Paschall Truck Lines
Reviews and Complaints

On Monday December 18, 2023, my husband and I were pulling onto the highway right outside Wiggins, MS on Hwy 49 South. The PTL truck was in the far right lane, as we began to pull out the PTL truck swerved into the left lane, that we were pulling out in, forcing us to hit the shoulder/ditch to avoid being hit by him. He never checked up, he never slowed down and was going well over 70 to 75 miles an hr. Had he hit us we would most likely be dead or severely injured. Thank God my husband is an extremely vigilant driver because apparently that PTL driver is not! Truck numbers: back door-227061 drivers side door- USDOT 105234 TENN.HF 7542 KYU-6857

MY husband is a driver for PTL, he has submitted numerous messages about the weather and his fear of his and his partners safety. A Larry who was controlling the messages on the quallcomm told him and his partner just deliver the [censor]ing Load, my husband was asking repeatly to be routed into Murray and told No, this is so unprofessional and unessassary . he don't want to continue he has been out on the road for 6 weeks without coming home, he is a hard worker and a very dedicated worker. This is not right or okay. He wanted a drop lot like he was told if the weather was bad they could drop it, him and his partner get the load and then ask okay we cant delivery it on time, now what, an they get told too bad, your DM that answer the phones are very unprofessional and should not have a job if you wan to keep employees, that is the only way they have to communicate out there within the company and it was useless. His safety and safety for his partner was, zero importance to you guys yesterday and last night. He is asking politely to route us in, he's done, his partner wants to now go home, my husband has about 2200 miles left to complete his p2 and that's all he was asking give him a load that he can run without risking his life and his partners, and was told by Larry, too [censor]ing bad, its no wonder both of them drivers want a different job, they deserve respect and for their safety of their lives to be taken seriously.

July 3, 2016

Hello Concerned Reader:

Thank you for arriving at this letter and reaching this information.

If you are an existing business partner, vendor, shipper, consignee, or customer of Paschall Truck Lines (PTL), you need to be aware of the detailed and verifiable information provided in this letter of warning.
This is not a mindless ranting and raving.
I hope this letter supports the thousands of existing legal and pecuniary claims currently out there against PTL.
I hope this letter finds its way into existing and future claimants' Class action lawsuits, and I hope righteous justice prevails against Paschall Truck Lines' criminal enterprise.

If you are considering leasing your truck to PTL, or being employed by Paschall Truck Lines, you need to be aware of the following information so that you are making a fully informed and wise decision, and I hope, I will save thousands of future PTL drivers from being criminally defrauded millions of dollars.

Unlike every carrier I know of, PTL DISPATCHES its Owner-Operators. The Owner-Operator will never see a Load Board, will never pick his loads, trip revenues, types of cargo, or areas to operate in. And some of your dispatched loads are Critical, with barely enough time to hurry there on time, but they do not pay Critical Rates to the driver.
There is no way for the Owner-Operator leased to PTL, to know what the actual freight rate is being paid to PTL, therefore, there is no way for the driver to know how much PTL is cheating us revenue, off the top (Hence the rumors of Class Action lawsuits against PTL).

None of the Fuel Surcharge is paid to the owner-operator who is the only one paying for the diesel in his or her truck; it is 100% retained by Paschall Truck Lines, otherwise unheard of, in the trucking industry.

The PTL's Independent Contractor Agreement has a $5, 000.00 Early Termination Fee, that the Lease Purchase Owner-Operator owes PTL should the driver leave PTL prior to NINE FULL MONTHS from the Agreement's execution date, payable from your last two week's Net Settlements.
PTL's Mr. Russ Usher DID NOT ALLOW any of the 24 new contractors in my group, time to read, understand, or legally consult with others concerning anything that is in the Agreement, despite our having to sign the Agreement, including our declaration (in the Agreement) that we did have time to read, understand, consult, etcetera (which is not true).
To the contrary:
When speaking with my recruiter earlier before coming to Murray, KY from Pennsylvania, I specifically asked for a generic, blank version of the contract to read and review ahead of time, and the recruiter said that that was not allowed.

Later, one IC in our Orientation asked Mr. Usher, could he read the contract BEFORE he/we all had to sign it, and Mr. Usher responded forcefully, "You can read the Agreement AFTER you sign it."
None of the 24 Contractors in my Orientation group knew about the Early Termination Fee or any of the other details, when they signed the contract (Mr. Usher did not go over each, or any of the paragraphs, and none of the 10 pages of the Agreement, or the 3 page Appendix A, or the 3 page Appendix B: 16 pages in its entirety).
(Ref: Paschall Truck Lines, Inc. Independent Contractor Service Agreement, Section VI. TERM/TERMINATION, subsection 6.04 Contractor's Obligations upon Termination., paragraph (d) on page 8.)

Also in that same Agreement, page 9, Section VII. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS., subsection 7.03 Dispute Resolution, paragraphs (a) thru (f):
Independent Contractors are essentially barred from suing PTL, where all matters are to be instead, arbitrated.
But the Agreement goes on to contradict itself in a number of ways, and essentially allows PTL to sue us in courts, even though we waived our legal rights to our legal due process by our signing the Agreement.

The joke is, much of that legalese mumbo-jumbo is at least in part, meaningless.
ICs, as with any other lawful citizen, cannot, regardless of signature waiving rights, or intent, CANNOT surrender Constitutionally guaranteed rights (legal included) as a citizen of the United States of America.
So, despite the less-than-honorable, less-than-noble efforts of PTL's crafty corporate attorneys, PTL's chicanery will eventually see its days, and its demise, in court.

Paschall Truck Lines (PTL) of Murray, Kentucky does not pay its Independent Contractors (ICs) for Orientation.
Contractors must also pay PTL $25 for their urine analysis test regardless of passing or failing, and $75 for the DOT physical, which is deducted from your first week's s ettlement.
You already owe PTL money, the day you show up for Orientation.
Most drivers arrive to Murray, KY not knowing that, because their recruiters are intentionally not telling them.

When ICs elect to be paid 70% of the Truck or Load Revenue, actual pay per dispatch mile averages only somewhere between less than one dollar to slightly over one dollar.
I averaged only $0.90 per mile for one full week in June 2016.

PTL falsely claims on one outdoor public poster in front of their Murray, KY main terminal, $1.15 per mile, including FSC, for all miles loaded and empty. FALSE.
PTL has another false public advertising poster in front of their drop yard west of Indianapolis, Indiana (contradicting the first one) that PTL pays an average $1.23 (or a $1.32?) per mile including FSC for all miles empty and loaded, but again, that is not even close to being truthful.

FACTS: My first 4 weeks: (What you can expect if you drive for PTL as an O/O)
I leased my Quality Companies 2016 International ProStar+ and after arriving at the PTL terminal in Murray, KY it had 71, 434 miles on it.
Exactly four weeks later, at the end of the weekly pay period, my odometer reading was 86, 150 miles.
I had driven my truck 14, 716 legal miles, without cheating, verified by Qualcomm. That is a fairly impressive four-week average of 3, 679 miles per week.
But during that same 4 week period, PTL's 'dispatch or 'paid' miles' was only 10, 678 for the entire month.
None of these miles were unpaid home time.
I never requested, nor was I given any home time so there are no out-of-route miles in these numbers except for a few exits missed occasionally.
That means that in that one month, I drove 4, 038 miles for PTL mid-May to mid-June 2016, that PTL did NOT pay me for.
Or in other words, PTL did not pay me for over one thousand miles per week!
Calculated differently, PTL only paid me for 72.56% of my miles driven.
That is CHEATING!
27.44% (more than one-fourth) of my actual miles were not paid by PTL.

