Arnold Update 3/13/09

I am an O/O leased on with Arnold. I first came to Arnold in 1996 and drove a day cab out of the Albany, Ga terminal (now closed) then bought my truck and leased it on. Up until USX got their mitt's on us, Arnold was a really good company to lease on to. Good miles, home every weekend, good maintenance, great office personnel. It was almost truly like having a travel agent the would arrange trips to where ever you wanted to go. Well, all that has changed-and not for the good. Now when you talk to you DM, if you get to talk to him/her, you can bet that there is something fishy going on with the assigned load. Either they give you an incorrect pick up number/date/location, or they will short you miles, or some other screw up that they will require a day to correct, resulting in a missed/late load. Miles have fallen off tremendously (2500+ down to less than 1600) weekly, SE regional drivers were the only ones not to have had a pay increase, QuailCom now manditory in all trucks ($17.50/week), a $2.50 administrative fee every time a fuel card is used. Seems that USX/Arnold/put whatever company name the USX owns here, is trying to make up lost profits due to their not being able to keep customers/drivers happy by charging outragous fees to the O/O's. Why am I still here you ask? Well, I always beleived that you never leave a job before you have another one to go to, and that is what I am doing, looking for another job. Once I accomplish that, you can bet I will be long gone. USX has had a bad name with a lot of customers. They buy other companiesto try and get back in the door under another name then pull the same screw-ups that got them kicked out. That is why Arnold is still Arnold and not USX.