Truckin' with Tamie
From CEOs to mechanics to truck drivers, women are revolutionizing the transportation industry. Tune in to "Truckin' with Tamie" where host Tamie explores the ins and outs of trucking, showcasing how this formerly male-dominated field is now opening its doors to women worldwide. We cover the issues affecting women entering the industry for the first time, CDL Schools and training programs, and adjusting to life on the road. We will interview women in various positions in the trucking industry, and get the real scoop on what to expect as a woman in this field.
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Tezra Scott's Battle Against Truck Biz in a Box Breach of Contract
Tezra Scott bravely steps forward to recount her unsettling experience with Truck Biz in a Box, a supposed turnkey solution for aspiring trucking entrepreneurs spearheaded by Chamaine Jeffers. Despite the grand promises of guaranteed success and seamless entry into the trucking industry, Scott and other investors found themselves caught in a tangled web of unmet commitments and financial despair. By sharing her story, Tezra hopes to pave the way for others who have faced similar struggles with Jeffers’ venture, shining a light on the importance of transparency and accountability in business dealings.
We take a closer look at the intricacies involved in setting up a trucking business with the help of Truck Biz in a Box, specifically focusing on the experiences of clients who purchased the $15,000 package. Promised services like business credit establishment were left unfulfilled, leaving investors in a precarious state with unclear contractual obligations and poor communication from the service provider. This episode serves as a cautionary tale about the necessity of conducting due diligence before investing in opportunities that appear too good to be true.
The collective efforts to seek justice are also explored, highlighting how these investors are turning to legal avenues and public discourse to hold Chamaine Jeffers accountable. As frustration mounted, Scott and her fellow investors decided to go public, taking their grievances to platforms like podcasts and social media, and reaching out to authorities including the FBI and the Attorney General. The episode underscores the emotional and financial toll of the alleged fraud, emphasizing the need for vigilance and the courage to stand up against deceitful business practices.
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Speaker 2:Hi, this is Tammy with Truckin' with Tammy podcast. As I told you, this week we have a whole series of investors who have come forward with complaints against truck biz in a box, who have come forward with complaints against truck viz in a box. In an industry where the American dream often involves the open road, a group of hopeful investors find themselves stuck at a legal crossroads with their investment in truck viz in a box. We're talking investments ranging from $15,000 to $65,000 each, and with the multiple business owners now stepping forward, it is shocking, to say the least. So Truck Vis in a Box is actually spearheaded by Shemaine Jeffers. She's promising an accessible entry into the trucking industry with the allure of this comprehensive support business coaching, investor networking, business credit dispatching, providing drivers and with Jeffers being a truck driver and former military police officer herself.
Speaker 2:People are looking at this venture as this transformative opportunity, especially for those without prior experience in the field. Prior experience in the field? Wow, I'm tongue tied today. So what's happening, though, is this what's meant to be a highway to success is actually turning out to be quite the nightmare. People aren't getting according to them, allegedly are not receiving what she's selling, and now, instead of this trucking company and financial success. There are legal disputes, lawyers and loss of money, loss of revenue. So the allegations are centering around Jeffers' failure to deliver on promised services, promised support, promised returns on investment, and these investors are all now banding together and they want resolution. They want Jeffers to pay the consequences of that, and so today we're going to hear from Tezra Scott. She was the first one to speak up and put her complaint out public and then the rest of the week we are going to have multiple other investors who are now speaking up and coming out to the public eye after Tezra did. So stay with us. You're actually going to see where me and Tezra had a live stream of our conversation that's going to follow up here. Please listen. If you know anybody that was affected of this, you can have them reach out to Tezra Scott and, as always, before investing money into any program, make sure you do your homework and research.
Speaker 2:Now I am going to put a disclaimer here that this information provided to me is directly from the investors. I have advised that they need to stick to the facts, that they need to stick to the facts. I have not talked to Shemaine Jeffers at any point and we are going to use the word allegedly just to keep us safe here. So with me is Tezra Scott. Tezra Scott is one of the investors who have went public with the information about the breaches of contracts. So welcome Tezra. Hello, so you are a truck driver yourself, yes, okay, and you had a truck that you were driving and you already were on your own doing the trucking thing when you decided to venture into the truck biz in a box premise yes, correct, okay, okay. So, um, I believe I saw that. Uh, this went back to what 2021, 2022, 2020, 2021 all right.
