Been with Western Express almost 5 months now. Signed a 6 month contract with em and it’s almost done. I’m really wanting to leave after my contract is done. I appreciate them giving me a shot as I am a felon who’s been out of prison since 2018 and off parole almost 2 years but I think I’m reaching my limit with em. Too many negatives with the company to stay with them. Inconsistent miles which result in low pay checks the majority of the time, way too many bad trailers which would have you sitting a lot making no money and breakdown pay is like $35 a day. Oh and did I mention they try to pressure you into pulling bad trailers? And I could almost swear they try to keep you making $700 or lower a week, so in a lot of cases if you seem to be running hard and completing loads early, they seem to find a way to sit you. I have a clean MVR and no CSA points but staying with western I’m afraid I might get screwed some day which would trap me with them.
anyway. Anyone knows any local or regional companies that would take a felon with 6 months experience and a clean MVR? (Chicago area)
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One of the crazy things I do as a driver when searching for an empty trailer is when I do finally find one, I make note of any other trailers that are in the immediate vicinity, unless it's a Walmart dc or another similar customer because the location of those trailers are well-tracked, and relay those trailer numbers to my dispatcher.
Doing so allows the dispatcher to find empty trailers more quickly instead of taking two and three hours to find an empty.
Imagine how much easier life would be if all drivers did this. Another benefit of doing this is so other drivers can get their loads more quickly and therefore be offloaded sooner.
Boring anecdote alert!
One fine summers day in upstate New York, I needed to take my trailer to a repair shop. Upon arrival, I was surprised to see about twenty trailers in the shop's storage just sitting.
Effectively these trailers were offline and their location not known to dispatch. This means that there were twenty trailers that no driver could use since there was no system letting dispatch know where these trailers were and if they were available.
Another time I picked up a trailer from a Walmart dc that had no right side tail light. I mean it was missing. Someone cut the wires to this light in order to take it. I was in a generous mood that day, so I picked up that trailer and took it to a nearby repair shop. Fortunately, the job was completed quickly and I was sent on my way.
That trailer would have sat there forever if I hadn't got it fixed. I, too, was plagued with $700 paychecks, and I think drivers not wanting to take trailers in for repairs factors in.Deaftrucker09 and Chinatown Thank this. -
I know Western Express sucks, I'm assuming you're in the dry van division. Have you considered switching to flatbeds? The work is more physically demanding, but there are usually a few upsides also. Flatbed drivers are usually in better shape than their dry van counterparts. If nothing else, if you find a decent trailer you can hold on to it a lot longer than the typical van.
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You suggest this driver join the Dark Side and you don't even offer this driver cookies served by none other than Inga herself?
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