Two recent individual loads further prove this point:
First - PTL Dispatch sent me a load that the Qualcomm message said was 813 paid or dispatch miles. Load and route planning with my updated Rand McNally GPS informed me that that load was actually 1, 017 miles.
Having my CDL-A with all possible endorsements since 1998, plus passport, plus TWIC card, I am not a trucking newbie nor am I completely stupid.
For the first time ever, I rejected this load.

In turn, Fleet Manager Morgan, after arguing with me on Qualcomm, gave me a different load, which I knew was even worse than the load I just rejected, but I took it anyway, because I knew I was quitting and this load got me closer to Murray, KY where I had to turn in all the company's equipment.

Second - From east of Trenton, NJ to live load and waiting in Hanover, PA; to live unload at Wal-Mart DC in Sutherland, VA and six more hours waiting to get first stop unloaded; then on to Midway, TN Wal-Mart DC, wait another more than 4 hours to get unloaded, the ACTUAL (GPS) miles were 146 + 229 + 364 = 739, but again, PTL only paid - 578.
PTL CHEATING!

By the way, twice, twice during this same one-month period, my dispatcher had me confirm two different Preplan loads. At different times, in both cases, these loads were then cancelled enroute, after I drove most of the empty miles to those designated Shipper pickup locations, only then to be told, no, stop, cancel that load, need you to do [this] other load.

In both cases, these loads were completely in the opposite direction, forcing me to retrace the same miles and highways going the opposite direction I had done an hour or so earlier, to get to my new Shipper. So, whereas I could have driven maybe 87 miles northeast, instead I had driven 34 miles south and west, only to come back another 34 east and north, and then drove the 87 miles northeast.
This happened to me twice in about ten days. All this of course, without compensation, and not much of an apology or sympathy from my Fleet Manager, if any.
Sitting for 31.5 hours not making money, not getting credit for a full 34-hour reset on the weekend because dispatched delivery times did not allow for a full 34-hour reset, and then me running out of my 70 hours in the middle of the workweek, and being forced to take a full 34-hour reset starting on Wednesday, and doing this two-three consecutive weeks, guarantees you will not make miles, and you will lose money with PTL.

Brief summary of my 'earnings':

1st week: Revenue $43.19 later changed to $290.44 buried inside the third week's settlement.
2nd week: Revenue $1, 230.49, minus deductions of $1, 235.32
3rd week: Revenue $1, 761.36, minus deductions of $1, 233.75
4th week: Revenue $1, 382.81, minus deductions of $1, 233.75
5th week: Revenue $1, 816.58, minus deductions of $1, 338.33
6th week: Revenue $2, 333.05, minus (est.) deductions of $1, 333.05, minus fuel (est.) $1, 000.00
7th week: Revenue $2, 239.70, minus (est.) deductions of $1, 338.33, minus fuel (est.) $1, 127.94

Actual Deposits to me on my Comdata card (not including reimbursements of my own money spent on CAT scale tickets:
1st week: $39.19
2nd week: $461.47
3rd week: $737.61
4th week: $149.06
5th week: $478.25
6th week: $0.00
7th week: $0.00

Total PTL pay for seven weeks work: $1, 865.58
(That is what an owner-operator should be clearing after all expenses in one week, but never will happen with PTL.)
Average per week revenue: $266.51 paid to the driver, while PTL is pocketing thousands.

Out of that, I paid twice out-of-my-pocket for fuel, paid for other items including new wiper blades, engine oil, 5th wheel grease, windshield wiper fluid and other items, which drops my weekly average below $200, and from that I still owe Federal and State income tax, and double FICA tax.
That brings me down to an earnings of maybe $14.00 per day.

Believe it or not, I lasted longer than most owner-operators, and made more money than most.
This is the tragic truth of working for PTL, in addition to having to tolerate their evil lies and false promises.

Another point: There are very few drop-and-hooks with PTL. I had only two drop-and-hook loads in nearly two months with PTL. Both of them were Lumber Liquidators in Sandston, Virginia. Every PTL leased Owner-Operator I spoke to, which were many - said almost every load that we do for PTL, are LIVE LOADS, and LIVE UNLOADS.

This reason alone, makes it impossible for O/Os to make money with PTL's customer base - mostly live load/unloads, a lot of heavy loads (44-45, 000 pounds), lowest paying freight which is left over and passed over by more premium carriers, routes to and through and up and down the mountains of western Kentucky and Tennessee, southeastern Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, and western North Carolina where you get horrible fuel economies, resulting in much higher fuel costs, and unbearably small net earnings for the owner-operators.
In other words - the SH## LOADS that others do not want, and refuse to take.

Also, at Lumber Liquidators (LL), drivers were forced to pick an empty PTL trailer from among a dozen or so trailers that were all, for one reason or another Out-Of-Service. A bunch were past due on their Annual DOT inspections, others had rusty wheels, lights not working, frayed and dangling electrical wires, holes in the floor and ceiling, dry-rotted tires, and brakes worn thin. These very old PTL trailers sat there for many months on their property because LL, justifiably rejected them, refused to put their products inside them, thereby condemning them. A PTL driver recently took a good trailer that LL was planning on loading the next morning. When LL discovered the good trailer was missing, they complained to PTL, who in turn, sent out a fleet wide message demanding drivers never take empty trailers from LL's docks.
I immediately fired back on the Qualcomm to PTL Management, that if they did not have nothing but SH## for empty trailers at LL, PTL drivers would not be forced to 'steal' good DOT-worthy trailers.

So drivers do not get paid extra for waiting for strict appointment times when you arrive too early, and you do not get paid waiting to get loaded or unloaded, so the company you want to work for should have an extremely high percentage of drop-and-hooks. That is not PTL.

Depending on your source of information, including PTL's website, you may hear them bragging about owning 3, 000 trailers.
The bigger truth is, many of their trailers, if not most, are out-of-service.
How many trailers are at the Murray, Kentucky yard? One-Two hundred? Three hundred? A lot for sure.
But those trailers are 'Rental Trailers for Storage Only' as their big blue labels clearly state.

They are not roadworthy, they are not DOT legal. Every one of those trailers parked in Murray are condemned. Vintage [protected], some maybe older.
Some are missing wheels, missing axles, rusted-through steel wheels, cracked chasses, shattered brake drums, shorted electrical systems, leaking air systems, crash-damaged sidewalls, holes in their roofs / ceilings, collapsed suspensions, holes in their floors, rotted planks, cannibalized and missing parts, and mildewed.

PTL does not have anywhere near the Logistics Capacity they falsely brag to their clients about.
PTL's Murray, Kentucky Terminal is an ABSOLUTE EQUIPMENT GRAVEYARD, a testament to (too little, too late) Failed Capital Re-Investment.

My first day after getting my Quality truck and returning to Murray, after installation of my Qualcomm, etcetera, I was ready to go.
Dispatch said I could not go. He said there were no trailers for me to take so I had to sit and wait.
I challenged him, what do you mean? I'm looking at hundreds of trailers!
He said, yeah, and none of them are any good!
I was shocked, but on closer scrutiny, I recognized what he said was true.
My wait that day, fortunately, was short, lucky me! Other days, there may be 7-12 company drivers in the drivers lounge, some waiting over 5-6 days for a trailer, not making any money.

