US Express for new students?

It is a good company to start with, but not to stay with unless you don't mind having alot of unpaid time sitting around waiting on your truck to get fixed, running out of hours and NO ONE PICKS UP YOUR LOAD. I worked there for 4 months. I admit I did enjoy traveling across all states except Hawii, Alaska, (Florida and N.Y. and above states which I see as being lucky). I was told after my 3 weeks of training that I had to team drive with someone else for 2 months which I didn't mind during my learning curve, but my trainer said he would team drive with me (he had 23 yrs otr experience). The man in charge of that said I had to go out with someone else for the 2 months then team with my trainer. Excuse me but my recuiter told me otherwise. So I went over his head and was able to go team drive with my trainer. FYI Roger the man who said I couldn't do that sent my team mate a message saying "Good Luck". I really loved the pay. As a team driver I was clearing $1000 a week. What I didn't like is how the company handled problems. It didn't matter if the problem was that you were out of hours, truck needing repairs, hometime or whatever. Communcation and getting problems resolved is US Xpress main problem with keeping drivers. I will give you 1 example of what I mean. We (me and my trainer) were at the pick up yard in N.J. picking up a trailer and couldn't move it because the legs wouldn't come up. So after calling US Xpress for help this is how it got solved hours later:the mechanic before even getting to location and looking at trailer had already told US Xpress that to solve the problem he was going to cut the leg off. ROTFLMAO
P.S. With an adjustable wrench the leg could have been manually cranked up. I know every company has complaints and US Xpress is no different. .

 

Hello marky I'm currently in truck driving school and looking foward to getting onboard with xpress what's my chance of getting a manual truck when I'm done with training

 

All their trucks are manual

 

Ty duo I appreciate that