Recent info on Western Express?

Yea, i'm with you. Not everyone has the same experience. DM's can make or break a driver. but i have a legit horror story about Western Express, and i believe it speaks more volumes on how my driver manager treated me, over the way the company did in general. However, with Western Express capitalizing on the perks of being a pro-recruiting company, it opens up the vessels to be filled with a bunch of baddies, and the number of newbies out weighs the personnel's ability to adequately decipher which ones are good and bad recruits. Now..

My story is real, my dad was in ICU, of course before all that, i did have an issue with my DM, and i railed him about my hometime, he started to try and make it better, but his way of making it better one day was by taking an impossible load from me, and giving it to a newbie. It was a load that had a stipulation that wasn't getting fixed by dispatch, the load was too heavy, and who knows how many drivers they sent to the shipping department to load, the gate didn't catch the issue because those loads are pre-planned and given specific numbers. So i knew the drill, and eventually it was obvious that Western Express didn't have a specific permit ready, and didn't even have a trailer with the specs to legally haul the load on the lot, and their were numerous trucks waiting to load. Western Express trucks.

So, that gave my DM the right to suspend my hometime requests in the future, or at least in his mind, because i turned down a load that was being taking away from another driver, because i wasn't going to deny that driver his load. A real DM doesn't have to take a load from another driver, just to get you home.

This post has gotten too long, the rest of the horror story about when my Dad was in the ICU will have to be told at a later date. sorry.

 

Company shops ran me out of trucking. They played me for stupid. They said it wasn't the tires, then week later, get told by a guy in night dispatch, says they had a bunch of recalls on Continental steer tires. Mechanics didn't care i said i could barely keep it on the road on the way to the shop. Nothing wrong with the tires.

 

It's said tho, i was taught safety was top priority, but those companies i drove for, safety was the last priority, and the load being delivered was more important than all the driver's lives with the company combined.

from what i hear... these are the best

1. Maverick
2. Melton
3. McElroy
4. PGT
5. Roehl
6. P&S

 

I read a couple horror stories about Boyd Brothers, turned me off from them....

 

I believe that. Pam Transport was my first company. In fact, i wish I had never left them. Just like a couple instructors said, "the grass is not always greener on the other side". Boy were they right, and true. Pam Transport put me down as 'no re-hire'. Of course, i earned that distinction. However, i was lucky to get one of their best trainers. James S..

 

Is this list in order of best to worst or is it just random?

 

With exception to maybe Maverick, none of those companies were exactly anything to write home about either. And they’ve shown up here on the bad company forums on occasion.

 

The collective consensus here is that Western Express sucks.

 

It sounds good to me as well. I can save myself $2000 and 2-3 weeks on a refresher. I know they only pay $450 or so while driving for 4 weeks with a trainer but may as well give it a shot.

 

If we read all the negative on here and only go off that we will never take a job or take a chance. Have to get seat time somehow and we have to realize the first year sucks