Because I had resigned and brought a trailer back with me, I was ambushed by a company driver who said he had been waiting over six hours for a good trailer to come in.

This represents an unparalleled and unprecedented management failure - I have worked for maybe 18 companies, most of them in trucking after my twenty years in the U.S. Army.
I have seen and worked for some horrible companies in my past, but I have never seen anything like this before.

PTL only has about 200 ICs, most of whom have been there only a few weeks. Without exception, every Owner-Operator I spoke with during seven weeks, was unhappy, unfulfilled, and unpaid. All were planning their soonest possible exit strategy. All of them reported one or more negative weekly settlements, and none of them ever had a decent settlement.
All of them had horror stories. All of them were broke.
All of them were on the phone every week with Payroll trying to get paid, and trying to fix all the payroll errors that cropped up every week.
PTL is an Owner-Operator's worst nightmare.

Everybody complains their PTL settlements are repeatedly, and grossly incorrect, ALWAYS gypping the driver.
For me, three of my loads were initially wrong but those three were corrected my next week's settlement, without my complaint or intervention.
Another six of my loads were wrong, significantly cheating me a total of $700.95.
Trying to reconcile those loads with PTL's Payroll Division (Ms. Heather Dunn is in charge of Settlements out of the PTL South Annex office in Murray, Kentucky, address below. Other cohorts in crime making up the Payroll Department, Ms. Amanda, Ms. Lisa Lamb, Ms. Casey Bennett, and Ms. Jennifer), she insists she only processes the numbers given to her, that you must take the issue up with Dispatch, in my case, Ms. Morgan.

PTL's South Annex, where the Payroll clerks work
Address 3475 US Highway South is Dr. Dent which is the adjacent property south of PTL's South Annex. (Payroll)
Murray, KY 42071
Satellite Imagery Location: 36 degrees 33' 40.45" North, 88 degrees 19' 09.69" West
Located just south of Murray, KY east of Hwy 641 South, about 0.7 miles north of Midway Road (1828), or north of Taylor Bus Sales.

PTL's Truck Terminal and Corporate Office
3443 US Highway 641S (South 12th Street)
or 111 Max Hurt Drive
Murray, KY 42071 (Calloway County)
[protected]
[protected]
Satellite Imagery Location: 36 degrees 39' 28.93" North, 88 degrees 18' 06.52" West
Located north of Murray, KY east of Hwy 641 South, north of Hwy 80, just north of Squire Holland Road

The prime culprit engaged in this PTL corporate fraud scheme is the PTL Dispatch Office, which is covertly stashed away from the rest of the company in a separate location:
(Protected - far away from the thousands of PTL drivers who are repeatedly being ripped off and abused, and have been getting mad.)

PTL Owner-Operator Dispatch Office:
300 Seaboard Lane, #5
Franklin, TN [protected]
Located just 16 miles south on I-65 from Nashville, TN, turn right on Exit 68B, West Cool Springs Blvd., turn right onto Aspen Grove Drive, turn right onto Seaboard Lane.
[protected]
[protected]
[protected]
[protected]

Currently, the following Owner-Operators' Dispatchers (Company Drivers' Dispatchers are separate) work there:
(with changes almost every week)
Mr. Shane Peyton, VP (in charge of the PTL Dispatch Office)
(he is also father to two of his sons, Dispatchers working for him in his Dispatch Office)
Mr. Alex Peyton
Mr. Chase Peyton
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Mr. Kevin Barrett
Mr. Mark Baskin
Ms. Misty Chauffe
Mr. Brantly Cox (probably son of Mr. Paul Cox, VP of Customer Service)
Mr. Joshua Fross
Ms. Tricia Fuller
Mr. Tyler Gallimore
Mr. Brandon Gordley
Mr. Chris Grimaldi
Mr. Marshall Howorka
Mr. Danny Janes
Ms. Sandra Johnson
Ms. Tonya Karpoff
Mr. Shane Moore
Mr. Turner Norsworthy
Ms. Donna Roberts
Mr. David Rossi
Mr. Kenneth Train
Mr. James Wood
Ms. Morgan

On June 30th Ms. Morgan's supervisor and 'Vice President', Mr. Shane Peyton, took the six Trip/Pro numbers from me at 15:25 hours, and told me he was going to have his Ms. Morgan look into it, but the next day when I called Ms. Morgan on July 1st, 2016 at 09:30 hours as per Mr. Peyton's suggestion, she refused to speak any numbers, specific monetary amounts, or Pro numbers.
Essentially, my case was closed.
Ms. Morgan said PTL was not going to pay any more money to me, made reference to "X" pay, whatever that is, said that PTL got paid for those loads less money than they were supposed to, and therefore, I was paid less money for each trip, than I was told that I was going to be paid for that load in the Pre-Plan message, and that is it, no more money - period - end of story.

I very politely and professionally told Ms. Morgan that, it was illegal to tell a driver he was going to be paid, let's say, $1, 253.50, and two weeks later the driver finds out PTL only paid him $1, 050.00 (actual occurred); that is illegal.
Because I created a custom form that tracks all the details of every PTL load I do, I have all the numbers documented. I have photographed Qualcomm screenshots showing the amount the Preplan messages said I was going to be paid, and on top of that, Qualcomm is a third-party vendor.
Qualcomm keeps every message ever sent archived on their servers, and any of those messages can be subpoenaed by a judge of any District Court. When I told Ms. Morgan that, she hung up the phone on me.

Mr. Chase Peyton later confirmed, specifically stating, that we signed a contract saying that we agreed to the $5, 000 Early Termination Fee, therefore, we had no claim against any money properly due.

None of this is unique to me. Every Owner-Operator I met, had all of the exact same complaints against PTL's fraudulent Settlements.

There were at least six loads (listed below) that PTL gypped me on: (There would have been more gypped loads in the last two weeks, but since you do not get Settlements for the last two weeks, and you do not get paid anything for your last two weeks of driving for PTL, there is no way to detail the additional discrepancies that would, no doubt, have occurred.) (This results from the $5, 000 Early Termination Fee mentioned earlier.) They just keep all of your money.
PTL keeps your Maintenance Escrow Account money ($250 for every week worked for PTL, they keep your $500 Qualcomm installation fee, they keep the $19.00 per week that we pay for Quality companies 'Business Advisors' service, even though many of us immediately cancel the service at the beginning, but PTL kept taking the payments out of my Settlements disregarding my cancellation email confirmation letter from Quality Mr. Brad Cox dated 7 June 2016, and PTL keeps all of your Truck Revenue that they intentionally underpaid you.)

Load # 3431 512: Qualcomm dispatch message stated this load was paying me $926.90.
But PTL's settlement states that after paying my $309.32 fuel, only $495.68 was the remaining total trip pay paid to me. Well, add those two numbers, and you get $805.00 even.
So PTL paid me $805 when they were supposed to pay me $926.90, cheating me $121.90 on just this one trip!
(This is according to PTL's own Settlement Summary)

Load # 3438 485: Qualcomm Pre-Plan message said this load was paying $830.30., because I had a broken trailer, that was loaded by the customer in York, PA, then was told by PTL to get the trailer inspected because it was past due, it failed DOT inspection and could not be repaired by that shop, took the trailer back to the customer who had to unload it, then take the bad trailer to another shop who could do the trailing arm linkage bearings, then drove back to Carlisle to pick up another (good) trailer, take it back to the shipper to load me a second time, and then go on with the delivery.
For all this extra work, the Dispatcher added another $107.00 Accessorial Pay (not on the Qualcomm), so the total this load was supposed to pay was $937.30.
Cheated on this load, $147.80.

