February 10, 2025 • 42 mins
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 1 (00:00):
Hey girl, I see you've come a long, long way.
You're not alone anymore.
Come sit with me and tell me astory.
You've come a long way, girl,pulled yourself out of quite the
mess.
Those were some dark times backthen, but it's all over now.
(00:25):
You're not alone anymore.
Come sit with me and tell me astory.
This is trucking with tainty.
Way journey's heard and yourvoice is free.
You're not alone.
(00:45):
Come share your story with me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hi, this is Tammy with Truckin' with Tammy podcast
.
As I told you, this week wehave a whole series of investors
who have come forward withcomplaints against truck biz in
a box, who have come forwardwith complaints against truck
viz in a box.
In an industry where theAmerican dream often involves
the open road, a group ofhopeful investors find
(01:14):
themselves stuck at a legalcrossroads with their investment
in truck viz in a box.
We're talking investmentsranging from $15,000 to $65,000
each, and with the multiplebusiness owners now stepping
forward, it is shocking, to saythe least.
So Truck Vis in a Box isactually spearheaded by Shemaine
Jeffers.
She's promising an accessibleentry into the trucking industry
(01:37):
with the allure of thiscomprehensive support business
coaching, investor networking,business credit dispatching,
providing drivers and withJeffers being a truck driver and
former military police officerherself.
People are looking at thisventure as this transformative
(02:00):
opportunity, especially forthose without prior experience
in the field.
Prior experience in the field?
Wow, I'm tongue tied today.
So what's happening, though, isthis what's meant to be a
highway to success is actuallyturning out to be quite the
nightmare.
People aren't getting accordingto them, allegedly are not
(02:24):
receiving what she's selling,and now, instead of this
trucking company and financialsuccess.
There are legal disputes,lawyers and loss of money, loss
of revenue.
So the allegations arecentering around Jeffers'
(02:47):
failure to deliver on promisedservices, promised support,
promised returns on investment,and these investors are all now
banding together and they wantresolution.
They want Jeffers to pay theconsequences of that, and so
today we're going to hear fromTezra Scott.
(03:09):
She was the first one to speakup and put her complaint out
public and then the rest of theweek we are going to have
multiple other investors who arenow speaking up and coming out
to the public eye after Tezradid.
So stay with us.
You're actually going to seewhere me and Tezra had a live
(03:31):
stream of our conversationthat's going to follow up here.
Please listen.
If you know anybody that wasaffected of this, you can have
them reach out to Tezra Scottand, as always, before investing
money into any program, makesure you do your homework and
research.
(03:52):
Now I am going to put adisclaimer here that this
information provided to me isdirectly from the investors.
I have advised that they needto stick to the facts, that they
need to stick to the facts.
I have not talked to ShemaineJeffers at any point and we are
going to use the word allegedlyjust to keep us safe here.
So with me is Tezra Scott.
(04:14):
Tezra Scott is one of theinvestors who have went public
with the information about thebreaches of contracts.
So welcome Tezra.
Hello, so you are a truckdriver yourself, yes, okay, and
you had a truck that you weredriving and you already were on
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your own doing the truckingthing when you decided to
venture into the truck biz in abox premise yes, correct, okay,
okay.
So, um, I believe I saw that.
Uh, this went back to what 2021, 2022, 2020, 2021 all right.
So, tensor, if you wouldn't mindtelling us um about how you um
(05:02):
found truck biz in a box andwhat led you up to deciding to
take that approach?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, she owns the biggest trucking company called
CDL for Life and I was in herCDL for Life trucking group so I
already had my LLC in truck andrunning my trucking company.
So she was advertising that ifyou already got your own truck
and your truck driver, she canhelp you become a fleet manager
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and have your own fleet.
So what she was advertising isshe'll provide the truck, the
driver, the dispatcher, thebrokers, everything.
You just sit back and getanother truck off your other I
mean check off your other truckand then, once your truck is
running, you can always pullyour truck and just put it all
(05:55):
under one fleet.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But it still was under your LLC that you was
currently that I was currentlyrunning under Okay, and uh, you
sent me a copy of one of theadvertisements that Shemaine
Jeffers had posted, uh, on lookslike Facebook, back on October
29th 2021.
Um, that lists that with thetruck business box LLC, you can
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have a complete trucking companypackage done for you.
And it lists different tiers.
Right, I believe there's fourdifferent tiers in the one you
sent me.
Tier one has the biggestdeposit of $15,000.
Tier two, a $7,500 initialdeposit.
Tier three, a five and tierfour a 15.
(06:42):
So which tier did you elect todo at that time?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I selected the tier one, the $15,000 tier.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And what were you?
What was the differences inthose tiers?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With the tier one, you're the complete owner.
If you got the tier two, threeor four, you're sharing the
company with someone else.
So what you do is you chip inon a down payment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, so you wanted to be just a solo owner and have
her just get everything set upfor you, correct?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Right, I just needed additional trucks running under
my LLC, so I can be my own fleet.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay.
So you also sent me over a copyof the contract and I'm going
to pull that up real quick.
So there was actual contractthat was done between you and
Truck Biz in a Box, correct,Right.
And at the time of thiscontract it looks like you
already had a truck companyestablished.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I had everything already.
Okay, and that was Candy's EasyTrucking LLC.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Okay, and how long had you had that LLC established
before you decided to add asecond truck 2020.
So you had it for quite a whilethen.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, and I purchased his truck biz in a box October
2021.
So I had my LLC for a while.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So when you had established your LLC, had you
already went ahead and filed foryour employer ID number.
So one of the first things thatI noticed about the contract
that you sent me, one of thefirst services that I noticed
about the contract that you sentme, one of the first services
that she offered actually wassetting up the LLC.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
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 (08:41):
So it did list a couple extra things with setting
up the LLC Um, and she actuallyhas the these listed out.
So I just want to go over acouple of these um with you.
Let me pull it up here.
You have some little notes onit when you send it over to me.
(09:02):
So the contract was prettybroad, but she had some
schedules that went over theactual provisions of services.
So the first one with that wasto set up the LLC, which you
already had to obtain corporateand file for the EIN.
But you, you had all thosesteps already completed, correct
(09:24):
, okay.
The second thing that sheoffered was to establish
business credit, that she wouldobtain a DUNS number for you and
then apply for three net 30trade lines.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
None of that happened .
The only thing I know thatJeffress did was business credit
.
Well, she had a list up, onethrough something, of how you
can get business credit, but shenever gave us a business credit
class or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Have you?
Have you checked your businesscredit to see if you have any
open lines that you aren't awareof?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I got to look into that because I just started my
business credit uh, my businessprofile years later after that's
supposed to been included intruck bids in the box.
So I just started mine and I'malso a mad boost member, so I
have to go in there and look ateverything and see so you you
don't know if she establishedany credit lines yet to see if
(10:25):
she applied for any credit inyour name yet not yet, but I
should be able to um look at myreport now okay, but she didn't
tell you she did.
You didn't receive anything fromher saying she had done
anything no, if I gave her myfifteen thousand dollars, I
didn't receive nothing but acontract and nothing she wanted.
(10:47):
She wasn't even communicatingwith me after I gave her my
money okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So this contract, I mean it's pretty specific about
what she's going to provide, butwhat it doesn't say, which I'm
surprised because, um, itactually talks about the cost of
trucks when you put that$15,000 out.
I don't see in the contractwhere it specifies how that
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money is split up and how it'sapplied.
What was your understanding ofhow that works?
She?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
said that the down payment okay.
