Surprised not to see Western Express on here

Sounds like you should get over to the terminal. They are giving trucks to the folks that are there and ready to pickup a load. Not to just hold one for you while they are missing out on contracts.

 

No communication from the start like this is a red flag in my book.

 

Put yourself in the DMs shoes.

You have 2 guys available to be assigned a truck - one is at the yard and one is at the house 100 miles away. You have 1 truck available, who is getting assigned the truck?

There are lots of reasons that Western is a bad company. This is not one of them.

 

You have to bear in mind that Western Express is a starter company (always has been) and usually they want drivers that are preferably close (or at) the terminal ready to go.

 

You need to get to Nashville where they are headquartered. See if they can get you to Nashville. Also, when I started there, van drivers had a longer wait than flatbed drivers. That could be, but not necessarily why you're being delayed.

 

Indeed. When I started with them, they sent me home via Greyhound for Christmas because at the time they didn’t have enough trucks to go around for drivers that finished orientation. I went back to Nashville via Greyhound and they had a truck for me ready to go,just in time to do my inaugural solo run for New Year’s Eve/Day,2014/2015.

 

Good luck to you! God bless you and your family!

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

During that teaming with trainer for 7,500 miles...what's the best check you saw in a weeks time at Welfare?

You are under their "training" contract now for 90 days or pay $2,500. And you say "phone calls and messages go unanswered"?

 

I would be in dispatch in the morning ready to go sipping my coffee.