I have had the misfortune of having to deal with this company twice in the last couple of months, because the places I bought the items from used them to transport the merchandise. The first time I waited and waited, and finally contacted the company I purchased the item from, and was told that it was supposed to be delivered by RAC. When I called them to find out where it was, they told me that didn't have my complete address. First off, why not? They are a delivery company, you would think they know how to make sure they have a complete address for delivery at the time they pick up the shipment. Secondly, by this time they had probably had it sitting in their warehouse here in Albuquerque for about a week. In that time, no one could have found the time to contact the company that shipped it (which certainly had my complete address) so they could find out where to deliver it? After giving them my address, they gave me a 4 hour window of time that I had to be home in order to receive it on the next day. Why should this be? You would think with all the modern tracking software out there, and the amount of data that they could have been collecting on the time it takes to deliver certain kinds of shipments, even whole truckloads of different items, to various parts of the city, that algorithms should be out there to allow them to narrow that window down to within a couple of hours, barring some major traffic snarl up. They did arrive on the dot of the very last minute of that four hour period.
The second time, after finding out that the company had chosen RAC to transport my item (again, after allowing a good two weeks for it to show up), I called the Albuqueruque office, and was told my item was in the Denver warehouse, and that I would have to call them to find out where it was. When I called Denver, I got transferred to someone's voice mail. I left a message with the tracking number of the shipment and my phone number. No one called me back. The next day, I called again and finally got to talk to someone, who told me "I'm sorry, we can't find your shipment right now. We'll call you back when we do." No call back that day. The next day, someone from the Albuquerque office called me to tell me that they could bring it to me the next day, this time giving me a five hour window, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That next day, I was involved doing something, and suddenly realized it was about 4:30 p.m. and the shipment hadn't shown up. I called again. After being put on hold for a good 5 minutes, the guy tells me "I tried to get hold of the driver, but I can't reach him. I'll call you back when I do." No call back. So when I call again the next day, I was told that the reason my shipment didn't arrive the day before was that the trailer carrying it had broken down during the day. So if that really happened, I would think that the very first thing the driver would do after finding a safe place to pull off the road would be to call dispatch and tell them. And then there should be an easy way to flag every single order that was in that trailer so that anyone wanting to know where something was that was in that trailer could look up the tracking number and say "Oh, it's on the trailer that broke down." And then, the company would have the decency to call all of the customers that were told their shipment would arrive that day and apologize that it wasn't coming after all due to the breakdown. But not the people at RAC. They apparently haven't figured out how to do such basic things in their tracking software and obviously don't care if they have 15 to 30 customers all waiting in vain throughout their riduculously long 5 hour window to have to wait. If you're keeping track, that's 5 phone calls I have had to make, 3 phone calls that should have been returned and weren't, and 5 additional days gone by since I first contacted them (not including a weekend in there, so actually a whole extra week). And because of needing to have a four hour window for me to be home to receive it, and the fact that I had plans to be out most of the afternoon on the Friday they told me they could make the second delivery attempt, we have to allow another 3 days to go by until Monday, when I can be home to hopefully actually receive this package, which will be about 4 weeks after I ordered it. Unbelievably bad customer service! read more