William Olson

Review of Medallion Transport & Logistic...

Former O/O. Only 4 stars because no such thing as ...

Former O/O. Only 4 stars because no such thing as a perfect job. I have been with Medallion for about 20 months now. I made good money last year and I am home on every weekend & hoping this year will be better than last. I'm in the dry van division. I know Medallion has some corporate loads (never hauled one) and some agents have some brokers they work with on the regular and get good paying loads from them. Freight rates so far this year are way down from last year. Overall the management is on top of things. When there's a problem with payroll ( it happens just being realistic) they get it straightened out by the end of day on Friday and deposit money into your account. Alan & Deborah are awesome in helping with company repair loans to get necessary repairs for unexpected breakdowns to cover cost and payroll deduct what the company loaned you stretched out over several weeks. I would definatly recommend Medallion to other O/O's to lease to.There will always be people who you just cant please,whiners and cry babies (haven't you heard? Truckin ain't for sissys!) and that's where the negative feedback comes from. I don't know anything about the company's brokerage as far as getting loads from them all my freight is pretty much originates from loadboards.
If there's anything I would want to see different from Medallion is to establish a large customer base generated by the company for dry van freight for the agents to pick freight from. Loadboard freight is hit and miss and having to negotiate rates with brokers is very time consuming and just a huge game.
I would like to see Medallion start a self dispatch system where O/O's can find and negotiate their own loads instead of going thru an agent.
Medallion's CSA score has gotten pretty high in last year and honestly I think they should clean house and get rid of the shi* heads here who just cant seem to get how to do things legally and keep up on their maintenance on their trucks these drivers are the reason the CSA is high and they make the O/O's that do the right thing "ALWAYS" look bad. I was pulled over a few days ago in OH for random roadside inspection by DOT officer, he said to me your not in any trouble you didn't do anything wrong I just ran your company's DOT# and it's high so that's reason for the roadside inspection. He did his thing and long story short there were no violations and he shook my hand and said keep up the good work. If your looking for a good honest company to run for give them call for more detailed information about them don't let the BS negative reviews discourage you from leasing here. I have been driving for 37 years including my 8 years in military this is a very good company to work for. I left do to medical issues had to take a local driving job.