U.S. Xpress Strikes Again!!

Well the information I have been posting is coming from a USX Driver also, I know and trust very well. He does not believe what he reads on here he goes out and ask Questions. The last Post I stated was not from one, but 2 yes TWO USX Drivers. Now your responces makes me wonder, who you are, a Driver? Does not sound like it, management? Sounds like it. If your mangement say so then what you said could take a more truthful meaning, due to having more knowledge than the kept in the blind Driver.

 

Once again a person gets accused of being management just because they post something someone disagrees with because it sheds a positive light on a company. That is such an old accusation.

 

By all accounts...the turds are flying all across the country. USX has a history of cutting the rate to get the account. Now they are having a hard time making that work. Why go to teams? Improves the service ratings. The next big push will be for "local" drivers to deliver the "team" freight. This is bound to happen when so much freight is going to be moved to the "team" boards. Expecting a team to live load or unload 3 days out from arrival is a waste of power. So locals are going to be stuck with a lot of live work. The exception is where they are able to work with shippers and recievers with a large pool of dropped trailers. This also makes sense when lowering the number of power units in the system. Less power, more boxes, and eventualy, happier customers.

Beware, USX will again become a predator in any market they enter. Again lowering the rate to attract new business, busting the smaller guys out to gain market share.

Going to be a bumpy ride, Hopefully we can all ride through it.

 

Well I guess I give up....LOL Im not managment! Im a lowly peeon just like you guys! The point I am trying to make is that if you look at USX as a whole company not from a driver stand point you would see that alot of this just makes no sense.

I mean just the fact that they a buying or already own alot of other companies should prove alot of this false. I mean come on do companies that are in financial trouble buy other companies or get bought by other companies? Before USX goes under they would have to start selling off some of the other assets in those other companies, till you start hearing USX sells its assets in arnold or smith then they aint going nowhere!

As for you hearing this from 2 other drivers? Well I aint met a driver yet that aint told some whoppers. Why would they do that, only they could answer that? I know what I know and thats all I know.....LOL besides if you dont work there what does it matter to you anyways?

Now onto them cutting rates to get the accounts, that is called capitalism my friends. Thats what its all about, as for it hurting them as a company I dont think it does. They can cut rates and by the shear size and number of trucks they can make it up somewhere else. Yes I aggree it sux for the smaller outfits and owner ops but ohh well thats how it works.

Keep On Trucking ##!!

 

Not really disagree just from what I see and read from their posting all, but more not trusting. Does not sound like the average, or above average driver knowledge of the company ut more like the management trying to save face. Plus they already counter their own words once in what they have posted. What I been posting about USX, was from a USX Driver also, whom not only works but finds out before talking about it.

 

Ok your not management. OK.

If they sign an agreement contract to purchase Trucks they are bound to follow through with those purchases. USA Truck was force to honor a contract that from a contract that one of the companies they bought out had made. They were wanting to get away from International Trucks but had to get more cause of the one companies contract.

That is how they get into trouble 90% of the time. Yes they could be in good order, but then they buy out someone and lose their shirt and pants on down the road. Happen many of times.

I know my informer you might say not giving me an face full of smoke. He not one to pass on lies or false tails. I guess the difference between you and him is I met him face to face, gotten to know him more and more. When I do read something on here about USX I can ask him about it and get the truth, and if the facts changes later he comes back and says so. Like to the subject of this thread, first he said Nope not true. But later he said yes it is true. Someone mention in another post OK City Terminal been closed, I did not think that was true and he confirmed my thinking.

What does it matter to me? Nothing to me personally. Just like the true facts and nothing but the truth. And yes I have worked for USX before, but that was some time ago. You always have a lot of trucks in Tunnel Hill, and you will see some during the turn in cycle, but they will also be moved out about as fast as they come in. If the trucks are being emptied out cause of layoffs, chapter 11, they would be sitting there. As I mentioned in the reply to PawPaw post, alot of stuff your posting had not added up to the knowledge of an average or above average driver. Or if I use the term pattern may be the better way of saying it. As for posting the part of Chapter 11 was to find out for my friend. Yet the jury still out. Would you want to tell your employees and risk losing a lot of drivers who would fear losing their jobs anyway, when you can keep on working and the company work their self out of debt? So they could be keeping a tight tight lid on that.

This I will agree with 100%. If your running as many trucks as USX, JBH, Swift, SNI you can haul it a lot cheaper than the small guys. If you have 1000 trucks you'll have a higher profit margin with making only $1.00 above operating cost utilizing 1000's of trucks that 1000's of dollars profit. Simple math. Where the O/O 1.00 above would kill his profit gains.

 

Once again a person gets accused of being management just because they post something someone disagrees with because it sheds a positive light on a company. That is such an old accusation.

Know I think they are a driver for USX. But believe me, USX is team oriented and a driver mill, plain and simple.

I think this because only a driver for USX would come here and list things as facts because the company told them.

I bet if USX told this person much of anything he would come here listing it as a fact because he is so jazzed with the company. Which I am glad of because it is better to be happy at your place of employment then not.

I will point out however that I was a driver at USX for 6.5 years and worked in all of their fleets and found them to be less then honest in their dealing with me most of the time.

I have also worked as a IC for a company that went bankrupt and did not know anything about it till I came to work and found security and a fence around my trucks and the building.

It is obvious that USX is having financial problems, how bad they are will never be known by a mere driver until it is probably to late. USX has always had a high debt to capital ratio so it would not take much for them to have to reorganize if certain things happened.

 

ANYBODY can roll over a car full of kids. Even the most experienced drivers...

 

HARD TIMES (thinning of the herd) cheaper to park the trucks,less expensedink

 

I was a solo driver for USXpress and just got home (in florida) with all my belongings and my wife and dog. They blindsided me and gave me the ultimatum to either lease a truck or team (which I had already paid for my wife and dog to ride with me). I got out of the truck and had to rent a uhaul truck to bring my belongings and family home. My wife and I are senior citizens and these people put us out of the truck with no concern as to our ability to go home to florida. It's not for me to judge, but, I think this type of treatment of a fellow human being will be their un-doing. How can a company be so ruthless to someone who has done nothing but be a hard working employee. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!