Michael Morris runs help wanted ads for a driver/drivers to be independant contractors working for him as a 1099 employee out of cedar rapids iowa. Hes leased onto turquoise trucking. He seems extremely bipolar and has a temper which flares often . thats only half the story. I ran in 2014 for a month. His truck was a disaster thou he prides and idolizes his 14 year old semi. The biggest problem was a radiator leak which he says the radiator was just replacedwith in a month or so and was brand new. His detroit engine was dscribed as brand new and not rebuilt and then later rebuilt by a man in laredo tx. I sat in Laredo for three days with out pay for break down or layover.
His driver door and passenger doors wouldnt open from the inside when i got the truci as i observed mike reach out the window down to the door handle to open it. Both windsheilds were cracked and fractured and the spread continued to travel.
I was inspected in C0 and shut down for repairs. An a/c line blew while down at the scale house.
His so called 200dollar seat covers were covering seats not fit for your back yard trash burning days. He was upset I had left 4 items in the seat on my home time off for which I was ill for a week do to the exhaust leaks and radiator leaks over that month, and the truck was swept out and windexed the dash and windows as well as made the bed . But I was expecting to return to work on Monday and was able to call and was ready to go on Thursday. He fired me and placed another driver in the truck he said. All my trucking items including my 100 cobra i owned was left in the truck expecting to return.
With direct deposit to be paid on Wed and have it accessible by friday - he never paid me for the last three loads i did or all the out of pocket expenses as oil and radiator fluids. Im down 1300 bucks+! Thats wage theft. Every pay day was late by two days up to the following monday which is 4 days.
The advances were to be 360 per week as needed and subtracted frommy pay settlement. I received one settlement sheet statement by email of 4 pay days. Every dispatched load was a pdf by email of the laod and easy to read and follow. I was never late pcking up or delivering.
The day I was hired I explained I ama driver on paid vacation - a joke - he never got. I explained I was not fixing stuff as I am not a repIr person. If he can talkme through something I am willing to try but I am a contracted driver not a bitch slave. And I am paid to be a driver to service his loads by his company he is leased on to. This was all part of the hiring conversation.
The truck was taken to his residence and he was called and he said hed speak to me later. Later that day he texted me complaining of the door lack pull up plastic bob was off the lock. The guy who replacd the two windows in Wichita broke it off while trying to get the door open so he ould work the glass replacement. The repair guy explained why and how to fix the latches and replace the rods in both doors.
By Iowa law an employer or contractor has to be paid at least minimum wage and any deductions have to be itemized and can not reduce the minimum wage limit for hours worked. -
Michael Morris Reviews
Michael Morris runs help wanted ads for a driver/drivers to be independant contractors working for him as a 1099 employee out of cedar rapids iowa. Hes leased onto turquoise trucking. He seems extremely bipolar and has a temper which flares often . thats only half the story. I ran in 2014 for a month. His truck was a disaster thou he prides and idolizes his 14 year old semi. The biggest problem was a radiator leak which he says the radiator was just replacedwith in a month or so and was brand new. His detroit engine was dscribed as brand new and not rebuilt and then later rebuilt by a man in laredo tx. I sat in Laredo for three days with out pay for break down or layover.
His driver door and passenger doors wouldnt open from the inside when i got the truci as i observed mike reach out the window down to the door handle to open it. Both windsheilds were cracked and fractured and the spread continued to travel.
I was inspected in C0 and shut down for repairs. An a/c line blew while down at the scale house.
His so called 200dollar seat covers were covering seats not fit for your back yard trash burning days. He was upset I had left 4 items in the seat on my home time off for which I was ill for a week do to the exhaust leaks and radiator leaks over that month, and the truck was swept out and windexed the dash and windows as well as made the bed . But I was expecting to return to work on Monday and was able to call and was ready to go on Thursday. He fired me and placed another driver in the truck he said. All my trucking items including my 100 cobra i owned was left in the truck expecting to return.
With direct deposit to be paid on Wed and have it accessible by friday - he never paid me for the last three loads i did or all the out of pocket expenses as oil and radiator fluids. Im down 1300 bucks+! Thats wage theft. Every pay day was late by two days up to the following monday which is 4 days.
The advances were to be 360 per week as needed and subtracted frommy pay settlement. I received one settlement sheet statement by email of 4 pay days. Every dispatched load was a pdf by email of the laod and easy to read and follow. I was never late pcking up or delivering.
The day I was hired I explained I ama driver on paid vacation - a joke - he never got. I explained I was not fixing stuff as I am not a repIr person. If he can talkme through something I am willing to try but I am a contracted driver not a bitch slave. And I am paid to be a driver to service his loads by his company he is leased on to. This was all part of the hiring conversation.
The truck was taken to his residence and he was called and he said hed speak to me later. Later that day he texted me complaining of the door lack pull up plastic bob was off the lock. The guy who replacd the two windows in Wichita broke it off while trying to get the door open so he ould work the glass replacement. The repair guy explained why and how to fix the latches and replace the rods in both doors.
By Iowa law an employer or contractor has to be paid at least minimum wage and any deductions have to be itemized and can not reduce the minimum wage limit for hours worked. -