Interstate Distributors shananigans

I have been a driver for over 15 years and started to work for Interstate Distributors in Jan. of 2006.I went to work for this company for two reasons.One Iv'e heard they was a good company and two,they wouldn't leave me alone.I enjoyed it at first and never had a problem with getting home,unlike other drivers I talked to.Me and the wife would stay out for one month and come home for three days(she does not drive,but makes an excellent seat cover).I stared the 3rd of Jan. and about 4 months later I started having problems with me and my truck.I started to complain it wasn't running properly.I thought it was either a fuel injector or something wrong with the turbo.It was neither.I am not that mechanicly inclined,but know enough to get by.I continued to complain at every terminal I pulled into and all they did was change a fuel filter,which did not help at all.They never ever went further into the truck and I wreckon they thought I was crazy.Well needless to say me and the wife started getting sick and wanted to sleep all the time.I never was late on a load,but i did have to turn down a few due to being sick and tired.Even in the end of finally realizing something was wrong.My fleet mngr made the remark,Joe whats wrong with you and I told her I think I have cancer.Well we were sent out to New York and that's when it happened,the exhaust finally had all it could take and broke.we were getting monoxide poisoning all this time(4 or 5 months worth).The company told the mechanic to put a piece of tin and bailing wire on it and send us on our way and he repied with,no way.There's no telling how long they was exposed to it.This was the turning point on how I felt about this company that broadcasts so much about how they care about their drivers.I made it ti Denver and asked the terminal there to check it out and it was still leaking.Me and my wife went to the hospital and got our blood gasses checked and even though we had been out of the truck,they was still high.The doctor said we were very lucky and can you believe they made me pay my wives visit even though I think they are at fault due to all the complaining I did about there being something wrong with it.I also have bills coming in wanting me to pay my side of it,isn't this the most craziest thing you have ever heard.We stayed in the truck and had it fixxed 3 more times for the same problem then finally out in Sparks Nv. They said the manifold was leaking to bad for us to sleep in it and we got a new truck.To this day we still suffer from being tired to my wives chronic cough.Now next they ran me like a team driver which I didn't want to be ran that hard,I asked for 3200m to 3500 a week and the way they run,I had to cheat and move this and that around till I just told them look I am a single driver,but still they have a big problem with planning loads.I am currently off of work due to a broken back I recieved while on my 34 hr restart down in Little Rock.Can you believe there was a dispute about me getting my benefits,unreal.I did get them and now they have hired a nurse from workers comp to go with me to my doctors appointments,which really ticked my doctor off.She stated enough time has passed for me to be healed.BULL SHIT.I am still in the same amount of pain as I was when iy happened and it was probably the companies fault.Instead of being laid up they had me run everyday to the truck stops to get money to pay for it and also had enough balls to tell me to sleep in my truck.It took them 1 week from the injury to get me home which was only about 350 miles away.Their workers comp doctor who saw me down there wrote them a nasty remark about how they treated me.She told them the more I'm on my feet in the beginning it could cause more damage,which I think it did.Now they are trying to rush me BULL SHIT!!!Not only that they sent me log book violations that were 5 months old when I got injured,isn't that nice of them to do.It's their fault because of how they pushed me.I recomend everyone to take a good look at this company before they decide to go to work for them.I am not the only one who had the same type of problems with them.I don't know what's going on with them,they used to be an outstanding company and now I believe their trying to get to big to fast.

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