So when we put down $15,000, Iwas supposed to get my truck,
you know, a little faster, butin the contract she explained
there's a balloon payout.
So she was supposed to put downa percentage down on a truck
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and provide us a VIN number andthen, once the truck get here,
we're paying weekly on the truckand at the end of the three
years we pay off the balloonpayment on the truck okay, and I
saw there was an exhibit inthere that listed all the
details of the truck, but it wasblank there was never a truck
(12:09):
right.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So were you buying a used or a new truck?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
well, I was at that time, it was 2021.
I was purchasing a 20 2018, Imean a 2018 or higher or newer?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
okay, and was she?
Were you able to go to the?
Were you supposed to be goingto a dealership to pick this out
or was she picking it out foryou?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
she was supposed to put in the orders online, over
line, and then they weresupposed to have our trucks and
I, llc, and she was post us,provide us with a VIN number and
showing us this truck is underyour LLC tells her.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
she told you a certain percentage of that was
going to go towards the downpayment on your truck, so she
was supposed to give youtraining.
She was supposed to set up yourbusiness.
She's supposed to give youtraining.
She was supposed to set up yourbusiness.
She was supposed to get you atruck and obviously you can't
have a business going without atruck.
Right, okay, and you said thatthere was supposed to be
additional training but you saidyou paid for those separate.
(13:15):
Those were not included in thispart.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, well, I paid for the dispatcher course and
the owner operator boot campadditionally before I even
purchased.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Truck these in the box, okay yeah so when you got
in here so you're all ready togo you're ready for the second
truck.
How much time did she tell youit would be before you got your
truck?
The contract say up to fivemonths.
Okay, so you could wait up tofive.
That's a long time to go bywaiting for a truck.
(13:49):
So what did you do from signingthe contract for that first
five months while you werewaiting?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, I was still running in the same truck I'm in
now, but she had a list of whonext.
So when it came to five monthslike a couple of days before the
next month where I was supposedto get my truck my name moved
way to the back of the list.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, so was there any other things that you had to
do on your contract or anyother things that she did for
you in that five months whileyou were waiting?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, it said in that five months while you were
waiting.
No, it's up to five months.
So she when she advertised youcan get away before that.
So five months was the longestwait.
So once she get the truck, itcomes with a dispatcher, the
brokers that come with a traileralso the trailer 10, 10, $100 a
week or something like that.
(14:44):
Um, it comes with everythingset up, the drivers.
You don't even have to try tofind a driver, so what you're
just doing is basically sendback getting a check off of that
truck coming in as the um ownerokay, so you are sending her
money and you already have yourllc established, so she's not
doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But you are sending her money and you already have
your LLC established, so she'snot doing that, but you were
sending her money.
She's going out, she's securinga truck for you, she's securing
a driver, she's securing adispatcher, 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 thesettlement statements, she's
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just supposed to send you theprofit each week.
Is that?
Is that what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, and she gave us a printout in the contract of
what we will make a week afterwe paid a driver and all the
things she got included thatshe's right the expected.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So I mean you were paying her to be a truck manager
for you and make it prettystress-free for you, so it
sounds like a pretty good deal.
I mean I owned a truckingcompany, so I mean having
somebody just do all that for meand send me a check seems easy.
Breezy, lemon squeezy.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well, here's the thing when I was watching her
advertising CDL for Life in thetrucking group, I was watching
and I was taking some of hercourses, paying it myself, and I
was listening to her while I'mdriving.
I wanted more trucks.
She really dampered that.
I haven't tried to get anothertruck since because I can't
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trust nobody, but was watchingher advertise.
And one time I went home off theroad and it was late at night
and I was like sitting on thecouch watching tv and a
commercial of the um, the DATlow board commercial came on and
she was the face of it and Isat up.
I was like she's really serious, this lady is really the true
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story.
I see her advertising in atruck group and then I see her
on a commercial.
Now I'm really getting serious.
So when I see on the DATcommercial I did start paying
more attention to what she'ssaying and that's what made me
invest in her, because I feltlike they got her on this
commercial of the biggest truckand load board.
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So you know, that's what mademe put my trust in her, to do
business with her and fall forthis truck biz in the box.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okay, and I can see that I mean with her face being
everywhere.
When you approached us and Istarted researching this, I
found her everywhere.
I mean news articles, podcasts.
So you know she was very andstill is very active in the
trucking community.
She still has a group and soforth, and so you put your trust
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in this person and this company, so your hard-earned money's
invested and now you're waitingfor a truck.
While you're waiting for thetruck, what kind of
communication did you receivefrom her?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
After you send her.
The first time she called me iswhen 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 evercalled me is when I put my post
on Facebook to tell my story.
That's the only time she calledme when she saw some kind of
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you know, action being taken.
But other than that I never gotnothing.
And so one time I was on theroad with this truck and it was
an issue with my truck and I'min a hotel for three weeks in
Pennsylvania and I was payinghotel fee, my truck in the shop.
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I didn't know how much it wasgoing to be to get it out, so I
called her.
No, I text her because shewon't talk to you unless it's
something important.
She won't talk to you after youget your money, after you give
her your money.
So I text her.
Can I get my money back?
You know what she said calledme, so I called her.
I said, jeffers, I am in hotelfor three weeks, my other truck
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is in the shop.
Could you please get my $15,000back?
Is over a year I haven'treceived nothing all right,
we'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Give us time to get some backstory here first.
So so, before you signed thecontract, how often was she in
communication with you?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, it wasn't that.
She was in communication withme.
She was advertising in a group,you know, and I was following
her in the group listening.
She'll go live all the time andthen she'll get somebody to
call in and tell how successfulthey.
Truck bids in the box was Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So when you decided that you wanted to do, this and
tell how successful they truckis in the box was okay.
So when you decided that youwanted to do this and you
reached out, you had zerocommunication with her um, yes,
I contacted.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I texted her when she said if you're interested if
I've texted her before, I thinkbut if you're interested, she
don't really call you or contactyou back until you say I want
to purchase.
But if you, hey, this isinteresting, I'm interested.
She probably won't contact youthen.
But when I said I'm ready topurchase, she called me
(19:51):
immediately she called youimmediately.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay, and how many conversations do you think you
had in that time frame betweentelling her you're ready and
sending her the money?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
as soon as I text and said I'm ready, she called me
and the transaction happenedwithin an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh wow, that is quick .
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, but I had been already watching her and in her
group and following her andwatching all the lives and
everything.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So you were ready.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, you were ready.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How did you send the money?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Wire transfer.
Wire transfer Well, I tried tosend it from Chase and then I
had to call them because theywas like somebody's trying to
spend this much out of youraccount.
So they approved it and I sentit to her through my bank
account.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, so you wired her and she sent the contract
and then no more conversationsafter that, Nothing else.
Okay, Did you text her checkingup?
Did you guys have weeklycheck-ins?
How did that work?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yes, she had this private group of everybody who
invested, but nothing was beingshared.
She was doing all thisinformation 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 foreverybody.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So you guys were put into a private group and it was
everybody that was waiting, sothis was kind of like your
holding spot, um.
And then you had a list yes, ofeverybody, okay, and they're in
their order of who was going toget a truck, and then, as
people got a truck, their namecame off the list um, I never
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seen nobody go in a group andsay I actually got me a truck.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
All I know is I was following my company on that
list and after five months assoon as it got ready to be five
months my name went to, wentdown and I contacted her.
I contacted her in the group,charmaine, and I text her too.
My um, why did I get moved offthe list?
