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Review of PAM Transport

After my upgrade, the beginning of my decent to h...

After my upgrade, the beginning of my decent to hell. I did what was required of me to upgrade, but the pay is equal to someone working at Mcdonald. After all the tests, it was time to get a truck and pick up my teammate that was the plan. No, it did not happened like that. I had to wait two days for 2 mattresses for my truck, so no pay. While I was waiting for the mattresses, I talked to some drivers that work for PAM. On the first day, I talked to a guy who is a team driver. Well, he said" my teammate and I haven't been making any money. " He didn't give me exact amount, but in his tone, it didn't sound to good. On second day, I met a muck older guy. We talked. He said " on my first check, I made over 7 hundreds." " Well, that's uplifting" I told myself. I started to think positive until he added a ( but ) to his sentence. He continued saying " after my teammate quit, my paycheck has been $500, since then." He told me that he has been working for PAM about 3 months and was teaming for one week. I soon found out that $500 is only 3 hundreds something dollars after taxes and escrow deduction. "Oh yeah, escrow deduction." You can not afford to pay your own bills or even unable to feed your family on PAM pay; PAM will still take out escrow deduction from your already small " burgar flipping " paycheck. They will take $25 from your check a week until it equal $500, so you can pay for traffic tickets but, if they paid you what they promise then you can pay own damn tickets. After waiting for those mattresses, I got on road and haul some loads. After couple of days, I found out I didn't have a teammate and guess what. My checks were only $500 before taxes and escrow deduction. My checks was a joke, but I wasn't laughing. I was angry and sad. On road and far away from home, I fell in depression. The solo and teammate dispatcher not very helpfull and waste lot of your onduty and drive time. For example, either you are sitting long time for a load or driving around some where looking for an empty that they are not sure it is there. Well, I had to quit after 3 months working for PAM and I found much better place to work for. Here a after thought, you remember I waited for two days for those mattresses. Well, I was supposed to get layover paid for 2 days, but didn't. Being new to the job, I didn't know. This company looks ways to make off you, but doesn't find ways to make you money. The reasons why I wrote this review, because I am still angry with them not keeping their promise about pay, so I can take care of my family and sad because I very bad experienced with a greedy company. At least, I could share my ordeal with other. Hopefully, others don't make same mistake I did.