Tribe Transport reviews and complaints

Very high employee turnover throughout company
Office (Current employee), gainvesville, ga – august 18, 2016
Pros: new(Ish) trucks with satellite tv to make your waiting around easier
Cons: even more than i've listed in the description.
I worked there as a driver manager/dispatcher. The amount of turnover is the highest i've seen of any company. The place is understaffed by design so every person in the office is overworked which leads to low moral and burnout. The company chews through employees at such a rate i'm surprised theyre still in business. For drivers you will basically make a loop from pa to il to ga and maybe fl and a handful of runs to tx. They are moving heavily into pharmaceuticals transport and most of the runs are very short 300ish miles. Driver pay will average between $800 to $1200 per week pre-tax and a few make up to $1600 but that's not the norm. Not worth spending your life in a truck for an average of $1000 per week farting around on their repetitive runs. They don't have a shop (Mechanics work outside in the sun/cold) and their "terminal" is the size of a mcdonalds parking lot with a dirt lot connected where you might be able to get one of the few parking spots. If you get there on the weekend expect to park in the employee area and then having all the cars overflowing into the street with a shuffle 2 hours into the work week to straighten the mess. This is an almost weekly occurrence. Since they don't have a shop expect to have your truck serviced/repaired on the road and don't expect to get paid for sitting. If you are broken for 24 hours you get a total pay of $93 per day. Chicken feed. Expect your scale tickets, hotel (When broken down) and other various expenses out of your pocket to not be reimbursed on your check. Because the pay cycle is 2 weeks out you have to be a hawk to catch it and complain to your driver manager to get it put on the next check. Fight for your money, fight for a better load because you're sick of the same runs, fight to make it west of the mississippi river... Get ready to fight, you will need the spirit of sitting bull to make it in that tribe. The office workers hate their jobs, work like slaves, and when one slight issue comes up expect to be called up to see matt (Joy's husband who runs the place) and treated like a child in front of everyone. He will sit there wasting your time asking, "why why why?" in a manner that a teenager can see is unproductive, a waste of time, and moral killing. So you have no parking and have to park on the street, fine, joy will let you know that you can't park there and will get a ticket from the sheriff but still there's no other place to park! The place is running by the seat of their pants. The load planners are stretched thin to get everything covered they don't have time to look for swaps to help get drivers home so that falls to the driver managers to figure it out. Getting drivers home comes down to your driver manager and his effort and other drivers to get you there. Many times there just aren't options. Expect to miss appointments, promises, etc. If you're an office worker they will force you to work weekends by putting names in a hat and drawing... Because they are understaffed as mentioned previously. They could not buy just 2 or 3 trucks and instead invest in personnel in key areas such as load planning or driver managers, customer service (Who have the highest turnover) but instead... Just let things ride the way they are. I've seen drivers lose their credit rating and fall behind on bills after working there, i've seen almost all the driver managers have to work weekends constantly to keep their heads above water, and i've seen the maintenance side of things boil over constantly because they think 3 people in that department is enough to handle 200+ trucks in a timely manner in getting repairs. Having a driver wait 4 hours just to get a bill paid (Because they are busy juggling everything else) is unacceptable to everyone except matt and joy. When you first get hired, expect matt to shake your hand and smile but after that, expect to only go through your driver manager and good luck if you get someone that likes you enough to care about you personally. Your time there will depend on that person, and that's a dice roll. Average time working there (Except for a few upper management) is between 6 months to 3 years being very long. The place is a meat grinder, with a culture that i don't see changing for years to come. Just know that going in and you will not stress so much during your single year working there. I'm starting a new job, should've never went here to begin with. Beware.

TRUCKERS DO NOT WORK FOR TRIBE TRANSPORT UNLESS YOU WANT TO WORK FOR FREE! - I began working for Tribe on 07/03/2012 with a guarantee that I would remain busy with little to not down time. Within the month that I worked for Tribe I was left in Florida for 4 days with no communication from Tribe, finally I had to call and threaten to drive home without a load. Once, I got home, I returned the truck and have been trying to get my pay since then. They last communication I had with them was that I owed them $330. How does the employee owe the employer? This was only one time left with no communication. Not only that, it is now 09/17 and my last day of employment with Tribe was 08/03 I still have not gotten my final paycheck from them. I met another ex-Tribe driver out on the road and he said he did not receive his pay until 6 months after he quit. I also know another guy that worked for Tribe, he had to go to Tribe's silent partner to get his money paid. It also took him over a month after he quit to receive his final pay. It is hard enough to stay on the road all of the time, but we do it to make money. I almost 100% say that if you work for Tribe Transport out of Cleveland, GA you will be driving only because you want to because they WILL NOT PAY YOU, TRUCKERS BEWARE!