And she was like it must havebeen a mistake.
(21:53):
I haven't changed, neverchanged it, so that five month
came and turned to what three,four years now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
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 reachout before you were like I'm
not getting a response and I'mgoing to have to seek counsel?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Not many.
I called her and told her I wasin the hotel and my truck was
in the shop.
I want my investment back, back.
And what she told me on thatphone call is just give her two
weeks and I got it recorded, um,at when we talked about
everything, um, I didn't recordit that day.
But give her two weeks, she'llhave me a brand new, because,
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you know, I supposed to got a2018, but at this time I give
you a 2024, brand new with teamdrivers in two weeks.
So in two weeks I'm I'm askingwhere's the team drivers?
And she was like give her achance.
She got some.
You know how it is withtrucking tesla, you and trucking
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.
So then, next thing, you know,when she's supposed to gave me a
truck, she posted and braggedabout how many trucks she got
herself.
And then she posted some stuffshe bought about a family member
and at that time I startedgetting mad, you know.
So I started seeking what I'mgoing to do, you know, to get my
money back.
This lady ain't giving me mymoney and the promises she keep
(23:28):
giving, she's not following them.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay.
So she's promising and she'snot delivering, so at this point
you know she's made multiplepromises to you.
You haven't received a product,so you reached out to a lawyer
yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And um, when I reached reached out to the
lawyer, they needed all theevidence and they wanted to go
to the contract because firstthey had to prove it was
breached.
And, um, they also wanted tolook through it because they
needed to know in the contract,if we go forward with the
lawsuit, will jeffers have topay for my lawsuit fees for
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suing her?
So when she contacted me backshe was like this contract was
breached, let's sue her.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, so the lawyer told you that it was, in fact, a
breach of contract.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Right, and then she wrote me a demand letter.
She charged me $1,500 for that,so I paid the $1,500.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And magically, almost after two years, Jeffress
called me Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And how'd that go?
Just, I see your post onFacebook.
Take it down.
I promise I'll get you a truckand trailer, I'll sell your
package, and if you take thatdown off of Facebook, so what?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
what does that mean?
To sell your package?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't understand how you sell a package she's
saying that the fifteen thousanddollars I put down she'll trick
somebody else to give fifteenthousand dollars to take over my
truck and company.
And how do you?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
how do you feel about somebody else being put in your
same position?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
well, first, she told me I can go sell my package.
I told her I'm not sellingnothing.
I gave you my money, you sellmy package.
So then it turned to okay, I'llsell it.
So she told me, if I at thisafter, we don't argue for a
while we stayed on the phone twohours.
So, um, yeah.
So when we got off the phoneshe called me three way hi, um,
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could you, this is such and such.
Could you tell?
Tells real scott, how we soldyour package.
Yeah, we sold my package in oneweek and I got all my money
back.
I said, okay, we'll sell itthen.
So a day later I see jeffers golive because I took the post
down, remember?
Because she said, did you?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
right.
Did you record the phone callbetween you and her?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
permission to record it.
Yes, and this, this, theshocker.
I recorded her for two hourssaying I'm sorry, let me make
this right, um, I can get, um, Ican sell your package or I can
get a new truck with teams.
And I told her it's almost twoyears right now I'm, I'm not
falling for this, no more.
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So two days later she go live.
One or two days later and shesays the opposite of the whole
phone conversation.
And she also said in that liveTesla.
Scott didn't get her money backbecause I started her LLC.
I did all the background workon her business.
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I gave her the dispatch coursefree.
I gave her.
She gave me none of that.
I already had my LLC in mycompany.
I paid for the dispatch course.
I paid for the boot camp course.
Jefferson gave me nothing outof this deal, but she went live
and she named all this stuff shegave me and saying bad things
(26:49):
about me.
I never said nothing bad abouther.
I just trusted in her when Isaw on the commercial and then
the cdl group advertising.
But she went live and made itseem like I'm this bad person.
Then I'm seeing all thesepeople come in and she shouldn't
get her money back if you didall this for her.
That lady did nothing for me,but took my money and then I had
(27:10):
to pay a lawyer $1,500.
And then all this stuff, andthen I paid for a PI Because I
wanted you know to see what wasgoing on with her.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And this is where it really gets interesting, right.
So about this time is also whenyou went public on Facebook and
made your first post correct,right, right, correct.
On Facebook and made your firstpost correct, right, right,
correct.
I pulled up some old podcastsand some old things that were
discussing your initial claim.
So then you get the PI, andwhat does the PI find?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wow, he found out.
Well, he gave me what she lived.
You know.
He found out she bought an oldboat in her boyfriend's name
which we got a lot of ties ofthem doing business together.
And let me tell you what shedid.
I had my post on Facebook.
Everybody agreed with me on myside all these me too's I get a
(28:05):
post from her boyfriend's name.
Do anybody know the other umside of this story?
So I post under that commenther and his name together on the
contract to let her know this.
You, you're the only oneagainst what I'm showing because
it's you.
So when I just made a podcast,she's under my podcast under
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another name and I post underthat comment to show her and
that name together.
So anybody who say somethingagainst me is hurt under
somebody else.
And I proved it both times,okay, but so you guy basically
said that he can't find.
Now she bought cars, trucks likeF-150 truck, like that kind of
(28:52):
truck Trucks several cars forher family members over this
time.
So when she got our money, hewas able to show us she was
buying cars for different familymembers and she posted a car
with a bow on it on Facebookthat she bought.
And that's when I contacted her.
Lord, y'all couldn't take it nomore.
Like you got brand.
It's almost two years later youposting a brand new car you
(29:14):
just post for one of your familymembers.
So that's when I that's whatpushed 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 withthis money.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I want to make money, I want to.
I want to make money with mytrucking company.
So once you put your story outthere, it blew up.
And when I say blew up, youwere not the only one that had
the same story.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Right, I got so many me too's and so many of us that
you know got, and everybody hadto show proof, like because I
ain't wanted to be heard comingin and saying this me, so I
wanted everybody to show proof,show your contracts, show, show
(30:00):
text messages, whatever you gotto show, and everybody had proof
, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So you found out and did some research and she had
how many different companiesrunning at that same time?
I think it's five or six,wasn't it?
Yeah, so she was running underCDL for live truck biz in a box.
It's a list, okay, and how many?
(30:24):
How many affected investors doyou think you're up to now in
your group?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Right now it's a good amount.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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 neverprovided you a truck, um, and
she did not follow through withany of the promises she made.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Correct, no, she went live about me for two hours and
blocked me, of course, but sheunblocked me when she called me,
but she blocked me back so onthis recording.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
This recording has her saying she's going to do
those things, but then she wentlive 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 (31:23):
well, what we're doing now is I'm going to have
several coming on your podcast.
We're going to put our storyout in the news article and then
we're going to also, with thehelp of people, go towards the
FBI, the Attorney General, theFederal Trade Commissioner
everywhere we put out complaintsand see what's the stall on
(31:45):
them looking into her.
Because one thing about it withall of us we put down all this
money and I'm on a $15,000 level.
You got people who put intriple what I put in.
We never received anything tax,nothing, document where our
$15,000.
I mean where my $15,000 ortheir amounts went.
(32:08):
It just disappeared in her andthe only thing she'll go live
and say is we're just haters andshe's boss lady.
We just don't want to see hermake it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No, we want our money back, okay so we have a group
of investors who are claimingthat shemaine jeffers, the
founder of truck bids in a box,took large sums of money um from
them for a contract that shenever delivered upon.