Load #3438 993: Qualcomm informed me that this load paid $602.60. Two weeks later, PTL's Settlement sheet reported that I was actually paid $525.00, shorting me $77.60.

Load #3441 175: Qualcomm Dispatch message informed me that this load paid $946.45.
PTL's Settlement two weeks later reported that, $287.58 in fuel was taken out, PTL paid me $580.42, gypping me again out of $78.45.

Load # 3445 589: Qualcomm Pre-Plan message said this load was paying $1, 331.70, but PTL only paid $1, 260.00.
Short $71.70.

Load # 3446 556: Qualcomm Pre-Plan message said this load was paying $1, 253.50, but again, PTL paid only $1, 050.00.
Cheated $203.50.

These repeated discrepancies are too numerous to call 'mistakes'; PTL is intentionally defrauding its Owner-Operators.
Also note that, the 'cheated amount' is almost always, an even (rounded) dollar amount, which in transportation accounting, almost never exists.

For one, PTL's accounting methods are called into question.
For two, PTL's Settlement Sheet is insanely, innately, stupid.
A Contractor's Settlement should be so clear, so easily understood, and should be organized in such a way, that even an idiot could make sense of it - knowing exactly what he made, what was spent and deducted, and what was left over to be paid to him and explanations of anything and everything that is out of the norm. IT IS ANYTHING BUT!

By all accounts, PTL's Settlement Summaries raise more questions, and leave more questions unanswered, than it accurately informs.
This creates massive havoc and distrust.
Every week, dozens or more, long phone calls are made to Payroll, by the drivers or their wives, questioning, challenging, arbitrating, arguing, puzzling every over nonsensical Settlements, with insensibly terrible mistakes.

To PTL's President, I would tell him, without intentionally being harsh, your 'system' needs to be re-vamped and modernized, the numbers-crunching needs to be systematized and automated, and the existing staff needs to be fired and replaced. PERIOD! Contract it out to a third-party company that has a sterling reputation if you have to, and bottom line, get it right almost all the time, rather than the current, 20-40% wrong!
Fire all the Executives as well. The executives are aware of the problem, and have no intentions of fixing the problem, due to their self-interest - this fraud benefits PTL's bottom-line, and they are lining their pockets with millions of dollars in fraud.

The bulk of the problem is not PTL making 'accounting mistakes'; PTL is actively engaged in committing acts with criminal intent that knowingly, competently, and vigorously defrauds its Independent Contractors.

PTL deducts $250 of our money, our earnings, per week and places our money into our Maintenance Escrow Accounts.
Four weeks per month, is over $1, 000 per month. Some months have 'five weeks'.
In PTL's Orientation, Mr. Russ Usher told us that if we stayed with PTL more than nine months, and then left the company, PTL would return all of our (unspent) Maintenance Escrow money, BUT, those funds would be released only AFTER waiting another 45 days! 45 Days!
So nine months of your payments into this Maintenance account, might equal $9, 000.
But that is not correct. There are not 12, but 13 weeks per calendar quarter, so nine months is 39 weeks, or $9, 750 in your escrow account. This money the IC never sees- it is deducted and set aside before the weekly Settlements are paid to the IC's.
If you don't stay with PTL for a full nine months, every dollar you put into that account, is forfeited and seized by PTL!

I do not know if that could even be legal, I think not, but that is what we were all told during Orientation.

Escrow means to set aside and be held by an authorized third-party for a specifically designated purpose, operating under (usually a written) agreement or instructions, authorized to act (usually make a payment) on behalf of one party to a second party to, in effect, or in response to, some triggering condition or occurrence.
Escrow funds, belonging to the owner, cannot arbitrarily or otherwise, be seized by the non-owner (in this case, the escrowee).

To make matters even worse:
Last week, a buddy of mine and fellow PTL driver was told rudely by PTL's Maintenance Department that PTL would not authorize the payment of his $149 replaced slack adjuster, because, "...you do not have [over $3, 000] in your Maintenance Escrow account, therefore, you [driver] must pay for the [maintenance] repair out of your pocket!"
(or words to that same general effect)

This driver had at that time, six weeks with PTL, therefore, his Maintenance Escrow account, like mine, had at least $1, 250 in it at that time, so for PTL to refuse his payment of $149 from his own $1, 250 escrow maintenance account, designated specifically for that purpose, is shockingly bizarre, infuriating, and wrong!

Just before I left PTL, extremely uneven wear occurred on both of my front steer tires on my new Quality tractor. I had only driven those tires 18, 000 miles, and both tires were trashed despite proper tire inflation pressures. It might have been caused by a wheel alignment or bad shocks issue, but cause was unknown. The tractor only had 89, 000 miles on it, so it was supposed to be too new for wheel bearings, steering, or other suspension components, or whatever, to be the cause, but I do not know the truck's history prior to my lease purchasing it at 71, 000 miles.

So with the truck veering sharply to the right edge of the road, and the front end vibration that was occurring, and it rapidly getting worse, I chose to replace the front steers.
PTL Maintenance approved the purchase and replacement, authorized a ComCheck payment to the Goodyear vendor this past Sunday, 26 June 2016, and I was back on the road again.

I tested the dispatcher on Sunday evening with the question, so what happens now? Is PTL going to take the money for these new tires out of my Maintenance Escrow Account, or are they going to take it out of my weekly Settlement?
(I think his name was Brantley.)

He said he didn't know. He did not have access on Sunday, over the weekend, to my Maintenance Escrow Account, and the corporate office was closed on Sunday, so when they came to work Monday morning they would figure it all out.

I notified PTL of my resignation some time after that, drove to Murray, Kentucky as I said I would, and Monday morning turned in all of my company-owned equipment - EZ Pass, Permit Book, Fuel Card, Trailer, IFTA stickers, QUALCOMM hardware, and removed the Company Logo and DOT number stickers as per company policy and was given a signed-receipt proving that I had returned all of the company's equipment.

A few hours later after I left the company's property, my Fleet Manager and Dispatcher (Morgan) called me, asked me why I left the company?
After answering her question, Ms. Morgan bluntly told me that PTL was "Charging me with THEFT."
I said excuse me?
She repeated herself, "The company is charging you with theft."
I asked her, "What do you mean?"
Ms. Morgan said, "PTL paid to put two new tires on your [my] truck, and then you [I] quit the company."

Needless to say, I blew up and went off on her over the phone before I quickly hung up.

PTL took my $1, 500 out of my earned settlements over the past seven-plus weeks, set my money aside just for maintenance on my tractor, and then refused to pay for those tires out of my maintenance escrow, and subsequently, FALSELY ACCUSED ME OF STEALING FROM THEM! (?) After they have been stealing from me this entire time? Really?
What unmitigated gall!?

PTL does not have the intention of honoring any of their ethical, financial, or even contractual obligations to its Independent Contractors.

PTL's sole intention is to unfairly conduct fraudulent and abusive business practices that are fiendishly and wantonly, viciously employed to everybody's devastating injury.

