Arnold just like all the others

You drive for arnold too? I was trying to get on with them, but the usx influence scares me. I have pretty much given up on otr, man. There just seems to be too much bs going on.
By the way. Faye at arnold also said that usx has nothing to do with them. I don't know. I'm scared to waste my time at another otr company.

 

If Faye told you that Arnold is not doing anything with USX, she is doing so to try to keep the drivers that are "reading the writing on the wall". Drivers are leaving faster than they are coming, which is usual for a USX company. I have seen USX pulling arnold trailers. Befor I got canned at USX, I watched their shop people down in Tunnel Hill GA ripping the USX badging of trailers AND trucks, and replacing it with Arnold badging. I have a newsletter from USX from last year that announces the buy out of Arnold.

Its just a matter of time befor USX ruins Arnold too.

 

My husband was looking for work last year after a bad experience with a truck company here in Indiana and talked with one of their people down in Texas. He talked with her numerous times and it seemed to be a decent company. He decided to do lease purchase (worst thing to do with any company ever.. all of them only get you enough money/miles/fuel surcharge to cover your truck payments,misc. insurance and tax payments and fuel payments so none of it comes out of their pockets. ) Anyways- I found out shortly after he started that I was pregnant and after a few weeks working with them the biggest paycheck being about 80 dollars he decided it was time for me to come on the road with him. He would sit for a total of about two days of the week.. which if we hadn't had to do that we might of actually made a decent paycheck, but like I said they only want to make enough so you can cover the out of pocket costs and they don't have to cover anything. Well, in arkansas we got into a no fault accident (idiot crossed the line and my husband had to take her to the shoulder in order not to hit the guy and ended up on our side) and the company paid for one night at a hotel while they figured out what was going on.. good I guess.. but then we had to have family come and get us and bring us home. Then Arnold drug my husband around like a mouse on a string about getting another truck.. had him schedule a flight down to GA to pick up a truck.. then when he calls the mechanics down in GA they don't even know that he's supposed to have a truck down there and there is no truck waiting for him.. so after about 3 weeks of this bantering back and forth my husband just decided to go get another job (mean while 6 months later they were still sending him things on missing logs and what not, haha.. of course they're missing.. he's not working there anymore!) and meanwhile we can't get any of our stuff that was in the truck.. it's probably in a warehouse somewhere or just thrown away....I called numerous times trying to get our things..

To top things off about 6 months later they decided to send my husband the bill for the damages done to the truck and trailer (minus what the insurance covered-- about 10 grand left over) because they couldn't find the guy who caused the wreck.. biggrin_2554:Arkansas State police... ) and sue his insurance so they just decide to put it on our credit and drove what was left of it into a 6 foot grave.

I would stay away from this company- the USX influence has pretty much completely taken over. At first they were nice to him but then when he actually started it was hardly what I would call "driver friendly" not many companies now adays are.

 

but im going to ask it any way.i here a lot of drivers say they are out of time.is there a limit you can drive a day ? and if so how can a dispatcher tell you to violate this rule and lastly what are the consequences ?

 

Consequences run from a ticket, and a shutdown order, to jail time, depending on the circumstances of the situation.

Dispatchers always try to push a driver harder than they are supposed to go. Dispatchers can ask you to do it, are even tell you to do it. But ultimately, your the one behind the wheel, and in control of the situation. So you are the one that pays any consequences of a accident, or whatever.

There is a limit, of 11 hours driving time in a consecutive 14 hour string.

 

Yellow rose
Back in the day Arnold had the best lease purchase plan you could find. THese days they use the us ex lease. It used to be that when you did a lease with arnold it included 100% of maintenance and repairs free of charge to you and most the guys I talk to still on the old lease pay like $$250 a week. the new lease is something like $3000 a month with plates and permits etc and none of the maintenance or repairs.

Faye is a liar, she was my recruiter. The people at Arnold don't even like her and flat out told me she lies when I was in class.

US is on my paycheckk now. Last week I pulled a US exp load that said nothing about arnold on the freight bill, it said US Exress.

In class they said that same crap about Arnold still being the same and US not running it since Arnolds regional makes more then US exp regonal but it's all BS. the same people may be running arnold but the policies are all us epress now, or still being converted. They us the us express dispatch method now too with the load planners and DM's. used to be they just had dispatchers. I also spend about 2 days a week sitting now and I can't have that. I told them many times I WILL NOT live in a truck for 6 days for $100 a day. aint gona happen. Bad thing is I tak to others and it seems like I am doing more then thay are. My DM is pretty good and she runs the board that averages the most miles but it's still rough. There goal is only 2k miles a week. there is no reason I shouldn't be able to do 3k in 5 days except that Arnolds idea of regional is my idea of local work. There is weeks I never leave TX and those weeks the miles really suck. they run ALLOT of 100 to 200 mile loads and I'm constantly telling them I can not afford to give them two hours of my time for free on both ends of a 100 mile trip. two of them and the day is shot and I have 200 miles

 

Medicine man-

that was the same problem my husband had. He was sitting two-three days worth a week and should have been clearing more than 2500 miles a week if they would have just moved him. In the midwest/east though it was the steel mills that killed him. He wouldn't have minded staying in texas and just running texas making 600 a week he's dying to get back there. something in his blood I guess.

Are you going to be getting another job? keep posted on how that goes. Arnold pretty much just ruined our credit.. that was the impact they left on our life, haha. The lawyer in Arkansas said there's nothing he can do about it because they couldn't sue the driver at fault.

 

I refuse to live in a truck and put my family through the hardships of me being away for $100 a day. I don't have a problem being away but I expect to be properly compensated for it. Not to mention I can spend between $100 and $200 a week on the road, especially when I sit allot.

I doubt very highly I will ever drive for a company liek this again. Never really wanted to in the first place but I needed to get a check coming in and fast. And this was the fastest way.
I own a truck and was hoping to have the new set of tires for it by now but this job hasn't paid me enough to do much of anything to it.

 

Medicine man-

I completely understand what you are saying. After my husband was screwed over by the last company he was just with.. not getting ANY money for a month and being over the road for 3 weeks he refuses to go back over the road again.

There doesn't seem to be any money available in trucking so he is going to re-enlist in the national guard though so since the unit he would be with is already deployed I'm hoping he won't be deployed any time soon.

*crosses fingers*

 

I quit this weekend. They play too many games. They called threatening my job because I deadheaded home instead of speending memorial day weekend in there yard with no food and nothing to do. I'm not one of these rookies with no other options other than t sit and take the abuse so I quit. If you call and threaten my job you better be prepared for me to walk. THey tried to backpedal then but it's too late, I'm not about to let them get me up to Dallas 4.5hr's from home and then fire me.
There was so many other reasons too. this was just the final one. I'm not even going to get into it all I just caution anyone thinking of working for them. If you don't care about ever knowing what they are planing for you, don't care about having a choice in your life, don't need home time regularally, don't mind working for a very sub standard rate (for anyone with over a years experience) and running low miles and short 100 or 200 mile trips with two hours load and unload then they may be for you.