Profile For John P.

Guys, I will reply with more info and post photos when I finish my journey home. Should be sometime this evening. I can tell you that there are a few outright lies from Lobos in response to my post.

Thanks, Errol. I'll contact them, too.

Hey friends at TruckingTruth,

I can give you some solid info on this company, as I am currently in Salt Lake City, UT, having spent the last several days going through orientation with Lobos and being handed a load of bull**** that would hurt any scales.

They are not what they represent themselves to be, and now they have me in a bad spot.

I talked to their recruiter, who said they have jobs as a trainee driver. I have my Class A, but almost no experience. They got me on a Greyhound from Alabama to Utah for orientation. When I got here, they do not want to hire me as a driver - they want to set me up as an Owner/Operator or second choice as an Independent Contractor, start a company in my name (that I would give up all interest in once I part ways with them), and have me sign contracts with not just them, but a leasing agency, a factoring company, and a dispatch company (which just happens to run from the same upstairs office as they do). Several different contracts, all with conflicting terms, and almost no protections whatsoever for me, plus huge financials liabilities built in for me. It's a bait and switch. And if I don't sign, they will not provide a bus ticket back to Alabama for me, which will leave me stranded in near freezing temperature Utah.

I refused the sign the bait and switch contracts, and even offered to split the transportation to get home, but they just said, "We pay to get folks here to drive, but not to get them home." It's the same for drivers that actually do sign the paperwork - the company will pay to get them to the truck, but not to get them home for home time. Drivers do not get to take the truck home.

They also run something they call a school there, which is 2 horrid rigs in a big dirt field with some cones, and usually just students trying to figure out backing skills by themselves. The instructor has only had his CDL for about 6 months, and had no formal driving training himself. He went out in the lot and figured it out, then went to take his CDL test.

They offer student housing, but it's actually a 2 bedroom apartment with up to 11 men staying in it at any time. Bunk beds plus mattresses and air matresses on the floors of the bedrooms and the living room. They spend $200/wk on food for everyone, stocking the place up with ramen, peanut butter, tuna, bologna, cheese, and bread, which could be worse, but it's a limited amount of stuff. I feel bad for the students - they are led to believe things are going to be far better than they actually are when they arrive.

They are lying to people, promising things they are not coming through with, and taking advantage of folks that have few other options. I have photos of much of this, if you would like me to post them, including of the living conditions at the apartment, and of the dirt lot. Also, on their Facebook page, they have even photoshopped a sign with with their logo onto the front of the building. I have a photo of the actual front of the building with a sign of another company in place.

Lobos are completely dishonest, they are trying to take advantage of desperate people, and that really is the lowest type of person to be. I advise anyone to never deal with them.

I have already contacted the State Attorney General's Office and the Labor Commission here in Utah to get them investigated.

If there are any other questions you have about them, I'll answer them if I know the answer. I just want to save anyone else from going across the country on lies, only to be faced with the choice of signing horrible contracts or being stranded.