In Summary -
- PTL cheats their Owner-Operators by paying only 72.56% of actual miles driven.
- Fails to disclose Freight Rates PTL was actually being paid by the Shippers, Agents, and Brokers, thereby preventing Owner-Operators from auditing their so-called "70%" rate. The absence of any transparency, allows PTL to defraud their drivers with paid $0.90 - $1.00 per mile rates which probably are significantly less than the 70% of what the actual Freight Rate paid to PTL was.
- Falsely advertises they pay $1.15-1.23 per mile.
- Cheats again, under-paying the promised truck revenues on the settlements, (evaporative financing) ($700.95 in less-than-one-month, in my case.)
- Prohibits the use by the IC from using the Contractor's own maintenance funds to pay for maintenance on his truck. (!)
AMAZING by even the devil's own standards!
- In the IC Agreement, prohibits the reconciling of Settlement shortages past 90 days.
- In the IC Agreement, provides PTL a $5, 000 'Early Termination Fee' paid from the Contractors last two weeks - which wipes all your last two weeks earnings, working for free (unless past the 9 months of employment with PTL).
- When you report shortcomings in your Settlement within the prescribed 30-day limit, Payroll gives you the runaround to take the issue up with your Dispatcher, who pretends to look into it, and if you persist in following up, ultimately results in your Dispatcher informing you that you will not be paid any more, case-closed, and hangs up on the driver.

No wonder then, that so many Independent Contractors are quitting every day or week, by the half-dozen.
PTL is operating a revolving door, where hundreds of drivers every month, are working for free, not getting paid anything, and PTL is laughing its way to the bank!
The busiest PTL mechanic-technicians are many times either those removing PTL logos from resigned contractor's trucks, or those other mechanics who are taking two or more condemned PTL trailers out-of-service almost every day.

Then after all of PTL's unfairness and corporate crime, they rig the numbers, and falsely accuse their resigned victims of owing PTL money, even falsely accusing them of theft.

PTL, demonstrating exceptional mean-spiritedness, uses that as false justification to then deny providing those Contractors who are now financially broke, hungry, and behind on their bills, denies providing them the required Termination of Service (ToS) letters, which PTL knows, thereby prevents the IC from legitimately transferring his Quality Lease truck to another Quality Partner Carrier.
With a 10-day deadline to effect these transfers, PTL can easily force the IC to return his truck back to Quality Leasing, forcing the IC's forfeiture of more than another $2, 800 of his investment for each month ($16, 800 in my case) that the IC already paid for the truck in lease payments, and the equivalent in truck equity - all - the Contractor's loss, because of PTL's collective and organized effort to increase its profits at any costs, and burn those contractors not willing or able to remain under PTL's coercive and exploitive thumb.

Paschall Truck Lines is a total business disaster, is very predictably and rapidly going out-of-business, and does not deserve any lifelines or rescue.
Its executives and its management are corrupt, and should immediately and forever, be put in jail.

The Town of Murray, Kentucky and Franklin, Tennessee have played host to this evil presence for far too many years.
The pleasant and GOD-fearing people, the political leaders, the lawyers, the judges, and the courts of Murray and Calloway County should sever their ties to this evil.
They should spiritually and legally challenge PTL's illegal and unethical practices, and for once and forever, slay this dragon.

How can you sponsor this level of malfeasance, idly standing by, knowing that this abomination is in your midst, defrauding hardworking people out of millions of their hard-earned dollars with such deplorable and predatory practices?

I drove one driver to the bus station and paid for his bus ticket home after Orientation, because PTL was too FXXX-XXX ignorant to return him home to his family 318 miles away.
I provided one driver with a few cans of soup, plastic spoons, and paper bowls, because he had been eating nothing but crackers the preceding two weeks, AND, not getting miles, AND although he was making money for PTL, he was not making money for himself.

Ms. Randi M. was just one more of your recent victims - a young single mom.
You paid her nothing for two-and-a-half weeks, or whatever, her time and toil that she faithfully and loyally sacrificed to you, enriching your corporate welfare.
This poor girl had already been taken advantage of earlier this year by another predator for probably $10, 000-15, 000 of unpaid wages, before you had to exploit her even more.
She had been working and praying and had not been paid since March of this year.
Despite working every day for you, she had nothing to eat for several days and lost weight. Later. she used her loyalty points to get one hotdog per day, or other food scraps, otherwise starving as so many other drivers who venture into this ugly business.
She worried about her vehicle being repossessed by the bank, keeping the electric on and paying all her other bills that were behind, and she worried about her child, who was with her mother, operating on strained resources, counting on Randi, counting on PTL to do the right thing.

So last Friday, she was crying all morning, and throughout parts of the rest of the day.
But she wasn't crying from sadness, anger, or depression. Randi, was crying with joy.
Randi got her just reward, her first paycheck with another company - a net settlement of $1, 435 for her first week, and her second paycheck is projected to be around $1, 800.

I am rejoicing for her, and I am proud of her efforts, her success, and in particular, unsupported except by GOD, her overcoming your evil. She prevailed!

But no thanks to PTL President, while you live your smug and arrogant lifestyle, your company apparatus is devastating and ruining people's lives - driver's lives and their dependent families, the very people who single-handedly delivered every object in your home, and turned every dollar into your company's fortunes.

Shame on all of PTL's Executives and Managers; and to whatever extent the majority owners may still have a controlling interest, if you can't unharden your hearts, be honest and fair, and make this right, may GOD curse your health, your families, your personal assets, and everything you do, forever. AMEN.

Some of PTL's current or former so-called 'Executives' listed below:

Mr. Randall A. Waller, President and CEO, [protected]@ptl-inc.com
Mr. Tom Stephens, Executive VP
Mr. John Hayman, CFO, VP of Safety and Risk Management, [protected]@ptl-inc.com
Mr. Dennis Pryor, Sr. VP of Sales
Mr. Charles "Chuck" Wilson, VP Finance
Mr. Terry Doss, VP Business Development
Mr. David Graham, VP of Maintenance
Ms. Candy Hadley, Dir. of Operations, [protected], [protected]
Ms. Misty Darnell, Dir. of Business Improvement and Internal Audit
Ms. Ileana Salinas, Partner

With Shameless Conviction;

- Mr. Laverro Charles Radiante
[protected]
[protected]@patriot4.u

I was hired into the lease purchase program of PTL, paschall, , but paschall don't lease trucks, they lead you to believe they do until at the end of orientation, than you find out. It's quality leasing and sales, , false advertising to bring in drivers, the big problem is, , they take out maintenance escrow on your truck, mines is 300.00 dollar es a week, that money is yours to use for repairs on your truck, , but is never use for your truck, paschall takes the money out of your payroll instead, no matter how much you make, that there gives you a small check or no check, , they lower your miles so you have to stay longer on the road, now once your maintenance escrow is 5.000.00 dollars they cut your miles more, making it hard to live off, they try to get you to quite so they take your escrow money, one of the excuses they use is, safety problems, , I ask dozens of times to get my truck fixed they refuse and maintenance lead me to believe there no problems, there is 5.000.00 early termination fee, if you leave the company, , that's why theyes detour you from repairs, , it's a scam! Drivers leave and PTL takes there money and there check, ,

I started 12/02/2014.I went out with a driver by the mame Clyde Johnson 16415 everything was okay until he kept yelling at me keep in mine I am new to trucking industry so I got tired and express how I felt about getting yelled at by a white person bout time my miles was up I am think cause I am a female he thought I was going to give him play keep in mine he has no teeth he a truck driver thats very nasty barely washed his ### you think I would give you time of the day hell no I am assuming he got his pride hurt so he went to to tell his dispatch a lie so they let me go so since then I been with out work no luck none what so ever so what I am trying to say that is a red neck ### company the workers are rude they act like they own the company my name is jachal if you wondering pasc. Company I hope clyde get what he deserve if he smoke one more cigarette he going to pass out

Been driving for 20 years and only thought I seen bad. I wish I had the money to leave.
I just hope others will be careful and not believe their lies, so far they lied about everything. Their lease purchase will leave you completely broke and stranded. I'm trying to get out without something bad put on my record but I can't even get them to cooperate on turning the truck in. I am very stuck and broke. Truck breaks often and I can't get home. I didn't even want to be a lease purchase driver but they tricked me into trying it.
It's not that I'm not running hard, it's all the expenses and fees they take off the top.
I never turned down a load and never late except when broke. This is by far the worst company I ever seen. Please don't make the same mistake I did. I can't get any cooperation from them on turning the truck in and I'm going to have to borrow the money to get home. I guess I have to abandon all my stuff and just do my best to get home

I also went to work for PTL and the person that wrote this post is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I had the EXACT same experience with this company with even more harassment, abuse, neglect, rudeness, etc!

