Got my C1 certificate - 10 1/2 months solo

Congrats! I just finished C1 training for USA. I am enjoying my first day home before heading to Vandalia for orientation.

I remember reading the first 6 months of repayment is $40 a week (26 x 40 = 1040) and 6 months repayment at $50 a week (26 x 50 = 1300). The two repayments total $2340. Your agreement was to repay $1900, I believe. In a perfect world you would get a $440 refund after 52 weeks. This does not explain your situation but may lend insight to how contract satisfaction may have occured and a small residue is received after 10 1/2 months.

 

Congratulations! You are part of a very small group that fulfills their contract. You might want to share your secrets of success with all the others that are constantly on this forum enquiring about C-1/USA.

 

I got.mine at the end of january. I'm still here and do not plan on leaving yet. I was going to finish the year no.matter what lol. I got luck and have a great driver manager

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There ya go. You made an agreement and stuck to your word. That's integrity and says something about you in itself. So few people do that in todays society. Good job!

 

Thats another thing I'm glad to see, the part about picking battles I mean. So few new drivers seem to understand that. I see guys post with 2 months experience talking about how they are going to have to call and cuss everybody up to the vice president out over one issue after another. I don't understand how this mentality comes about. Where did these people work before X trucking company? Have they never held another job? I suppose they lived with mom and dad until they turned 21 and then went to C1. Maybe they just screamed at their parents every time things didn't work out right?

You seem to have a great attitude and you have figured out the key to success. I think with most major carriers, there are two different ways you can push. Either push for more miles or more home time. Rarely do the two ever coincide. I used to be about the most miles I could get. I'd stay out 4 weeks straight and push as hard as possible and end up with close to 3000 mile weeks (or more) each week. Lately I'm about the home time. I go home every other weekend and I'm in the 2-2200 mile/week thing. Not great but I'm not starving either. A lot of the new ones jsut can't seem to figure out that going home every weekend, or every other weekend, just doesn't leave a DM, Load Coordinator, or anybody else a lot of room to get you lots of long loads and then still manage to turn you around to get you home on time. On top of that, why do people never seem to forget that the new guy always gets the shaft?

 

Hey that's great news about get that n the mail early!! I been with USA for 4 months now and it's been going great I average 2300 miles a week but I had two weeks of 3300.. Hopefully I get mine early too!!

 

Is it possible that it is an amount of miles vs. time in the seat? it may be beaten by the miles that you have ran.

 

No it is a contract. USA doesn't have anything to do with it. It is Driver Solutions gig. I took the middle plan. $500.00 up front. After one year of getting hired on you can leave. Otherwise your year doesn't start until you get your solo truck. Which can be around 6 weeks later.