my input on US Express

Go for it. Every word is the truth and nothing is exaggerated.

Of course I am only 1 former driver but here is some more for the recruiter.

I can also tell you that on numerous occasions I was told by the terminal manager in Colton Ca that I was doing above average compared to the rest of the people on my DM's board getting 2200 miles a week average for a year and he would not give me a new DM. which is why I finally got fed up and informed them to route me to turn in the truck.

New drivers that are at the bottom of the scale will be lolled into thinking they are OK because they are big on trying to keep you there for a while because I guess the stats tell them that if they can keep a driver for a year they might put up with 2 which is the period you get most of your raise. Then you start losing money or you need to run more miles to keep up with cost of living. They will treat you good until you are making higher scale and don't mind running when they need you to run ,not when the law says you can run. They will however test you as they are taught to in the seminars on your limits by slowly starting to move away from paying attention to things such as miles and home time happiness and well being and more to doing things according to their needs and what is easiest and most cost effective for them no matter the cost to you or your family.

They will also let you sit and jump a cheaper driver over you if the frt pays less then $1.25 per mile which was their avg when I worked there and they have them to cover the load. Since layover costs them nothing for a day at the least.

They will also make a solo swap a load with a team so they can keep them rolling and keep you at the dock because solos are there to help keep the teams rolling not pu and delivering or waiting, yet tell you they have time off or something. I had one load stolen from me because a team wanted to go to up state NY to look at the fall leaves. They even admitted they did not plan on taking time off for another couple of weeks and would cancel it later since they could take time off when ever they wished unlike the solo who was lucky to get home a day or two late with a months notice. . So I got to sit on a dock and a TS for a day while they went and looked at leaves.

They will have you set up for a re-power with a O/O at the IL border before you even start running your load out of OH going to the West coast with 5 days on it so they don't have to drive the NE corridor and can stay in the fast states and make a good check wile you are fighting the traffic all the way to Boston.

If you have been sitting for a day or more and the only load is a 500 mile run they will give it to a team that just got on the radar while you starve at the TS.

They would also hold you in a town for 2 days after you del so they would not have to work to find trucks to cover a important customers freight which is why they went into collusion with the other big carriers to cover each others freight for one reason because drivers were sick and tired of sitting around and not getting paid anything for layover. You say why no layover? They would play a shell game with loads and swap you with another dp after canceling your dp and giving it to another driver and they only paid layover after 24 hours and no dp after being available to run.

They were also notorious for promising layover, detention, or hourly pay and then you will try for months to get them to pay it and finally do what I did which is shut a load down in the middle of nowhere until they pay what they owe. Their hope is that a certain percentage of drivers will give up and save them money. This is according to a former load planer and dpchr who I worked for as a local driver out of Kent Wa and got his pink slip two weeks before I got the ax for agregiously yelling at a security guard at the yard I work at for sleeping on the job and forcing me to jump a fence to get the gate opened and my load pu and after they did not want to give us the 3 month raise that was promised 6 months before and after they closed the SLC terminal and transfered us down to Colton.

There is a reason why USX enjoys what I think is a 100% turnover and it ain't because their drivers are all crybaby's and don't want to work.

Here is a quote from the terminal manager at Colton Ca when besieged by over 50 drivers sitting at the terminal for 2 days or more in june of 2004.

Some where surprised ,but not me. OTR company's employees are trained in the art of deception and damage control and he just let his training slip and said what what he was thinking and how they really feel when you are not around making them earn their check instead of playing video poker.