First of all, you have to take a greyhound to get to Paducah, KY. Then after riding on a bus for 2 days you have to stand outside the bus station and wait for the van from PTL to come and get you. They don't get in any hurry. They know exactly how many people to pick up, so it was strange to me that half of the new drivers had to wait for a second van trip. So drivers that have already been riding on a bus for 1-4 days are waiting outside in the hot (or cold as the case may be) are waiting outside for up to 3-4 hours with no food or water or anything else for a ride to the hotel. Note... They have plenty of vans and full time van drivers to keep this from happening. They just don't care! They are rude when they get there and talk to you like you have the plague or something. I mean they don't even say hello. It's something like "hurry up and get your ### in the van". I'm not exaggerating.

Then you get to the hotel and find it really is just as the previous poster stated. A total ### hole! Even the hotel employee's were rude. They get a new group of PTL drivers in twice a week and they really just don't want to deal with the new group. You absolutely have to either pay for your own room or have a room mate. They rate is 99.00. Which is amazing since the hotel is so nasty. I honestly feel that if you walked in off the street it wouldn't be that much. (It costs more for PTL employees?!?)

The next day is spent exactly as the previous poster explained. Drug test first thing. Then waiting for hours and hours to finally get to the terminal. This wait is also unnecessary. Like I said they just don't care. The whole time you are still being talked to very rudely. Even if you try to be nice and start a conversation, they just look at you like your crazy. I simply said good morning as I got on the van, and the driver just huffed and said hurry up and get in! Then the driver got out and smoked a cigarette and left us sitting on the van with no A/C for no good reason at all! I was starting to get sick from the heat and started to get out before I passed out. Then the driver yelled at me again and finally got in and took us to the terminal. I've never been treated so horribly! So far I've only described the GOOD things about PTL!

Orientation was pretty normal although the rude looks and talk continued the whole time. It was paperwork and videos. You did have "homework" every night and they did take it up, but it was no big deal really. Homework took about 15 min to complete. The next day was more of the same rudeness, eye rolling, huffing and puffing, etc..

Now it's time to get a truck... boy oh boy is this a nightmare!
OK, the man over assigning the trucks comes in and says he has trucks all over the country. (I've never seen a company do this before). He tells us what kind of truck it is (Freight liner or international) and how old. The internationals are mostly VERY old. Then he asks for volunteers to go in the van to get their trucks. Some of these trucks were 2 days away! They expected that everyone on the van would help drive and just sleep on the van on the way to get the trucks! INSANITY! Each person was paid a flat rate to go get their truck (it wasn't much) and clean the truck out.

There is NO AMOUNT OF MONEY worth cleaning out some of these trucks. I was lucky. My truck was in the best shape of the ones I saw. It didn't have trash in it! The floor was full of dirt. Not just dirty, I mean about an inch deep caked up nasty funk on the floor. Including in the sleeper on the carpet. This dirt (or dried mud) or whatever it was was caked with animal hair or some sort. This hair was in every nook and cranny (I'm severely allergic to cats so this really concerned me. If it had been cat hair I would have ended up going to the hospital! Apparently it was dog hair.) Every inch of the inside walls of the truck was BLACK. The drivers seat was BLACK. Not just dirty but caked up with funk. My hands were black from just getting inside the truck. Everything I touched was greasy with black gunk. The walls in the sleeper were black as were the curtains. I can't even begin to imagine what it was or how it could have gotten so nasty.

The sleeper... OMG! The mattress was BLACK with holes all in it! Top and bottom bunk! The top bunk was wet with urine! I don't know if it was human or animal but it was definitely soaked wet with urine! I threw it out both mattresses! The smell was indescribable! I cleaned for a whole day to get this truck where I could just stand to be inside of it. Just when I thought it was getting decent enough to actually start the truck and turn on the A/C it got worse! When I turned on the A/C I found out that the previous driver had URINATED in all the vents! Once again, can you even begin to imagine the smell? I sat down at this point and considered a good cry... I ended up walking to a dollar store and getting Febreze and just pouring it into the vents. Now it smelled like I had drank the Febreeze and pee'ed it back into the vents. Well, it was the best I could do.

At this point the truck had been running about 15 minutes total. I got a message over the Qualcomm that I was over idle and to turn the truck off or be terminated! Unbelievable! I ignored that message! I was hot, tired and very P. O.'ed! I dragged the nasty urine soaked mattresses to the shop dumpster and went it to ask if I could get a new one. I was very polite and my exact words were.." I'm cleaning out my truck and the mattress is pretty bad. It's out by the dumpster if you want to see it. I need a new one please." The little jerk at the shop window leaned out and actually POKED me in the chest and said, " LOOK MOTHER-FU*&ER, I have more important S*&T to do than worry about your FU*&^NG mattress!" At this point I was used to rudeness, but this was just INSANITY! He had no right to put his hands on me! Did I mention I'm female? Good thing for him cause If I had been a male I would have beat him to a pulp! I'm just sayin! I should still press harassment charges on this company. But, honestly I'm not a whiner! They never gave me a mattress! I ended up getting on at the other terminal in Memphis. The lady in the office there just ordered it from Freight Liner since I was stuck there all weekend anyway.

Just a side note. After getting the truck where I could stand to even be inside of it, I got my first load. This load was Approx 100miles and I had to sit from Friday till Tuesday morning to get unloaded! While I was sitting there someone knocked on my truck door. It was a lady that had gone thru orientation after my group. She was absolutely in tears and asked me if I would please help her. I was worried about her so I told her I'd try. Come to find out, she had just been taken to her truck by the van and dropped off. Her truck was so bad that you really couldn't stay in it at all! When I walked over and she opened the passenger door Trash fell out in an avalanche. The truck was over a foot deep in trash! Human and animal URINE and FECES! It had been locked up for days baking in the sun! You could actually smell it before the door was opened. It had maggots crawling in it. I told her that I absolutely could NOT help her clean that mess! But I let her use my cell to call PTL. They ended up giving her a comchek for 100.00 and told her to find someone to clean it out for her. They just left her stuck with it! She found some "girls" in the parking lot and they cleaned it for 150.00! So she was out 50.00 from her own pocket! It was still nasty! Nothing could fix that mess! It needed to be burned to the ground! YUCK!

Ok so... I never met my dispatcher face to face (also a good thing I'm female). He cussed and was rude just in general conversation. I quit even trying to talk to him on the phone because of this, I only used the qualcomm. He refused to call me by my name and would only refer to me as SIR! I asked him in writing on the qualcomm repeatedly not to refer to me as SIR but he would just answer with "ok SIR". Sounds like harassment to me, don't you think?

