6 mo experience will start ya at .33 mile. Not bad. I think I'm going to fill an app out right now and see what they have to say. I'd be toped out in there pay at $.38, I would like to see more but that's not bad.

well arnold was not all that for me their dispatchers are full of it their managment quick to side with dispatch they lie to cover own butts

Sounds like US Xpress's management are started to get the evil hands in the pot... Not good..

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If it's Arnold out of Macon, it's probably going to be runs outs of the Kohl's DC by the Macon airport. They run daycabs out of there as well.

Arnold keeps telling me they will not merge with USX, but I have noticed that new Arnold trucks are not the traditional white color, but are USX red. Take a guess why.

there operating policies are changing to US EX now too.

I'm out of here and lookign for work right now. The last three weeks I havn't gotten 2000k miles. last week was like 1600 and I only had two trips over 110 miles. I told them I can't afford to give them two hours of my time free on each end of a 100 miles trip and there next action was to send me monday's load. 95 miles deadhead and 65 miles loaded. I'm talking with my wife but right now I may not even go back this week but tell them to come get there truck

You drive for arnold too? I was trying to get on with them, but the usx influence scares me. I have pretty much given up on otr, man. There just seems to be too much bs going on.
By the way. Faye at arnold also said that usx has nothing to do with them. I don't know. I'm scared to waste my time at another otr company.

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If Faye told you that Arnold is not doing anything with USX, she is doing so to try to keep the drivers that are "reading the writing on the wall". Drivers are leaving faster than they are coming, which is usual for a USX company. I have seen USX pulling arnold trailers. Befor I got canned at USX, I watched their shop people down in Tunnel Hill GA ripping the USX badging of trailers AND trucks, and replacing it with Arnold badging. I have a newsletter from USX from last year that announces the buy out of Arnold.

Its just a matter of time befor USX ruins Arnold too.

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My husband was looking for work last year after a bad experience with a truck company here in Indiana and talked with one of their people down in Texas. He talked with her numerous times and it seemed to be a decent company. He decided to do lease purchase (worst thing to do with any company ever.. all of them only get you enough money/miles/fuel surcharge to cover your truck payments,misc. insurance and tax payments and fuel payments so none of it comes out of their pockets. ) Anyways- I found out shortly after he started that I was pregnant and after a few weeks working with them the biggest paycheck being about 80 dollars he decided it was time for me to come on the road with him. He would sit for a total of about two days of the week.. which if we hadn't had to do that we might of actually made a decent paycheck, but like I said they only want to make enough so you can cover the out of pocket costs and they don't have to cover anything. Well, in arkansas we got into a no fault accident (idiot crossed the line and my husband had to take her to the shoulder in order not to hit the guy and ended up on our side) and the company paid for one night at a hotel while they figured out what was going on.. good I guess.. but then we had to have family come and get us and bring us home. Then Arnold drug my husband around like a mouse on a string about getting another truck.. had him schedule a flight down to GA to pick up a truck.. then when he calls the mechanics down in GA they don't even know that he's supposed to have a truck down there and there is no truck waiting for him.. so after about 3 weeks of this bantering back and forth my husband just decided to go get another job (mean while 6 months later they were still sending him things on missing logs and what not, haha.. of course they're missing.. he's not working there anymore!) and meanwhile we can't get any of our stuff that was in the truck.. it's probably in a warehouse somewhere or just thrown away....I called numerous times trying to get our things..

To top things off about 6 months later they decided to send my husband the bill for the damages done to the truck and trailer (minus what the insurance covered-- about 10 grand left over) because they couldn't find the guy who caused the wreck.. (Arkansas State police... ) and sue his insurance so they just decide to put it on our credit and drove what was left of it into a 6 foot grave.

I would stay away from this company- the USX influence has pretty much completely taken over. At first they were nice to him but then when he actually started it was hardly what I would call "driver friendly" not many companies now adays are.

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but im going to ask it any way.i here a lot of drivers say they are out of time.is there a limit you can drive a day ? and if so how can a dispatcher tell you to violate this rule and lastly what are the consequences ?