Speaker 2:So, tensor, if you wouldn't mind telling us um about how you um found truck biz in a box and what led you up to deciding to take that approach?
Speaker 3:Okay, she owns the biggest trucking company called CDL for Life and I was in her CDL for Life trucking group so I already had my LLC in truck and running my trucking company. So she was advertising that if you already got your own truck and your truck driver, she can help you become a fleet manager and have your own fleet. So what she was advertising is she'll provide the truck, the driver, the dispatcher, the brokers, everything. You just sit back and get another truck off your other I mean check off your other truck and then, once your truck is running, you can always pull your truck and just put it all under one fleet.
Speaker 2:But it still was under your LLC that you was currently that I was currently running under Okay, and uh, you sent me a copy of one of the advertisements that Shemaine Jeffers had posted, uh, on looks like Facebook, back on October 29th 2021. Um, that lists that with the truck business box LLC, you can have a complete trucking company package done for you. And it lists different tiers. Right, I believe there's four different tiers in the one you sent me. Tier one has the biggest deposit of $15,000. Tier two, a $7,500 initial deposit. Tier three, a five and tier four a 15. So which tier did you elect to do at that time?
Speaker 3:I selected the tier one, the $15,000 tier. Okay.
Speaker 2:And what were you? What was the differences in those tiers?
Speaker 3:With the tier one, you're the complete owner. If you got the tier two, three or four, you're sharing the company with someone else. So what you do is you chip in on a down payment.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you wanted to be just a solo owner and have her just get everything set up for you, correct?
Speaker 3:Right, I just needed additional trucks running under my LLC, so I can be my own fleet.
Speaker 2:Okay. So you also sent me over a copy of the contract and I'm going to pull that up real quick. So there was actual contract that was done between you and Truck Biz in a Box, correct, Right. And at the time of this contract it looks like you already had a truck company established.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:I had everything already. Okay, and that was Candy's Easy Trucking LLC.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, and how long had you had that LLC established before you decided to add a second truck 2020. So you had it for quite a while then.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I purchased his truck biz in a box October 2021. So I had my LLC for a while.
Speaker 2:So when you had established your LLC, had you already went ahead and filed for your employer ID number. So one of the first things that I noticed about the contract that you sent me, one of the first services that I noticed about the contract that you sent me, one of the first services that she offered actually was setting up the LLC.
Speaker 3:Right, that's if you didn't, it was part of the contract. But if you already had your LLC, that was okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So it did list a couple extra things with setting up the LLC Um, and she actually has the these listed out. So I just want to go over a couple of these um with you. Let me pull it up here. You have some little notes on it when you send it over to me. So the contract was pretty broad, but she had some schedules that went over the actual provisions of services. So the first one with that was to set up the LLC, which you already had to obtain corporate and file for the EIN. But you, you had all those steps already completed, correct, okay. The second thing that she offered was to establish business credit, that she would obtain a DUNS number for you and then apply for three net 30 trade lines.
Speaker 3:None of that happened. The only thing I know that Jeffress did was business credit. Well, she had a list up, one through something, of how you can get business credit, but she never gave us a business credit class or anything like that.
Speaker 2:Have you? Have you checked your business credit to see if you have any open lines that you aren't aware of?
Speaker 3:I got to look into that because I just started my business credit uh, my business profile years later after that's supposed to been included in truck bids in the box. So I just started mine and I'm also a mad boost member, so I have to go in there and look at everything and see so you you don't know if she established any credit lines yet to see if she applied for any credit in your name yet not yet, but I should be able to um look at my report now okay, but she didn't tell you she did.
Speaker 3:You didn't receive anything from her saying she had done anything no, if I gave her my fifteen thousand dollars, I didn't receive nothing but a contract and nothing she wanted. She wasn't even communicating with me after I gave her my money okay.
Speaker 2:So this contract, I mean it's pretty specific about what she's going to provide, but what it doesn't say, which I'm surprised because, um, it actually talks about the cost of trucks when you put that $15,000 out. I don't see in the contract where it specifies how that money is split up and how it's applied. What was your understanding of how that works? She?
Speaker 3:said that the down payment okay. So when we put down $15,000, I was supposed to get my truck, you know, a little faster, but in the contract she explained there's a balloon payout. So she was supposed to put down a percentage down on a truck and provide us a VIN number and then, once the truck get here, we're paying weekly on the truck and at the end of the three years we pay off the balloon payment on the truck okay, and I saw there was an exhibit in there that listed all the details of the truck, but it was blank there was never a truck right.