On my second load my truck broke down. It would run for about 20 mins and just die. It took hours to get anyone on the phone. They had me try all kinds of things all night long. Fuses, repriming the fuel, etc... I never signed up to be a mechanic, but I was still doing all this without a word of protest. I just wanted to get going again. I was running out of money! PTL won't give you an advance until you have a paycheck coming. They said paperwork hadn't been processed yet (despite the fact that I transflo'ed it all in) so they wouldn't let me draw any money. At this point... I'm broke down, I'm tired, and I'm really hungry, and I don't have anymore money! I'm starting to get scared cause I'm 1000 miles from home, without a dime to my name, broke down, and I need to eat something. A driver gave me a package of ramen noodles and that was all I had until the next afternoon! This was a total nightmare!

At this point, I'm starting to itch really bad. Come to find out, the truck was infested with bed bugs! When I finally got some cash I had to wash my clothes 5 times to get rid of them. Not to mention all the bugspray and crap that I breathed in the cab of that truck!

Took several days to get truck fixed... It was just more and more ###!

I put in for hometime. I had been out for 21 days total! Notice that I only pulled 2 loads
It took me another week to get home. I asked for 3 days off. I was not happy to go back out with PTL, but I was really in a financial bind from the past month and thought surely it would get better. The truck was now clean and not infested with bed bugs, and it had been fixed and was running OK.

As I was getting out of the truck a messaged beeped and told me that I had a load that I needed to leave out with in 2 days. I sent a message back that I had requested and EARNED 4 days, but only requested 3. I would be ready in 3 days! The next message I got simply said "CLEAN OUT YOUR TRUCK". I called and asked why and they said that if you parked the truck for more than 2 days that they would put another driver in it, and then send me to get the next truck that came available. I wasn't about to go through that again! So I did exactly that, I cleaned out my truck and haven't looked back!

I'm sure as soon as I send this I will think of even more horror stories about my short time with PTL. Honestly, I am tired of even thinking about all this again. It was one of the worst experiences of my life, and believe me, I've had some doozies! The previous poster wasn't lieing! If anything he was being pretty generous about PTL. It wouldn't even surprise me if the other 2 people who posted on here weren't some of the recruiters or higher ups with PTL. I didn't meet a single driver that was happy with them. I did meet a few that had been with them for awhile and they said that PTL used to be a decent company but had gone down hill. I also want to add that as of right I don't know of anybody that went through orientation with me that is still employed with PTL. It's just that bad, an I'm gonna scream it on every forum I can find :).

paschal truck lines turns in false collections ono/o that terminate...Their sub Trinity Nationwide carriers, bankrupt stranding drivers...They file with a co called PFS, no address other than po box in IL for collections claiming thousands of dollars owed when they actually breached thier own contract with holding payroll...

Pathetic operation fulll of liars and cheats...cannot trust them...
Call E Pennington before you lease [protected]

this is the by far worst place anyone could ever work. this place has no communication skills at all and god forbid you get the director Larry. This guy is a total jack ###. He thinks he is God and what he says goes. He will try to make you run illegal just to get a load somewhere that cant be delivered anyway. He will even threaten your job, over the phone of course, if your dont play by his rules. He seems to forget that the drivers arent regulated by him. They are regulated by the Federal Government. I hope anyone even thinking about going to work for this two but, redneck, inbred company that they PLEASE RECONSIDER YOUR DECISION. I promise you will regret it if you dont. also dont forget about the mounds of paperwork that you will have to sign during orientation, all of which is nothing but bull. For example, you will sign a paper that will allow them to garnish your pay for 1500 if you abandoned their equipement. I have never seen anything that low. Oh yeah heres a major one for you. Most companies will pay you to go home for your hometime and then pay you any miles to go pick up a load or find a trailer. This company will not start paying you until AFTER YOU PICK UP THE LOAD. So that means if you have to drive 100 miles to go pick up a load, you wont see a cent for it. ALso, they will try to make you fudge your log book and if you dont then they threaten your job. You can do so much better. Dont make the same mistake I did. As for you Larry, I hope you get what you diserve and brought back down to size. When you see this company coming you better turn and run away very fast. Trouble is coming.

PTL is another trucking company that does not care about the health, welfare or whether their company drivers make money.
PTL must have a problem with DOT, stopped twice in one week.
PTL is ‘Forced’ dispatched, per dispatcher Paula and her boss Greg, who both want to yell at their drivers, and claim that they cannot hear well as to why they are yelling at the driver.
ALL PTL trailers are a danger to the motoring public.
PTL will dispatch a driver on loads that they cannot deliver legally because their trucks only run 62mph.
PTL also make their company drivers follow there routing directions that are missing connecting roads information, and will counsel you on out on route mileage.
PTL idle time equals your mileage and you cannot go over 41per cent, so there will be a lot of ‘COLD’ PTL drivers, just like there has been a lot of ‘HOT’ ones.
Truck Recovery = Truck without air-condition in LA, with average temp of 100 degrees for four days because they would not deadhead a solo female driver 75miles, nor would they put the driver in a hotel, but had driver driving 200 plus miles a day searching for empty trailers that they really did not know where they were, in the HOT truck.
Night Dispatcher = Hang up without talking to driver after seeing who was calling on the caller ID, because they thought the driver was angry after they(dispatcher) had sent nasty messages.
Computer System down = Every other day per dispatcher.
DOT Inspection problem repair = One week later, put driver out of service(1 ½ days) on the other side of the country from the DOT inspection site while still loaded, for a bad brake adjustment problem on the trailer, that they had the driver take across the street from their yard to get fixed.
* Please note it took so long to get the trailer repaired because PTL’S road maintenance department will not contact the company that they send you to for repairs nor will the response to the company that doing the repairs e-shop messages until the driver call them several times to keep the process going, even though PTL told you to go that company for repair.
* Please also note that PTL road maintenance department does not know from shift to shift who works for them on their yards, nor can they get people on their yards to fix anything, because again they do not know who works there from shift to shift.

