Venture Express, Inc.
Cheated out of pay
If you work for this company, you are actually working for whichever automotive manufacturer they haul for. If that plant, let’s say Honda in Alabama works Saturday, you work Saturday. If they shut down or pause production, your work and paycheck pause, too.
Sliding pay scales were introduced at the beginning of the year. Unless you run 6-7 days a week it’s hard to obtain the required miles to qualify for the higher pay rate. Most positions are dedicated runs! Apparently, a drivers skills and time are less valuable on the weeks he or she runs less miles. Local drivers are offered the option of guarantee pay or hourly pay. Either way they have to work 12-14 hour days to make a decent paycheck. Most local drivers also are forced to slip seat daily. The day cabs are frequently in need of repair or in pitiful condition, full of trash and even ants and cockroaches.
The location in Lincoln AL is not even a ‘terminal’. It’s about 2 acres of mud and dirt at the back of a trailer repair facility. Unless you have a four wheel drive, anticipate repairs on your personal vehicle. And don’t ever waste money or time washing it again, because it will be forever covered in thick red dirt and mud. There’s not even excess to indoor plumbing or running water, just portable toilets! Trailers are often backed into 4 foot tall weeds, so if you’re not a fan of snakes, this place isn’t for you.
Venture’s greed for a dollar will be their downfall. Safety bonuses are paid 3 weeks into the next month. I resigned the end of June and was basically told I was s**t out of luck because bonuses paid out in July, after I was gone. Bonus should have been included in my last paycheck. Just one of the dirty low down ways they try to save a dollar. Wouldn’t be writing this if I’d received all my pay after resigning. In 3 years, I requested 2 days off and never called out sick. My thanks was being cheated out of pay. I even submitted a 2 week notice when resigning.