Speaker 2:So were you buying a used or a new truck?
Speaker 3:well, I was at that time, it was 2021. I was purchasing a 20 2018, I mean a 2018 or higher or newer?
Speaker 2:okay, and was she? Were you able to go to the? Were you supposed to be going to a dealership to pick this out or was she picking it out for you?
Speaker 3:she was supposed to put in the orders online, over line, and then they were supposed to have our trucks and I, llc, and she was post us, provide us with a VIN number and showing us this truck is under your LLC tells her.
Speaker 2:she told you a certain percentage of that was going to go towards the down payment on your truck, so she was supposed to give you training. She was supposed to set up your business. She's supposed to give you training. She was supposed to set up your business. She was supposed to get you a truck and obviously you can't have a business going without a truck. Right, okay, and you said that there was supposed to be additional training but you said you paid for those separate. Those were not included in this part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I paid for the dispatcher course and the owner operator boot camp additionally before I even purchased.
Speaker 2:Truck these in the box, okay yeah so when you got in here so you're all ready to go you're ready for the second truck. How much time did she tell you it would be before you got your truck? The contract say up to five months. Okay, so you could wait up to five. That's a long time to go by waiting for a truck. So what did you do from signing the contract for that first five months while you were waiting?
Speaker 3:Well, I was still running in the same truck I'm in now, but she had a list of who next. So when it came to five months like a couple of days before the next month where I was supposed to get my truck my name moved way to the back of the list.
Speaker 2:Okay, so was there any other things that you had to do on your contract or any other things that she did for you in that five months while you were waiting?
Speaker 3:No, it said in that five months while you were waiting. No, it's up to five months. So she when she advertised you can get away before that. So five months was the longest wait. So once she get the truck, it comes with a dispatcher, the brokers that come with a trailer also the trailer 10, 10, $100 a week or something like that. Um, it comes with everything set up, the drivers. You don't even have to try to find a driver, so what you're just doing is basically send back getting a check off of that truck coming in as the um owner okay, so you are sending her money and you already have your llc established, so she's not doing that.
Speaker 2:But you are sending her money and you already have your LLC established, so she's not doing that, but you were sending her money. She's going out, she's securing a truck for you, she's securing a driver, she's securing a dispatcher, she's doing all your paperwork, your IFTA, your fuel, um and she's managing the trucking company for you, right? And then, once she does the settlement statements, she's just supposed to send you the profit each week. Is that? Is that what you were doing?
Speaker 3:Yes, and she gave us a printout in the contract of what we will make a week after we paid a driver and all the things she got included that she's right the expected.
Speaker 2:So I mean you were paying her to be a truck manager for you and make it pretty stress-free for you, so it sounds like a pretty good deal. I mean I owned a trucking company, so I mean having somebody just do all that for me and send me a check seems easy. Breezy, lemon squeezy.
Speaker 3:Well, here's the thing when I was watching her advertising CDL for Life in the trucking group, I was watching and I was taking some of her courses, paying it myself, and I was listening to her while I'm driving. I wanted more trucks. She really dampered that. I haven't tried to get another truck since because I can't trust nobody, but was watching her advertise.
Speaker 3:And one time I went home off the road and it was late at night and I was like sitting on the couch watching tv and a commercial of the um, the DAT low board commercial came on and she was the face of it and I sat up. I was like she's really serious, this lady is really the true story. I see her advertising in a truck group and then I see her on a commercial. Now I'm really getting serious. So when I see on the DAT commercial I did start paying more attention to what she's saying and that's what made me invest in her, because I felt like they got her on this commercial of the biggest truck and load board. So you know, that's what made me put my trust in her, to do business with her and fall for this truck biz in the box.
Speaker 2:Okay, and I can see that I mean with her face being everywhere. When you approached us and I started researching this, I found her everywhere. I mean news articles, podcasts. So you know she was very and still is very active in the trucking community. She still has a group and so forth, and so you put your trust in this person and this company, so your hard-earned money's invested and now you're waiting for a truck. While you're waiting for the truck, what kind of communication did you receive from her?
Speaker 3:After you send her. The first time she called me is when I wired her the money. The second time she called me, while you trying to get your truck and waiting on your truck, is when the lawyer sent her a demand letter. The third time this lady ever called me is when I put my post on Facebook to tell my story. That's the only time she called me when she saw some kind of you know, action being taken. But other than that I never got nothing.
