USXPRESS newbie review and RANT!!!!
Discussion in 'US Xpress' started by Terence Whitfield, May 5, 2016.
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Stop and take a break in Reno, Nevada and sometimes even Las Vegas:
Several of us used to run I-80 out there a lot and we'd usually stop for a 10 hr. break in Reno or West Wendover, Nevada. Plenty of truck parking available and a good place to shower and get a good meal and take a nap before heading back to the East Coast.Last edited: Oct 27, 2017
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An extra .02 for hazmat? Wow so if you drive 3000 miles a week you get an extra $60 for delivering something that can kill you or literally vaporize you into a single molecule if something goes wrong. In my opinion hazmat haulers should be getting paid big bucks for high level of danger.
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If I stayed in Maryland with its 400,000 colonial mansions on 1/4 acres and 50K cars etc I would have been BK a long time ago. Even the basic needs of my father's house, when combined with about 4000 dollars a year annually in oil (for two fills required, one for winter and the other to keep system good in summer etc) and property taxes is about twice my current income.
When wife and I teamed we put our house to sleep with suspended services. Gas was still being hooked up but pressure was reduced to about 2 pounds on the house side of the meter rather than the usual 5 or 6 from 98 pounds more or less. that's just enough to run the pilot light for the heater. And when we are gone for months the gas meter would be shut off using the emergency storm shut off tool on hand so it wont count any more gas to that pilot light.
I thing we had reduced the utilites by 2001 to around 28 dollars a month from 140 by special arrangement with all of the companies. The house was reduced to a 1840's type living with just firewood for the dutch stove and bring in water from the town's supply daily in two 5 gallon buckets for everything. AIr conditioning was out of the question. We did not stay long enough to have a problem with heat in between loads. That was what the tractor was for so we burned some company fuel staying cool at night resting. -
@Startover. Training pay is good at Calex. $100 a for everyday your out. You get paid even if you have to take a 34 hr reset. Trucks max out at 68 mph. I wish I stuck it out there but I listened to the wrong people and jumped ship. Once you go solo I think you start at 32 cpm and go to 36 cpm after six months.
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