Hopewell Staffing is an dishonest company Especially Tyler Johnson the co-owner. He lied and told me he was a veteran and then he admittedt he only Worked for the Department of Defense as a contractor. I left my job to go to wonderful company at AMD/ 47trans. I showed up to orientation and they told you that you would be fined If you did not report your in and out times to each location or delivery. They would fine you if you messed up on your log books. Im not sure if thats legal or not. They didnt even give us our I-9 or W-2 or have any direct deposit information on on that day.Has anyone in their entire career ever been to orientation and was not given a W-2 or I9? So you show up and pick out a truck each day to use. You spend a good 30 minutes pre tripping them because you cant trust the equipment. You would find headlights that didnt work, cracked bumpers, cracked fog lights, missing side steps, Duct taped sided mirrors, cracked side morrors, air conditioning not working, leaking windshield fluid washer, leaking anti-freeze, red engine lights on yellow engine lights on air gauges not working, speedometer gauges not working. I would find trucks that did not have fire extinguishers, warning triangles or even the mounting brackets for fire extinguisher. I found a truck that had a driver side window down and they taped it to try to keep it up instead of fixing it. I found a truck with the speedometer not working conveniently they just fixed it the week before they said. The trucks with the air conditioning that didnt work they conveniently fixed it the week before to. They had trailers With missing license plates, missing registrations, broken marker lights. I was pulled into a weigh station In Elizabethtown Kentucky Because they ran the DOT number on the side of the truck and found out that the owner did not pay his Kyu taxes since last January.I called and the owner tried to blame it on the accountant. The owner was a previous owner operator. How could he not know to pay his taxes and quarterly. It was so bad that they put me on 3 different trucks and one day because all the different breakdowns. If you wanted to get fuel they would tell you to drive to a truck stop and get a fleet one check but then you would have to literally sit and wait for them to approve $200 which would only get you about 80 gallons of fuel. I went to a Aldis Distribution Center and found out you had to pay a lumper fee of $30 to get your truck unloaded and I literally sat and waited over an hour and a half just for them to approve $30. I would call and Inform my recruiter of these things each day and then Tyler Johnson would over here me telling my recruiter Malissa parks and then he started personally talking to me instead of Malissa. Then Tyler was trying to sugarcoat the situation trying to tell me that he goes down there once a week to this company and talks to the owner telling me this company is legitimate. However the actions of the company tells you a whole different story. The owner Ajay to me in my eyes is very cheap person because all the equipment he has bought is used and in bad shape and does the very minimum to fix anything. I dont know how you claim that everything that is breaking down they just fixed literally the day or two prior to that and then conveniently is breaking down again. They have two mechanics that are Indians working there. One barely speaks English the other speaks no English and then when you approach them about mechanical issue they talk in Indian talk whatever language you call that for 5 minutes and then they say I call boss . Which is the owner of the company and the owner of the company instructs them on what they need to do. I showed up on Saturday to see the owner showing the Indian mechanics how to fix the vehicles. I also showed up around midnight to find the mechanics walking around inside the building one with his shirt off and the other walking around in a towel. I told Sara the so called boss/Dispatcher and my Recruiter. This is suppose to be a around tbe clock operation.
Sounds bad and is bad never again