Questions about US XPRESS

Nope....

Bring a good book.

In many/most cases....you'll need it.

Or just get in a nap....

-- L

 

Once you're in the wash bay, it doesn't take very long to wash out a reefer trailer. Been there, done that, many times.

 

That's once your in the bay. With 6 in front of you, and the guy at the front complaining he want's a rewash, because they missed a spot on the driveshaft, it will take considerably longer.

 

And after that, you get to go the Beacon and sit behind those same 6 trucks waiting to get washed out.
No thanks

 

That's just reefer trucking. I don't like to wait, but the detention pay makes it bearable. I won't work for a company that doesn't have excellent detention pay policy.
As for the driveshaft, that if the tractor is washed also.

 

Well, that's it. Blue Beacon washed his 15YO rusty POS tractor, but they missed a spot of grease on the driveshaft, and now they want a rewash....

 

Cause it gonna be a while till it gets washed again. Thinking 6 plus months. lol.

 

Maybe give Melton or Maverick a call. I believe Melton hires recent CDL graduates, I know Maverick does. They’re both ok companies, but not as good as TMC. Maybe contact TMC again?

 

So first of all OTR with USX isn’t true OTR. You can run all 48 (I got up to Washington a few times and out to Cali—mostly by putting in home times in other places), but you mostly stay 35 and east. A lot of east. If you run family dollar hard then it makes good money but it’s a sacrifice. If you want to get off that try to work your way over to Variant. It’s still USX. It’s still Knight (which is why not touch them anymore—that and the east coast runs), but it’s the better fleet. Unless they’ve changed, they ran at .60 a mile in nicer trucker with a climate control system and an EPU. Now .60 doesn’t mean #### if you don’t get miles, which was another problem I was having. But I still did better over there than at proper Knight. I also made more on dry at Variant than Reefer at Knight. So take that for what it is.

Reefer is an animal on its own. Some people live for it. I didn’t care for the appointment times nor the warehouses. Nor the freight. Nor the sitting on the dock for 30 mins all the way up to 10+ hours. It completely depended on where I was at. I guess you learn the warehouses that are going to screw you in you over. Like the Publix DC in Deerfield Florida (yes I still hate this warehouse). Or literally every Kroger DC in existence. The washouts are their own thing. I never got paid to washout but I’ve heard some companies will. I fought to break a grand a week running reefer staying out 4+ weeks at a time, getting to appointments early (sometimes by days), and begging for loads. I don’t think that’s normal, but that was my life.

At the end of the day we all need to make money. But family dollar is a beast. And it may not be worth the stress for you (I wouldn’t do it). Don’t let your trainer bully you into staying on that account. He probably gets a bonus off of you if you go solo on that account. That could be why he wants you to stay. As others have said, I’d stay with the company for 6 months - a year after you go solo. But you can definitely get off that fleet.