So at this point, if anybodyfeels that they are a victim or
(32:41):
feels that they signed acontract that she did not
deliver on, where can they reachout to you, tezra?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Facebook Tezra Scott.
I open up Messenger now so theycan message me on messenger.
I take it every day cuz I stillget me twos.
They see my complaint onLinkedIn and so you're on
LinkedIn.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I have your own profile.
I know we we posted your video,but do you have a profile on
LinkedIn?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I have it, but I don't have it on there, but they
contact me through y'all link.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, so um real woman in trucking um has a post
on their LinkedIn um where youcan also get in contact with
Tezra Scott.
Uh, in regards to uh this, soum, there are some litigations
that have already concluded.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I do believe um where different trucking companies
went after truck biz in a box ontheir own before um, yes, she
has eight cases against her nowand they all won um breach
contract and also I have one ofthe cases that went against her
(33:58):
and paid all this money onlawyer fees and would like to
also speak on your podcast totell their story of how they got
scammed and how they spent allthat money on the lawyer and
they haven't gotten nothing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, and we have multiple people that are going
to be coming on this week togive their version of what
happened, and we have peoplethat are claiming upwards of
$65,000 was invested and I knowyou guys at this point it's not
just a civil, but you arelooking to see if there are any
criminal charges that can befiled as well.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yes, criminal charges that can be filed as well.
Yes, is that correct?
Yes, um, it's so many criminalcharges can be put against her
in this whole situation.
Where's my fifteen thousanddollars?
What did you ever do with it?
I got her recorded on the phoneconversation saying she got our
money in the secured spot.
But then I got her going livesaying that she said F us all.
She just went to Jamaica to gethigh for a year with you know F
us and the trucks andeverything.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
And I was recording everything and that is sad, and
do you feel taken advantage ofit at this point?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
yes, because she still goes live and talk trash
about the investors who, sayingthat she took their money.
She talks down on us as if wethe bad people you know after
yeah, after idolizing her andyou know what she had going.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I mean that that has to be pretty devastating to
spend this much time aftersomebody that you thought you
could trust, um, to find outthat you can't right, right.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I was expecting, when I gave her that $15,000, up to
five months, to start makingthat $2,000 and some dollars off
of that truck, because that isreasonable, because I'm driving
my truck and I know what I grossa week after you know expenses.
So, after not getting thatextra $2,000 a week and losing
(35:56):
my $15,000 at the same time, Igot a house built from the
ground up.
I'm thinking you know where'sall this extra money I'm
supposed to be getting?
Like I was put against the walland then my truck went in the
shop for three weeks and I askedher for my money back and she
promised me this and promised methat that lady didn't give me
nothing and then blocked me.
(36:17):
She blocked us all, everybodyin this group blocked that's
really professional for abusiness to block.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I mean it's a handling business.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
She kick us out the group, she block us off her
phone.
So you got to imagine us overhere blocked.
We can't get in that group totell everybody hey, hey, she's
scamming people, she stole mymoney.
Because she blocked you, youcan't get back in.
Okay, so this truck I don'twant to tell on the business,
but yeah, yeah, Okay.
So I got an email with my VINnumber and ordering a truck.
(36:52):
When she claimed she orderedthe truck for me and put my name
down, I asked her where's theVIN number and ordering a truck.
When she claimed she orderedthe truck for me and put my name
down, I asked her where's theVIN 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 LLCto a dealership the dealership
(37:13):
even if I'm waiting on the truck, they will send out information
with the VIN number.
This truck is on the Candy ZZTrucking LLC and that never
happened.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
There is definitely.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah for me to have that order in the truck with
Freightliner.
I know it was a lie with her.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
If there's one thing with a trucking company I can
definitely test you, that is thepaper trail, because no matter
what you do in trucking, there'sa whole lot of paperwork that
goes with it, right.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
I didn't see anything of what my $15,000 did.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
We will say that there were lots of moving parts
to this puzzle.
Each investor was affected in adifferent way.
We will say that there werelots of moving parts to this
puzzle.
Each investor was affected in adifferent way.
This was your story.
There are stories where therewere specific dealerships
involved.
I will say that, right With you, we don't have that paper trail
(38:13):
.
Right, right, right With you,we don't have that paper trail.
But there are some where wherethere was actual Trucks involved
and but not quite legit.
Right, right, right.
So is there anything else thatyou would like to put out there
before we end today?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
there before we end today.
I'm just um happy that you guysare helping us and I can't wait
for the rest of the team totell their stories because she
really affected a lot of us.
Like that was a lot of moneyfor me.
I didn't get that money fromnowhere else.
I didn't apply for nothing.
I worked and saved it up.
So when I'm watching heradvertise and I see the
commercial, I'm saving up thisto the side because I'm about to
get this up the truck.
They're bringing this extraincome.
(38:58):
So when I didn't see that, Ijust want justice to be served,
I wanted to be served and what Iwant out of this is, once
justice be served, I want her tostop advertising because she's
still advertising.
I want her CDL for life truckcompany I mean on Facebook shut
down because there's a lot oftruckers in there who can't see
(39:20):
our voice or hear our voice tonot fall for what Charmaine
Jeffers is doing in that group.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
So so you're saying she's still active, but when we
did a search for her LLC's, theywere all showing that they were
inactive at this time.
So what is she running thisunder?
Um anybody know?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
she's telling them she's still doing all this stuff
.
She got brand new trucks, shethe same thing she told us.
So that's interesting, veryinteresting.
So where's these trucks,where's this?
It's just all a scam like.
And then she go live and talkabout the guy who just got
caught and she talk about, youknow, just bragging on how she
(40:01):
ain't got caught.
So that's what me and my teamabout to do.
We about to recircle aroundeverything.
We're going to make sure we goteverybody involved.
We're going to contact theattorney general, the police
department, the fbi, the federaltrade commissioner, everybody.
And we're going to contact theattorney general, the police
department, the FBI, the federaltrade commissioner, everybody,
and we're going to get ourvoices heard.
Like, everybody want to speak,everybody want to tell their
story.
You got people who wenthomeless, lost families,
(40:23):
everything behind her, and Idon't have any kids, but I still
got affected.
That $15,000, I could have dida lot and thinking I'm going to
get this extra to do all this inthe process of buying the house
.
It was hard for me, you know.
And you can't reach her aftershe blocked you.
You're back against the wallbut you still see her
(40:47):
advertising.
You have to make up a fake pageto see her advertising, to see
all of this.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
And it's hurtful.
You know, know, yes, and I cansee where that is.
I mean, even 15 000 is notchump change, um, and that that
takes a pretty hard hit for mostof us um out here that are
working hard to make our money.
So I don't think 15 000 issomething we should take lightly
by any means.
Um so, tes, so Tezra, I want tothank you so much for voicing
(41:18):
um the issue and having thecourage to come forward and face
all the backlash that you havegotten um from her for doing
that.
It took a lot of strength to dothat and to put yourself out
there, and I want to thank youfor that, because not everybody
has the courage to be that voiceand what you have done is
(41:38):
started a movement and you havegiven courage to a lot of people
who weren't coming forward andwe're just taking that hit.
So thank you for that.
If there's anybody who you arewelcome.
So this week we are going tohave multiple stories about this
situation going forward.
Please stop and take a listen.
If you know anybody affected,please pass on the information.
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Tezra's information you canfind her on Facebook.
With that we're going to endtoday.
Everybody, have a safe day outthere.
It's beautiful here in Illinoisafter a couple days of nasty
weather.
