Team starting out with US Xpress

Just got my CDL hard copy in the mail today, so it's off to Tunnel Hill on Wednesday.

A guy in my school class wants to team, but then he had to have his appendix removed last weekend...probably just going to wait for him to finish with his trainer 'cause I'm just a couple weeks ahead.

 

Good luck to both of you on your new career...

 

Hello all, let the games begin! Drove to Tunnel Hill wed. for our upgrade on thursday, all went very smooth (except my name wasn't on the list at the hotel) and best of all, we passed! yee-ha! We we're able to get a truck asigned out of Lexington which is great being its only an hour from home so we were able to drive our car back instead of leaving it at Tunnel Hill. Going to Lexington today to have the inverter installed and hopefully get permission to take the truck home and put it together. There's no way that we can take a trailer home (no room), so they told us our FM would help find suitable parking for our hometime. Thanx to you all for the info we have gathered from the forum! It's been a great help. Im sure we'll have more questions. We trained on a dedicated account and every day was the same as the day before, same BOL's, destination's, drop & hook and deadhead back to the DC. So....we have very little experience with different shipping scenerios.
Oh well, wish us luck & again thanx!

 

Yeah, I would just drop at Lex and bobtail home if you can park a bobtail there. None of my FM's have ever asked me where I park or anything.

 

Thanks, that sounds like the way to go, wasn't sure how far they would let us bobtail home. We have a mom & pop truckstop about 20 miles from home, think i'll contact them and try to work a deal.

 

Thanks vinsanity, no problem getting the bobtail home, (very winding climbing road) just no room for the rest of the rig. However, don't sound like its gonna be an issue.

 

congrats

we live about 70 miles from nashville and when we were company drivers we had to bobtail home, usx would find a cust that needed a trailer and we would drop it on the way home, sometimes as much 200 miles from the house..

 

Sorry to hear Phyllis has moved on. She was pretty awesome. Still, sitting is just the nature of the reefer business. It was way too much sitting for me.

I think the problem with reefer is they use outside brokers. That just adds one more link in the communication chain to break.

NOW is the time to get back on dry van anyways. If I was still teaming I would stay out until Christmas.