Speaker 3:And so one time I was on the road with this truck and it was an issue with my truck and I'm in a hotel for three weeks in Pennsylvania and I was paying hotel fee, my truck in the shop. I didn't know how much it was going to be to get it out, so I called her. No, I text her because she won't talk to you unless it's something important. She won't talk to you after you get your money, after you give her your money. So I text her. Can I get my money back? You know what she said called me, so I called her. I said, jeffers, I am in hotel for three weeks, my other truck is in the shop. Could you please get my $15,000 back? Is over a year I haven't received nothing all right, we'll get to that.
Speaker 2:Give us time to get some backstory here first. So so, before you signed the contract, how often was she in communication with you?
Speaker 3:Well, it wasn't that. She was in communication with me. She was advertising in a group, you know, and I was following her in the group listening. She'll go live all the time and then she'll get somebody to call in and tell how successful they. Truck bids in the box was Okay.
Speaker 2:So when you decided that you wanted to do, this and tell how successful they truck is in the box was okay. So when you decided that you wanted to do this and you reached out, you had zero communication with her um, yes, I contacted.
Speaker 3:I texted her when she said if you're interested if I've texted her before, I think but if you're interested, she don't really call you or contact you back until you say I want to purchase. But if you, hey, this is interesting, I'm interested. She probably won't contact you then. But when I said I'm ready to purchase, she called me immediately she called you immediately.
Speaker 2:Okay, and how many conversations do you think you had in that time frame between telling her you're ready and sending her the money?
Speaker 3:as soon as I text and said I'm ready, she called me and the transaction happened within an hour.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, that is quick.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I had been already watching her and in her group and following her and watching all the lives and everything.
Speaker 2:So you were ready.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you were ready.
Speaker 2:How did you send the money?
Speaker 3:Wire transfer. Wire transfer Well, I tried to send it from Chase and then I had to call them because they was like somebody's trying to spend this much out of your account. So they approved it and I sent it to her through my bank account.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you wired her and she sent the contract and then no more conversations after that, Nothing else. Okay, Did you text her checking up? Did you guys have weekly check-ins? How did that work?
Speaker 3:Yes, she had this private group of everybody who invested, but nothing was being shared. She was doing all this information and the only thing you see people saying is hey, I'm still waiting on my truck, when am I going to get my truck? And she got an excuse for everybody.
Speaker 2:So you guys were put into a private group and it was everybody that was waiting, so this was kind of like your holding spot, um. And then you had a list yes, of everybody, okay, and they're in their order of who was going to get a truck, and then, as people got a truck, their name came off the list um, I never seen nobody go in a group and say I actually got me a truck.
Speaker 3:All I know is I was following my company on that list and after five months as soon as it got ready to be five months my name went to, went down and I contacted her. I contacted her in the group, charmaine, and I text her too. My um, why did I get moved off the list? And she was like it must have been a mistake. I haven't changed, never changed it, so that five month came and turned to what three, four years now.
Speaker 2:Okay, so your name got moved. She says she didn't change it. You didn't get a truck. So how many times did you reach out before you were like I'm not getting a response and I'm going to have to seek counsel?
Speaker 3:Not many. I called her and told her I was in the hotel and my truck was in the shop. I want my investment back, back. And what she told me on that phone call is just give her two weeks and I got it recorded, um, at when we talked about everything, um, I didn't record it that day. But give her two weeks, she'll have me a brand new, because, you know, I supposed to got a 2018, but at this time I give you a 2024, brand new with team drivers in two weeks. So in two weeks I'm I'm asking where's the team drivers? And she was like give her a chance.
Speaker 3:She got some. You know how it is with trucking tesla, you and trucking. So then, next thing, you know, when she's supposed to gave me a truck, she posted and bragged about how many trucks she got herself. And then she posted some stuff she bought about a family member and at that time I started getting mad, you know. So I started seeking what I'm going to do, you know, to get my money back. This lady ain't giving me my money and the promises she keep giving, she's not following them.
Speaker 2:Okay. So she's promising and she's not delivering, so at this point you know she's made multiple promises to you. You haven't received a product, so you reached out to a lawyer yes, I did.
Speaker 3:And um, when I reached reached out to the lawyer, they needed all the evidence and they wanted to go to the contract because first they had to prove it was breached. And, um, they also wanted to look through it because they needed to know in the contract, if we go forward with the lawsuit, will jeffers have to pay for my lawsuit fees for suing her? So when she contacted me back she was like this contract was breached, let's sue her.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the lawyer told you that it was, in fact, a breach of contract.