So everybody, have a great dayand thanks for tuning in to
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(00:25):
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Come share your story with me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hi, this is Tammy with Truckin' with Tammy podcast
.
As I told you, this week wehave a whole series of investors
who have come forward withcomplaints against truck biz in
a box, who have come forwardwith complaints against truck
viz in a box.
In an industry where theAmerican dream often involves
the open road, a group ofhopeful investors find
(01:14):
themselves stuck at a legalcrossroads with their investment
in truck viz in a box.
We're talking investmentsranging from $15,000 to $65,000
each, and with the multiplebusiness owners now stepping
forward, it is shocking, to saythe least.
So Truck Vis in a Box isactually spearheaded by Shemaine
Jeffers.
She's promising an accessibleentry into the trucking industry
(01:37):
with the allure of thiscomprehensive support business
coaching, investor networking,business credit dispatching,
providing drivers and withJeffers being a truck driver and
former military police officerherself.
People are looking at thisventure as this transformative
(02:00):
opportunity, especially forthose without prior experience
in the field.
Prior experience in the field?
Wow, I'm tongue tied today.
So what's happening, though, isthis what's meant to be a
highway to success is actuallyturning out to be quite the
nightmare.
People aren't getting accordingto them, allegedly are not
(02:24):
receiving what she's selling,and now, instead of this
trucking company and financialsuccess.
There are legal disputes,lawyers and loss of money, loss
of revenue.
So the allegations arecentering around Jeffers'
(02:47):
failure to deliver on promisedservices, promised support,
promised returns on investment,and these investors are all now
banding together and they wantresolution.
They want Jeffers to pay theconsequences of that, and so
today we're going to hear fromTezra Scott.
(03:09):
She was the first one to speakup and put her complaint out
public and then the rest of theweek we are going to have
multiple other investors who arenow speaking up and coming out
to the public eye after Tezradid.
So stay with us.
You're actually going to seewhere me and Tezra had a live
(03:31):
stream of our conversationthat's going to follow up here.
Please listen.
If you know anybody that wasaffected of this, you can have
them reach out to Tezra Scottand, as always, before investing
money into any program, makesure you do your homework and
research.
(03:52):
Now I am going to put adisclaimer here that this
information provided to me isdirectly from the investors.
I have advised that they needto stick to the facts, that they
need to stick to the facts.
I have not talked to ShemaineJeffers at any point and we are
going to use the word allegedlyjust to keep us safe here.
So with me is Tezra Scott.
(04:14):
Tezra Scott is one of theinvestors who have went public
with the information about thebreaches of contracts.
So welcome Tezra.
Hello, so you are a truckdriver yourself, yes, okay, and
you had a truck that you weredriving and you already were on
(04:37):
your own doing the truckingthing when you decided to
venture into the truck biz in abox premise yes, correct, okay,
okay.
So, um, I believe I saw that.
Uh, this went back to what 2021, 2022, 2020, 2021 all right.
So, tensor, if you wouldn't mindtelling us um about how you um
(05:02):
found truck biz in a box andwhat led you up to deciding to
take that approach?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, she owns the biggest trucking company called
CDL for Life and I was in herCDL for Life trucking group so I
already had my LLC in truck andrunning my trucking company.
So she was advertising that ifyou already got your own truck
and your truck driver, she canhelp you become a fleet manager
(05:32):
and have your own fleet.
So what she was advertising isshe'll provide the truck, the
driver, the dispatcher, thebrokers, everything.
You just sit back and getanother truck off your other I
mean check off your other truckand then, once your truck is
running, you can always pullyour truck and just put it all
(05:55):
under one fleet.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But it still was under your LLC that you was
currently that I was currentlyrunning under Okay, and uh, you
sent me a copy of one of theadvertisements that Shemaine
Jeffers had posted, uh, on lookslike Facebook, back on October
29th 2021.
Um, that lists that with thetruck business box LLC, you can
(06:20):
have a complete trucking companypackage done for you.
And it lists different tiers.
Right, I believe there's fourdifferent tiers in the one you
sent me.
Tier one has the biggestdeposit of $15,000.
Tier two, a $7,500 initialdeposit.
Tier three, a five and tierfour a 15.
(06:42):
So which tier did you elect todo at that time?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I selected the tier one, the $15,000 tier.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And what were you?
What was the differences inthose tiers?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With the tier one, you're the complete owner.
If you got the tier two, threeor four, you're sharing the
company with someone else.
So what you do is you chip inon a down payment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, so you wanted to be just a solo owner and have
her just get everything set upfor you, correct?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Right, I just needed additional trucks running under
my LLC, so I can be my own fleet.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay.
So you also sent me over a copyof the contract and I'm going
to pull that up real quick.
So there was actual contractthat was done between you and
Truck Biz in a Box, correct,Right.
And at the time of thiscontract it looks like you
already had a truck companyestablished.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I had everything already.
Okay, and that was Candy's EasyTrucking LLC.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Okay, and how long had you had that LLC established
before you decided to add asecond truck 2020.
So you had it for quite a whilethen.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, and I purchased his truck biz in a box October
2021.
So I had my LLC for a while.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So when you had established your LLC, had you
already went ahead and filed foryour employer ID number.
So one of the first things thatI noticed about the contract
that you sent me, one of thefirst services that I noticed
about the contract that you sentme, one of the first services
that she offered actually wassetting up the LLC.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
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 (08:41):
So it did list a couple extra things with setting
up the LLC Um, and she actuallyhas the these listed out.
So I just want to go over acouple of these um with you.
Let me pull it up here.
You have some little notes onit when you send it over to me.
(09:02):
So the contract was prettybroad, but she had some
schedules that went over theactual provisions of services.
So the first one with that wasto set up the LLC, which you
already had to obtain corporateand file for the EIN.
But you, you had all thosesteps already completed, correct
(09:24):
, okay.
The second thing that sheoffered was to establish
business credit, that she wouldobtain a DUNS number for you and
then apply for three net 30trade lines.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
None of that happened .
The only thing I know thatJeffress did was business credit
.
Well, she had a list up, onethrough something, of how you
can get business credit, but shenever gave us a business credit
class or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Have you?
Have you checked your businesscredit to see if you have any
open lines that you aren't awareof?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I got to look into that because I just started my
business credit uh, my businessprofile years later after that's
supposed to been included intruck bids in the box.
So I just started mine and I'malso a mad boost member, so I
have to go in there and look ateverything and see so you you
don't know if she establishedany credit lines yet to see if
(10:25):
she applied for any credit inyour name yet not yet, but I
should be able to um look at myreport now okay, but she didn't
tell you she did.
You didn't receive anything fromher saying she had done
anything no, if I gave her myfifteen thousand dollars, I
didn't receive nothing but acontract and nothing she wanted.
(10:47):
She wasn't even communicatingwith me after I gave her my
money okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So this contract, I mean it's pretty specific about
what she's going to provide, butwhat it doesn't say, which I'm
surprised because, um, itactually talks about the cost of
trucks when you put that$15,000 out.
I don't see in the contractwhere it specifies how that
(11:15):
money is split up and how it'sapplied.
What was your understanding ofhow that works?
She?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
said that the down payment okay.
So when we put down $15,000, Iwas supposed to get my truck,
you know, a little faster, butin the contract she explained
there's a balloon payout.
