Consequences run from a ticket, and a shutdown order, to jail time, depending on the circumstances of the situation.

Dispatchers always try to push a driver harder than they are supposed to go. Dispatchers can ask you to do it, are even tell you to do it. But ultimately, your the one behind the wheel, and in control of the situation. So you are the one that pays any consequences of a accident, or whatever.

There is a limit, of 11 hours driving time in a consecutive 14 hour string.

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I dont have to love my president, or any god, to love my country!

Yellow rose
Back in the day Arnold had the best lease purchase plan you could find. THese days they use the us ex lease. It used to be that when you did a lease with arnold it included 100% of maintenance and repairs free of charge to you and most the guys I talk to still on the old lease pay like $$250 a week. the new lease is something like $3000 a month with plates and permits etc and none of the maintenance or repairs.

Faye is a liar, she was my recruiter. The people at Arnold don't even like her and flat out told me she lies when I was in class.

US is on my paycheckk now. Last week I pulled a US exp load that said nothing about arnold on the freight bill, it said US Exress.

In class they said that same #### about Arnold still being the same and US not running it since Arnolds regional makes more then US exp regonal but it's all BS. the same people may be running arnold but the policies are all us epress now, or still being converted. They us the us express dispatch method now too with the load planners and DM's. used to be they just had dispatchers. I also spend about 2 days a week sitting now and I can't have that. I told them many times I WILL NOT live in a truck for 6 days for $100 a day. aint gona happen. Bad thing is I tak to others and it seems like I am doing more then thay are. My DM is pretty good and she runs the board that averages the most miles but it's still rough. There goal is only 2k miles a week. there is no reason I shouldn't be able to do 3k in 5 days except that Arnolds idea of regional is my idea of local work. There is weeks I never leave TX and those weeks the miles really suck. they run ALLOT of 100 to 200 mile loads and I'm constantly telling them I can not afford to give them two hours of my time for free on both ends of a 100 mile trip. two of them and the day is shot and I have 200 miles

Medicine man-

that was the same problem my husband had. He was sitting two-three days worth a week and should have been clearing more than 2500 miles a week if they would have just moved him. In the midwest/east though it was the steel mills that killed him. He wouldn't have minded staying in texas and just running texas making 600 a week he's dying to get back there. something in his blood I guess.

Are you going to be getting another job? keep posted on how that goes. Arnold pretty much just ruined our credit.. that was the impact they left on our life, haha. The lawyer in Arkansas said there's nothing he can do about it because they couldn't sue the driver at fault.

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It’s disheartening to imagine that Big Business, with its penchant for cheap labor and outrageous profits, could have a complete monopoly over trucking.
A vital American industry is experiencing, as they say in CB lingo, a 10-33 [emergency].

I refuse to live in a truck and put my family through the hardships of me being away for $100 a day. I don't have a problem being away but I expect to be properly compensated for it. Not to mention I can spend between $100 and $200 a week on the road, especially when I sit allot.

I doubt very highly I will ever drive for a company liek this again. Never really wanted to in the first place but I needed to get a check coming in and fast. And this was the fastest way.
I own a truck and was hoping to have the new set of tires for it by now but this job hasn't paid me enough to do much of anything to it.

Medicine man-

I completely understand what you are saying. After my husband was screwed over by the last company he was just with.. not getting ANY money for a month and being over the road for 3 weeks he refuses to go back over the road again.

There doesn't seem to be any money available in trucking so he is going to re-enlist in the national guard though so since the unit he would be with is already deployed I'm hoping he won't be deployed any time soon.

*crosses fingers*

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It’s disheartening to imagine that Big Business, with its penchant for cheap labor and outrageous profits, could have a complete monopoly over trucking.
A vital American industry is experiencing, as they say in CB lingo, a 10-33 [emergency].

I quit this weekend. They play too many games. They called threatening my job because I deadheaded home instead of speending memorial day weekend in there yard with no food and nothing to do. I'm not one of these rookies with no other options other than t sit and take the abuse so I quit. If you call and threaten my job you better be prepared for me to walk. THey tried to backpedal then but it's too late, I'm not about to let them get me up to Dallas 4.5hr's from home and then fire me.
There was so many other reasons too. this was just the final one. I'm not even going to get into it all I just caution anyone thinking of working for them. If you don't care about ever knowing what they are planing for you, don't care about having a choice in your life, don't need home time regularally, don't mind working for a very sub standard rate (for anyone with over a years experience) and running low miles and short 100 or 200 mile trips with two hours load and unload then they may be for you.

That's USXPRESS for ya.

I worked for USX in the 1991 thru 1997 when they buy a company they usually wait until the start of a new year then its no more what ever company they buy. What a shame they were a good company at one time.

MM, I know of a guy who switched from Arnold to Crete and is 100% happier. No weekend home time but is given 2K-3K a week.

KH

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Does Arnold hire rookies and hire out of SE Louisiana, Thankz and be safe