RUMORS! Lets set the record straight! USA Truck Pay

Good luck sarge I'm in Indy and all I can tell you is pretrip an if u do drugs... Don't waste your time, and make sure your blood pressure is in check

 

Best of luck! But do check with epes. Give melisa a call! Ans thanks
For your service!

 

Most likely the school will be like most of the company used mills out there... They are there to get your CDL and push you out the door. Don't teach you how to be a truck driver, just teach how to drive a truck enough to get your CDL.

 

The trainer thing would be the only area of concern that I have. Granted we have some really good trainers in this company but we also have some really crappy ones. I've never agreed with the fact that they let people become trainers so early. 9 months experience are you serious? I reported one back in October who had let his student hit another truck in a truck stop in Houston and drive off. The night before it took both of us ground guiding to get his student backed into a parking space. He told me he'd just finished his C1 contract and that was his first student. Last time I was in Van Buren, I watched one tell his student to go get something to eat out of the vending machine if he was hungry while he had pizza and wings delivered to himself. Some of these folks are truly in it for the perception of higher income and not to make sure we have qualified drivers on the road.

 

Here is USA Trucks official pay policy:
Once every two months your check will be right.
No matter how many times you pay to have loads scaled in a week, you will not be reimbursed for at least a month. By the time you get the money back you've already built up another nice scale ticket hole in your bank account. It's a vicious cycle for someone just starting out at .25 cents a mile.
It will take you at least a week to get a hold of payroll since they never answer the phone or transfer you as soon as you utter a word.
You will be directed to drive out-of-route for scheduled maintenance or to swap a load and your fleet manager will not put the added mileage into the system. You will try to remind him or her of this discrepancy all week leading to the end of the pay period. Friday morning comes and the miles will not be there. Repeat.
If detention pay is absolutley justified your fleet manger will say something amongst the lines of, "I turned it in yesterday". This will go on for weeks. Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't.
At around two months you will have been f#$%ed with so much that you will become completely apathetic and despondent, just counting the days away for that contract to be up.

 

I stopped driving for them in Aug of last year. While I did not check each and every pay stub I do know I saw 1 or 2 cat scale entries on most of them. I never had a problem calling any dept there if I had to. Most of the time if I left a message it got returned. Come on guys we all know USA Truck has problems but it's never been my experience they were that bad. I remember several times having to go out of route to get something fixed, most of the time my FM got me paid for those miles.

 

i currently work there.This is my second go around with them.30 months total with them.My checks are right every week.My scales tickets are always reimbursed the following week.Never had any issues with getting ahold of someone.Sent a e mail to the ceo couple months ago and got a phone call the next day from David Hartline the man second in command of Usa Truck on a Saturday at that.