So she was supposed to put downa percentage down on a truck
(11:44):
and provide us a VIN number andthen, once the truck get here,
we're paying weekly on the truckand at the end of the three
years we pay off the balloonpayment on the truck okay, and I
saw there was an exhibit inthere that listed all the
details of the truck, but it wasblank there was never a truck
(12:09):
right.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So were you buying a used or a new truck?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
well, I was at that time, it was 2021.
I was purchasing a 20 2018, Imean a 2018 or higher or newer?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
okay, and was she?
Were you able to go to the?
Were you supposed to be goingto a dealership to pick this out
or was she picking it out foryou?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
she was supposed to put in the orders online, over
line, and then they weresupposed to have our trucks and
I, llc, and she was post us,provide us with a VIN number and
showing us this truck is underyour LLC tells her.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
she told you a certain percentage of that was
going to go towards the downpayment on your truck, so she
was supposed to give youtraining.
She was supposed to set up yourbusiness.
She's supposed to give youtraining.
She was supposed to set up yourbusiness.
She was supposed to get you atruck and obviously you can't
have a business going without atruck.
Right, okay, and you said thatthere was supposed to be
additional training but you saidyou paid for those separate.
(13:15):
Those were not included in thispart.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, well, I paid for the dispatcher course and
the owner operator boot campadditionally before I even
purchased.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Truck these in the box, okay yeah so when you got
in here so you're all ready togo you're ready for the second
truck.
How much time did she tell youit would be before you got your
truck?
The contract say up to fivemonths.
Okay, so you could wait up tofive.
That's a long time to go bywaiting for a truck.
(13:49):
So what did you do from signingthe contract for that first
five months while you werewaiting?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, I was still running in the same truck I'm in
now, but she had a list of whonext.
So when it came to five monthslike a couple of days before the
next month where I was supposedto get my truck my name moved
way to the back of the list.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, so was there any other things that you had to
do on your contract or anyother things that she did for
you in that five months whileyou were waiting?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, it said in that five months while you were
waiting.
No, it's up to five months.
So she when she advertised youcan get away before that.
So five months was the longestwait.
So once she get the truck, itcomes with a dispatcher, the
brokers that come with a traileralso the trailer 10, 10, $100 a
week or something like that.
(14:44):
Um, it comes with everythingset up, the drivers.
You don't even have to try tofind a driver, so what you're
just doing is basically sendback getting a check off of that
truck coming in as the um ownerokay, so you are sending her
money and you already have yourllc established, so she's not
doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But you are sending her money and you already have
your LLC established, so she'snot doing that, but you were
sending her money.
She's going out, she's securinga truck for you, she's securing
a driver, she's securing adispatcher, 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 thesettlement statements, she's
(15:21):
just supposed to send you theprofit each week.
Is that?
Is that what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, and she gave us a printout in the contract of
what we will make a week afterwe paid a driver and all the
things she got included thatshe's right the expected.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So I mean you were paying her to be a truck manager
for you and make it prettystress-free for you, so it
sounds like a pretty good deal.
I mean I owned a truckingcompany, so I mean having
somebody just do all that for meand send me a check seems easy.
Breezy, lemon squeezy.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well, here's the thing when I was watching her
advertising CDL for Life in thetrucking group, I was watching
and I was taking some of hercourses, paying it myself, and I
was listening to her while I'mdriving.
I wanted more trucks.
She really dampered that.
I haven't tried to get anothertruck since because I can't
(16:19):
trust nobody, but was watchingher advertise.
And one time I went home off theroad and it was late at night
and I was like sitting on thecouch watching tv and a
commercial of the um, the DATlow board commercial came on and
she was the face of it and Isat up.
I was like she's really serious, this lady is really the true
(16:42):
story.
I see her advertising in atruck group and then I see her
on a commercial.
Now I'm really getting serious.
So when I see on the DATcommercial I did start paying
more attention to what she'ssaying and that's what made me
invest in her, because I feltlike they got her on this
commercial of the biggest truckand load board.
(17:03):
So you know, that's what mademe put my trust in her, to do
business with her and fall forthis truck biz in the box.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okay, and I can see that I mean with her face being
everywhere.
When you approached us and Istarted researching this, I
found her everywhere.
I mean news articles, podcasts.
So you know she was very andstill is very active in the
trucking community.
She still has a group and soforth, and so you put your trust
(17:34):
in this person and this company, so your hard-earned money's
invested and now you're waitingfor a truck.
While you're waiting for thetruck, what kind of
communication did you receivefrom her?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
After you send her.
The first time she called me iswhen 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 evercalled me is when I put my post
on Facebook to tell my story.
That's the only time she calledme when she saw some kind of
(18:08):
you know, action being taken.
But other than that I never gotnothing.
And so one time I was on theroad with this truck and it was
an issue with my truck and I'min a hotel for three weeks in
Pennsylvania and I was payinghotel fee, my truck in the shop.
(18:28):
I didn't know how much it wasgoing to be to get it out, so I
called her.
No, I text her because shewon't talk to you unless it's
something important.
She won't talk to you after youget your money, after you give
her your money.
So I text her.
Can I get my money back?
You know what she said calledme, so I called her.
I said, jeffers, I am in hotelfor three weeks, my other truck
(18:50):
is in the shop.
Could you please get my $15,000back?
Is over a year I haven'treceived nothing all right,
we'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Give us time to get some backstory here first.
So so, before you signed thecontract, how often was she in
communication with you?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, it wasn't that.
She was in communication withme.
She was advertising in a group,you know, and I was following
her in the group listening.
She'll go live all the time andthen she'll get somebody to
call in and tell how successfulthey.
Truck bids in the box was Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So when you decided that you wanted to do, this and
tell how successful they truckis in the box was okay.
So when you decided that youwanted to do this and you
reached out, you had zerocommunication with her um, yes,
I contacted.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I texted her when she said if you're interested if
I've texted her before, I thinkbut if you're interested, she
don't really call you or contactyou back until you say I want
to purchase.
But if you, hey, this isinteresting, I'm interested.
She probably won't contact youthen.
But when I said I'm ready topurchase, she called me
(19:51):
immediately she called youimmediately.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay, and how many conversations do you think you
had in that time frame betweentelling her you're ready and
sending her the money?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
as soon as I text and said I'm ready, she called me
and the transaction happenedwithin an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh wow, that is quick .
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, but I had been already watching her and in her
group and following her andwatching all the lives and
everything.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So you were ready.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, you were ready.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How did you send the money?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Wire transfer.
Wire transfer Well, I tried tosend it from Chase and then I
had to call them because theywas like somebody's trying to
spend this much out of youraccount.
So they approved it and I sentit to her through my bank
account.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, so you wired her and she sent the contract
and then no more conversationsafter that, Nothing else.
Okay, Did you text her checkingup?
Did you guys have weeklycheck-ins?
How did that work?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yes, she had this private group of everybody who
invested, but nothing was beingshared.
She was doing all thisinformation 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 foreverybody.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So you guys were put into a private group and it was
everybody that was waiting, sothis was kind of like your
holding spot, um.
And then you had a list yes, ofeverybody, okay, and they're in
their order of who was going toget a truck, and then, as
people got a truck, their namecame off the list um, I never
(21:27):
seen nobody go in a group andsay I actually got me a truck.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
All I know is I was following my company on that
list and after five months assoon as it got ready to be five
months my name went to, wentdown and I contacted her.
I contacted her in the group,charmaine, and I text her too.
My um, why did I get moved offthe list?
And she was like it must havebeen a mistake.
(21:53):
I haven't changed, neverchanged it, so that five month
came and turned to what three,four years now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
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 reachout before you were like I'm
not getting a response and I'mgoing to have to seek counsel?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Not many.
