Wild West Express reviews

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Former Employee - Oct 25, 2024

Most of their trucks are late model International LTs, a few of them are Kenworths. Hometime policy is a day home per six days out but it’s actually up to your dispatcher to see if they approve your request or not, if you are new with no experience training is 0.20 a mile and once you get out of training they start at 0.48. They normally run you 2100-2600 miles per week. They run 99 percent refrigerated loads with the rare dry load here and there. They rarely run east of the Mississippi but they definitely run California and a lot of LA. Owners are very full of themselves and are two-faced. They treat you way too nice when you are onboarding but as soon as you make a minor mistake they show their real colors real quick. They take your paycheck for any little inter-company violation without warning you then try to gaslight you into thinking you are the problem and that they only did it because they care for you. The attitudes and intelligence levels for the dispatchers are wildly different so it’s almost like playing Russian roulette when they give you a dispatcher. They love to force you to run split sleeper all the time due to their planners being super disorganized and expecting you to average 70 MPH at all times.

Pros

Shop is efficient, office staff not associated with upper management/operations are very efficient and respectful.

Cons

Upper management (owners) are very aggressive and condescending towards drivers. They try to charge and take money from your paycheck for any inter-company violation. Owners are also extremely sensitive when it comes to their ego and saying anything about them or the company triggers them to no end. Main yard in Las Cruces, NM is all dirt and very small so when it rains it becomes a mud pit and it’s usually packed with trucks and trailers so it’s difficult to maneuver depending on what is going

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Salary Surveys

Company Driver - 1 Year CDL Experience

Surveyed in Las Cruces, NM on Oct 25, 2024

$1,300 per week

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