I was hired on with PTL on July 28th, 2009. Nancy Boggard was my recuriter. She said everything was fine and ok to go. Well here they get me out in Murray, Ky. They have you ride on a Grey Hound Bus for 24 hours and you have to wait for about 2 hours for the little van to pick you up. I was out in the 95 degree heat and had nothing to dring. When I called PTL they were very rude from that point, I should have know something was up. So here they take you on an hour ride to Murray, Ky to some hole in the ground hotel. The pool has not been used for a long time or has not been maintained at all. They make you either share a room or pay for a room, $99.00 also it is taken out of you pay, with no choice in that. The first day they take you next door to the health clinic, to take drug test. Then they take you to the north lot and lock you in a room and they have the a/c set on 55 degrees. Then if you complain about the a/c being too cold they will turn it off and the room will get to 90 degrees. They will feed you, and the food is prison issued food. Then they will do paper work. The trucks go 62mph only. If you complain about the speed they will fire you. The trucks that don't have APU's, if you run your truck more than 40% they will bring you in to have a talk with you. If you do it again they will have a final word. Then the last time they will fire you. But don't feel bad if they keep you there for less than a month. PTL says they have a right to use their drivers up to a month to 3 months and then get rid of you. Louis is the company gofer and he jumps when they say jump. He is the one that is in safety and will tell you to clear out your truck and he will have you taken to the local hotel and have you sit there until 1900hrs and then take you to the bus station or airport. Day 2 more paper work and test drive trucks. Day 3 you will finish up the paper work. All 3 nights you do have home work to do and they will collect it. There is a company person that comes in and tells you their turn over rate is at 186%. My best advise to any driver out there do not go with this fly by night company at all. If you want head aches then go with them. If you want a real good job and be treated like a human being instead of like some animal then consider some other place. They treated me like an animal because they wanted me to drive from Mass to Knoxville with an oil leak and there was oil all over my engine and hood of truck. They supervisor said to me that he was not going to take any chances of loosing a HOT load just because I wanted to get the oil leak fixed. Well they finally allowed me to stop and get the oil fixed. Also they will have you run illegal log books. They do advise to run 2 log books if possiable. I ran about 3300 miles a week for the first couple of weeks. Then they have you pick up a truck which was trashed out by another driver. So here I had to baby sit the truck for 5 days. They don't pay any lay over or break down pay until after 48 hours. So I got paid $70.00 for sitting for 5 days. Its $35.00 per day. Then they had me take truck up to their Murray, Ky location and then tell me that they no longer needed my services and I can clear out my truck, short 2 days being there 30 days. PTL brings in about 100 to 150 drivers a week and let go between 150 to 200 drivers a week, this also includes drivers who either dumps their trucks or they don't com back to work. Also PTL does not have enough of trucks to give out so they have no choice to fire their drivers. My best advise again is not to wast your time or effort to work at PTL. This so called company needs to be put out of business period. There is actually more but there isn't enough time or space to tell it all. Driver BEWARE! Also if you don't comply about quitting they will call the police on you. Apparently they must pay the cops something extra to do extra patrolling. When I was there on July 29th and anoth driver told me to get the hell out of here, I should have listened. PTL is for WHITE TRAILOR TRASH HILL BILLYS! Look at where their so called corporate offices are out of.TRAILORS. No real buildings at all. They are all WHITE TRASH including the people they have in West Memphis, AR..

My husband was hired and sent to Murray KY for orientation. When orientation ended, they did not have any trucks available to put him or numerous other drivers in. They put them up in hotel rooms, then have them check out half a dozen times. Leave them sitting, without work they can't make money to eat and live off of while waiting for them to get it together. Their staff is rude to their potential drivers and their families. They don't care about ya, and very disorganized. Why bring people from across the U.S. all the way up there, if they aren't prepared to put them to work. You find out in orientation they have a 85% turn over rate and drivers are leaving trucks everywhere because they leave you sitting 4 and days at a time. When and if you get a check drivers who have been with the company for a lengthy time tell you you are lucky to clear 200 a week. What is going on with this company? A word to the wise...steer clear! Hard working drivers deserve better! I advise as many as possible to report this to the better business bureau and federal safety administration and their personal situations. This company should not be in business.

Let me start by saying that promises made aren't always what you get. When I went through orientation with PTL they promised alot of things.First and foremost that we as drivers were first priority. When you hit the road for them, suddenly you become a kicking post for them. I worked for PTL for about seven months. In that time, I was denied numerous funds and payment, that I had coming to me. From my first paycheck, to my last paycheck something was missing on virtually every single one. Short hauls that came across the qual com. I never got them. Miles that I drove, I never got them. When I would contact finance, or driver services, or whatever department they shuffled me off to, noone had any explination. The only thing someone would finally say was we'll check it out. Then you don't hear anymore from them. Then when you finally get mad enough to really ### they find a way to shut you down for an undetermined period of time so you dont get the runs. I kept every Log book page, every reciept, and every quall com. message they ever sent me. That's right I took pictures of all my qual com. messages. One things for sure when this all comes to a head, I have undeniable proof of all my losses. I feel that every driver should do the same thing. That way they cant get out of there obligations to us, [THE DRIVERS] After all were the ones out there driving the miles, staying away from home for months at a time. We deserve our monies coming to us. Why shouldn't we hold the people responsible that are supposed to get it to us? I fully intend too. During my employment at PTL . I never had any moving violations, or accidents. I never damaged any vehicle or anything. As a matter of fact I started to quit once about a month before I finally did. I was informed by someone in the offices that they needed drivers like me, that I was 98% affective. They were right about one thing. They needed suckers like me who actually gave a damn, about their precious freight. While they kept my money and got my wife and myself evicted from our home .Well we are still living in our car, but it's better than a PTL sleeper.

At PTL the drivers are treated like they are a bother or an enemy. Their staff is rude and disrespectful.They don´t want to hear anything from the drivers. They will assign you to one short crappy load after another. And the expect the drivers to just EAT IT!

Until very recently, PTL failed to invest in APUs even though most of us knew that fuel was going to be a problem. They expect drivers tp freeze in the winter and bake in the summer. Not caring about how this will affect the drivers health or his ability to drive safely.

If a driver idles the truck to stay warm or cool they will harrass the driver. Then if he still idles the truck, fire him. It dose not matter that you may be sitting in South Florida in August or Green Bay for 34 hours in Decembr for 2 to 3 days waiting on a load. You could die in the truck they would not care.

Road maint is a joke. Everything is a major hassle to get fixed. Even though they have e-shop it will still take forever to get something fixed. The road maint staff are also rude and don´t give a damm.

The management style of PTL is one of conflict or better pass the buck. Because it is privately owned Randall Waller can make all the stupid decisions he wants and he dose not have a board of directors to veto his stupid ideas.

Nobody can speak up and explain that maybe this is a bad idea. Management dosen´t want suggestions. If there is a problem they will kill the messenger. And money is the bottom line.

For instance, maintenance´s job is to cost effectively fix trucks and trailers. The trailer fleet is very old. They require a lot of repairs. At PTL it is better not to fix the trl and make it look like your department is within budget that to explain to the owner that his trailer fleet is old and that you dept needs more money to maintain them.

In operations the staff dose what´s easy and expidisous for them. At the cost of the driver and sometimes the company. They don´t care if they get you home for your kids birthday or holy communion. They don´t care if you miss appts. They could not care less if you are going broke and can´t suppoet your family. They will do what´s easiest for them. And if a driver speaks up, stands up forhimself, his miles will drop to nothing and will be fired. PTL wants mindless robots or slaves.

i worked for PTL from 6/1/07 to 9/30/07 and the people who dont have a complaint about this company are very lucky in my book. the people that run PTL are the rudest non caring people you will ever meet at a trucking company, exspecially the dispatchers! my dispatcher's name was jessica i believe. she was absolutley out of line how she would talk to the drivers. she didnt just talk to me like this but other drivers as well that i came across said the same thing about her. when i finally had enough of her mouth and decided to stand up for myself i get sent to see one of the head honchos where i get cussed at...thats right i said cussed at! the drivers here are just a money making machine for them and they do not care wether u like it or not. thank God i never had a serious breakdown with this company like some others are talking about. i had a flat and got it fixed pretty quick, that was the extent of that though. all in all i got great miles and made around a thousand a week. As far as i can remember i never sat still unless it was my ten hours off. also i did always have a problem with the home time, i would put my hometime call in after being on the road for a month and a half which equiled a week off as we all know and they would always wait til the last minute to get me home, and on top of this they would call me a couple days later and ask when im coming back to work. i finally had to tell them to never call my house again during my time off. in my personal opion PTL has the (potential) to be a great trucking company if the owner would just step up and stop allowing his drivers to be disrespected and get rid of anyone regardless of thier postion who does this.