I called her and told her I wasin the hotel and my truck was
in the shop.
I want my investment back, back.
And what she told me on thatphone call is just give her two
weeks and I got it recorded, um,at when we talked about
everything, um, I didn't recordit that day.
But give her two weeks, she'llhave me a brand new, because,
(22:45):
you know, I supposed to got a2018, but at this time I give
you a 2024, brand new with teamdrivers in two weeks.
So in two weeks I'm I'm askingwhere's the team drivers?
And she was like give her achance.
She got some.
You know how it is withtrucking tesla, you and trucking
(23:06):
.
So then, next thing, you know,when she's supposed to gave me a
truck, she posted and braggedabout how many trucks she got
herself.
And then she posted some stuffshe bought about a family member
and at that time I startedgetting mad, you know.
So I started seeking what I'mgoing to do, you know, to get my
money back.
This lady ain't giving me mymoney and the promises she keep
(23:28):
giving, she's not following them.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay.
So she's promising and she'snot delivering, so at this point
you know she's made multiplepromises to you.
You haven't received a product,so you reached out to a lawyer
yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And um, when I reached reached out to the
lawyer, they needed all theevidence and they wanted to go
to the contract because firstthey had to prove it was
breached.
And, um, they also wanted tolook through it because they
needed to know in the contract,if we go forward with the
lawsuit, will jeffers have topay for my lawsuit fees for
(24:04):
suing her?
So when she contacted me backshe was like this contract was
breached, let's sue her.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, so the lawyer told you that it was, in fact, a
breach of contract.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Right, and then she wrote me a demand letter.
She charged me $1,500 for that,so I paid the $1,500.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And magically, almost after two years, Jeffress
called me Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And how'd that go?
Just, I see your post onFacebook.
Take it down.
I promise I'll get you a truckand trailer, I'll sell your
package, and if you take thatdown off of Facebook, so what?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
what does that mean?
To sell your package?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't understand how you sell a package she's
saying that the fifteen thousanddollars I put down she'll trick
somebody else to give fifteenthousand dollars to take over my
truck and company.
And how do you?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
how do you feel about somebody else being put in your
same position?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
well, first, she told me I can go sell my package.
I told her I'm not sellingnothing.
I gave you my money, you sellmy package.
So then it turned to okay, I'llsell it.
So she told me, if I at thisafter, we don't argue for a
while we stayed on the phone twohours.
So, um, yeah.
So when we got off the phoneshe called me three way hi, um,
(25:24):
could you, this is such and such.
Could you tell?
Tells real scott, how we soldyour package.
Yeah, we sold my package in oneweek and I got all my money
back.
I said, okay, we'll sell itthen.
So a day later I see jeffers golive because I took the post
down, remember?
Because she said, did you?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
right.
Did you record the phone callbetween you and her?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
permission to record it.
Yes, and this, this, theshocker.
I recorded her for two hourssaying I'm sorry, let me make
this right, um, I can get, um, Ican sell your package or I can
get a new truck with teams.
And I told her it's almost twoyears right now I'm, I'm not
falling for this, no more.
(26:07):
So two days later she go live.
One or two days later and shesays the opposite of the whole
phone conversation.
And she also said in that liveTesla.
Scott didn't get her money backbecause I started her LLC.
I did all the background workon her business.
(26:27):
I gave her the dispatch coursefree.
I gave her.
She gave me none of that.
I already had my LLC in mycompany.
I paid for the dispatch course.
I paid for the boot camp course.
Jefferson gave me nothing outof this deal, but she went live
and she named all this stuff shegave me and saying bad things
(26:49):
about me.
I never said nothing bad abouther.
I just trusted in her when Isaw on the commercial and then
the cdl group advertising.
But she went live and made itseem like I'm this bad person.
Then I'm seeing all thesepeople come in and she shouldn't
get her money back if you didall this for her.
That lady did nothing for me,but took my money and then I had
(27:10):
to pay a lawyer $1,500.
And then all this stuff, andthen I paid for a PI Because I
wanted you know to see what wasgoing on with her.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And this is where it really gets interesting, right.
So about this time is also whenyou went public on Facebook and
made your first post correct,right, right, correct.
On Facebook and made your firstpost correct, right, right,
correct.
I pulled up some old podcastsand some old things that were
discussing your initial claim.
So then you get the PI, andwhat does the PI find?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wow, he found out.
Well, he gave me what she lived.
You know.
He found out she bought an oldboat in her boyfriend's name
which we got a lot of ties ofthem doing business together.
And let me tell you what shedid.
I had my post on Facebook.
Everybody agreed with me on myside all these me too's I get a
(28:05):
post from her boyfriend's name.
Do anybody know the other umside of this story?
So I post under that commenther and his name together on the
contract to let her know this.
You, you're the only oneagainst what I'm showing because
it's you.
So when I just made a podcast,she's under my podcast under
(28:26):
another name and I post underthat comment to show her and
that name together.
So anybody who say somethingagainst me is hurt under
somebody else.
And I proved it both times,okay, but so you guy basically
said that he can't find.
Now she bought cars, trucks likeF-150 truck, like that kind of
(28:52):
truck Trucks several cars forher family members over this
time.
So when she got our money, hewas able to show us she was
buying cars for different familymembers and she posted a car
with a bow on it on Facebookthat she bought.
And that's when I contacted her.
Lord, y'all couldn't take it nomore.
Like you got brand.
It's almost two years later youposting a brand new car you
(29:14):
just post for one of your familymembers.
So that's when I that's whatpushed 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 withthis money.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I want to make money, I want to.
I want to make money with mytrucking company.
So once you put your story outthere, it blew up.
And when I say blew up, youwere not the only one that had
the same story.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Right, I got so many me too's and so many of us that
you know got, and everybody hadto show proof, like because I
ain't wanted to be heard comingin and saying this me, so I
wanted everybody to show proof,show your contracts, show, show
(30:00):
text messages, whatever you gotto show, and everybody had proof
, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So you found out and did some research and she had
how many different companiesrunning at that same time?
I think it's five or six,wasn't it?
Yeah, so she was running underCDL for live truck biz in a box.
It's a list, okay, and how many?
(30:24):
How many affected investors doyou think you're up to now in
your group?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Right now it's a good amount.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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 neverprovided you a truck, um, and
she did not follow through withany of the promises she made.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Correct, no, she went live about me for two hours and
blocked me, of course, but sheunblocked me when she called me,
but she blocked me back so onthis recording.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
This recording has her saying she's going to do
those things, but then she wentlive 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 (31:23):
well, what we're doing now is I'm going to have
several coming on your podcast.
We're going to put our storyout in the news article and then
we're going to also, with thehelp of people, go towards the
FBI, the Attorney General, theFederal Trade Commissioner
everywhere we put out complaintsand see what's the stall on
(31:45):
them looking into her.
Because one thing about it withall of us we put down all this
money and I'm on a $15,000 level.
You got people who put intriple what I put in.
We never received anything tax,nothing, document where our
$15,000.
I mean where my $15,000 ortheir amounts went.
(32:08):
It just disappeared in her andthe only thing she'll go live
and say is we're just haters andshe's boss lady.
We just don't want to see hermake it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No, we want our money back, okay so we have a group
of investors who are claimingthat shemaine jeffers, the
founder of truck bids in a box,took large sums of money um from
them for a contract that shenever delivered upon.
So at this point, if anybodyfeels that they are a victim or
(32:41):
feels that they signed acontract that she did not
deliver on, where can they reachout to you, tezra?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Facebook Tezra Scott.
