Driving OTR with US Xpress

Just checked with the wife. We got paid $58 a day. Some other terminals pay less.

 

We're going to try to drive teams for another company, but not sure of who will take us as of yet. My past discretions are only 5 yrs old so, we will keep the prayers going up, and the hope going out....

 

LadyHarrison,

What are these past discretions ? More info will help us find you the right company.

 

My pete would completely shut down going down the road and the on guard screen would turn red with a message that said engine control timeout. I wouldn't have anything, including power steering. I've been on the Coors dedicated for a year and a half and losing power steering on the rockies was not particularly exciting. Anyway they took it to the dealership and apparently the on guard system was not communicating with the engine properly so it would just turn everything off. It got fixed in about four days and never had a problem again. Scary feeling for everything to shut down while driving. I hope they can figure out your problem

 

Hello Wedge sounds like that Murphy guy does spend a lot of time with you. Good to hear you are going home. Enjoy the holidays and time off and hopefully you will have a great 2014. I do miss your write ups here and hope you will have more time to keep the rest of us entertained.

 

I just started here last month as a student. The training orogram was awful, and there was almost no cooridination that i witnessed in the the trainjng department. Ive onky dine a few solo runs close to home, waiting for my partner to uograde after christ, then were running team. So far, i can say some of my disoatchers are great, some worthless. The royte solutions seem useless tho, and the approac directions are almost encryoted. Why with todays technol can theh not just send so actual directions eithout all the abreviations and line breaks?

 

Sorry for hiw badly that came out, on my phone. Im hoping things will get better with this,comoany, i have high hopes, but everyth so far has really sucked. And to top it all off, instead of the less than 2 year old truck they say they give to teams, i have a 2011 freightliner (3.5 years old) that i had to recover. It has no jakes, bunk heater doesnt work, wiper fluid doesnt come out (been driving half blind at night) anf i doubt ill get to sleep whikebthis things moving with alk the shaking it does. Not what i was hopingnfor at all here...

 

Wow, that really sucks. I would call and ask to speak to a driver liaison. Not sure who else could help you. Stay positive, explain your disappointment and see if they can help.

 

Don't even bother with the driver liaison. Everytime I called those guys, they tell me what I want to hear then nothing came of it.

My advice, call HR & tell tell about your concerns. When HR gets involved, people listen.