Team starting out with US Xpress

Hope to meet you soon too. We are getting ready to head back out this morning and hoping we can beat the snow storm out of here.

 

I continue to be so freaking impressed with this company. I think the most telling thing is the interaction I have had with the other departments at USX. From the mechanics at the shop in Tunnel Hill (it seems I amuse them) to the guys in breakdown and safety to the guards at the gates.....every conversation I have had (with the one exception of the weekend FM who was losing his mind and it was funny as hell) has been with people who care and have a smile in their voice. I am sure this will not always be the case but it is clear that the culture of this company is being managed properly. I have owned three companies and I have been an executive at a couple of large companies. This culture does not happen by accident.

 

Well, the perils of a brand new truck that was assembled in Mexico. We have broken down again in Nebraska. The Freighliner dealer cannot get the truck in until Monday so Breakdown put us up in the hotel. The same one we stayed at 2 weeks ago in North Platte. We are just going to relax for the weekend. Our fleet manager wants us in another truck but we just ran out of time on Friday before everyone who needs to be involved was gone for the weekend. I suspect we will wait for the truck to be "fixed" and get a load to Texas where he has a new truck for us. Of course, nothing ever goes according to plan so who really knows what will happen. Just having a nice little vacation with my amazing wife.

 

Everyone signs that but it is based on where you live. CA and FL you will have to team. A few other places too but mostly you do not need to. i know lots of solo drivers who never team

 

It is Monday evening. Nebraska Truck Center is a joke. The technician working on our truck is actually a great guy but their customer service is non-existent. The woman who answers the phone would have no personality if they took away "surly". The head of the service never knows what is happening and will not call me, he just wants me to call every couple of hours. So after my fourth call today he told me the truck will be done in about an hour. I ask him if we should check out of the hotel..."are you sure" and he says "yep, it will be done" So when we get there I am told that they are still calibrating and it will be a bit longer. After waiting for almost an hour Ithe tech finally comes to tell me that the truck will not be done today. They have been trying to download software from Cummins (so the calibration had never really been started) Cummins is going to Fedex the software and it is supposed to arrive by 10:00 AM tomorrow and the truck is supposed to be done by noon. We will see. I just want to work.

 

I am not sure about SC but the recruiter should be able to tell you. I will ask around for you.

For Wulf, I would be shocked if you had to team since you live in GA and our main terminal is in Tunnel Hill.