I open up Messenger now so theycan message me on messenger.
I take it every day cuz I stillget me twos.
They see my complaint onLinkedIn and so you're on
LinkedIn.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I have your own profile.
I know we we posted your video,but do you have a profile on
LinkedIn?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I have it, but I don't have it on there, but they
contact me through y'all link.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, so um real woman in trucking um has a post
on their LinkedIn um where youcan also get in contact with
Tezra Scott.
Uh, in regards to uh this, soum, there are some litigations
that have already concluded.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I do believe um where different trucking companies
went after truck biz in a box ontheir own before um, yes, she
has eight cases against her nowand they all won um breach
contract and also I have one ofthe cases that went against her
(33:58):
and paid all this money onlawyer fees and would like to
also speak on your podcast totell their story of how they got
scammed and how they spent allthat money on the lawyer and
they haven't gotten nothing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, and we have multiple people that are going
to be coming on this week togive their version of what
happened, and we have peoplethat are claiming upwards of
$65,000 was invested and I knowyou guys at this point it's not
just a civil, but you arelooking to see if there are any
criminal charges that can befiled as well.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yes, criminal charges that can be filed as well.
Yes, is that correct?
Yes, um, it's so many criminalcharges can be put against her
in this whole situation.
Where's my fifteen thousanddollars?
What did you ever do with it?
I got her recorded on the phoneconversation saying she got our
money in the secured spot.
But then I got her going livesaying that she said F us all.
She just went to Jamaica to gethigh for a year with you know F
us and the trucks andeverything.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
And I was recording everything and that is sad, and
do you feel taken advantage ofit at this point?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
yes, because she still goes live and talk trash
about the investors who, sayingthat she took their money.
She talks down on us as if wethe bad people you know after
yeah, after idolizing her andyou know what she had going.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I mean that that has to be pretty devastating to
spend this much time aftersomebody that you thought you
could trust, um, to find outthat you can't right, right.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I was expecting, when I gave her that $15,000, up to
five months, to start makingthat $2,000 and some dollars off
of that truck, because that isreasonable, because I'm driving
my truck and I know what I grossa week after you know expenses.
So, after not getting thatextra $2,000 a week and losing
(35:56):
my $15,000 at the same time, Igot a house built from the
ground up.
I'm thinking you know where'sall this extra money I'm
supposed to be getting?
Like I was put against the walland then my truck went in the
shop for three weeks and I askedher for my money back and she
promised me this and promised methat that lady didn't give me
nothing and then blocked me.
(36:17):
She blocked us all, everybodyin this group blocked that's
really professional for abusiness to block.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I mean it's a handling business.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
She kick us out the group, she block us off her
phone.
So you got to imagine us overhere blocked.
We can't get in that group totell everybody hey, hey, she's
scamming people, she stole mymoney.
Because she blocked you, youcan't get back in.
Okay, so this truck I don'twant to tell on the business,
but yeah, yeah, Okay.
So I got an email with my VINnumber and ordering a truck.
(36:52):
When she claimed she orderedthe truck for me and put my name
down, I asked her where's theVIN number and ordering a truck.
When she claimed she orderedthe truck for me and put my name
down, I asked her where's theVIN 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 LLCto a dealership the dealership
(37:13):
even if I'm waiting on the truck, they will send out information
with the VIN number.
This truck is on the Candy ZZTrucking LLC and that never
happened.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
There is definitely.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah for me to have that order in the truck with
Freightliner.
I know it was a lie with her.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
If there's one thing with a trucking company I can
definitely test you, that is thepaper trail, because no matter
what you do in trucking, there'sa whole lot of paperwork that
goes with it, right.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
I didn't see anything of what my $15,000 did.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
We will say that there were lots of moving parts
to this puzzle.
Each investor was affected in adifferent way.
We will say that there werelots of moving parts to this
puzzle.
Each investor was affected in adifferent way.
This was your story.
There are stories where therewere specific dealerships
involved.
I will say that, right With you, we don't have that paper trail
(38:13):
.
Right, right, right With you,we don't have that paper trail.
But there are some where wherethere was actual Trucks involved
and but not quite legit.
Right, right, right.
So is there anything else thatyou would like to put out there
before we end today?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
there before we end today.
I'm just um happy that you guysare helping us and I can't wait
for the rest of the team totell their stories because she
really affected a lot of us.
Like that was a lot of moneyfor me.
I didn't get that money fromnowhere else.
I didn't apply for nothing.
I worked and saved it up.
So when I'm watching heradvertise and I see the
commercial, I'm saving up thisto the side because I'm about to
get this up the truck.
They're bringing this extraincome.
(38:58):
So when I didn't see that, Ijust want justice to be served,
I wanted to be served and what Iwant out of this is, once
justice be served, I want her tostop advertising because she's
still advertising.
I want her CDL for life truckcompany I mean on Facebook shut
down because there's a lot oftruckers in there who can't see
(39:20):
our voice or hear our voice tonot fall for what Charmaine
Jeffers is doing in that group.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
So so you're saying she's still active, but when we
did a search for her LLC's, theywere all showing that they were
inactive at this time.
So what is she running thisunder?
Um anybody know?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
she's telling them she's still doing all this stuff
.
She got brand new trucks, shethe same thing she told us.
So that's interesting, veryinteresting.
So where's these trucks,where's this?
It's just all a scam like.
And then she go live and talkabout the guy who just got
caught and she talk about, youknow, just bragging on how she
(40:01):
ain't got caught.
So that's what me and my teamabout to do.
We about to recircle aroundeverything.
We're going to make sure we goteverybody involved.
We're going to contact theattorney general, the police
department, the fbi, the federaltrade commissioner, everybody.
And we're going to contact theattorney general, the police
department, the FBI, the federaltrade commissioner, everybody,
and we're going to get ourvoices heard.
Like, everybody want to speak,everybody want to tell their
story.
You got people who wenthomeless, lost families,
(40:23):
everything behind her, and Idon't have any kids, but I still
got affected.
That $15,000, I could have dida lot and thinking I'm going to
get this extra to do all this inthe process of buying the house
.
It was hard for me, you know.
And you can't reach her aftershe blocked you.
You're back against the wallbut you still see her
(40:47):
advertising.
You have to make up a fake pageto see her advertising, to see
all of this.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
And it's hurtful.
You know, know, yes, and I cansee where that is.
I mean, even 15 000 is notchump change, um, and that that
takes a pretty hard hit for mostof us um out here that are
working hard to make our money.
So I don't think 15 000 issomething we should take lightly
by any means.
Um so, tes, so Tezra, I want tothank you so much for voicing
(41:18):
um the issue and having thecourage to come forward and face
all the backlash that you havegotten um from her for doing
that.
It took a lot of strength to dothat and to put yourself out
there, and I want to thank youfor that, because not everybody
has the courage to be that voiceand what you have done is
(41:38):
started a movement and you havegiven courage to a lot of people
who weren't coming forward andwe're just taking that hit.
So thank you for that.
If there's anybody who you arewelcome.
So this week we are going tohave multiple stories about this
situation going forward.
Please stop and take a listen.
If you know anybody affected,please pass on the information.
(42:01):
Tezra's information you canfind her on Facebook.
With that we're going to endtoday.
Everybody, have a safe day outthere.
It's beautiful here in Illinoisafter a couple days of nasty
weather.
So everybody, have a great dayand thanks for tuning in to
Truckin' with Tammy.
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