Speaker 3:Right, and then she wrote me a demand letter. She charged me $1,500 for that, so I paid the $1,500.
Speaker 2:And magically, almost after two years, Jeffress called me Okay.
Speaker 3:And how'd that go? Just, I see your post on Facebook. Take it down. I promise I'll get you a truck and trailer, I'll sell your package, and if you take that down off of Facebook, so what?
Speaker 2:what does that mean? To sell your package?
Speaker 3:I don't understand how you sell a package she's saying that the fifteen thousand dollars I put down she'll trick somebody else to give fifteen thousand dollars to take over my truck and company. And how do you?
Speaker 2:how do you feel about somebody else being put in your same position?
Speaker 3:well, first, she told me I can go sell my package. I told her I'm not selling nothing. I gave you my money, you sell my package. So then it turned to okay, I'll sell it. So she told me, if I at this after, we don't argue for a while we stayed on the phone two hours. So, um, yeah. So when we got off the phone she called me three way hi, um, could you, this is such and such. Could you tell? Tells real scott, how we sold your package. Yeah, we sold my package in one week and I got all my money back. I said, okay, we'll sell it then. So a day later I see jeffers go live because I took the post down, remember? Because she said, did you?
Speaker 2:right. Did you record the phone call between you and her?
Speaker 3:permission to record it. Yes, and this, this, the shocker. I recorded her for two hours saying I'm sorry, let me make this right, um, I can get, um, I can sell your package or I can get a new truck with teams. And I told her it's almost two years right now I'm, I'm not falling for this, no more. So two days later she go live. One or two days later and she says the opposite of the whole phone conversation. And she also said in that live Tesla.
Speaker 3:Scott didn't get her money back because I started her LLC. I did all the background work on her business. I gave her the dispatch course free. I gave her. She gave me none of that. I already had my LLC in my company. I paid for the dispatch course. I paid for the boot camp course. Jefferson gave me nothing out of this deal, but she went live and she named all this stuff she gave me and saying bad things about me. I never said nothing bad about her. I just trusted in her when I saw on the commercial and then the cdl group advertising. But she went live and made it seem like I'm this bad person. Then I'm seeing all these people come in and she shouldn't get her money back if you did all this for her. That lady did nothing for me, but took my money and then I had to pay a lawyer $1,500. And then all this stuff, and then I paid for a PI Because I wanted you know to see what was going on with her.
Speaker 2:And this is where it really gets interesting, right. So about this time is also when you went public on Facebook and made your first post correct, right, right, correct. On Facebook and made your first post correct, right, right, correct. I pulled up some old podcasts and some old things that were discussing your initial claim. So then you get the PI, and what does the PI find?
Speaker 3:Wow, he found out. Well, he gave me what she lived. You know. He found out she bought an old boat in her boyfriend's name which we got a lot of ties of them doing business together. And let me tell you what she did. I had my post on Facebook. Everybody agreed with me on my side all these me too's I get a post from her boyfriend's name. Do anybody know the other um side of this story? So I post under that comment her and his name together on the contract to let her know this. You, you're the only one against what I'm showing because it's you. So when I just made a podcast, she's under my podcast under another name and I post under that comment to show her and that name together. So anybody who say something against me is hurt under somebody else. And I proved it both times, okay, but so you guy basically said that he can't find.
Speaker 3:Now she bought cars, trucks like F-150 truck, like that kind of truck Trucks several cars for her family members over this time. So when she got our money, he was able to show us she was buying cars for different family members and she posted a car with a bow on it on Facebook that she bought. And that's when I contacted her. Lord, y'all couldn't take it no more. Like you got brand. It's almost two years later you posting a brand new car you just post for one of your family members. So that's when I that's what pushed me to this lady ain't about to give you nothing. It's almost two years. She started buying stuff. You, I want to buy stuff with this money.
Speaker 2:I want to make money, I want to. I want to make money with my trucking company. So once you put your story out there, it blew up. And when I say blew up, you were not the only one that had the same story.
Speaker 3:Right, I got so many me too's and so many of us that you know got, and everybody had to show proof, like because I ain't wanted to be heard coming in and saying this me, so I wanted everybody to show proof, show your contracts, show, show text messages, whatever you got to show, and everybody had proof, okay.
