Looking at USX around the beginning of the year, thoughts?

Discussion in 'US Xpress' started by lcfd15, Sep 21, 2014.

  1. lcfd15

    lcfd15 Medium Load Member

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    I have read through some forums here. Under their new pay scale that is up on their site and after talking with a recruiter, since I am a veteran with an honorable discharge they are going to offer 38 CPM coming out of school. I know that is decent money for a new grad, but has anyone (new guys/girls) come in under this? looking how the miles are when first getting out there solo? Seen they make you do team run (training) for about 6-8 weeks. How is this program?

    I like the fact that they help out veterans and am very interested in possibly getting my start in this company.
     
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  3. Chinatown

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    You will make tons more money with tankers.
     
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    lcfd15 Medium Load Member

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    I have looked in to some of the companies that you had mentioned in my veteran's post. I see that some are just a few cents more than what US Xpress is hiring on for. Is the extra money you get in all of the accessory pay? (multiple deliveries, filling and stuff like that)
     
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    Short wait times; for example, average 1 hr. load & 1 hr. unload. Detention pay at tank washes or shippers & receivers usually starts after one hour. Many accessorial pays. Some pay for pre/post trip, fueling, layover. On 34 hr. restart I got a choice of $50.00 or a hotel room. I always took the $50.00 & some always took a hotel room. It varies tanker company to tanker company. It's easy work and with most you should make at least $60K and some as much as $80K if you know how to hustle. Some drivers with Trimac elite fleet make over $80K.
     
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  6. NavigatorWife

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    Husband worked at USX before the market really tanked in 2009. He was making about 41c when he quit. Don't know how the miles are now, he was getting most generally 2100-2500 or so. FM's were good and bad, the last lady he had was great, but they closed the terminal in OKC and she was let go. They had free washer and driers at the terminals if you were there, not sure about now. Things flip-flop around so much at companies anymore. It is getting into winter time pretty soon also, and loads may decrease.
     
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    You're right. USX is really a good team company, but not for solo drivers. $41K is low for OTR drivers. A solo driver with all the endorsements plus TWIC and a passport should be making anywhere from $50K - $65K right out of school.
     
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    He was getting two resets sometimes back then, the sitting was more than the driving it was so bad. Team drivers were even preferred over 0/0 and lease drivers, but all of these were preferred over solo company drivers. It was sometimes eat or be eaten on loads, some dispatchers would try to get you to swap a load for some reason so they could get their driver a longer load. Training the dispatcher is half the battle.

    We were routed home when home time was requested, without any problems, took the trailer and did not have to worry about dropping it somewhere. It was just usually the 2 days off though, get home whenever one day, off two and out the next morning. We would stay out about 3 mo at a time, kids were grown, so didn't have to worry about being home any certain time.

    Company drivers are also restricted pretty much to the route solution and fuelstops given. Back then they would allow only about 10% out of route, they had threatened at one point to charge $1.00 per mile if out of route, guess they must have had some really bad ones at the time. To me if an interstate is pretty close to where you are going, that is the road that a truck should be on, vs the cowtrails with redlights every 100 ft, but you know who boss is on those occasions. Sometimes you would come across a route that had decided to not let trucks use it anymore, did free miles then to go the way around to the other road, after getting ahold of dispatch and letting them know of course.

    Then I heard they flipped back to the solo's being the preferred driver.

    Companies are pretty much the same still now. Because the truck was under warranty still, he'd bypass the terminal on some things and go straight to Volvo to have it worked on. The terminal was for oil changes and tires, etc.

    I hope they are as good now, but that info would have to come from current drivers, not from several years past.
     
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