Looking for info on Eagle Express Lines.

That bad?

 

I've never left a company I would go back to.
There's some good, but the bad are on the holiday weeks when you don't work the day of or after a holiday and have to get holiday pay which is a joke.
They have go anywhere or sleeper position and that turned out to be a flat out LIE, under the new Fleet Manager, he used me as just a Floater for the most part.
So that being said compared to what I'm doing now, I should have never taken a job with Eagle Express Lines.
If you don't mind working the grave yard shift and taking a pay cut on holiday weeks it might work for you. Dedicated mail is better than their freight positions.

 

Yeah I feel for you. The go anywhere board use to be a money maker. Now it's being mismanaged. I would have insisted on being put on a route.

To the other poster I am shocked you were disqualified for one violation, unless it was a serious one.

 

I worked for Eagle for a little while in Michigan doing a few different runs. The pay was good and more or less as advertised. The schedule was all over the place and I ran myself ragged even though I wasn't working all that many hours per week.

I worked for them for about 10 months and the warehouse facility we were using decided to move locations down to the Ohio border and that was too far for me to commute to work, especially with the crazy schedule I already had.

I also noticed that they had started hiring drivers from recruiters who told me they were getting paid quite a bit less than I was. I don't know if that has to do with the hour cutback but it might.

When I started the equipment was terrible, but they got newer (used) trucks from a Chrysler plant in Chicago and they were pretty decent. I still used one of the terrible old trucks on a Sunday run and it was disgusting.

I had a next-to-nothing orientation and was confused and had a lot of questions for the first month. That was frustrating. Basically just another driver from that location showed up and told me some stuff and that was it.

Overall I didn't think it was a terrible company. The runs were really very easy. We got paid for the long unloading times (even though they tried to blame me for that because I should have been calling my driver manager to tell them the loading times were running long. Nobody ever told me I was supposed to do that.) Pretty good pay for a company driver. My driver manager was cool. Trip sheets are dumb. Count your hours.

 

Sounds about right. Just another company that doesn't give a #### about the drivers

 

Just curious damon, where are you working now and what kind of payscale they have ?

 

I work for Outwest Express out of Kansas City 5yrs experience .45 cpm, it's very well designed regional out and back set up to Indy, Dallas etc. mostly drop and hook. 2750-3k miles a week.

 

I run for Eagle in the Midwest. Overall, I think a very good company. Everyone I have dealt with, in the office or other drivers have been very nice.

You need to understand your route/schedule in detail as with most mail runs, there seems to be some odd part of the schedule. I run a sleeper yet Eagle supplies a motel for my layover on my outbound.

Volvo trucks are old and mostly warn out, never had any break down issues to stop me from running, just stuff like a/c went out, power mirror out, etc. Shop has been good about fixing the stuff. Trailers are in better shape, often use new leased trailers.

Keep in mind with most mail haulers, your pay is split between a base rate, plus and additional "health and welfare" part. The health and welfare maxes out at 40 hours. Any over 40 and you are running at base rate only. Another complained holidays screwed up his pay week. The opposite for me, I run Wed/Thr, Sat/Sun and Monday holidays don't effect me at all, I get a days holiday pay on my check for doing nothing.

 

Yeah, this guy isn't kidding. I worked for them for about a year and a half. And in that time I had 5 different Driver Managers. And when you call in, it was as if, the right hand had no idea what the left hand was doing. Not, that that's any different then anywhere else. But, Plenty of TurnOver. JMHO

 

You wont sleep at Ursa. I was a floater there and they have made huge cuts, cameras in the cabs now too. They got audited after I left and I kept recieving pay for over a year that they tried to cut me out of.