Speaker 2:So you found out and did some research and she had how many different companies running at that same time? I think it's five or six, wasn't it? Yeah, so she was running under CDL for live truck biz in a box. It's a list, okay, and how many? How many affected investors do you think you're up to now in your group?
Speaker 3:Right now it's a good amount.
Speaker 2:It's probably like 20, something of us, almost 30 in the 20 numbers, because, yeah, and at this point, um, she never sold your investment, she never provided you a truck, um, and she did not follow through with any of the promises she made.
Speaker 3:Correct, no, she went live about me for two hours and blocked me, of course, but she unblocked me when she called me, but she blocked me back so on this recording.
Speaker 2:This recording has her saying she's going to do those things, but then she went live on social media and said the opposite. Is that what I'm hearing? Yes, okay, and now? So now you have to decide. What are you going to do next?
Speaker 3:well, what we're doing now is I'm going to have several coming on your podcast. We're going to put our story out in the news article and then we're going to also, with the help of people, go towards the FBI, the Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commissioner everywhere we put out complaints and see what's the stall on them looking into her. Because one thing about it with all of us we put down all this money and I'm on a $15,000 level. You got people who put in triple what I put in. We never received anything tax, nothing, document where our $15,000. I mean where my $15,000 or their amounts went. It just disappeared in her and the only thing she'll go live and say is we're just haters and she's boss lady. We just don't want to see her make it.
Speaker 2:No, we want our money back, okay so we have a group of investors who are claiming that shemaine jeffers, the founder of truck bids in a box, took large sums of money um from them for a contract that she never delivered upon. So at this point, if anybody feels that they are a victim or feels that they signed a contract that she did not deliver on, where can they reach out to you, tezra?
Speaker 3:Facebook Tezra Scott. I open up Messenger now so they can message me on messenger. I take it every day cuz I still get me twos. They see my complaint on LinkedIn and so you're on LinkedIn.
Speaker 2:I have your own profile. I know we we posted your video, but do you have a profile on LinkedIn?
Speaker 3:I have it, but I don't have it on there, but they contact me through y'all link.
Speaker 2:Okay, so um real woman in trucking um has a post on their LinkedIn um where you can also get in contact with Tezra Scott. Uh, in regards to uh this, so um, there are some litigations that have already concluded.
Speaker 3:I do believe um where different trucking companies went after truck biz in a box on their own before um, yes, she has eight cases against her now and they all won um breach contract and also I have one of the cases that went against her and paid all this money on lawyer fees and would like to also speak on your podcast to tell their story of how they got scammed and how they spent all that money on the lawyer and they haven't gotten nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we have multiple people that are going to be coming on this week to give their version of what happened, and we have people that are claiming upwards of $65,000 was invested and I know you guys at this point it's not just a civil, but you are looking to see if there are any criminal charges that can be filed as well.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Is that correct?
Speaker 3:Yes, criminal charges that can be filed as well. Yes, is that correct? Yes, um, it's so many criminal charges can be put against her in this whole situation. Where's my fifteen thousand dollars? What did you ever do with it? I got her recorded on the phone conversation saying she got our money in the secured spot. But then I got her going live saying that she said F us all. She just went to Jamaica to get high for a year with you know F us and the trucks and everything.
Speaker 2:And I was recording everything and that is sad, and do you feel taken advantage of it at this point?
Speaker 3:yes, because she still goes live and talk trash about the investors who, saying that she took their money. She talks down on us as if we the bad people you know after yeah, after idolizing her and you know what she had going.
Speaker 2:I mean that that has to be pretty devastating to spend this much time after somebody that you thought you could trust, um, to find out that you can't right, right.
Speaker 3:I was expecting, when I gave her that $15,000, up to five months, to start making that $2,000 and some dollars off of that truck, because that is reasonable, because I'm driving my truck and I know what I gross a week after you know expenses. So, after not getting that extra $2,000 a week and losing my $15,000 at the same time, I got a house built from the ground up. I'm thinking you know where's all this extra money I'm supposed to be getting? Like I was put against the wall and then my truck went in the shop for three weeks and I asked her for my money back and she promised me this and promised me that that lady didn't give me nothing and then blocked me. She blocked us all, everybody in this group blocked that's really professional for a business to block.
Speaker 2:I mean it's a handling business.
