at everyone, to a point where he almost started a fight with the owner of the company, and that's when he was kicked out of the office. We sent our fleet manager to get to the truck and take possession of the key so he wouldn't drive away with the truck, and so he can monitor while he's getting his stuff out and make sure he doesn't ruin anything in the process. Once he got there, it was found out that James had an unauthorized passenger with him the whole time, presumably his fiancé. After all this, he came to the office to plead to give him money for the two of them to get home. After the head of our accounting department did a rough statement for him and deducted all money codes and the charges he couldn't provide receipts for, it was determined that we can either give him a small amount of money or get him one plane ticket home, to which he started yelling again that he is going to leave his fiancé in the truck so we can deal with her. As gentlemanly as that sounded, we told him we're advising against it as we will quickly resolve that by calling the police to get her out of the truck, and it is ultimately not our responsibility he had an unauthorized passenger with him nor is it our responsibility to get her home. At this point we were doing him a favor by even offering any way to help, either a plane ticket or giving him the money to figure out how to get home, as his paycheck wasn't technically due until a week later. Since this is already a long post due to many bad things he did in a short period of time, I'll wrap it up by saying he took the money and left, and after a few days we started receiving phone calls from the Salvation Army as they went there and claimed we left them on the street and haven't offered any way for him to go home. This was quickly resolved by providing proof of his wrongdoings and also proof of giving him money to get home.