When I ...
qut last September, The guy parked next to me was quitting that day also,..;
I (he helped me load u my rental car with cb radio, clothes),
...handed him my USA Truck ID badge, my two Freighliner Columbia keys,...
and told him tom tell mechanical foreman I quit too...

bobtailed to Dayton, OH from Pittsburg, PA...

This post is for students ,who like myself not very long ago had a hard time chosing where to start. When i graduated from Transposrt Tech I didnt have alot of options for my first trucking company. My options where Swift,Werner,Us Express, Davis,and unfortunately USA Truck. I would like to share my experience with usa truck with any students out there that may be concidering this company to start so here goes. USA Truck recruiter ANDREA and the promises made to me............................................ (1.) Home every weakend ,(YOU WILL FIGHT TO GET HOME THE SECOND WEAKEND OUT ) (2.)no trucks over 19 months old,(I NEVER SEEN A USA TRUCK AS NEW AS 19 MONTHS) (3) 35 cents a mile (I WAS GIVEN 27 CENTS A MILE AND THATS BEFORE THEY DEDUCT 25 DOLLARS EACH PAY TO PAY BACK YOUR SO CALLED PAYED ORIENTATION AND OTHER LITTLE ODDS AND ENDS THEY THROW IN) (4) 95% drop and hook, (I NOT ONLY SAT FOR MANY MANY HOURS WAITING TO BE LOADED/UNLOADED I WAS DISPATCHED TO PICK UP LOADS AND SIT FOR HOURS AT TRUCK STOPS WAITING FOR THIER VET DRIVERS TO PICK UP MY LOAD. (5) re-embersement, (WONT HAPPEN SO DONT FRONT USA TRUCK A DIME) IMJUST GIVEN FAIR WARNING TO ANY THAT MIGHT CONCIDER THESE PEOPLE GO ANYWHERE BUT USA TRUCK,,,,, ANDREA, SHERRY, SHAWN THE WHOLE PACK LIELIE LIE, OH AND BY THE WAY USA TRUCK HOLDS THE HIGHEST FATALITY RATE OF ANY TRUCKING COMPANY IN THE BUSSINESS TYM BOB

Man...sorry to hear that. i hope your next trucking experience turns out better. Their trucks look o.k., at least the ones that I have passed. My first truck is a 674,000 mile freightshaker(tiring). One thing I've found about money, if it's not in writing somewhere it's probably not true.

I just quit USA (SW regional) this week after 19 months with them. First, the good points, which won't last too long. Big terminals, but about half the area is taken up by old trailers they have yet to trade in. Much of their equipment is fairly new--Great Dane trailers and late model International trucks (although you are governed at 62, so you will make everyone in the hammer lane PO'd at you if you have to get in it). Of course you won't get a new truck right away, but if it breaks down badly enough, they may upgrade you. Also, no frickin' cab extenders to inevitably get bent up making a tight U-turn at a facility--only company I know of that doesn't put them on.

Now the bad points (hope I don't run out of space!). If home time means anything to you, I hope you live close to one of their terminals. (An ABF terminal is not good enough, which I'll get to later.) I drove in Regional and they still screwed up getting me home in some way about every other week. They will often make you wait most of the weekend at a terminal for a load that you (and they) have no way of knowing when it's going to be there (and they won't tell you it's not there already unless you ask them). Then if you get home on Sunday, they may offer you Monday off, as if that makes up for your weekend being wasted. Their policy is you have to go home under a load, and your load may not go through where you live, so you could drive hundreds of miles out of your way to go home and hundreds of miles more to go back and make the delivery, and they do not pay any of those extra miles you have to drive. If the shipper rejects your empty or the consignee refuses your load, they will not pay you for any extra driving you have to do to remedy the situation. They will not alter the point A to point B dispatched miles. SO if you have extra stops that are scheduled stupidly, you only get paid the miles from the pickup point to the consignee as if that was what your route actually would be (just like when you go home). If they absolutely have to deadhead you home (again, conceivably hundreds of miles), they will not pay you any of those miles. Basically they can put you on any kind of #### load to "get you home" and they'll think they did their job, even though it's their fault they're making you drive for free and cutting into your hometime. And you have to examine your statements like a hawk. This company will screw you out of your money seven ways from Sunday if you let them. They will conveniently forget your empty miles pay, your short haul miles pay, your hazmat pay (expect to haul hazmat at least once a month), your extra stop pay, and anything else you may think you have resolved with your FM. Good luck trying to get your pay fixed. Funny how PR never errs in the driver's favor. Trying to get detention pay out of your FM is like pulling teeth. They give you no bonuses at all--no idle bonuses, no MPG bonus, no mileage bonus, no safety bonus. Trying to get a hold of dispatch or breakdown during lunch, at nights or on the weekends is often futile. If you call breakdown (at any time), you have to go through a stupid menu, then chances are nobody will pick up, which means it kicks you right back to the main menu again!!! It's a frickin' joke. This company is not worth the endless frustration you will have trying to deal with them. They are now refusing to pay my vacation pay because I didn't take it before I quit and they are also charging me 50 cpm (out of my escrow--they steal $500 from you right up-front) to get their truck back to Van Buren, AR even though I left it at their designated secure parking space in my home area (an ABF terminal), which they didn't tell me they were going to do until after I left it there, even though they knew the day before that I was going to. After all the money they've screwed me out of, they have some G.D. nerve. SCREW THEM!!!

i started with usa truck. no problem with miles just money and never been able to get me home. when i first started with them in 2004 i started at .24 cents a mile. they took money outta my check to pay for my school and escrow. i remember one check was for $-125.00 it took a couple of weeks to get outta the hole. i dont usually bad mouth companys because some guys/gals have good luck and some dont. at least they gave me a start in the trucking world.

19 months or newer

The point about the trucks not being new as 19 months or newer.
Not many compines will give a newbee a newer truck to start out with.

Reimbursement

Did you submit your recipts? Were they legimiate rembeserable expenses?They will not pay for things that is not is not for their truck and trailer or load you should of been told what are and are not rembesable expences.

Pay cpm

You probaly start out at .27 and then if everything is good and you do fine you will get raises up to .35. You may have misunderstood her.

Drop n hook

They say drop and hook but they can not garantee that the trailer will be ready for youwhen yop get there. Waiting on the Vet drivers seems like you may have not poven yourself to the company. Were you late on delivering loads did they have to reschedule your deliveries?

I am not trying to defend the company but these questions need to be asked.

i agree with everything every one says and then some and they wont fix there trucks ether when it needs to be seviced and tires put on it they just wont do it the best check i had was 600 bring home i got a check once of 38.00

Just ask the D.O.T. for an inspection,Tell the LEO whats wrong with USA-Truck and YOU WILL SEE RESULTS! If the D.O.T. say "TIRES NO GOOD", you'll get new tires very quickly.
It's an old trick,but same good results.
Skull

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Hope to god Don't have to crawl back to Arkansas for a job someday...

i will never think of driving for them again they are a joke they told me they was keeping my escrow and my last check but it is worth not having to put up with there #### i always sat more then i was running they always told me about drivers being late and everything else but they treated me like #### and i was always on time or early and they told me i was 8th in miles for the month and always told me they needed to be brought up but how can you do that when you have to sit for a 1/2 a day to get a load and then when they do it ranges from 100 miles to 300 miles that makes alot of since to me and everytime i asked for a long run they gave me crapy loads you do them a faivor by going and picking up a load in dallas and it delivered in dallas which is 10 miles dont get payed for sitting there all day i sat a whole day in vanburen ar and they was suppose to pay me for it and didnt and say they pay stop off pay and dont