Speaker 3:She kick us out the group, she block us off her phone. So you got to imagine us over here blocked. We can't get in that group to tell everybody hey, hey, she's scamming people, she stole my money. Because she blocked you, you can't get back in. Okay, so this truck I don't want to tell on the business, but yeah, yeah, Okay. So I got an email with my VIN number and ordering a truck. When she claimed she ordered the truck for me and put my name down, I asked her where's the VIN number and ordering a truck. When she claimed she ordered the truck for me and put my name down, I asked her where's the VIN number? Where's the proof? None of that was shown to me. That's how I know it was a lie, Because if you said that you put down for a truck on a my LLC to a dealership the dealership even if I'm waiting on the truck, they will send out information with the VIN number. This truck is on the Candy ZZ Trucking LLC and that never happened.
Speaker 2:There is definitely.
Speaker 3:Yeah for me to have that order in the truck with Freightliner. I know it was a lie with her.
Speaker 2:If there's one thing with a trucking company I can definitely test you, that is the paper trail, because no matter what you do in trucking, there's a whole lot of paperwork that goes with it, right.
Speaker 3:I didn't see anything of what my $15,000 did.
Speaker 2:We will say that there were lots of moving parts to this puzzle. Each investor was affected in a different way. We will say that there were lots of moving parts to this puzzle. Each investor was affected in a different way. This was your story. There are stories where there were specific dealerships involved. I will say that, right With you, we don't have that paper trail. Right, right, right With you, we don't have that paper trail. But there are some where where there was actual Trucks involved and but not quite legit. Right, right, right. So is there anything else that you would like to put out there before we end today?
Speaker 3:there before we end today. I'm just um happy that you guys are helping us and I can't wait for the rest of the team to tell their stories because she really affected a lot of us. Like that was a lot of money for me. I didn't get that money from nowhere else. I didn't apply for nothing. I worked and saved it up. So when I'm watching her advertise and I see the commercial, I'm saving up this to the side because I'm about to get this up the truck. They're bringing this extra income. So when I didn't see that, I just want justice to be served, I wanted to be served and what I want out of this is, once justice be served, I want her to stop advertising because she's still advertising. I want her CDL for life truck company I mean on Facebook shut down because there's a lot of truckers in there who can't see our voice or hear our voice to not fall for what Charmaine Jeffers is doing in that group.
Speaker 2:So so you're saying she's still active, but when we did a search for her LLC's, they were all showing that they were inactive at this time. So what is she running this under? Um anybody know?
Speaker 3:she's telling them she's still doing all this stuff. She got brand new trucks, she the same thing she told us. So that's interesting, very interesting. So where's these trucks, where's this? It's just all a scam like. And then she go live and talk about the guy who just got caught and she talk about, you know, just bragging on how she ain't got caught.
Speaker 3:So that's what me and my team about to do. We about to recircle around everything. We're going to make sure we got everybody involved. We're going to contact the attorney general, the police department, the fbi, the federal trade commissioner, everybody. And we're going to contact the attorney general, the police department, the FBI, the federal trade commissioner, everybody, and we're going to get our voices heard. Like, everybody want to speak, everybody want to tell their story. You got people who went homeless, lost families, everything behind her, and I don't have any kids, but I still got affected. That $15,000, I could have did a lot and thinking I'm going to get this extra to do all this in the process of buying the house. It was hard for me, you know. And you can't reach her after she blocked you. You're back against the wall but you still see her advertising. You have to make up a fake page to see her advertising, to see all of this.
Speaker 2:And it's hurtful. You know, know, yes, and I can see where that is. I mean, even 15 000 is not chump change, um, and that that takes a pretty hard hit for most of us um out here that are working hard to make our money. So I don't think 15 000 is something we should take lightly by any means. Um so, tes, so Tezra, I want to thank you so much for voicing um the issue and having the courage to come forward and face all the backlash that you have gotten um from her for doing that. It took a lot of strength to do that and to put yourself out there, and I want to thank you for that, because not everybody has the courage to be that voice and what you have done is started a movement and you have given courage to a lot of people who weren't coming forward and we're just taking that hit. So thank you for that. If there's anybody who you are welcome.
Speaker 2:So this week we are going to have multiple stories about this situation going forward. Please stop and take a listen. If you know anybody affected, please pass on the information. Tezra's information you can find her on Facebook. With that we're going to end today. Everybody, have a safe day out there. It's beautiful here in Illinois after a couple days of nasty weather. So everybody, have a great day and thanks for tuning in to Truckin' with Tammy.
